Round 10 David Large 1Round 10 David Large 2Round 10 Richard Hudson 1Round 10 Richard Hudson 2Round 10 Richard Hudson 3The Sunshine Coast Fire clinched their third QSL championship in four years last night, beating the Brisbane Strikers 4-3 in an entertaining, uncharacteristically free-scoring and sometimes controversial season decider at Stockland Park. A depleted Strikers [...]
Suppose, for a moment, you are a coach of a football team and your mission for the week, if you choose to accept it, goes like this: We want you to win us a championship. To do so, you must go to the home ground of the team that has taken two championships and two [...]
The Logan Strikers have clinched a spot in the Hyundai State Youth League Southern Division top four, and offered a glimpse of their finals potential as well, in fighting out a 2-2 draw with Southern Cross United at Meakin Park last night. Going into the game in fifth position a point behind the QAS, who [...]
The Brisbane Strikers will go into Friday night’s QSL championship without Matt Thurtell, who has had to leave the club to take up an exciting offer from A-League club Wellington Phoenix. Thurtell, who has been the club’s top goal scorer for the past two seasons, left for New Zealand today after Wellington asked to see [...]
The Brisbane Strikers wish to advise that, due to the scheduling of the club’s vital QSL catch-up fixture against the Sunshine Coast Fire on Friday night, the previously-scheduled friendly fixture against A-League club Gold Coast United this Wednesday night has been cancelled. While this step was taken with reluctance, head coach David Large and club [...]
Round 18 Graham Harvey (1)Round 18 Graham Harvey (2)Round 18 David Large (1)Round 18 David Large (2)Round 18 David Large (3)The Brisbane Strikers have earned the right to take the race for the QSL championship all the way to the finishing line after toughing out a gutsy and disciplined 2-1 win over a talented Whitsunday [...]
As the Brisbane Strikers go into their last two fixtures of the 2011 Hyundai QSL season, two points behind the Sunshine Coast Fire with a game to come against that team, they have a simple equation ahead of them if they want to be crowned Champions of Queensland – win both games! The first of [...]
Round 17 Matt Thurtell (1)Round 17 Matt Thurtell (2)Round 17 John StewartThe Brisbane Strikers have stumbled again in sight of the finishing line in the race for this year’s QSL championship, going down 1-0 for the second time this season to the Gold Coast Stars in this afternoon’s Round 17 game at Mudgeeraba. With last [...]
Whitsunday Miners 2 Sunshine Coast Fire 0 Bundaberg Spirit 3 Capricorn Cougars 3 NQ Razorbacks 2 FNQ Bulls 4
Supporters should please note that tthe Strikers have been informed this afternoon’s scheduled game between the Logan Strikers and Southwest Queensland at Toowoomba has been postponed due to overnight rain rendering the pitch unsuitable for play.
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 [...]
The senior team got the weekend underway in positive style for the Strikers last night and the juniors are continuing it, with wins for the Under 12 and Under 13 boys and the Under 13 girls. Senior men: Brisbane Strikers 3 Sunshine Coast Fire 0 (HT 0-0) Under 20 men: Bye Under 18 boys: Brisbane [...]
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 [...]