The biggest game of the QSL season so far comes to Perry Park this Saturday when the Brisbane Strikers take on their old foes, the reigning champions and current league leaders, Sunshine Coast Fire. While the two teams have not had things all their own way this season, with the Whitsunday Miners breathing down their [...]
Now into his fifth successive season in the QSL, midfielder/forward Chris Di Sipio is one of the longest-serving Brisbane Strikers and is still just 26 years old. A player whose energy levels make him a constant danger to the opposition, Di Sipio’s most effective position is probably playing just behind the front men but he [...]
The Brisbane Strikers will play their last fixture of the QSL home and away season against Bundaberg Spirit at Across The Waves Sportsground in Bundaberg. The fixture, to be played on the last designated “catch-up” weekend on Saturday 29 September at 7.30 pm, has been confirmed by Football Queensland and is the rescheduled Round 7 [...]
Brisbane Strikers Chairman Bruce Atterton-Evans remains upbeat about proposals for an Australian Premier League after further details about the new competition intended to underpin the Hyundai A-League were outlined to invited interested parties at a meeting hosted by Football Queensland in Brisbane today. Mr Atterton-Evans said that the meeting had outlined the results and subsequent [...]
The Brisbane Strikers will play the Sunshine Coast Fire for top spot on the QSL table at Perry Park next Saturday after taking three priceless competition points away from Mackay with a 5-2 win at a rain-sodden Virgin Australia Stadium last night. The winning margin might look convincing enough, but it belied the difficulty the [...]
Fullback Jack Boxell is set for a recall to the Brisbane Strikers starting eleven on Saturday when they travel to Mackay for the first of a quartet of games that could prove to be pivotal in the club’s quest for a second QSL championship. With the Strikers facing a challenging and potentially season-defining set of [...]
Winner of the Brisbane Strikers’ Player of the Year award in his first season for the club in 2010, midfielder Michael Angus had a more subdued 2011 season in terms of goals scored but was still an ever-present in the starting eleven. His work rate remained second to none and his number of assists also [...]
The Brisbane Strikers have re-opened their social club at Perry Park. Now named simply, but evocatively, “Strikers Club”, the venue, which overlooks the main field at Perry Park at the top of the western grandstand, is comfortably furnished and offers a range of competitively-priced food and beverages in a relaxed, football-themed setting. The club had [...]
The Brisbane Strikers have received mixed news on their latest two ankle injury victims, defender Ryan Mottin and winger Jonti Richter. Mottin (pictured), who had to be assisted from the field after going down heavily in a tackle in the eighty-fifth minute of Saturday’s game against the Gold Coast Stars, said last night that when [...]
Post-Match Comments – Martin Large The Brisbane Strikers Under-19s got Saturday’s football entertainment at Perry Park underway in satisfying style for the hosting club as they beat a numerically-challenged Gold Coast Stars 3-0 in the curtain-raiser to the main match. The Stars’ current player shortage is certainly causing the club some dramas, and the requirement [...]
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 [...]