Tiger Cubs Get a Taste of the Big time

as a part of the Queanbeyan Tigers effort to develop and maintain strong links between the Junior and Senior football clubs, junior AFL teams from the Queanbeyan Junior Football Club have been coming to Margaret Donoghoe Sportsground to train with a few senior footballers. From the Under 8’s right through to our Under 14 team, junior players have been descending upon the heart of AFL in Queanbeyan to meet a few senior players and get a taste of the professionalism of a senior football club. The four time reigning premiers, our Under 16 team, have been consistently training with the Under 18 squad for the entire 2006 season.

It has been great to see the youngsters enjoying themselves out with the senior footballers who were more than happy to donate some of their time to assist in the development of the ‘next generation’. One of the highlights of these training sessions has been the use of the ‘speccy bag’, where the juniors really showed some athletic talent to get up high and take some great marks.

The junior administration would like to thank all coaches, parents, junior footballers, senior footballers and officials for assiting in making these sessions so worthwhile. A very special thankyou must go to Under 18 Coach Damian Kirkwood, Assistant Scott Taylor and all of the Under 18 players who made all of the kids feel so welcome and was always willing to have the juniors involved, regardless of the previous weekends result, or who they were playing the coming weekend.

After the training session (under lights, I might add), the kids then enjoyed a sausage sandwich while watching some of the senior training session.