Aussie cross-code footy power couple announce incredible family news with a heartwarming video

Australian sporting power couple Tanah Boyd and Jacqui Yorston have announced they are having a baby boy.

NRL star Boyd – who plays for the Gold Coast Titans – and AFLW player Yorston staged a gender reveal on Wednesday.

The happy couple shared the news via an Instagram video, with the halfback visibly elated at the ‘blue’ outcome.

‘The best is yet to come…..baby Boyd due September 2024,’ Yorston posted.

Boyd’s former teammate at the Titans, Jamal Fogarty, was one of many footy identities to pass on his best wishes.

NRL star Boyd – who plays for the Gold Coast Titans – and former AFLW player Yorston staged a gender reveal on Wednesday

The baby news follows the couple getting engaged in Hawaii last October

‘Congrats legends, how bloody good!,’ the Canberra playmaker posted. 

The baby news follows Boyd and Yorston getting engaged in Hawaii last October, with the Titans no.7 displaying his romantic side after proposing while on a boat ride.

The couple started dating in 2018, but Yorston’s footy career was left in jeopardy when the midfielder suffered a devastating knee injury during a training session ahead of the 2021 AFLW season.

Yorston tore her ACL, MCL and lateral and medial meniscuses – and knew something was seriously wrong instantly.

‘I just had to wait for the scans to tell me how bad it was,’ she told the ABC.

‘Some people describe it like a pop, but I didn’t feel a pop. I just felt instant pain.’

Yorston made the move to play for Port Adelaide in 2022, but the strain of working and recovering from the knee injury took its toll on the young athlete.

‘I remember getting in the shower and I just lost it, I started crying and I said to Tanah ‘I can’t do this, this is going to be way too hard’,’ she said.

‘I said to him ‘how am I meant to do my rehab properly when I go back to work?”

In March last year, Yorsten decided to step away from football for 12 months to focus on her mental health.

‘We are proud of Jacqui for making the decision to prioritise her wellbeing,’ Port Adelaide AFLW head Juliet Haslam said at the time.