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

 

[shuffle]

With Manly trying to get rid of Josh Schuster? Anyone interested? A bit of a lazy player. A brilliant ball player but lacks on defense. Doesn’t do the tough stuff. But that can change under the current regime at the Warriors. Could also suit the Pennies.

 

[matsby]

No but huge, an from behind left leg full tattooed so right front on

 

[Worried2Death]

Can you draw an identikit picture

 

[matsby]

Can you draw an identikit picture

No looked at nas not him

 

[Worried2Death]

No looked at nas not him

Hmm. Interesting intel bro, are you sure it wasn't Tony Iro

 

[matsby]

No looked at nas not him

After owner left Robinson the islander rocked back to his family

 

[matsby]

After owner left Robinson the islander rocked back to his family

He was a big boy an defo a prop size

 

[Worried2Death]

He was a big boy an defo a prop size

Did you happen to overhear any of their conversation... seems like a weird thing to ask a stranger on the internet, but did you?

 

[Beastmode]

Hmm. Interesting intel bro, are you sure it wasn't Tony Iro

What is Tony up to these days

I remember seeing him at Mitre10 a while back - had that confused look on his face trying to decide which tools he wanted …

 

[matsby]

Did you happen to overhear any of their conversation... seems like a weird thing to ask a stranger on the internet, but did you?

You ever spoken to him he crazy lol

 

[Riz]

Did you happen to overhear any of their conversation... seems like a weird thing to ask a stranger on the internet, but did you?

Surely if there was anything interesting to talk about it would be done in the front of a popular Auckland restaurant not in a bar across the road from a game in Sydney...

 

[JustLikeStartingOver]

Turns out Walker has been playing with an ankle problem all year. If anyone can rehab his ankle properly and get him back up there it is the Warriors medicos, I rate our physios et al.
Expect Walker will come back in better than ever. If his ankle is done then the solution is obvious.

But lets remember Tohu looks great out there, so the Warriors do injury management brilliantly now.

Tohu does look spry this year, and we do seem to hold our players back until they are ready, which is a good thing.

But we’ve got all these young forwards and the best way to introduce them probably off the bench, walks having a lock on one bench spot may be a bit of a luxury and he was signed deep in the Covid dark times so he probably didn’t come for cheap - when the teams going good everyone’s price goes up and we haven’t lost a player we wanted to keep since.... Walsh?

Eventually someone will start eyeing up our players

 

[matsby]

Surely if there was anything interesting to talk about it would be done in the front of a popular Auckland restaurant not in a bar across the road from a game in Sydney...

Aussie player not going nz for a maybe

 

[Worried2Death]

Aussie player not going nz for a maybe

Is this code for Payne Hass?

 

[matsby]

Aussie player not going nz for a maybe

Just what I saw recruiter ceo an owner same pub an owner some big guy. To me equals we recruiting.

 

[Worried2Death]

Wonder is Some Big Guy is AFB’S replacement

 

[matsby]

Wonder is Some Big Guy is AFB’S replacement

This guy was a tank

 

[matsby]

This guy was a tank

Robinson was 5 times smaller

 

[Noitall]

No looked at nas not him

You sure not NAS? He’s got a tribal tattoo on right leg

 

[matsby]

Robinson was 5 times smaller

One of his daughters there also