Recruitment Warriors 2025/2026 Recruitment & Retention

Warriors 2025/2026 Recruitment & Retention Discussion​

-	Player	2025	2026	2027	2028	2029
1	Bunty Afoa	✔
2	Tom Ale	✔
3	Mitchell Barnett	✔	✔	✔
4	Rocco Berry	✔	✔
5	Tanah Boyd	✔	✔
6	Kurt Capewell	✔	✔
7	Erin Clark	✔	✔	✔
8	Wayde Egan	✔	✔	✔
9	James Fisher-Harris	✔	✔	✔	✔
10	Jackson Ford	✔	✔	✔
11	Leka Halasima	✔	✔	✔
12	Chanel Harris-Tavita	✔	✔
13	Sam Healey	✔	✔	✔
14	Edward Kosi	✔
15	Jacob Laban	✔	✔
16	Ali Leiataua	✔	✔	✔
17	Freddy Lussick	✔	✔
18	Te Maire Martin	✔
19	Luke Metcalf	✔	✔
20	Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad	✔
21	Marata Niukore	✔	✔
22	Adam Pompey	✔	✔	✔
23	Tanner Stowers-Smith	✔
24	Taine Tuaupiki	✔	✔
25	Roger Tuivasa-Sheck	✔	✔
26	Demitric Vaimauga	✔	✔	✔	✔
27	Dylan Walker	✔
28	Dallin Watene-Zelezniak	✔	✔	✔
S1	Kayliss Faitialofa	S
S2	Kalani Going	S
S3	Luke Hanson	S
S4	Eddie Ieremia-Toeava	S	✔	✔
S5	Sio Kali	S
S6	Patrick Moimoi	S
-	Kahu Capper	T	T
-	Jett Cleary	T	S	S
-	Motu Pasikala	T	✔	✔

C = Club option, M = Mutual option, P = Player option, S = Supplementary contract, T = Train & Trial contract

Confirmed Top 30 2025: 28/30
Confirmed Supplementary 2025: 6/6

Confirmed Top 30 2026: 21/30
Confirmed Supplementary 2026: 1/6

2026 Gains: Nil
2026 Losses: Nil

Off Contract: Bunty Afoa, Tom Ale, Edward Kosi, Te Maire Martin, Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, Tanner Stowers-Smith, Dylan Walker

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[FormerlyJamesW]

Boyd is 24. I think Webby has seen that youth is key...

Apparently the Mongers were interested in him too. Could be something there?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2024-transfer-whispers-tanah-boyd-manly-sea-eagles-daly-cherryevans-gold-coast-titans-contracts-players/news-story/5322d06434c4e9b57287233f1eecb714&ved=2ahUKEwjrnejvnreJAxX4yzgGHWqlDgYQ2LwJegQIIhAB&usg=AOvVaw3vD-vd6ANSacH6BjJBAExi

 

[Christchurch_Warrior]

Their own fans are thanking us for taking him.

Not all halves develop at the same pace. Took SJ ages to become a more controlling half. Most fans want our halves to become an instant Nathan Cleary. You also look at the Titan forwards and not many of them do the 1 percentage work. There is a reason why Slater had someone like Capewell instead of Fifita in Origin. Hard to shine when you don't get protection.

Hoping for another trigger from our Titan poster

 

[Warriors4lyfe]

I don't know how good he is but if you go off his NRL fantasy points before he got injured and then dropped he was one of the better performing half's.

 

[Inruin]

Kind of one of those signings that isn't overly exciting but needed. He is probably as good as we could have done considering who is on the market currently in the halves. Provides much needed depth and competition for spots. Can play 6 or 7. Is only 24 and come through the Aussie system. All in all, you would have to say a solid signing?

 

[Canonball]

Hey I wasnt keen at all. But if hes a Warrior I'll back him until he proves himself either way.

yeah, sure, why not... can't say i'm happy with this but we've got to back him

 

[Tohu’s_Knees]

The only reason I don’t like signings like Tanah Boyd. Will he stay long term? If he’s really flying by 2026, does he stay?
Or is he coming here, getting his career back on track. Away from all the noise then leave. Same as Cleary.

What does this mean for TMM and Metcalfe?

I wanted to lowball TMM, but now. IDK

Warriors should always have at least one Kiwi half. So it lowers the chance of a key player getting “homesick”.

 

[Kestrel84]

Lets be honest, this is a stop-gap signing with the hope that youth or a better option will replace him within the next 12-18 months.

Brett Seymour 2.0?

 

[Canonball]

Brilliant Boyd

Tanah Boyd delivers a stellar performance against the Warriors

www.nrl.com

 

[Warriorsfan92]

Love it. When you look at the out and out 7s available, and would realistically come to NZ, he’s right up there. We needed a half with SJ leaving, we needed a goal kicker, we needed an organising half & we’ve got one. He’s not a world beater but neither was Maloney when he came over. Nathan Fien wasn’t a star.

Whilst we’d love a superstar 7, so does every other club & we just can’t compete, being over the ditch. This is a calculated gamble on a player with nrl experience, will hardly break the bank & carrys little to no downside, as there’s no one in the pipeline that he’s blocking.

We needed to temper our expectations, there’s very few quality 7s even available on the market. I think our recruitment have nailed this one.

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

Brilliant Boyd

Tanah Boyd delivers a stellar performance against the Warriors

www.nrl.com

Why did you make me relive that?

 

[Playdaball]

Is Boyd a goal kicker??

I suppose we beat all of the clubs wanting him - Salford, Wakefield, Leigh …

 

[RiceOwl]

Lets be honest, this is a stop-gap signing with the hope that youth or a better option will replace him within the next 12-18 months.

Brett Seymour 2.0?

100% This.

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

Is Boyd a goal kicker??

I suppose we beat all of the clubs wanting him - Salford, Wakefield, Leigh …

I posted previously, but apparently manly were keen on him a week ago.

 

[RiceOwl]

I’ll back him. It is only a 2 year deal, we needed a “controlling” half and one with a kicking game. Ticks a number of boxes while we develop the up and comers.

If my memory serves me right, I remember watching him play for the Junior Kangaroos a number of years ago and was really impressed then. Had a good game from memory and thought he would go places. Hopefully Webby can work some magic.

 

[Five&Last]

Boyd is terrible. I legit thought he would be super league bound.

 

[Warriorsfan92]

View: https://youtu.be/338yPsp5dVg?si=hB-HLkqjS-jFUGob

 

[JaggedJ]

He looks like he could be Webby's son.

Whatever. We've done OK in the past with players who "nobody else wanted" or their fans thanked us for taking.

We need 4 halves, we now have 4 halves. Let the pecking order sort itself out.

 

[hornbybrown]

Needed a half, Hunt was never coming here, most of the rest of them are only available because they are JAG’s ( Just a guy). Not over the moon with this but definitely going to reserve judgement till he plays a few games in a warriors jersey

 

[WahsaurusRex]

He looks like he could be Webby's son.

Whatever. We've done OK in the past with players who "nobody else wanted" or their fans thanked us for taking.

We need 4 halves, we now have 4 halves. Let the pecking order sort itself out.

Thought the same fucking thing haha, honestly a couple shades of red in his hair and we would have a conspiracy on our hands. Agree on the other two points too lol

We didn't need a world beater, nor were we getting one at this point, just a warm body so we don't have to put Charnze or Walker in the halves and fuck up our backline continuity/forward rotation if something happens

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

Stranger things would have happened than Boyd coming over here and killing it...