Bulldog Joel Freijah, a rising star, made a tough decision to leave home for boarding school and has since excelled in football, drawing comparisons to Marcus Bontempelli.
"It was a hard decision to leave family. We are a really close family, and I'm from Horsham originally, so two hours away from Ballarat. But I'm extremely grateful for it," Freijah said.
"Every day there is routine, there is discipline, even just being away from family at a young age you develop so many daily skills you don't realise you do develop until you come out of school and others don't have that just went to school as a day student."