Brisbane Strikers FC

Um, and that would even go for the non-eth-- the so-called non-ethnic NSL clubs.

Um, Brisbane Roar has been far more successful, even in their dilapidated state, than Brisbane Strikers were.

It's just, it's just true.

Um, Adelaide United instantly was more successful-

You had the 97, I think.

Please don't come at me if I'm wrong, Brisbane Strikers.

Against Sydney United, there was like 40-odd thousand at what was Lang Park, now Suncorp.

98, you reckon you had South Melbourne and Sydney United going at it at Olympic Park.

And without the people kind of fighting the good fight, we're always having to kind of, you know, from an outside perspective, you know, go to bat for teams like Lions and historically Brisbane City and things like that.

You know, Brisbane Strikers historically as well, right? So, yeah, it's actually just quite a feel-good story of this Cup campaign as a whole, I would say, Lawrence.

And a club that's always been capable of it as well.

They've always been really well-funded, you know, always had a good migrant community in that part of Queensland and Obviously, they are the old historical Brisbane Roar.

It would be on the same level as Orange Sunday's.

and the Strikers 97 NSL Cup grand final win.

I think for Lions, I think we're entering that sort of stratosphere of importance to Queensland football.

Yeah, I think it's very much that way.

Great sessions, everyone, up there at North Lakes United.

We'll now recap the first game of the day.

This was the FQPL1 men's grand final between the Brisbane Strikers and Broadbeach United.

And as we know, all year long, these two sides have been the best two sides in FQPL1.

It was both goals in the first, giving Broadbeach their spot in the grand final, which you have to say, they do deserve.

Them and the Brisbane Strikers, we've said it before time and time again, they have been the two best sides over the course of the season.

Sunshine Coast have had a very good year to get to this point as well, but they have been the best too, and It's only fitting we see that rematch in the grand final next weekend.

It would have been something for Sunshine Coast to go down to Nick Freedy's family park and get the upset.

Broad Beach were in control of this and very, very deserving winners on the day on the Gold Coast.

We're observing winners on the day down there at Nicofarides Park, and they are through to a grand final.

Well, they will take on the Brisbane Strikers for the fourth time.

It's 2-1 to the Brisbane Strikers in the head-to-head.

Does every club that comes in to the competition, if you're an existing club, do they have to be in on the same terms? So a unit holding licence, the last of which went to an Auckland at that 20 odd million dollar price and is trying to be sold in to a Canberra right now or other places around the country for a certain price.

at unit holding status where therefore they share in the spoils of the league? Does it have to be that way for all new clubs? Could a South Melbourne come in or could a Wollongong Wolves come in or could a Brisbane Strikers one day come into the competition at a lesser rate on a participation licence which gives you a piece of paper to play but doesn't come with governance input into the running of the league or voting rights on the board or you know, access to all the, I suppose, the shareholding rewards that come with being an owner of the APL.

Is that a way to enable member-owned clubs to be able to come into the competition and pay their way a little bit with a licence fee, but not send themselves broke by paying an exorbitant licence fee, which is going to be out of the realm, I suppose, of a lot of grassroots clubs across the country right now.

You don't want to make that bar too high, but you need to balance it by also injecting more capital into the ecosystem to make it survive, particularly in the early days.

For the sake of the argument we've got in the appendix, who are our modelled clubs? Because we've gone deep and we've done the travel modelling and everything like that too.

The starting 18 club ecosystem, for the sake of the argument, don't get too hung up on it, but what we've done to illustrate where we started with the nine plus nine in alphabetical order is Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Canberra, Central Coast, Christchurch, Gold Coast, Macarthur, Marconi, Melbourne City, Melbourne Victory, Newcastle, Perth, South Melbourne, Sydney FC, Wellington, Western Sydney, and Wollongong.

And then, again, to demonstrate where we move with our modelling and which clubs we add into the mix, when we get to 20 clubs, we have added in Adelaide City and Brisbane Strikers.

When we get to 22 clubs, we add Heidelberg and Preston Lyons.