Recruitment Warriors 2024/2025 Recruitment & Retention

Warriors 2024/2025 Recruitment & Retention Discussion
​

-​	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

 

[Dannevegas]

Desperate for a prop but have to be extremely wary of a player who can't kick on in the storm system.

Would be enquiring about this bloke.
Sam Walters, got footwork and an offload on him. Offer a trade Tevaga and Afoa for him

201 cm
110 kg
23

 

[Noitall]

I always struggle to work out who played which side, think Zac Lomax switched around a bit as well. I know the 2 Feagai’s played the same side when Lomax was out injured.

Nah Suli and Feagai generally shared the same side. Agree though that Lomax is a slack defender and has a tendency to drop down on the player like NAS does sometimes.

 

[Noitall]

Would be enquiring about this bloke.
Sam Walters, got footwork and an offload on him. Offer a trade Tevaga and Afoa for him

201 cm
110 kg
23
View attachment 4892

sam walters - Google Search

Big, tall, strong and mobile. Definitely a good shout and it’s something we could use a bit more of in the forwards is height as another shape.

 

[BabylonPink]

Look at our try here at 34 seconds. This is what we need from our left sided half this year - punchy short sides when teams stack the other side to defend SJ and our right side.


View: https://youtu.be/8X9iJJJ9oac?si=_OcCsQt92ym-Rkv3

I think the left was victim of circumstance rather than anything else.
TMM went ok there for a few games at the start if the season. But he was out and replaced by walker and volkman a couple of times. Then he does his leg and we use walker and maybe volkmann again until Metcalfe was there consistently for like 10? Games straight and we actually saw the left fire a few more shots. Then metcalfe went down walker in then TMM for the finals...
No consistency really.
And SJ plays left too. Just not as much.

 

[Riz]

Yeah, and Ivan's gunna be webbys assistant.

Don't be silly

 

[finsup11]

I see this guy Toby has been training with us since December and I think he joined us to play for the Jersey Flegg Cup. Keep an eye on him

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puEvbVzYshs

 

[Wrighty]

I see this guy Toby has been training with us since December and I think he joined us to play for the Jersey Flegg Cup. Keep an eye on him

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puEvbVzYshs

Upper Hutt Boy from my neighbourhood. Turned up with over 1000 other people in open try outs for the warriors age group side and scored three tries and made it in. Didn't get selected for the Hurricanes because the Rams lose so often and players don't look good when they lose. Named captain of the Rams senior mens prem team at 19 years old. He is a loss to union and a gain to league. He will end up in first grade.

 

[Wrighty]

Has a massive "rig" - upper body strength

 

[John Nick]

Has a massive "rig" - upper body strength

UBS??

 

[Wrighty]

I wonder what position a number 8 what play in league. Second row I guess. Or maybe make him a Moses Suli like Centre.

I had also heard he might try for the NSW cup team. So we will see where he ends up.

 

[WahsUltras]

I see this guy Toby has been training with us since December and I think he joined us to play for the Jersey Flegg Cup. Keep an eye on him

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puEvbVzYshs

 

[Wellington Taniwha]

I see this guy Toby has been training with us since December and I think he joined us to play for the Jersey Flegg Cup. Keep an eye on him

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puEvbVzYshs

Looks like st pats silver stream? Same school as Rocco berry. The warriors gotta be hitting up some of the 1st xvs for recruitment.

 

[Falcon]

I wonder if St Helen’s half Lewis Dodd is on the radar?
Available from 2025 and has signed with an Australian management agency

 

[Noitall]

Michael Chammas has reported that the Raiders have denied a release to Zac Woolford to join St George for 2024

In the same article it was also reported that the club had major interest in luring Christian Tuipulotu from Manly but Manly have no intention of releasing him

 

[Chchfanatic]

Volkman will be something like this.
Warriors 2024 $400,000
Warriors 2025 $400,000
Dragons 2024 $250,000.
I’ll go if you top up the extra $150,000
Obviously figures will be different.

 

[Noitall]

Star tumbles 'down the pecking order' in halves rankings

Shock snubs and selections

wwos.nine.com.au

Taking the piss with Hynes at 3.

 

[Noitall]

I wonder if St Helen’s half Lewis Dodd is on the radar?
Available from 2025 and has signed with an Australian management agency

Lewis Dodd, star of St Helens RLFC in the Super Leagueand arguably the best young talent in rugby league, has refused to rule out a future move to the NRL.

Off-contract at the end of the 2024 season, the future English international is remembered in Australia as the player who led his club to defeat the Penrith Panthers in the 2023 World Club Challenge.

It is understood that while he may be off-contract at the end of next season, he does have an option with St Helens RLFC to extend his tenure at the club, but there has yet to be an update on this situation.

However, he could be set to make more memories in Australia with the playmaker refusing to rule out a future move to the NRL.

A product of the renowned St Helens Academy, he signed with the club at the age of 15 before making his Super League debut three years later. Now 59 games into his career, Dodd could be looking at a change of scenery.
I don't know. You never know what is around the corner. What I've got to focus on - and what the lads have to focus on - is we're going into a new season and we're not champions," Dodd told UK publication The Mirror

If we talk again at the end of the year and we're champions, that's probably a better time to talk. But we've got a job to do this year and that's what me and the rest of the lads are focused on.”

If he does move to the NRL, the Canberra Raiders, Canterbury Bulldogs, and St George Illawarra Dragons will be the three main teams showing interest in Dodd due to their lack of halves.

His signing for the Raiders would be invaluable after they lost Jack Wighton, Matt Frawley and Brad Schneider. The club is struggling in experience and desperately needs a star to partner with young guns Kaeo Weekes and Ethan Strange.

The same can be said for the Dragons, who have failed to recruit a star playmaker - Ben Hunt is also set to depart the club at the end of his contract. They have also recently lost Talatau Amone and Ronald Volkman due to unforeseen circumstances.

Despite the Bulldogs having Matt Burton and Toby Sextonas their current halves pairing and having some great youngsters in Mitchell Woods and Alex Conti coming through their pathways system, Dodd would easily be the number one choice.

It would also allow Burton to move back into the centres and create a lethal outside-back partnership with Stephen Crichton, Josh Addo-Carr and Jacob Kiraz

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

Star tumbles 'down the pecking order' in halves rankings

Shock snubs and selections

wwos.nine.com.au

Taking the piss with Hynes at 3.

Other than Cleary at number 1, I’m not sure I agree with any of it. I also have more of a problem with Hughes at 2 than Hynes at 3, and Dylan Brown is too low.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Other than Cleary at number 1, I’m not sure I agree with any of it. I also have more of a problem with Hughes at 2 than Hynes at 3, and Dylan Brown is too low.

Post your top 10!

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

Post your top 10!

Guessing the improvement of a youngster like Mam in 2024 is about as difficult as guessing the regression of oldies like SJ & DCE - I’ll include my SJ bias

1. Cleary
2. SJ
3. Hynes
4. Brown
5. DCE
6. Munster
7. Mam
8. Hughes
9. Walker
10. Moses

So controversially perhaps I’d leave out Reynolds & Hunt.