The neighboring towns have talked about it for years and years but it has never eventuated but finally the two clubs have agreed to unite as one and it didn’t take them long to finalize the amalgamation last Friday night.

Around 150 people packed the Point Pass Hall for the Annual General Meeting with Jamie Reese being elected as President of the newly formed club. Joe Ross is the Vice-President, the Secretary is Sheralee Waldhuter with five members from the two former clubs making up the remainder of the committee.

President Reese said they put in a transition to the constitution regarding the committee for the first season.

“The first year the club will be run by the two former clubs, there’s actually five off of each committee that are on the committee of the new club and that was the best way we could work it. The meeting went very well, within forty minutes we had the AG., the constitution and the jumper decided on. It went really well.” Mr Reese said.

The Eudunda/Robertstown Football Club will be known as the Southern Saints and they will don the St. Kilda guernsey with red, white and black vertical stripes with the back of the guernsey half black and half white.

New recruits to the Southern Saints are Corey Ah Chee whose played over 200 league games for the Port Adelaide Football Club, Matthew Gates whose also played at the Magpies and Andrew Turrell who won the best and fairest award at the Kapunda Football Club last year.

The club has got a few other players they are talking to that are big possibilities of lining up in the red, white and black guernsey.

Eudunda finished seventh out of eight last year with two wins for the season after failing to win a game in 2008 while Robertstown joins Eudunda with momentum having won back-to-back premierships in the Mid Murray Football League.

The club had four runs on the track prior to Christmas and they’ve been back into pre-season training since the middle of January with an average of 32 players doing the hard yards. All up about 45 players have attended pre-season training in preparation for the 2010 season.

The Eudunda/Robertstown Southern Saints will be put to the test in the opening game of the 2010 season on April 17 when they take on the Blyth/Snowtown Cats at Eudunda.