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

 

[Adamnz support]

We must surely be looking at Royce hunt. He looked good tonight.

Key signing would be a decent strength & conditioning coach, our injury list through the year looks like we were under cooked.

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

If that’s the case it’s but fucked not to give Bunty a farewell game when our season is done and dusted.

He’s not a game breaker but I’ve never seen him let the team down.

Pretty fucking shit from the club.

I agree also, he's given the club so much! I hope he gets to play cup finals.

 

[Wrighty]

We must surely be looking at Royce hunt. He looked good tonight.

Key signing would be a decent strength & conditioning coach, our injury list through the year looks like we were under cooked.

Benji has his hooks into Hunt and is trying to sign him.
Like I have said a number of times the addition of just one team has stretched the talent pool considerably making it hard to recruit anybody. Things about to get twice as hard when the Bears enter the league. When do they start signing players?

 

[Wrighty]

We have finished 13th guaranteed and avoided the bottom 4. For those who like small observations, 13th will be ever so slightly easier to recruit from than 14th which would have been bottom 4.

 

[Warriorsfan92]

Geez we’ve got some serious headaches next year in the back 5.

Only one locked in imo is DWZ.

Charnze needs to play, but where?

Montoya has shown awesome moments, and has been consistently good but does RTS bump him out of the side?

Rocco was the best centre at the club prior to injury, and improved every game.

Pompey is reliable and has games under his belt, experience.

Leiataua is raw, and has game breaking ability the other centres lack but has defensive work ons.

CNK
RTS
Berry
Leiataua
DWZ

Montoya Tuaupiki Pompey to miss out.. tough one! I really really like Taine at the back though, but CNK plays fb for NZ.. he’s a bloody good player charnze

 

[JustVisiting82]

We have finished 13th guaranteed and avoided the bottom 4. For those who like small observations, 13th will be ever so slightly easier to recruit from than 14th which would have been bottom 4.

Not yet we haven't, Titans play the Knights tomorrow night and a win would lift them back above us. If they followed that up with another win next week we would finish 14th.

 

[JustVisiting82]

Might be reading too much into this but bunty confirmed leaving now? Jazz reposted a story from buntys partner (?) that she wished bunty was running out with jazz today as well.

Jazz said on his This Warriors Life interview that he Bunty had been his room mate s lot of the time with the Warriors when they play away and it generally came across like they're good mates. So it could easily just be a post about them running out one last together for the Warriors.

 

[Worried2Death]

Benji has his hooks into Hunt and is trying to sign him.
Like I have said a number of times the addition of just one team has stretched the talent pool considerably making it hard to recruit anybody. Things about to get twice as hard when the Bears enter the league. When do they start signing players?

The best solution is to fold the Wests Tigers and send their players to Perth, they deserve it.

 

[CWC]

Geez we’ve got some serious headaches next year in the back 5.

Only one locked in imo is DWZ.

Charnze needs to play, but where?

Montoya has shown awesome moments, and has been consistently good but does RTS bump him out of the side?

Rocco was the best centre at the club prior to injury, and improved every game.

Pompey is reliable and has games under his belt, experience.

Leiataua is raw, and has game breaking ability the other centres lack but has defensive work ons.

CNK
RTS
Berry
Leiataua
DWZ

Montoya Tuaupiki Pompey to miss out.. tough one! I really really like Taine at the back though, but CNK plays fb for NZ.. he’s a bloody good player charnze

We look more fluent with Taine at 1 tonight, Charnz and DWZ were epic together, Charnz to play 4, and Pompey can cover Ali, Berry for Charnz, and Charnz can cover for Taine and Luke at 6, so plenty of game time for everyone and good depth cover and maintenance

Roger on leftwing and depth for FB and centre, Monty as depth for both wings he seems to be great when under pressure, MTG and the teenage winger next ones up

We do need halfback cover cuz if TMM goes down we are stuck with Metcalf or CHT orchestrating the game

 

[MrFrankWhite]

We look more fluent with Taine at 1 tonight, Charnz and DWZ were epic together, Charnz to play 4, and Pompey can cover Ali, Berry for Charnz, and Charnz can cover for Taine and Luke at 6, so plenty of game time for everyone and good depth cover and maintenance

Roger on leftwing and depth for FB and centre, Monty as depth for both wings he seems to be great when under pressure, MTG and the teenage winger next ones up

We do need halfback cover cuz if TMM goes down we are stuck with Metcalf or CHT orchestrating the game

Agree 100% on all of this.

 

[Canonball]

I mean fair enough but your argument fails because hardly anyone in the current team deserves thier spot.

So just give bunty a farewell in a failed season with failed players

lol, did you watch the game last night? who would've you out for bunty? Love bunty too but you pick teams to do a job, not for the feels

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

lol, did you watch the game last night? who would've you out for bunty? Love bunty too but you pick teams to do a job, not for the feels

Martin Guptill Says hi!

 

[Christchurch_Warrior]

Martin Guptill Says hi!

Who did he play prop for?

 

[Playdaball]

Starting to sound like a clean out.

Can I make suggestions if it’s a clean out?
Kosi and Lussick
First cabs off the rank. ,

 

[Playdaball]

Who did he play prop for?

Suburbs New Lynn and Avondale College

 

[Christchurch_Warrior]

Suburbs New Lynn and Avondale College

When did the Stags change their name?

 

[BlackToko88]

Just seemed more fluent with Taine at FB. Using CNK as the battering ram from the back doesnt get the best out of him IMO and he looked good in center.

And if TMM is starting HB, him and Taine linked up nicely in the Panthers game. I just feel theres a shift in the FB this season, with guys like Kini, Fuller, Faalogo starting to have more say.

 

[timburgesstheonlyoneiknow]

Taine needs to be in the 17. Yes he is small but has what it takes.

 

[Ever Hopeful]

Maybe I have missed the obvious, but has their actually been a confirmation Bunty is leaving aside from a player's vague comment in a social media post?

I'm sure SJ, etc. would have mentioned him alongside the others if he was going. Or perhaps if he is, Bunty himself wants to keep it on the down low?

 

[RiceOwl]

Tannah Boyd was an age group star


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B7TF5JLEY8

Yeah I remember watching him in that Jnr Kangaroos side and thought he would kick on to big things. Shows how hard it is to transfer that promise into first grade.