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waz -The story of who gained entry to the NSL is cloaked in enough mystery as to warrant the intervention of one, James Bond.
The then president of the QSF ,B. Waddell called a meeting to be attended by all First Division clubs to discuss as to who was to enter, and represent Qld in the soon to be NSL.
Very quickly the meeting was “brought to heel” when it was said the entry fee was to be $15,000. Ther was only one club present who could come up with that money and that was Brisbane Lions (who had, under orders from the ASF, had earlier changed their name from Hollandia) and in fact it was then City, represented by 5 delegates, walked out of the meeting declaring loudly City would never play in the NSL. (NB)
After further discussion the meeting was closed and the aforementioned president asked two people to stay behind. One ,representing St George (Hellenic), the other, myself representing Bardon Latrobe. It should be noted here that both these clubs used Perry Park as their “home” ground. It was made clear to us that the QSF needed four teams to stage “double headers” all though the season. George, a lawyer by profession, then set up a meeting to be held at the Greek Club The following Tuesday and it has to be said only 2 clubs were absent, Lions and City, both for apparent different reasons.
After 5 hours of heavy discussion it was finally agreed that the teams present would pay $1500 each for the entry fee. This wasn’t the only benefit , it was a fact at that time players could play in two divisions with different clubs so that under that agreement the new club would have approx. 150 players to choose from. The final decision was that the new team would be called Brisbane United. Needless to say it never happened and 2 weeks later the Qld. reps in the new NSL would be Brisbane Lions, and ,wait for it, Brisbane City.
When City and Lions finally fell out of the NSL an attempt was made to resurrect the name “United” ,but there was no real unity in that attempt and so the Strikers were born in the dying days of the NSL with another long- term failure almost guaranteed. jb

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