Recruitment Warriors 2026/2027 Recruitment & Retention

CWC · 2026-05-30T12:41:17+1200

WAH MAN said:
Leadership wise, it is wise to have Capewell stay. We need leaders who can verbalise their messages on field. Our young blokes are developing but they basically need another finals baptism to increase their ability to perform under pressure and lead others. Demetric and Tanner will be leadership material next season I speculate.

Probably Clark and Ford if Fish goes down next year, but a Cape is handy can always give him a 2 year deal and early release him to Perth in 2028 if needed, Bears won’t complain

Beastmode · 2026-05-30T12:44:27+1200

Falcon said:
NZ Warriors have officially become associated with a secondary school. Trainspotters will note that this school is not in Auckland but located in the scenic Garden City of Christchurch.
St Thomas College, winners of 2 of the last 3 secondary schools national champs are now part of the NZW players nursery. Hats off to St Thomas and Andrew Aumatangi in locking in this partnership that emphasises education with sporting opportunities.
Exciting times

Wow

St Thomas. Strong school

WAH MAN · 2026-05-30T12:46:41+1200

CWC said:
Probably Clark and Ford if Fish goes down next year, but a Cape is handy can always give him a 2 year deal and early release him to Perth in 2028 if needed, Bears won’t complain

Do Clark and Ford have the verbal skills to get messages across? The players I've seen verbally speaking from memory are Barney, Fish, Tanah, Taine, Wayde, Kurt. Not sure about Erin or Jackson.

sup42 · 2026-05-30T12:49:10+1200

BangBro's (still banging) said:
Fuck Sayfarth! Just saying.

SayWah't?

CWC said:
Have you seen his long kicks? It’s interesting to me that he’s plugged at LEFT centre and he happens to have pace and pass

Anderson’s probably that centre/wing utility we need next year as well. Roger’s tragic but I wonder if Cappy actually foresee the risk….(copium from me )

Nothing on that limited Newcastle highlights video (offensive in goal kick, offensive short range aerial kick).

It may well be that the reason he is not being played in the halves is that his rehab plan say's no kicking.

Also if he had a decent long kick playing him long term at Center in this team would be a bizarre call in the least.

FormerlyJamesW · 2026-05-30T13:01:32+1200

sup42 said:
Also if he had a decent long kick playing him long term at Center in this team would be a bizarre call in the least.

Or?

So bizarre, it might just work....

BabylonPink · 2026-05-30T14:07:43+1200

WAH MAN said:
Do Clark and Ford have the verbal skills to get messages across? The players I've seen verbally speaking from memory are Barney, Fish, Tanah, Taine, Wayde, Kurt. Not sure about Erin or Jackson.

I saw jacko scream ' TAKE IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL' or some such in a team huddle once.....

CWC · 2026-05-30T14:09:24+1200

WAH MAN said:
Do Clark and Ford have the verbal skills to get messages across? The players I've seen verbally speaking from memory are Barney, Fish, Tanah, Taine, Wayde, Kurt. Not sure about Erin or Jackson.

We are talking middles, Barney is gone, Fish the whole point was what happens if he’s injured, then it’s Cape who I want to extend, if he’s on origin duty or injured too then Clark and Ford have to step up or you’re asking demi, tss or EIT to do the pep talk. Clark was telling off Mets early last year so he knows his stuff and happy to verbally let it be known. I am team cape but if it comes down to it clark and ford need to step up with their mouth

CWC · 2026-05-30T14:16:12+1200

BabylonPink said:
I saw jacko scream ' TAKE IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL' or some such in a team huddle once.....

Doesn’t take much to like talk lol, Fish ain’t exactly a talker. RTS was stuttering when he first became a captain. Just responsibility assignment, in saying that Cape offers more than huddle talks, live viewers say he organizes the defense so that’s huge

BabylonPink · 2026-05-30T14:45:03+1200

CWC said:
Doesn’t take much to like talk lol, Fish ain’t exactly a talker. RTS was stuttering when he first became a captain. Just responsibility assignment, in saying that Cape offers more than huddle talks, live viewers say he organizes the defense so that’s huge

I think its just the ability to perform so people can't fault you. Then you bring em with you. If tohu can Captain I'm not to worried.

BangBro's (still banging) · 2026-05-30T16:05:12+1200

CWC said:
We are talking middles, Barney is gone, Fish the whole point was what happens if he’s injured, then it’s Cape who I want to extend, if he’s on origin duty or injured too then Clark and Ford have to step up or you’re asking demi, tss or EIT to do the pep talk. Clark was telling off Mets early last year so he knows his stuff and happy to verbally let it be known. I am team cape but if it comes down to it clark and ford need to step up with their mouth

Add Egan to that also!

CWC · 2026-05-30T16:29:10+1200

BangBro's (still banging) said:
Add Egan to that also!

I was talking about middles ie big boys but would be funny watching Eganator taking a hit up

BangBro's (still banging) · 2026-05-30T16:36:45+1200

CWC said:
I was talking about middles ie big boys but would be funny watching Eganator taking a hit up

Ah! I thought you were talking about leadership and chat

Warriors4eva95 · 2026-05-30T16:40:55+1200

Clark talks in most team huddles lol and is very vocal

CWC · 2026-05-30T16:43:28+1200

Warriors4eva95 said:
Clark talks in most team huddles lol and is very vocal

Honestly last year I thought he and Demi will be the future Fish and Barney combo, now we can add Ford…

BabylonPink · 2026-05-30T19:32:34+1200

CWC said:
Honestly last year I thought he and Demi will be the future Fish and Barney combo, now we can add Ford…

And tanner tbf

sup42 · 2026-05-30T22:19:54+1200

BabylonPink said:
I think its just the ability to perform so people can't fault you. Then you bring em with you. If tohu can Captain I'm not to worried.

Yeah, and Fisher Harris non verbal communication nailed, he has the thousand yard stare.

One look from a guy like him and you know what is up.

A bit like Clint Eastwood in a spaghetti Western, the less he say's the better.

CWC · 2026-05-30T23:07:30+1200

So best scenario for the club for some areas next year would be
- Dallin/WW/AKP all available
- Linnane/Pompey backing up GA/Ali
- Boyd/TMM/CHT, Jett/Thompson plays both 6 and 7 since Boyd is our long term 7
- TT/CNK FB
- EIT full time first drop prop, Laban in regular 17 but 2nd drop prop, opening up pathway for Fats and Neal, Salilalo and Page-Wilson afforded to be introduced to FG without rush

GA can probably cover FB and wing, so if Dallin leaves it’s not a crisis as we have Linnane and Pompey, maybe they give Ratcliffe a debut in dead rubbers late to take over CNK’s depth spot in 2028? We have the cash so can legit look for any star back that pops up and adjust accordingly? Would be good Dallin just stays for a year

Player	2026	2027	2028	2029
Grant Anderson	-	✔	✔	✔
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	✔	✔	✔
Te Maire Martin	✔
Haizyn Mellars	✔	✔	✔
Luke Metcalf	✔
Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad	✔	✔
Marata Niukore	✔
Adam Pompey	✔	✔
Tanner Stowers-Smith	✔	✔	✔
Taine Tuaupiki	✔	✔	✔
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck	✔
Demitric Vaimauga	✔	✔	✔
William Warbrick	-	✔	✔	✔
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak	✔	M
Connor Bowden	U	U	✔
Jett Cleary	S	U
Luke Hanson	S
Motu Pasikala	S	U
Caelys-Paul Putoko	S
Jason Salalilo	S	U	U
Makaia Taufa	S	U	U

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