Archive for January, 2012

Angus Rejoins As Strikers Eye Bulldogs Rematch

Jan 31, 2012 No Comments by Steve Pitman

With Brisbane’s fickle summer weather having taken a turn for the better this week, the Brisbane Strikers look likely to take the playing field at Richlands on Wednesday night for a re-match with the Capalaba Bulldogs in the Brisbane Roar Silver Boot tournament. The match really cannot come quickly enough for the Strikers, who are [...]

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Rain Stops Play – Again

Jan 28, 2012 No Comments by Steve Pitman

The Brisbane Strikers have been informed this morning that Sunday afternoon’s friendly fixture against Olympic FC at Goodwin Park has been CANCELLED – another victim of Southeast Queensland’s continuing spell of wet weather. Coach David Large and his team now have their fingers crossed that the weather improves ahead of Wednesday night’s scheduled Brisbane Roar [...]

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Silver Boot cancelled Tonight

Jan 25, 2012 No Comments by coaching

The Brisbane Strikers wish to inform supporters that this evening’s scheduled Silver Boot fixture against Eastern Suburbs has been CANCELLED. Weather permitting, a replacement fixture has been organised against Olympic FC at Goodwin Park, Yeronga on Sunday at 4.00 pm.

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QSL Season Draw Released

Jan 24, 2012 No Comments

QSL Draw – Current 23.01.2012 The draw for the 2012 QSL season was released today and, as is seemingly always the case, it contains a mixture of pluses and minuses for the Brisbane Strikers and their supporters. The competition will again feature the nine teams who finished the 2011 season, each of whom will play [...]

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Defence The Priority

Jan 24, 2012 No Comments

Defensive drills have been the order of the night at training for the Brisbane Strikers since last Wednesday’s embarrassing 7-1 Silver Boot loss to Rochedale Rovers. Coach David Large, concerned about the porous and ponderous nature of his team’s defending in its two pre-season fixtures to date, said today that he had changed the structure [...]

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Brisbane Roar Silver Boot Results – Round 1

Jan 23, 2012 No Comments

Group A Mitchelton 0 Brisbane City 4 Redlands 0 Olympic FC 3 Group B Brisbane Strikers 1 Rochedale Rovers 7 Capalaba 4 Eastern Suburbs 3 Group C Ipswich Knights 1 Taringa Rovers 1 (Ipswich Knights won on penalties) North Star 3 Brisbane Wolves 1 Group D Western Spirit 1 Peninsula Power 1 (Peninsula Power won [...]

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Rovers Demolish Disappointing Strikers In Silver Boot

Jan 18, 2012 No Comments

The Brisbane Strikers produced their second pre-season horror show in succession tonight, capitulating 7-1 to a businesslike and probably gobsmacked Rochedale Rovers in their first match in the Silver Boot tournament at Richlands, with a performance that had coaching staff and supporters alike scratching their heads in a mixture of bewilderment and embarrassment. In a [...]

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Changes Certain For Rochedale Clash

Jan 17, 2012 No Comments

After Saturday’s ill-fated showing against Capalaba Bulldogs in their first pre-season game, a different kind of performance will be expected of the Brisbane Strikers by coach David Large in Wednesday night’s Silver Boot opener with Rochedale Rovers. Large has already gone on record to say that his team will be intent on winning every competition [...]

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Logan City Kings Look To Boost Junior Numbers

Jan 17, 2012 No Comments

Junior footballers who sign on this weekend to play with the Logan City Kings Football Club could find themselves getting in on the ground floor of a major expansion of the club. Logan City Kings, based at Meakin Park, now boast six fields and therefore acres of room to expand their numbers of junior soccer [...]

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Strikers Blitzed In Pre-Season Opener

Jan 14, 2012 No Comments

The Brisbane Strikers got their 2012 pre-season fixtures off to an inauspicious start tonight, with an experimental line-up self-destructing in a horror thirty minute period to go down 4-1 to Brisbane Premier League club Capalaba Bulldogs at Meakin Park. A Strikers starting eleven that contained more new faces than familiar ones, with only Ryan Mottin, [...]

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