PORTLAND Tigers are set to take on two fresh ex-AFL footballers in next year’s Hampden Football Netball

League season, after Port Fairy signed premiership star Gary Rohan and Terang-Mortlake picked up Irish dual-sportsman, Colin O’Riordan.

On Sunday, the Seagulls announced the signing of 2022 Geelong premiership player Rohan, who joins the club just one year after his 204-game AFL career with Sydney and Geelong came to an end.

The 33-year-old kicked 96 goals in 106 games across his eight seasons with the Sydney Swans, before making the switch to the Cats in 2019 where he played 98 games and kicked 120 goals, for a total of 216 goals from his 204 games.

In the announcement, Port Fairy said Rohan would “provide added flexibility to our forward, midfield and defensive groups” and that he was set to join Dustin McCorkell’s coaching staff “as well as supporting the development of our junior seagulls.”

Rohan joins former Geelong Falcons TAC Cup teammate and friend Ben Cunnington who currently plays at Warrnambool in the league, the pair having been drafted with picks five and six in the 2009 AFL draft.

Rohan and his wife Madi will both join the club, with Madi having formerly played netball in the region for Hamilton Magpies and Cavendish, the pair frequently spending time in Port Fairy before making the switch to the Seagulls.

Late last month, Terang-Mortlake announced that former Sydney Swan Colin O’Riordan had joined the Bloods

for the 2025 season, alongside his partner, Louise.

O’Riordan played 34 games for Sydney between 2015 and 2022, after he signed a rookie contract with Swans at 19 years of age having made a name for himself in his homeland in Gaelic Football.

In 2020, O’Riordan returned to Ireland with the permission of Sydney and helped his team Tipperary to their first Munster title in 85 years when they defeated Cork, the following year O’Riordan was one of four Tipperary players who were nominated for all-star awards.

The 29-year-old retired from AFL football in 2022, before joining the Swans’ AFLW program as a coach the following year.

The Tigers will have their own former AFL talent in action early next year, with former Carlton and Melbourne 185-gamer Jeff Garlett set to play the first four games of the upcoming season, while former Geelong VFL-listed player Tanner Lovell is set to return to his home club and run out for the Tigers for the first time since 2019.