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

 

[Cces]

I believe this. But can't get past my nagging hunch he will never have an NRL career and be like Nathaniel Roache. A what might have been player. Right now he has one legendary and amazing NRL game to his credit. And then he got injured. Some guys are just injury prone. Part of being successful is just avoiding injury.

Factoring in preseason & NZ A he played 20 games in 2023. Bit early to have him & the words "injury prone" in the same conversation.
Merry Christmas Wrighty

 

[El Chuckie]

How would he go telling everyone in South Auckland to "chill, you idiots still got work tomorrow."

He'd be instagramming through a straw for a month...

 

[Warriors4lyfe]

Are we getting a Xmas present of a elite prop from the warriors magament this year or what?

 

[Tragic]

We don't need a new Prop and we aren't getting one. We got the team that can do the job.
AFB will leave at end of the year and we will be another year better with juniors that will have stepped up.
I believe this - its our time.

 

[Brightman]

So without AFB who would you have as the starting props who could lead us to victory?
Without AFB there was no way we could have made it as far as we did this year in my opinion.

AFB is here for 2024, what's the problem with that..

 

[The Warrior Waka]

Well I'm glad Luai isn't coming here. Even tho is was only a possible rumour. Tigers got someone at least lol

 

[Worried2Death]

Well I'm glad Luai isn't coming here. Even tho is was only a possible rumour. Tigers got someone at least lol

Is it confirmed? Bahaha the utter madmen, good luck Benj.
No point in him saying you fellas have work tomorrow, not many of them do out west.

 

[The Warrior Waka]

Is it confirmed? Bahaha the utter madmen, good luck Benj.
No point in him saying you fellas have work tomorrow, not many of them do out west.

Yeah, It's being shared on a few sports news pages.
Ahh, The West! The place where Tinder is not needed. When they have siblings!

 

[Boats n Hoes]

Are we getting a Xmas present of a elite prop from the warriors magament this year or what?

Would have to be a big fckn Xmas tree to fit Nelson underneath it

 

[Noitall]

Would have to be a big fckn Xmas tree to fit Nelson underneath it

Santa might have got caught in a storm on that one. Truly would be a Christmas present to remember though.

 

[Worried2Death]

Would have to be a big fckn Xmas tree to fit Nelson underneath it

Looks more like we're getting Mase Lino stuck on the tree with a twisty tie like a bauble

 

[jonesy101]

Looks more like we're getting Mase Lino stuck on the tree with a twisty tie like a bauble

I thought he was just released to the Dragons?

 

[Makasene]

Typical Warriors that we released AFB without a player swap.

Read the articles around this from Skipworth.

 

[Wellington Warrior]

Read the articles around this from Skipworth.

Didn’t think he still wrote anything about the wahs

 

[Makasene]

Didn’t think he still wrote anything about the wahs

Sorry wrong David

Meant Long

 

[Noitall]

Sorry wrong David

Meant Long

Why the Warriors didn't need a player from the Sharks in return for Addin Fonua-Blake

ANALYSIS: Swapping a player with Sharks might have looked better for the Warriors, but the club are in a far better position by not doing so.

www.stuff.co.nz

 

[SBW1]

Feka Paleaaesina to depart Hull FC after a decade of service to the club

Paleaaesina joined Hull FC in 2014.

www.hulldailymail.co.uk

 

[Tragic]

Feka Paleaaesina to depart Hull FC after a decade of service to the club

Paleaaesina joined Hull FC in 2014.

www.hulldailymail.co.uk

Before anyone suggests it - No.

 

[snake77]

If you read the article it mentions he retired in 2016 and is leaving the club after a decade of service as a player and as a Player Welfare Manager.

He's also staying in the UK.

 

[SJ2k]

Think that article is a glass half full take on the situation, which I can appreciate coming off a top 4 finish. Realistically we lost a top 2 prop a couple years early, that really sucks and there's no way around it. Getting someone of value in return would have helped reduce how much it sucks, but was unlikely. I never expected the current management to take some dumb player swap for the sake of it, so not doing that isn't a positive.

We have AFB next year and we're going to have to work him to the bone with this lineup. No different to last year, just need to get lucky with his health like last year.

I think this is where our limited pathways and recruiting due to Covid is really showing. Our prop stocks should never have gotten this low. We should at least have some 2015 Lisone's and Gavet's in the wings. I worry clubs next year will have us figured out and will just throw size at us the way Souths did.

AFB getting seriously hurt next year is just absolutely catastrophic to our team. A bright side to him moving on is if it's real bad, it's not our problem for 2025.