HE comes from what you might consider royal Eyre Peninsula blood lines, so being in Port Lincoln this week has been somewhat of a homecoming for Port Adelaide rookie Trent Burgoyne.

The teenager joined nine of his teammates in Port Lincoln as part of the club’s AFL Community Camp, which saw players also spread themselves out in Whyalla and parts of the Adelaide Hills.

Burgoyne and his Port Lincoln group visited a number of schools and kindergartens and the local hospital on Thursday before wrapping up their visit on Friday with more visits.

They spent Thursday afternoon running an Auskick Super Clinic at Port Lincoln’s Centanary Oval for around 120 children, where Burgoyne spoke to local media.

“There’s a lot of family ties back this way,” he explained.

“I probably try and get back as much as I can. I was here two days before the draft for my uncle’s wedding so we try and come back and see everyone.

“I haven’t played many games here, maybe one or two.”

Burgoyne was recruited to the club as a father-son rookie at November’s draft, following in the footsteps of his father, 2004 premiership player Peter Burgoyne, and his grandfather Peter Burgoyne snr who featured for the club in the SANFL.

His uncle Shaun Burgoyne also played in the 2004 premiership.

Burgoyne’s great grandfather George Burgoyne, himself a gun footballer on Eyre Peninsula and the West Coast, had 12 children.

And as a result the 18-year-old can count among his bloodline famous football names like Betts, Davey, Johncock, Miller, Pickett and Wells.

Yet it hasn’t bothered the softly spoken midfielder, who says he doesn’t feel the pressure of being associated with so many fantastic players.

“I don’t really (feel it),” he said.

“I just sort of go about my business and do what I can.”

The Port Adelaide players used their school visits to encourage local children to eat and drink right, be active and to get plenty of sleep, sharing important healthy lifestyle messages out of the club’s Community Youth Program, which celebrates its 21^st year in 2020.

But Burgoyne said it was as much about getting into the community to see people doing it tough, whether that was in bushfire-affected areas of the Hills or flood affected areas of Port Lincoln.

“Obviously a lot has been going on at the moment with the bushfires and we want to give back as much as we can," he said.

“In the next couple of days, we are here in Port Lincoln, over in Whyalla and in the Adelaide Hills just trying to give back to these kids and the communities who have been affected.

“It’s hard to do a lot but as a club we can come out and show our faces and give them some support.”

While he enjoyed the trip, Burgoyne admitted feeling weird about children coming up to him for autographs and wanting to have a kick and catch with him at the clinic.

“It’s a bit strange seeing them all here because it wasn’t that long ago that that was me,” he said.

“But hopefully we can make them realise that they can get there too.”