Love in the air at Punt Road among Richmond stars Sydney Stack and Monique Conti

They met at the club and are now the first known relationship between AFL and AFLW players. And dual-sport star Monique Conti can’t wait to see what her boyfriend can produce for the Tigers this year.

The AFL’S newest power couple is in the house.

Monique Conti – one of AFL Women’s top stars heading into 2020 – and her new boyfriend Sydney Stack, who has played 17 games in yellow and black, met at the club and became “Instagram official” last month in the first known relationship between an AFL and AFLW player.

The pair hit the track together for the first time before Christmas when Richmond’s AFL and AFLW outfits trained as a unit at Punt Road.

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Monique Conti met boyfriend Sydney Stack at Punt Road. Pic: Jay Town

Conti sits behind Stack for the club photo. Pic: Jay Town

They have holidayed together in recent weeks before now returning to training.

Conti, who turned 20 in December, said the pair were “really happy”.

“We met here, and now we’re here,” she told the Herald Sun.

“There’s really not much more to it. (I’m) really happy. He is really awesome.”

Conti – a star dual-sport athlete who also plays WNBL for the Melbourne Boomers – played 15 games with the Western Bulldogs, including the 2018 AFLW premiership, before moving to the Tigers at the end of last season.

The couple take a selfie at last month’s combined Tigers training session. Pic: Jay Town

The 20-year-old was named in the AFLW All-Australian team last year and claimed the Bulldogs’ best and fairest and is widely tipped to have a big impact on the fourth season of the burgeoning competition.

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She said she and Stack often talk about football and she can’t wait to see him take his game to the next level.

“It’s good. It’s great,” she said.

“I can’t wait to go and watch him play next year, because he’s going to be such a good player.”

Originally published as Love in the air at Punt Road among Richmond stars Sydney Stack and Monique Conti