Roos swoop on Tassie trio boosting the club’s local talent

TASMANIA now has 11 players in the AFLW after three more were snapped up in the women’s draft in Melbourne.

Twins Libby, left, and Chloe Haines have been drafted to the Tassie Kangaroos. Picture: Getty

TASMANIA now has 11 players in the AFLW after three more were snapped up in the women’s draft in Melbourne.

Burnie twins Chloe and Libby Haines and Clarence player Nicole Bresnehan will don the blue and white in the upcoming season after being taken by North Melbourne in Tuesday’s AFLW Draft, bringing the Kangaroos’ Tasmanian contingent to eight.

The Haines sisters were selected­ with picks 55 and 58 respectively.

The Kangaroos earlier snared Victorians Daisy Bateman (Oakleigh Chargers) with pick 25 and Courteney Munn (Southern Saints) with pick 36, and rounded out their draft haul with Bresnehan at pick 63.

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The Haines twins and Bres­nehan joined Brittany Gibson, Daria Bannister, Emma Humphries, Jessie Williams and Maddison Smith as fellow Tassie Kangaroos.

North Melbourne was delighted with the strength of its Tasmanian representation.

“We have a stated aim to have half the side made up of Tasmanian talent and we are well on the way to achieving that,” said North Melbourne’s head of football operations Laura Kane. “The three girls today will join the five other Tasmanian girls we have at North Melbourne, which brings our total to eight, and that is a great result for the club and the state of Tasmania.

“Working with Tasmanian talent and helping strengthen player pathways is something we’re continually passionate about.”

North Melbourne, which this year was added to the new-look 10-team AFLW competition, hopes its first game will be in Tasmania when the season kicks off on the first weekend of February. The fixture is yet to be released, but the Roos hope for a strong debut.

“We’re really happy with what we’ve been able to achieve with our list build so far and today through the draft,” Kane said. “It has been a really exciting journey for the club and we’re looking forward to getting the team together on the track in the coming weeks.”