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FOOTBALL: With 90 per cent of their 2020 squad re-signed, the SWQ Thunder’s pre-season is about one thing – strengthening their winning culture.
Beaten in last year’s FQPL grand final, they are determined to secure promotion this season and they’ve started the year in winning form.
Fresh off an 8-1 against the TFL All-Stars, the Thunder beat Ipswich Knights 3-1 on Saturday.
“We play to win,” SWQ Thunder men’s coach Ivor Prasad said.
“Our goal this year is promotion (to the NPL) and to do that we need to win more games.
“Fitness, combinations, gelling between players, those type of things happen with time, but ultimately the reason we play is to win.
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Back in October 2019 as a new A-League season was just coming to life, I penned an article for
Frankly, the majority of the players named were no brainers. Al Hassan Toure had already set Australian football on fire during Adelaide United’s run to the final of that edition of the FFA Cup, Sydney FC’s Luke Ivanovic continues to develop and should do further in a season where he appears likely to receive more playing minutes from Steve Corica and Angus Thurgate is lighting up McDonald Jones Stadium each time he takes to it.
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Subscriber only HAVING lost captain Jack Cabassi for the fast approaching season, Ipswich Knights head coach Andrew Ogden already has a new way to inspire his team. Ogden plans to build a leadership group for the 2021 Football Queensland Premier League (FQPL) season kicking off on March 13. With a mix of loyal Ipswich players and some quality recruits to choose from, Ogden is excited about creating more opportunities. Jack has been really good for us and that but we ll fill that void, Ogden said. I had a good chat to Jack and he basically thought he was getting on in his football career and Rochedale probably has a realistically better chance of getting to the NPL (National Premier Leagues competition) than we do.
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IT WAS the biggest flood the people of Ipswich had seen since 1974, and for some, memories were hazy at best by the time 2011 came around.
When the floods hit full steam across Ipswich on the morning of Wednesday January 12, people were already prepared for the worst, but they were still in for a shock.
In the few days leading up to the peak, we had already witnessed tragedy in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley, and with water also being released from a rapidly filling Wivenhoe Dam, it was pretty clear something awful was headed our way.