NRLW Nines 2020: Rising Broncos half injured ahead of women’s Nines campaign

The Brisbane Broncos’ NRLW Nines campaign has suffered an early setback, after a rising half went down with a knee injury at training on Sunday.

The Broncos have been dealt an early blow to their women’s Nines campaign after rising star Tahlulah Tillett went down with a knee injury at training on Sunday.

The 21-year-old has had a horror run of injuries, suffering both an ACL and MCL tear in her right knee in the past two years.

She has been on the cusp of making her NRLW appearance and joined the female Maroons Origin camp earlier this year in what was supposed to be her comeback season.

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But the Cairns product yesterday went down clutching her left knee in an innocuous training drill at Red Hill.

She left training on crutches with her knee bandaged and will get scans this week to assess the damage.

The incident comes as the Broncos began training for their Nines campaign this weekend.

The squad features 11 of their NRLW 2019 premiership-winning players, including Ali Brigginshaw, Meg Ward and Julia Robinson.

Broncos NRLW captain Ali Brigginshaw training ahead of the team’s Nines campaign. Picture: AAP.

Broncos women’s coach Kelvin Wright has also added plenty of speed to his squad with touch football star Tarryn Aiken and Rugby sevens player Jessika Elliston joining the team to head to Perth.

Tillett was set to make her Broncos debut alongside fellow newcomers Jayme Fressard, Hayley Maddick and Tanika Marshall.

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The Broncos will start the tournament against 2019 NRLW grand finalists the Dragons on Friday before facing the Warriors and Roosters on Saturday.