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

 

[WahsaurusRex]

oi nah thats not funny, wtaf

 

[Damo]

Well that sure ruined my day

 

[juju]

the AFB news is a bit devastating.

Something definitely seemed off towards the end of the year with hi,

And his wife instagram post after the Broncs prelim was quite odd something along of "congrats to husband for carrying his team to the playoffs)

 

[MrFrankWhite]

I’ll be waiting on the SJ news next. I had a feeling last season was our shot.

 

[SJ2k]

Can we just say no?

 

[YouKnowIt]

Can we just say no?

That's what i would be doing....

 

[nzwarriorsfaithful]

Ummm I don’t know what to think

 

[juju]

Can we just say no?

At the very very least we need to get something substantial back

 

[Billyspleen75]

the AFB news is a bit devastating.

Something definitely seemed off towards the end of the year with hi,

And his wife instagram post after the Broncs prelim was quite odd something along of "congrats to husband for carrying his team to the playoffs)

Yeah there were a few rumours of his saltiness towards SJ getting all the accolades. And I knew him running off the field immediately after the Knights game was weird

 

[3rdstriker]

Ummm, what?
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Good to have some depth here with Bunty he better step out fend and throwout some offloads.

 

[PullingTeets]

Someone on reddit said yesterday that big news was about to drop regarding AFB, bugger.

 

[Blain]

Shocking news, he's our key player.

If granted, it's going to have to be a Walsh type swap. Will we get an equal player? Hell no.

 

[juju]

We only extended him last year till the end of 2026 of one of the games richest deals.
Surely we need to play hardball

 

[SJ2k]

He makes enough to move them over for a year and see out his contract. We should say no. Need to put an end to this shit before it gets out of hand.

 

[Fufu]

Can we just say no?

Sure, but its a bit rich to ask AFB to honour his deal after we just shafted Curran early.

To look at the positive in the situation, we have a massive asset that is on contract long-term and wants to leave. Ideally we can make sure that whoever signs him pays through the nose in terms of a player swap. We could ship him out and get a player in return and ask the other club to pay most of the freight for the new player along with taking AFB's full contract.

I wonder where he goes, if he ends up at the Dolphins I will lose all respect for Woolf.

 

[Canadian_Warriors_Fan]

I would imagine it would be like the CNK - Walsh situation.

 

[Playdaball]

Opp for a swap with a Sydney club

 

[Damo]

I wonder where he goes, if he ends up at the Dolphins I will lose all respect for Woolf.

He wants to go back to Sydney so probably rules that out.

 

[juju]

Sure, but its a bit rich to ask AFB to honour his deal after we just shafted Curran early.

To look at the positive in the situation, we have a massive asset that is on contract long-term and wants to leave. Ideally we can make sure that whoever signs him pays through the nose in terms of a player swap. We could ship him out and get a player in return and ask the other club to pay most of the freight for the new player along with taking AFB's full contract.

I wonder where he goes, if he ends up at the Dolphins I will lose all respect for Woolf.

If he's wanting to go back to Sydney - which club could fit him and have the players we'd interested in?

 

[WahsaurusRex]

At the very very least we need to get something substantial back

I'm just hoping that JFH actually hates Penrith, and is loving his time back in New Zealand I say that mostly tongue in cheek, totally unrealistic, but 30 minutes ago I would have said the same about AFB requesting an immediate release.. fmd

With AFB on 1M, whoever he goes to would have to give someone up anyway to make it work under the cap, surely