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	Leka Halasima	✔	✔	✔	✔
10	Tohu Harris	✔	✔
11	Chanel Harris-Tavita	✔	✔	M
12	Shaun Johnson	✔
13	Edward Kosi	✔	✔
14	Jacob Laban	✔	✔	✔
15	Ali Leiataua	✔	✔
16	Freddy Lussick	✔	✔	✔
17	Zyon Maiu’u	✔	✔	✔
18	Te Maire Martin	✔	✔
19	Luke Metcalf	✔	✔	✔
20	Marcelo Montoya	✔	✔
21	Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad	✔	✔
22	Marata Niukore	✔	✔	✔
23	Adam Pompey	✔	✔
24	Demitric Sifakula	✔	✔	C
25	Jazz Tevaga	✔
26	Taine Tuaupiki	✔	✔
27	Roger Tuivasa-Sheck	✔	✔	✔
28	Dylan Walker	✔	✔
29	Dallin Watene-Zelezniak	✔	✔
D1	Ben Farr	D
D2	Etuane Fukofuka	D
D3	Patrick Moimoi	D
D4	Tanner Stowers-Smith	D	D
-	Jett Cleary	-	D	D	D
-	James Fisher-Harris	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
-	Kalani Going	-	D
-	Motu Pasikala	-	✔	✔	✔

key: C = Club option, M = Mutual option, P = Player option, D = Development contract

Confirmed Top 30 2024: 29/30
Confirmed Development 2024: 4/6

Confirmed Top 30 2025: 28/30
Confirmed Development 2025: 4/6

2025 Gains: James Fisher-Harris (Panthers), Jett Cleary (Panthers Pathways), Kahu Capper (Roosters Pathways)
2025 Losses: Addin Fonua-Blake (Sharks), Jazz Tevaga (Contract Expired), Shaun Johnson (Retirement)
2025 Off Contract: Nil

 

[Warriorsfan92]

Tanner Stowers-Smith gone i heard. Could be false. But could be true due to him not being at training and being in Christchurch currently

If so, that’s shit. He’s been given opportunities & heavily invested in by the club. there’s an opening at prop, with the club on the rise. Poor decision from him imo.

 

[Noitall]

Geez I like the look of Jamel Hunt as an impact prop for Auckland.

 

[bringinthebulls]

Tanner Stowers-Smith gone i heard. Could be false. But could be true due to him not being at training and being in Christchurch currently

He's from chch, so he could just be off on leave hopefully?

 

[Neo]

He's from chch, so he could just be off on leave hopefully?

Was part of the NZ A squad as well which may have meant a later return date. You would think the only thing that could change his mind would be a spot in the larger Crusaders squad

 

[Noitall]

Was part of the NZ A squad as well which may have meant a later return date.

Laban being back and was in the NZA team seems like that isn’t the case?

 

[Canadian_Warriors_Fan]

Any help here?

 

[nzwarriorsfaithful]

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prob just saying he can’t go to club out of Sydney

 

[WA Warrior]

prob just saying he can’t go to club out of Sydney

And I hope we don’t budge. Metro Sydney club with players we want.
We dictate this release. AFB goes where we benefit.

 

[cock_o]

And I hope we don’t budge. Metro Sydney club with players we want.
We dictate this release. AFB goes where we benefit.

Only clubs in the race are St George, Tigers and Bulldogs.

 

[Canadian_Warriors_Fan]

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nm, all the info is here.

Sydney club pull out of race for Addin Fonua-Blake

As the New Zealand Warriors confirmed that Addin Fonua-Blake will remain at the club in 2024, but no guarantee for the following season, multiple clubs have been linked to him.

www.zerotackle.com

 

[Barty]

Someone on Dave Riccios twitter (article writer) asks who is the forward the Warriors have signed.? I wonder if there’s something about a signing in the article??

 

[Noitall]

And I hope we don’t budge. Metro Sydney club with players we want.
We dictate this release. AFB goes where we benefit.

Surely he understands we need to benefit since he’s the one instigating an out of his contract, as unfortunate as his family being ill that’s not the clubs fault as callous as that sounds. If im the Warriors and the three options as it stands is dragons, tigers and bulldogs, I’m trying to get him to go to tigers for what we could gain out of a swap scenario. Be interesting what his attitude is going to be as to where he goes, one would assume he still has aspirations of winning a premiership.

 

[Defence]

nm, all the info is here.

Sydney club pull out of race for Addin Fonua-Blake

As the New Zealand Warriors confirmed that Addin Fonua-Blake will remain at the club in 2024, but no guarantee for the following season, multiple clubs have been linked to him.

www.zerotackle.com

Newcastle isn’t that far from Sydney.
I get only wanting to release him for legit reasons but at the same time the more options we have the better and they have a couple of middle forwards I’d def be interested in…

 

[cock_o]

Someone on Dave Riccios twitter (article writer) asks who is the forward the Warriors have signed.? I wonder if there’s something about a signing in the article??

Keep us informed if someone has more info

 

[Noitall]

Newcastle isn’t that far from Sydney.
I get only wanting to release him for legit reasons but at the same time the more options we have the better and they have a couple of middle forwards I’d def be interested in…

Plenty of those Sydney clubs that have great replacements too, interesting manly not listed whether that’s deliberate?

 

[Defence]

Plenty of those Sydney clubs that have great replacements too, interesting manly not listed whether that’s deliberate?

True and I guess the player we get doesn’t necessarily have to come from the club he goes too.
Cnk / Walsh wasn’t a straight swap- just a deal that worked for all parties.
In saying that he does give us a bit of leverage with those Sydney clubs if they do have someone we’re interested in.

 

[Noitall]

Keep us informed if someone has more info

Could be Toni Tupouniua?

 

[Inruin]

True and I guess the player we get doesn’t necessarily have to come from the club he goes too.
Cnk / Walsh wasn’t a straight swap- just a deal that worked for all parties.
In saying that he does give us a bit of leverage with those Sydney clubs if they do have someone we’re interested in.

I think it is unlikely that we get a swap player from whatever club AFB ends up going to. More likely to get a player or maybe two from other clubs who can't afford the upgrade on good underpayed players?

 

[Worried2Death]

Someone on Dave Riccios twitter (article writer) asks who is the forward the Warriors have signed.? I wonder if there’s something about a signing in the article??

It's nothing, the article just says we're looking at trying to sign a like-for-like player, that guy is asking who it is.

 

[Noitall]

I think it is unlikely that we get a swap player from whatever club AFB ends up going to. More likely to get a player or maybe two from other clubs who can't afford the upgrade on good underpayed players?

It sounds like the dragons have a bit of money but it could be that players need to be shifted on for AFB to be fitted into where ever he goes to. That could be a swap scenario or whatever club he goes to could release someone which in order to get that player forces another club to release someone else and so on. However it happens, the same outcome stands for the Warriors that they need worthy replacements. With a concession that it’s very unlikely he’ll be at the club for 2025, it could be that the club already have replacements lined up if they’ve given it the ok?