Archive for February, 2010

Opportunity Knocks

Feb 26, 2010 No Comments by Steve Pitman

Brisbane Strikers Head Coach Stuart McLaren is offering an opportunity to aspiring young footballers to become part of an exciting new development program within the club. For the 2010 Queensland State Youth League season the Strikers will field a team based out of the club’s Meakin Park complex. They will be known as the Logan [...]

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Perry Park Gains International Clientele

Feb 24, 2010 No Comments by Steve Pitman

The Brisbane Strikers’ efforts to rejuvenate the playing surface of Perry Park since the 2009 Hyundai QSL season ended have received their first vote of confidence, with the home of Queensland football set to become the training venue for the Indonesian men’s and North Korean women’s football teams over the coming week. With the Indonesians [...]

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Sadler Saddles Up For The Strikers

Feb 18, 2010 No Comments by Steve Pitman

The Brisbane Strikers have added another player to their 2010 senior Hyundai QSL squad, with young utility player Rylan Sadler having agreed terms. Sadler, who comes to the club from the Far North Queensland Bulls, will add height and versatility to the squad and brings to eighteen the total number of players who have committed [...]

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Late Winner Gets Strikers Home In Exciting Final

Feb 15, 2010 No Comments

An extra-time goal by Sean Burke snatched a 2-1 victory for the Brisbane Strikers over Souths United in a gruelling Brisbane Roar Silver Boot final at Luxury Paints Stadium last night. Burke’s late winner proved the difference between two talented young sides who had produced a high-energy and engrossing game of football that was a [...]

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Same Again For Final

Feb 13, 2010 No Comments

The Brisbane Strikers are likely to take a virtually unchanged squad of players into Sunday night’s Brisbane Roar Silver Boot Final against Brisbane Premier League club Souths United. While the young Strikers outfit has steadily improved throughout the tournament, disposing along the way of three teams heavily favoured to figure in the top half of [...]

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Strikers Through To Silver Boot Final

Feb 10, 2010 No Comments

The line of steady improvement on the pre-season form graph of Stuart McLaren’s new Brisbane Strikers team took a slightly steeper trajectory tonight as they posted a comfortable 2-0 victory over their arch rivals Olympic FC in the first semi-final of the Silver Boot tournament at Luxury Paints Stadium. Once again it was the boot [...]

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Familiar Foes Await Strikers in Semi-Final

Feb 09, 2010 No Comments

Pre-season preparations continue for the Brisbane Strikers this Wednesday night when they travel to Luxury Paints Stadium, Richlands for a Brisbane Roar Silver Boot semi-final against a familiar adversary – Olympic FC. The identity of the Strikers’ semi-final opponents will not have surprised anyone within the club. Having returned this year to the Brisbane Premier [...]

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Strikers Too Good For Rochedale

Feb 04, 2010 No Comments

The new-look Brisbane Strikers produced another impressive pre-season performance last night, notching their third consecutive Silver Boot tournament victory with a 1-0 defeat of their old rivals, Brisbane Premier League side Rochedale Rovers. The margin was much ‘skinnier’ than last week’s 7-0 demolition of the Ipswich Knights, but in many ways the performance of Stuart [...]

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Strikers Almost Complete as Rochedale Await

Feb 02, 2010 No Comments

As they prepare for Wednesday night’s Silver Boot assignment against their old rivals, the Rochedale Rovers, the Brisbane Strikers have just three squad places still up for grabs, with seventeen players having committed themselves to the club’s 2010 Hyundai QSL season. And if ever a football club entered a championship defence with almost a completely [...]

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