Recruitment Warriors 2024/2025 Recruitment & Retention

Warriors 2024/2025 Recruitment & Retention Discussion
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-​	Player​	2024​	2025​	2026​	2027​	2028​
1	Bunty Afoa	✔	✔
2	Tom Ale	✔	✔
3	Mitchell Barnett	✔	✔
4	The Greatest of All-Time	✔	✔	✔
5	Kurt Capewell	✔	✔	✔
6	Wayde Egan	✔	✔
7	Addin Fonua-Blake	✔
8	Jackson Ford	✔	✔
9	Tohu Harris	✔	✔
10	Chanel Harris-Tavita	✔	✔	M
11	Shaun Johnson	✔
12	Edward Kosi	✔	✔
13	Jacob Laban	✔	✔	✔
14	Ali Leiataua	✔	✔
15	Freddy Lussick	✔	✔	✔
16	Zyon Maiu’u	✔	✔	✔
17	Te Maire Martin	✔	✔
18	Luke Metcalf	✔	✔	✔
19	Marcelo Montoya	✔	✔
20	Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad	✔	✔
21	Marata Niukore	✔	✔	✔
22	Adam Pompey	✔	✔
23	Demitric Sifakula	✔	✔	T
24	Jazz Tevaga	✔
25	Taine Tuaupiki	✔	✔
26	Roger Tuivasa-Sheck	✔	✔	✔
27	Dylan Walker	✔	✔
28	Dallin Watene-Zelezniak	✔	✔
D1	Ben Farr	D
D2	Etuane Fukofuka	D
D3	Leka Halasima	D	D	✔
D4	Patrick Moimoi	D
D5	Tanner Stowers-Smith	D
-	James Fisher-Harris	-	✔	✔	✔	✔

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: 26/30
Confirmed Development 2025: 1/6

2025 Gains: James Fucking Fisher-Harris baby! (Panthers)
2025 Losses: Addin Fonua-Blake (Sharks)
2025 Off Contract: Shaun Johnson, Jazz Tevaga

 

[Makasene]

Interesting re: Jett Cleary.

This to me is another agent release to put pressure on Penrith to get the deal done

 

[Wrighty]

Interesting re: Jett Cleary.

This to me is another agent release to put pressure on Penrith to get the deal done

I don't think he should come here. He is very young and should stay with his family support in Australia. Secondly I think it will be more enjoyable for him to one day play with his brother than steer the Warriors around the field.

 

[Noitall]

Michael Chammas on Twitter
The Manly Sea Eagles will pay Josh Schuster around $200,000 a year for the next three seasons as part of a deal that will see the back-rower’s contract mutually terminated as early as this week




Think he was on $800k a season? So someone will get him for $600k a season with manly chipping in. Still a bit of coin to pay on promise but if someone can get him in a good headspace, I think he’d be worth that on an edge. So skilful. Think he’d do well at panthers with a nurturer like Cleary

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Michael Chammas on Twitter
The Manly Sea Eagles will pay Josh Schuster around $200,000 a year for the next three seasons as part of a deal that will see the back-rower’s contract mutually terminated as early as this week




Think he was on $800k a season? So someone will get him for $600k a season with manly chipping in. Still a bit of coin to pay on promise but if someone can get him in a good headspace, I think he’d be worth that on an edge. So skilful. Think he’d do well at panthers with a nurturer like Cleary

Tigers?

 

[Noitall]

Tigers?

The Manly Sea Eagles will pay Josh Schuster around $200,000 a year for the next three seasons as part of a deal that will see the back-rower’s contract mutually terminated as early as this week.

The Sea Eagles have been negotiating with Schuster’s agent Mario Tartak for several weeks and have held a meeting with the NRL salary cap team last week as they prepare to officially part ways with the utility player.

Sources with knowledge of discussions, talking under the condition of anonymity due to confidentiality reasons, said the Sea Eagles will wear $200,000 in their salary cap in each of the next three seasons and are on the verge of announcing a mutual termination that will allow Schuster to negotiate with rival NRL teams.

Zac Lomax this year agreed to a mutual termination of his deal at the Dragons for the next two seasons, but unlike Manly, the Dragons won’t have to include a pay-out in their salary cap.

The outside back agreed to walk away from $850,000 in 2025 and $875,000 in 2026 at the Dragons to join the Parramatta Eels on a new deal from next season until the end of 2028.

Schuster’s Manly deal is worth around $800,000 per season, but after dialogue with the NRL this week, it’s unlikely the Sea Eagles will have to carry the $600,000 differential in their salary cap.

The Sea Eagles have already paid Schuster $400,000 since the November 1 start of the rugby league financial year and won’t have to pay him any more in 2024.

The Sea Eagles are trying to be sensitive during a delicate period in Schuster’s life as he addresses some personal issues away from the field.

It’s why they have brought the NRL and the Rugby League Players’ Association into the conversations.

Manly believe they have cause to breach Schuster over a series of performance-related issues and terminate his contract without pay, but they don’t want to be insensitive to the 22-year-old’s personal issues.

The Sea Eagles approached the NRL and explained they could go down the path of breaching him out of his deal, but did not believe that was the right way to deal with the matter.

It’s a similar predicament the Wests Tigers found themselves in with David Nofoaluma earlier in the year when they offered the veteran winger $300,000 to walk away from the final two years of his deal.

The Tigers believed they had grounds to terminate Nofoaluma’s contract after a series of breaches but instead offered him a settlement pay-out to avoid having to sack him given his services to the club over a long period and concerns over his wellbeing.

Nofoaluma, who is also managed by Tartak, was advised to accept the offer and left the club in January.

When Manly agreed to a three-year, $2.4 million extension of Schuster’s contract last year, they did so with the protection of a pre-season weight clause built into it, according to sources speaking on the condition of anonymity due to confidentiality.

Schuster managed to reach a career-low 112 kilograms over the summer. His conditioning then slowly began to deteriorate after suffering chickenpox before Christmas. That was followed by a broken that required surgery and a calf injury.

Manly subsequently left him out of their trip to Las Vegas and Schuster has struggled to get himself into the shape, mindset and form to win his way back into the NRL side. Schuster has now been granted personal leave and isn’t expected back at Manly again.

The other issue Schuster had was the faith - or lack thereof - of his teammates, who began to question his commitment to the team.

The form of back-rower Ben Trbojevic also made it an easier decision for Manly to part ways with the highly talented but inconsistent Schuster.

 

[~Navigator~]

Leo, come home bro. Will be bash bros 2.0 with him and fish side by side.

Leo just signed a 3 year deal

 

[~Navigator~]

Does anyone read the posts before posting I have just read the same message in the last 2 pages. Sea regales will pay $200,000 for Schuster to move clubs

 

[jonesy101]

Does anyone read the posts before posting I have just read the same message in the last 2 pages. Sea regales will pay $200,000 for Schuster to move clubs

That makes it three times now.

 

[Noitall]

Does anyone read the posts before posting I have just read the same message in the last 2 pages. Sea regales will pay $200,000 for Schuster to move clubs

If you could assure his attitude was going to be 100% committed, he’d be a great get. Just too much risk involved. Apparently eats too much fast food and was weighing 120kg according to the manly forum

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

If you could assure his attitude was going to be 100% committed, he’d be a great get. Just too much risk involved. Apparently eats too much fast food and was weighing 120kg according to the manly forum

Are we still sponsored by Wendy's? Just saying.

 

[Noitall]

Leo just signed a 3 year deal

Where did you see this?

 

[Canadian_Warriors_Fan]

Where did you see this?

Just until the end of 2025.

 

[Noitall]

Just until the end of 2025.

Can be approached in November. Would be crazy to re sign at the moment, apparently about 6 clubs interested in him

 

[hornbybrown]

They are 27. Hardly passed there used by date.

Left out of the fridge with no lid on for to long has brought their used by date forward

 

[Playdaball]

Ivan Cleary's Departure:

Ask him what he thought of Wayne Scurrah?
The family loved NZ , particularly Waipu Cove, where they had a bach (now sold) ... relatively close to John Ackland

Let's hope they can sign young Jett, although it now seems Penrith are determined to keep him.

 

[hornbybrown]

Corey Parker on SEN in Queensland has said he has heard rumblings that Jahrome Hughes wants to come home

 

[juju]

Corey Parker on SEN in Queensland has said he has heard rumblings that Jahrome Hughes wants to come home

Home being Queensland though... ouch

 

[Warriorsfan92]

Corey Parker on SEN in Queensland has said he has heard rumblings that Jahrome Hughes wants to come home

Maybe it’s a 2026 for SJ retirement?

 

[Inruin]

Corey Parker on SEN in Queensland has said he has heard rumblings that Jahrome Hughes wants to come home

Didn't know he read this forum

 

[BigBird]

Home being Queensland though... ouch

That... is fucked up. They can have him