FQ Academy Northern Conference Junior Carnival

Welcome to Gurrumbilbarra.  Football Queensland wishes to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we meet during the carnival to play our game, the Wulgurukaba and Bindal People.  We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging and we extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.   

This year’s FQ Academy Junior Regional Carnival has been expanded to include extra days and new Hub players and teams. 

We welcome players from the Far North & Gulf, Mareeba, Innisfail, Northern, Burdekin and Whitsunday Coast FQ Academy Tier 1 and Tier 2 programs and trust that you and your coaches have an enjoyable time at the event. 

The carnival is a development event and will include matches where players will play with their regular groups in order to display their individual and collective technical development as well as matches, for some age groups, where players are mixed with players from other areas to challenge the players’ abilities to work with others in unfamiliar conditions and to broaden the social relationships with players in their same age groups, but who live in different areas. 

The carnival is very much about letting the players play, with coaches providing tasks and challenges to them, but letting the players enjoy the game.  We ask that our spectators do the same.  Sideline support is wonderful, needed and provides atmosphere.  Sideline coaching, directing, calling out positional or technical instructions is distracting, limits player creativity and focus, and may cause doubt and uncertainty in the players.   

For many of the games, the coaches will be acting as game officials as well.  We will also have appointed match officials for some of the older age groups and these will be our developing referees.  Please respect all match officials, their decisions and the efforts they are making to support the players.   

There will be time during the week for some sightseeing in Townsville and we hope you enjoy Castle Hill, The Strand and many of the other attractions of the city.