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 Fisher-Harris (Panthers), Jett Cleary (Panthers)
2025 Losses: Addin Fonua-Blake (Sharks)
2025 Off Contract: Shaun Johnson, Jazz Tevaga

 

[Cces]

Sure, but its a bit rich to ask AFB to honour his deal after we just shafted Curran early.

What? Shafting Curran by allowing him to earn more $ & getting more opportunities on the field elsewhere?

 

[WahsUltras]

Ummm, what?
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Gus Gould right now.

 

[PullingTeets]

Surely we need to play hardball

I don't think we can if it's for personal reasons.

 

[sballer7]

Why cant we have nice things. Imagine being RTS right now, being sold the dream to not head to Japan.

In all honesty the only option is to play hardball. Theres only one like for like player in the NRL and the Broncos arent letting him go. Theres nobody at a Sydney club that comes close to his output. Gonna have 1m in the cap and nobody to sign.

 

[SJ2k]

Doesn't fucking matter if it's for personal reasons the dude earns a million a season. He can move his whole bloody family over, at least for 2024.

 

[Dlenai]

Rebuilding mode back in action

In a positive light, this will obviously place more emphasis to prioritise forward pack signings for the next 2-3 years

 

[RTS’s Calves]

I don't think we can if it's for personal reasons.

We can stand our ground. He signed the contract extension so don’t have any reason to release him if we don’t want to.

 

[juju]

We can stand our ground. He signed the contract extension so don’t have any reason to release him if we don’t want to.

I think we have to - we committed such a substantial chunk of our cap to him long term

 

[Billyspleen75]

Curran and AFB for Saifiti and BHU

 

[Fufu]

What? Shafting Curran by allowing him to earn more $ & getting more opportunities on the field elsewhere?

Shafting probably the wrong word in hindsight, but Curran had a contract with the club, club preferred to have a junior in that spot and saw an opportunity to save some $$ and let him go early for a better deal.

AFB has a contract with the club, AFB prefers to be in Sydney to be closer to his parents, approaches the club to leave early.

In reference to playing hardball or enforcing the contract it would be a bit hard to after setting that precedent.

 

[WahsaurusRex]

Call me cold-hearted, but what a dick move asking the Sea Eagles for a release from them on "compassionate grounds" and then pulling the same card again.

AFB everytime he wants to leave:
...

 

[PullingTeets]

Curran and AFB for Saifiti and BHU

Probably the only realistic outcome, and one Id be somewhat OK with.

 

[PullingTeets]

OK, time to fess up, who leaked AFB's personal details.

 

[juju]

I could only think of the Sharks as a club who might want him who might have the pieces we might want in return (BHU and Rudolph... yes both for AFB)

 

[Fufu]

No one else in the comp plays like AFB so its hard to even know what to ask for in a swap, Payne Haas would be the closest and he aint coming.

 

[JustVisiting82]

On AFB, I'm thinking a reasonable compromise could be offering to release him from the 2025/2026 part of his contract with the potential for an earlier release if the right swap deal comes up. Gives us time to plan without screwing up next season, puts us in position to bargain for a good trade, and still shows good will to AFB so that hopefully he stays motivated to perform on the field while knowing it's not that long before he gets to move closer to family.

 

[Defence]

I feel sick.
Only silver lining could be the amount of cap it would free up...
Whats he on? 1.1M? add that to what we already have set aside and maybe we can get 2 really good ones? maybe try do a deal for the saifiti twins? or one of them plus leo thompson?
This is farked.

 

[Dantheman]

Fuck me, we just can’t have nice things can we.

 

[sballer7]

If anything this is a massive dog act to Curran...waiting for him to be released before saying anything.

 

[mrblonde]

If anything this is a massive dog act to Curran...waiting for him to be released before saying anything.

That's an interesting angle to take.

As to AFB, on principle I'd release him: either the "compassionate grounds" are valid and it'd mess with his head him being here while whatever situation that requires compassion plays out in Sydney or he really means "Auckland's Macca's aren't as choice as Sydney's" and he's going to be a sulky prick all season if I say no.