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Under-16s Too Hot For Fire

May 19, 2013 No Comments by Steve Pitman

The Brisbane Strikers NPL Under-16s boys jumped to the top of their league table today – at least for a short time – and kept the Sunshine Coast Fire in second-last with a hard-fought 2-0 win at Meakin Park. This was a match the Strikers always looked likely to win. But they had to work [...]

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Strikers Bounce Back At Fire’s Expense

May 19, 2013 No Comments by Steve Pitman

A vastly improved all-round team performance has arrested the Brisbane Strikers’ recent form slump and earned them the club’s biggest ever winning margin over arch rivals Sunshine Coast Fire, with three second half goals carrying the Strikers to a 3-0 win at Perry Park last night. Strikers coach David Large, dissatisfied with the defending that [...]

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Sharks Put The Bite On Slow-Starting Strikers

May 12, 2013 No Comments by Steve Pitman

The Brisbane Strikers again slipped on a banana skin last night as they failed to negotiate the dangers posed by desperate Palm Beach Sharks in going down 3-2 to the home side at Mallawa Drive. The Strikers were hit by a Panic attack in the first half of the game as their former centre forward, [...]

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Strikers Tumble To Academy

May 04, 2013 No Comments

The Queensland Academy of Sports threw the National Premier Leagues formbook out of the window last night, stunning the Brisbane Strikers with a 2-1 win to snap a sequence of seven matches without a win. The Strikers, who went into the match having won four games consecutively, and the last two without conceding a goal, [...]

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Strikers Cruise Past Pride But Lose Thurtell

Apr 28, 2013 No Comments

Another three points and another clean sheet, but a potentially medium-term injury to sharp shooter Matt Thurtell (pictured) were the key outcomes to emerge from the Brisbane Strikers 4-0 win over Western Pride at the North Ipswich Reserve today. A bruising first half saw the destination of the three points wrapped up by half time [...]

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King Stars As Strikers Blast Seven Past Jets

Apr 21, 2013 No Comments

A superb Greg King hat-trick and a performance of relentless energy and enthusiasm from the Brisbane Strikers powered them to a 7-0 dismantling of an under-strength Moreton Bay United Jets and gave stand-in skipper Chay Hews a memorable 200-game ‘thank you’ at Perry Park last night. King’s hat-trick could have graced any highlights reel in [...]

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Ten-Man Strikers Survive Energetic Onslaught In Rockhampton

Apr 14, 2013 No Comments

A timely return to the hat-trick club by Matt Thurtell (pictured), lashings of backs-to-the-wall grit and some inspired tactical changes in the second half helped the Brisbane Strikers emerge 4-3 winners over CQ Energy after a torrid ninety minutes of football at Rugby Park in Rockhampton last night. The Strikers overcame the disappointment of yet [...]

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Thunder Struck For Seven By Eighteens

Apr 07, 2013 No Comments

With the National Premier Leagues season now in full swing, and with both the NPL and local Brisbane leagues squads determined, it is worth remembering that if the Brisbane Strikers senior men’s team need back-up due to injuries, suspensions or loss of form the ‘go to’ place for that back-up could be the club’s Under [...]

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Heat Canned As King Runs Amok

Apr 07, 2013 No Comments

The Brisbane Strikers have bounced back to form, thrashing FNQ Heat 5-1 at the Cleveland Showgrounds last night to produce the shot in the arm that their National Premier Leagues campaign needed after an Easter break overshadowed by the ignominy of their last-up 7-2 loss to Olympic FC. Two goals each from Matt Thurtell and [...]

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Olympic Make Strikers Easter Bunnies

Mar 24, 2013 No Comments

The Brisbane Strikers stumbled to their heaviest defeat in a competitive fixture in many a year last night, thrashed 7-2 by a hard-nosed Olympic FC in their National Premier League’s Round 3 fixture with a performance that had coach David Large apologising to Strikers supporters after the game. Olympic’s seasoned centre-forward Tim Smits, with a [...]

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