Springbank champion Billy Driscoll is on the move from the Central Highlands Football League.
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Driscoll has joined Navarre in the Maryborough Castlemaine District Football Netball League.
Navarre president Tim Bibby said the club was excited to welcome Driscoll back to the club.
"There's some real good vibes around the place already," he said.
Driscoll has played some footy at the club previously.
"His old man was born and bred here, when his old man kept coming home to play he did have a few years in juniors here," Bibby said.
"He did have a year in the seniors at Navarre before he went back to North (Ballarat), before they won those flags actually."
Driscoll has been a star of Ballarat football since he joined the Greater Western Victoria Rebels, who were the North Ballarat Rebels at the time.
He graduated into the VFL and joined the North Ballarat Roosters, where he played in three-straight premierships with the club between 2008-2010.
Driscoll then joined Springbank in 2014 fresh from the VFL and had an immediate impact, leading the Tigers to three-straight grand final appearances and winning back-to-back premierships in 2015 and 2016.
Outgoing Springbank president Paddy O'Neil said Driscoll had been a star for the Tigers both on and off the field in his tenure at the club.
"He's been outstanding for us," he said.
"For us at Springbank, the memories he's given our members and supporters and the friendships he's formed with people of all ages ... he's just been outstanding around the club.
"He's an excellent club person, brilliant footballer and I reckon it'd be the best 100 games I've seen in my time, could not speak highly enough of him.
"We wish him all the best up at Navarre."
Driscoll played his 100th game for Springbank this season and kicked 18 goals.
"I'm sure it won't be the last we see of Bill, like I say, formed many strong friendships there," O'Neil said.
"He wasn't even really a recruit in the finish, he was just one of the boys."
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