Former Brisbane Strikers displaying their talents in the A-League experienced dizzying heights and depressing lows in almost equal measure over the Christmas week. Perhaps the pick of the crop was goalkeeper Clint Bolton, who played every minute of both matches of the best week in Melbourne Hearts’ short history. The “other” Melbourne team ran out [...]
Brisbane Strikers midfielder Matt Christiansen and his wife Kira received possibly the best pre-Christmas bonus they could have wished for yesterday, when Kira gave birth to their first baby boy. The Christiansens were gifted with their second child, whom they named Jasper, just before midday. Jasper’s arrival means that the Christiansens’ year, which began with [...]
Any hopes that the Brisbane Strikers could ease their way gently into their pre-season fixtures list next month have been torpedoed by the draw for the Silver Boot tournament, which has pitched them into what could, with tongue in cheek but some justification, be called the tournament’s “group of death”. The Strikers are drawn alongside [...]
The Brisbane Strikers have a proud record when it comes to identifying and developing talented footballers. Firstly, given that our genesis was as a National Soccer League club, we offered all of our players the opportunity to display their talents on a nationwide stage. But even since the startup of the A-League we’ve continued to [...]
The Brisbane Strikers have a date with A-League club Brisbane Roar at Perry Park. The friendly has been earmarked for Wednesday 7 August and will form part of the Roar’s pre-season preparations for their 2013/14 A-League campaign. For the Strikers, the fixture will fall four days before a Round 21 National Premier Leagues fixture against [...]
As we head into Round 11 of the first National Premier Leagues season in Queensland (that is, its half way point) the league table for the senior men’s completion sees the Brisbane Strikers having climbed from fourth position to third, on 21 points, after last Saturday’s 3-0 win over Sunshine Coast Fire halted their losing [...]
Last Saturday’s Brisbane Strikers v Sunshine Coast Fire Round 10 fixture was Football Queensland’s featured match of the round – which provides a bonus for Brisbane Strikers supporters. Watch Jonti Richter’s left-footed thunderbolt to open the scoring, then Josh Taylor’s instinctive reaction volley to make it 2-0, and last but not least Josh McVey’s injury [...]