Recruitment Warriors 2024/2025 Recruitment & Retention

Warriors 2024/2025 Recruitment & Retention Discussion
key: T = Team option, M = Mutual option, P = Player option, D = Development contract

Confirmed Top 30 2024: 28/30
Confirmed Development 2024: 5/6

Confirmed Top 30 2025: 25/30
Confirmed Development 2025: 1/6

2025 Gains: Nil
2025 Losses: Addin Fonua-Blake (Sharks)
 
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Didn't CHT improve towards the end? I'm sure I remember a 40 20 or 2 from him.
Once he got over the injury that hampered his kicking throughout 2021 he was hitting them well
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Volkman has a good kicking game. Great organising half. Great footy brain for a young man. Cht is a great defender, good hole runner, Always in support of his ball playing forwards. .Above average short kicking game.
Metcalf, Awesome speed.........

Winner - Metcalf....Cos hes fast?

Gtfoh

Hope they all crack it. But for now, I fail to see how Metcalf has the most upside? Upside down cos he gets run over all the time maybe.

I hate xmas. I hate the crowds & i hate ending up broke at the end of it. The cranky pants are pulled right up the anuks. Don't mind me..
I'll love Metcalf after xmas is done.
 
Volkman has a good kicking game. Great organising half. Great footy brain for a young man. Cht is a great defender, good hole runner, Always in support of his ball playing forwards. .Above average short kicking game.
Metcalf, Awesome speed.........

Winner - Metcalf....Cos hes fast?

Gtfoh

Hope they all crack it. But for now, I fail to see how Metcalf has the most upside? Upside down cos he gets run over all the time maybe.

I hate xmas. I hate the crowds & i hate ending up broke at the end of it. The cranky pants are pulled right up the anuks. Don't mind me..
I'll love Metcalf after xmas is done.
Having a think about Chanel's last stint, he had Mooks for most of it, hardly the most innovative halves coach, then bloody Browny tinkering around with a makeshift nomad squad struggling for players. Then Stacey for 6 weeks trying to put some pride back in a demoralised jumper.

Hasn't been the best environment for CHT to excell, so it's hard to judge his ceiling. He could surprise us all, Webby appears to see something in him a lot of us don't. I know less now than I did before I started thinking, happens every time.
 
That'll be less than 7 months post surgery. Maybe he does possess those Wolverine powers someone mentioned earlier in the week.
Ale took 10 months, as did Tohu. 3 different stages of their careers obviously, but the club has tended to err on the side of caution with return to play.
Kane Williamson did his ACL in May and played the world cup in October. Although it's different sports and workloads, it's crazy how these guys do rehab these days.

It took me 12 months to properly recover from my ACL surgery. Shows how much better rehab resources pros have access to.
 
I agree with the decision to cut Volkman. It will not come back to haunt us. Got to make these calls over players. Frees up a spot in our 30. And he was the 5th ranked half here so wasn't going to play.
 
Having a think about Chanel's last stint, he had Mooks for most of it, hardly the most innovative halves coach, then bloody Browny tinkering around with a makeshift nomad squad struggling for players. Then Stacey for 6 weeks trying to put some pride back in a demoralised jumper.

Hasn't been the best environment for CHT to excell, so it's hard to judge his ceiling. He could surprise us all, Webby appears to see something in him a lot of us don't. I know less now than I did before I started thinking, happens every time.

Very valid points bro, they all point to why he took a year off too……he’s got the goods but needs the right environment, coach and team to spark him up again 🤞
 
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