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 can't see how they could offer him $550 after signing AFB for around $1M. Where would the $1M cap space be freed up from.

Moylan & Tracey left fairly abruptly to go along with the salary cap increase. Wade Graham would've been on a decent wicket too

 

[Tookey 2.0]

Moylan & Tracey left fairly abruptly to go along with the salary cap increase. Wade Graham would've been on a decent wicket too

Finucane apparently dropping from 750k to 300k next year too. Between those 4 salaries they can afford AFB and a nice little top up for BHU no sweat

 

[Blain]

If Sharks offered BHU $550 that makes me wonder if the $750 report is accurate…otherwise it could be just higher than what other teams were offering like others said, which means he is in demand and we generated enough in the tank to outbid and get our guy

Both those figures are 100% not correct. They could be in the ball park best case, but every figure talked about is a guess/rumour through word of mouth. The manager could have dropped a big figure to media to try and get Sharks to up their offer, or a Journo has spoken to someone who knows someone who has heard a number of $XX etc..

I really think the NRL needs to have salaries known to all like NBA, it would solve a lot of cap cheating and rumours of it. But RLPA wouldn't even entertain the thought - too much power.

 

[Defence]

Yeah its hard to believe the leaks come from our end- we run a pretty tight ship these days and tbf so do the sharkies.
Definitely sounds like manager/ media talk.

 

[Up the guttz]

Mangers will always inflate numbers to the media. It’s in their best interests to create higher market rates for comparable players.

 

[Raygz13]

Them dollar figures are just that - figures. Mostly speculation. BHU supposedly got offered $550k from the sharks? If true I'd say $550aud, and we offered $730nzd. Does that make sense or it doesn't work like that? Anyways, we need to get on board if it's a done deal.

 

[cock_o]

Finucane apparently dropping from 750k to 300k next year too. Between those 4 salaries they can afford AFB and a nice little top up for BHU no sweat

Who ever told you that about Finucane is definitely having a lend.

 

[Tookey 2.0]

Who ever told you that about Finucane is definitely having a lend.

Yeah I thought it was shit too, but it's on Zero Tackle. Might not be super accurate but maybe dropping a few hundred K to 500 even?

 

[Billyspleen75]

Yeah I thought it was shit too BECAUSE it's on Zero Tackle.

Fixed for you

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

Who ever told you that about Finucane is definitely having a lend.

I don’t know the exact numbers however it’s been reasonably widely reported that Finucane’s deal was heavily front loaded. It could well be correct. SMH article in 2021 also mentions the just over $300k contract structure in 2025.

 

[Warriorshopeful]

Retired Blues enforcer set for shock NRL return as secret Broncos meeting revealed

Retired Blues enforcer set for shock NRL return as secret Broncos meeting revealed

www.foxsports.com.au

TPJ apparently seen meeting with Broncos powerbrokers about a potential return to NRL.

 

[JaggedJ]

Retired Blues enforcer set for shock NRL return as secret Broncos meeting revealed

Retired Blues enforcer set for shock NRL return as secret Broncos meeting revealed

www.foxsports.com.au

TPJ apparently seen meeting with Broncos powerbrokers about a potential return to NRL.

Good. Bring the Broncos down from the inside.

 

[Jeff Hardy]

Finucane apparently dropping from 750k to 300k next year too. Between those 4 salaries they can afford AFB and a nice little top up for BHU no sweat

Some how I just can't see any player taking a 60% pay cut, needs a brain transplant if it goes ahead

 

[Wrighty]

Retired Blues enforcer set for shock NRL return as secret Broncos meeting revealed

Retired Blues enforcer set for shock NRL return as secret Broncos meeting revealed

www.foxsports.com.au

TPJ apparently seen meeting with Broncos powerbrokers about a potential return to NRL.

Thus sounds like a salary cap dodge and violation
The idea is that he turns up and plays the last three or four rounds and the playoffs so that broncos don’t have to pay hom much
However for him to play the last three rounds he will have to start training with the team and training in general at least two months before hand yet they won’t recognise him as being on the books during that period probably. It is a stitch up

 

[Fizurg]

Thus sounds like a salary cap dodge and violation
The idea is that he turns up and plays the last three or four rounds and the playoffs so that broncos don’t have to pay hom much
However for him to play the last three rounds he will have to start training with the team and training in general at least two months before hand yet they won’t recognise him as being on the books during that period probably. It is a stitch up

Yeah I don’t like these late season signings. It’s a very nice way to cheat the cap.

 

[kos]

Yeah I don’t like these late season signings. It’s a very nice way to cheat the cap.

Bit of cap left with Capewell to Nzw

 

[BabylonPink]

Both those figures are 100% not correct. They could be in the ball park best case, but every figure talked about is a guess/rumour through word of mouth. The manager could have dropped a big figure to media to try and get Sharks to up their offer, or a Journo has spoken to someone who knows someone who has heard a number of $XX etc..

I really think the NRL needs to have salaries known to all like NBA, it would solve a lot of cap cheating and rumours of it. But RLPA wouldn't even entertain the thought - too much power.

Yeah you could imagine the vitriol from fans ' omg our 800000$ players ain't worth it , blah blah , death threats etc' not saying it doesn't already happen but tbf. Dudnt your parents ever tell you not to ask how much someone makes?

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

Some how I just can't see any player taking a 60% pay cut, needs a brain transplant if it goes ahead

It was a $2.6m deal across 4 years, front loaded - so therefore it was beneficial to Finucane because he got the coin early. There have been plenty of front or back loaded contracts over the years. This one happened to benefit the Sharks just at a time when AFB got homesick…

 

[Falcon]

Yeah I thought it was shit too, but it's on Zero Tackle. Might not be super accurate but maybe dropping a few hundred K to 500 even?

Zero tackle get it right about zero percent of the time……. But they have the most sensational headlines 100 percent of the time

 

[SJ2k]

It was a $2.6m deal across 4 years, front loaded - so therefore it was beneficial to Finucane because he got the coin early. There have been plenty of front or back loaded contracts over the years. This one happened to benefit the Sharks just at a time when AFB got homesick…

I thought this wasn't allowed anymore?