Roar’s southern comforts
BRISBANE’S new Logan training facility can help the A-League club hook into the same talent base that had nurtured the likes of Cameron Smith and Lote Tuqiri, according to defender Jade North.
Funded by Logan City Council, the $9 million training and administrative headquarters is due to be completed in early January. It will be the Roar’s first permanent home in their 12-year history and a step forward for a club so often rocked by off-field issues.
And North, having grown up 20 minutes away in suburban Sunnybank, reckons Brisbane’s southern reaches is a “perfect place” to lay down concrete roots.
“You just have to look at the other codes,” North said.
“Growing up in Sunnybank, I went to school with Lote Tuqiri. Johnathan Thurston was just down the road at Salisbury High. There’s some great talent down this way.
“We’re not that far from the Gold Coast now as well. Southeast Queensland, it’s all ours.”