Held from May 18 to 22, the boys will travel to Adelaide to play nine games of football throughout the week.

They will be competing against players from Gawler, the mid South East, Northern Yorke Peninsula, the Lower Eyre Peninsular and numerous Adelaide district areas.

Last year the team came home with four wins for the week and team manager Sam Lawrence, believes a better result can be achieved this year.

A physically stronger side than last year has been chosen thanks to some bigger-bodied boys from the Roxby Downs’ schools being selected.

Lawrence said last year, the team was physically undersized in some games, with some opposing teams fielding lads that had the body size to play under 17’s football

“Hopefully this year the slightly larger built team will not be knocked off the ball so easily,” Lawrence said.

The selected boys are very excited to play in Adelaide, and the event has been made even more special with the generous donation from Babcock and Brown’s Port Augusta Power Station, of over one thousand dollars going toward a new set of team jumpers.

The new jumpers with yellow lightning bolts shooting down the front replace the older style woollen jumpers that had been used for a number of years.

The jumpers are original and distinctive, and Lawrence reports the boys are very proud to be wearing them for the first time.

Lawrence said the selection process for the team this year was difficult as always, with a squad of 37 boys chosen from the District Football Carnival held on the last Monday of term one.

More than 140 boys played entertaining football throughout the day, with the Roxby Downs combined team taking out the Division 1 shield and the Division 2 shield going to Stirling North Primary, stealing it from a previously undefeated Willsden Primary School in the final.