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Warriorsfan92 · Wednesday at 10:28 PM

Wrighty said:
And Melbourne Storm according to a podcast speculation I saw. If Munster goes to Perth then Melbourne may want Metcalf for 27.

They’ve got pezet til 29. And having 2 running 7s won’t work. Metcalf has his eyes on playing halfback & that ain’t happening with Hughes in the side.

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3rdstriker · Wednesday at 10:41 PM

Look if Metcalf needs to go let him go he isn't the second coming he's more brittle than a Gtx gearbox.
A brilliant player but the fear he will breakdown will be there until he completes his 1st ever nrl season.
@Five&Last will be happy that next season we have Tanah Boyd to replace him anyway

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Noitall · Wednesday at 10:47 PM

Warriorsfan92 said:
They’ve got pezet til 29. And having 2 running 7s won’t work. Metcalf has his eyes on playing halfback & that ain’t happening with Hughes in the side.

Sounding like a good chance of Pezet to eels. Bears chasing Munster hard too

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Five&Last · Wednesday at 11:15 PM

3rdstriker said:
@Five&Last will be happy that next season we have Tanah Boyd to replace him anyway.

Jack Thompson, Jye Linnane and Harry Inch will save us

j_p · Thursday at 6:43 AM

juju said:
I mean he was at the Warriors and Raiders too previously.

A lot of the credit on the upswing of form comes down to his attitude and how he's matured.

You're spot on.

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Horriors2013 · Thursday at 7:21 AM

Tokyo Warrior said:
I’d be ropeable if we let him go early

I'd be fucked off to the power of 3. As a fan it ma

Wrighty said:
Here is some tin foil hat theories for you.

I questioned at the time putting Linnane in the top 30. With Linnane we have 5 halves in our top 30 and there is a genuine opportunity cost to the balance of the squad by having too many of any position.
By putting Linane in the top 30 and MAYBE if you believe 5 and Last we offered Inch a top 30 role - have they known this has been coming for a while or at least had fears of it happening and built in some back up plans.

Very plausible theory and it is what I was thinking too. I still say that the delay is normal because he'll be wanting the highest price due to age, point of his career, was leading Dally M before he got injured. He'll want a 4-5 year million per season deal.

BUT, as you said we're now heavy in the halves. If Metcalfe left it would answer a few questions. It would explain why we have Jye Linnane, Shane Hanson, CHT, Boyd, Cleary, Thompson. You have an injury-prone star (Linnane), CHT an experienced back-up, with Hanson our 'waiting to see if he has what we want', at 6. At 7 you'd have Boyd, Cleary, Thompson.

Which would mean you're looking at the year starting with CHT/Boyd. This would piss off a lot of day 1 fans like myself because it always feels like the moment things are going good, something happens and we're re-building again. Never quite getting to the top. Always re-building.

It might explain thought why Inch's signing has not been confirmed. It may be conditional on whether Metcalfe resigns or not.

You then have CHT/Boyd as placeholders for 2026. Linnane/Hanson fighting to supersede CHT with Inch as the next developing 6. Over the next 2 years Linnane will either be injury-prone and we let him go or he cements 6 for the next 2/3 years. If he gets injured, Hanson will step up and be our 6 until Inch has learned the game enough to command a FG position.

Then Cleary would be pushing Boyd and may win out by year end. But then you're also asking TMM/Hanson to cover 7. We'd be 6 heavy and 7 light. Not the best scenario but may benefit Cleary.

Either way, Metcalfe leaving would not be good short-term. Medium term we will be ok. But short term we'd be screwed next year. CNK/CHT/Boyd are not going to win us a premiership, we know this. Even CNK/Linnane/Boyd won't be enough.

CNK or Tuaupiki/Linnane/Metcalfe at least has a chance.

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Makasene · Thursday at 7:23 AM

Wahs_Ultras said:
Where in big trouble if mets leaves us

I think we'll be ok, as long as it's not early.

He should play out 2026.

I have faith that one of the many development halfs will be worthy of being given a chance in 2027

Makasene · Thursday at 7:28 AM

Completion Rate said:
I reckon we've tried to lowball him and he's going to test the market.

I think that is unlikely.

I would expect we have offered fair market value.

But when Dylan Brown is getting $10m he is stupid not to sniff around.

I suspect a team like Dragons will be willing to pay massive overs.

And lets not forget about Perth. A 6 / 7 of Munster / Metcalf would be a sweet bloody start.

Five&Last · Thursday at 7:30 AM

Wrighty said:
and MAYBE if you believe 5 and Last we offered Inch a top 30 role

I think it’s probably dev contract 2026 with top 30 guaranteed already for 2027 + 2028

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Falcon · Thursday at 7:50 AM

Completion Rate said:
Two camps here: has he delayed signing till after all the chaos surrounding a wedding or he's not got it out of the way beforehand because he's on the move. There are optimistic and pessimistic arguments for both.

I reckon we've tried to lowball him and he's going to test the market.

I think he’s testing the market regardless especially with expansion sides in the mix.

Five&Last · Thursday at 7:58 AM

Completion Rate said:
I reckon we've tried to lowball him and he's going to test the market.

There's creative ways for teams to make contracted players aware of what they would offer them without formally making an offer.

POS used to be the king of this when he was with us.

I have no doubt the Metcalf knows what his suitors are going to offer him come 1 November and wants to use this as leverage to get us to bump up our offer.

YouKnowIt · Thursday at 8:11 AM

3rdstriker said:
Look if Metcalf needs to go let him go he isn't the second coming he's more brittle than a Gtx gearbox.
A brilliant player but the fear he will breakdown will be there until he completes his 1st ever nrl season.
@Five&Last will be happy that next season we have Tanah Boyd to replace him anyway.

More brittle than a GTX gearbox hahaha

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Blain · Thursday at 8:57 AM

Metcalf has either signed a contract and the Warriors and him are waiting until after his wedding is done to announce, or he is going to test the market. If he is going to test the market, I would say it's a 75% chance he will go in 2027.

If it's only about money, I think he would be re signing, as we have the advantage of upgrading what he gets paid next season, while not having to relocate. His injury history limits his contract value. If he's more into family, then the Dragons would make sense. I don't think there are many Sydney clubs able to throw $1 million around for 2027. Maybe Manly if Turbo goes? He's not enough of a shit head for the Bunnies to sign, and I think their cap balance is way out anyway.

Canonball · Thursday at 9:08 AM

Warriorsfan92 said:
I think some are overreacting. I think the deals done, he’s just enjoying his wedding and time off. When he returns to Auckland a deal will be announced, either way.

yeah, living his life, getting called 'mr and mrs brev' by SJ... doesn't sound like he's planning on going anywhere to me

Noitall · Thursday at 9:12 AM

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JustLikeStartingOver · Thursday at 9:37 AM

Young luke seems to be quite media and image conscious, doubt he wants to be known as the guy who agitated for an early release after all the warriors have done for him.

That does not mean he will sign with us long term though.

Tend to agree, with how hard they are working to sign junior playmakers they are doing succession planning

Theking267 · Thursday at 10:04 AM

JaggedJ said:
Sounds good, but questions where that leaves Kali.

Norris not too far off either.

Good problem to have. "Who the hell do we leave out" is better than "Who the hell else can we put in".

RTS will be gone at the end of 26, So AKP will start on the left wing in 27. DWZ will be gone by the end of 27. Mellars will be the right winger in 28. Which means Kali will be the backup left winger in 27 & can cover centre. Norris will be the backup right winger in 28 & cover fullback.

JaggedJ · Thursday at 10:10 AM

Theking267 said:
RTS will be gone at the end of 26, So AKP will start on the left wing in 27. DWZ will be gone by the end of 27. Mellars will be the right winger in 28. Which means Kali will be the backup left winger in 27 & can cover centre. Norris will be the backup right winger in 28 & cover fullback.

If Norris and Kali are as talented as they look I doubt either of them are happy to be back up wingers in 3 years time and I doubt other clubs will be sitting on their hands with no contract offers.

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Noitall · Thursday at 10:17 AM

Theking267 said:
RTS will be gone at the end of 26

If he can pump out what he did this year again and that article mentioning communication between himself and the club, I wouldn’t be surprised to see an extension. Obviously big money on the table in his offer but the opportunity to do something special and stay home might be attractive. This is a guy that looks after himself and puts in ten fold so age wouldn’t worry me so long as he’s performing and sets standards around the club. Could see benefits with him as a yardage winger and strike with AKP on the other side

Warriors55 · Thursday at 10:39 AM

I mean it will be horrible if Metcalf goes but if he does we can't release him early. We need him for 2026.

In 2027 guys like Jett and Inch will be more than ready to step into the halves (if Inch is not playing fullback).

If Met gets released early our 2026 is stuffed. I am hoping he signed on with us but there is a logjam of young halves now waiting in the wings.

As for Kali, I don't think we would let him go. AKP on one wing and Kali on the other is perhaps our long term plan once RTS goes (or moves to fullback).

Player	2026	2027	2028	2029
Mitchell Barnett	✔	✔
Rocco Berry	✔
Tanah Boyd	✔
Kurt Capewell	✔
Erin Clark	✔	✔
Wayde Egan	✔	✔
Kayliss Fatialofa	✔	✔
James Fisher-Harris	✔	✔	✔
Jackson Ford	✔	✔
Morgan Gannon	✔	✔	✔
Leka Halasima	✔	✔	✔	✔
Chanel Harris-Tavita	✔
Sam Healey	✔	✔
Eddie Ieremia-Toeava	✔	✔
Alofiana Khan-Pereira	✔	✔	✔
Jacob Laban	✔	✔	✔	✔
Ali Leiataua	✔	✔
Jye Linnane	✔	✔	✔
Freddy Lussick	✔
Te Maire Martin	✔
Haizyn Mellars	✔	✔	✔
Luke Metcalf	✔
Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad	✔	✔
Marata Niukore	✔
Adam Pompey	✔	✔
Tanner Stowers-Smith	✔	✔	✔
Taine Tuaupiki	✔
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck	✔
Demitric Vaimauga	✔	✔	✔
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak	✔	✔
Jett Cleary	S	U
Sio Kali	U
Braelan Marsh	U	U	U
Motu Pasikala	U	U

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