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

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

Surprised they left that one up- thats incriminating.

It's still up there. Bottom of this page..

Squad straight back to work for season 2024

The players haven't wasted any time jumping straight back into it after the holiday break.

www.dragons.com.au

 

[Noitall]

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I did love the photo of 'non contact' training on the dragon's website..

Is that the shoulder in question he’s getting palmed off on?

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

Is that the shoulder in question he’s getting palmed off on?

That's what I was wondering. Had a scan and couldn't find what shoulder it was.

 

[Inruin]

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I did love the photo of 'non contact' training on the dragon's website..

That's not training that's the Dragons medical test.

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

That's not training that's the Dragons medical test.

I forgot that 'Percussive Medicals' were a thing.

Silly me.

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Haha can’t wait until we play the dragons this year! We better smoke them!

View: https://www.instagram.com/p/C2OeG7VvOLD/?igsh=YmlzejZpcnJtNWQw

That may be the case, but you still fucken suck for not getting a medical before purchasing CLOWN!

Take it to the small claims tribunal!

 

[cero_stars]

Haha can’t wait until we play the dragons this year! We better smoke them!

View: https://www.instagram.com/p/C2OeG7VvOLD/?igsh=YmlzejZpcnJtNWQw

He says he has never had a player fail a medical........ i guess the quick recovery of the injectables he was using at the sharks prevented that.

 

[Akula]

Here is a more recent Youtube compilation of Toby Crosby over the last couple of years. As he is a Greytown boy who boarded at St. Pats Stream - suspect Rocco Berry had a role in getting him to trial. Top tryscorer in Wgtn Club Rugby last season, but just couldn't get a look into the provincial side.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt3Jbqwj6_Q

 

[marv.]

Here is a more recent Youtube compilation of Toby Crosby over the last couple of years. As he is a Greytown boy who boarded at St. Pats Stream - suspect Rocco Berry had a role in getting him to trial. Top tryscorer in Wgtn Club Rugby last season, but just couldn't get a look into the provincial side.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt3Jbqwj6_Q

fuck, how’s that hair?! it looks like an upside down car seat.

he’s a goer for sure!

 

[Fizurg]

I wonder if he was deemed too small for union? Their forwards tend to be a bit bigger than league ones. Seems a suitable build and skill set for second row in league.

 

[Akula]

I wonder if he was deemed too small for union? Their forwards tend to be a bit bigger than league ones. Seems a suitable build and skill set for second row in league.

Yes that could have been the issue - not a genuine lineout option.

 

[Canonball]

fuck, how’s that hair?! it looks like an upside down car seat.

he’s a goer for sure!

far out - that's some raw talent there

 

[Noitall]

FLANNO ADDRESSES VOLKMAN FIASCO

Dragons head coach Shane Flanagan says he and the club aren’t “pointing fingers at anyone” regarding the unfortunate situation involving Ronald Volkman.

The emerging playmaker requested a release from the Warriors two years before the conclusion of his contract to link up with the Dragons.

While the Dragons announced the signing publicly, the club hadn’t registered it with the NRL.

Hence, they were able to pull out of the deal after the Dragons medical team discovered Volkman’s shoulder needed surgery.

Flanagan told The Daily Telegraph there is a lot to learn from the situation and that the “club won’t shy away” from that.

“I feel sorry for the young bloke. He’s hurt himself. He didn’t pass his medical, it’s unfortunate ... as a club we had to protect ourselves,” Flanagan said.

“We did the right thing, we got all the scans and found out he needs to have surgery. He injured himself at the Warriors.

“In all my time I’ve never had a player fail a medical.

There are a lot of learnings from it. The club won’t shy away from that. We sent the kid to get the best medical scanning and testing.

“All clubs will learn from this one. We definitely will.

“We’re not pointing the finger at anyone. Facts are facts. He injured himself at the Warriors, he needs surgery.

“We have history on players, he had had a shoulder reconstruction ... but to look at the scans, he didn’t just fail (the medical) a little bit, he had two screws pulled out.”

Dragons CEO Ryan Webb says the club will be “cautious” when to go public with signing news in the future.

“We didn’t follow anything different than what we would have in the past,” Webb said.

“And we didn’t have any reason to be overly cautious based on the information we had (from the Warriors).

“In the end the position that we go too, would have been the same, he failed the fitness test. It was really clear from us that, you pass the medical and you’ll be signed.

“He didn’t pass the medical so he’s not one of our players.”

 

[Inruin]

I'd love to hear Volkman being interviewed and asked the tough questions.

 

[John Nick]

I'd love to hear Volkman being interviewed and asked the tough questions.

Wouldn't we all but he's not going to say anything otherwise he will be out of favor with everyone. Clubs agents RLPA.
EVERYONE

 

[Juno]

He says he has never had a player fail a medical........ i guess the quick recovery of the injectables he was using at the sharks prevented that.

Was about to say...

 

[Noitall]

Was about to say...

Pretty sure he was coaching the sharks when Jack bird had dramas around a medical when he went to the broncos from sharks?

 

[Worried2Death]

fuck, how’s that hair?! it looks like an upside down car seat.

he’s a goer for sure!

He's gotta keep that big ginger mullet-fro or whatever the hell that is, could be an iconic trademark. Might still have a late growth spurt to add a bit of height, but right now I'm seeing Michael Luck with a bowl of spaghetti on his head.

 

[Worried2Death]

When Napoleon Dynamite asks for Kikau's haircut, the result is... "The Toby"

 

[Noitall]

Pretty sure he was coaching the sharks when Jack bird had dramas around a medical when he went to the broncos from sharks?

Cronulla Sharks blast Brisbane Broncos coach Wayne Bennett over false Jack Bird claim

Tensions between Cronulla and Brisbane have reached boiling point after the Sharks responded to Wayne Bennett's "false and misleading" criticism of their handling of Jack Bird.

www.smh.com.au

Just to add, it was a similar situation but Flanagan really pulled a swiftly with not mentioning bird needed a full reconstruction when he went to broncos. Difference here is Volkman’s manager got him a release and he was essentially a free agent when dragons picked him up meaning they should get their own medical report, any decent club would anyway. So Flanagan’s claim of never having a player fail a medical only is because he never passed the info on to broncos, which they found out when they signed him. Broncos did the right thing by bird and rehabilitated him and held onto him.