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Recruitment Warriors 2025/2026 Recruitment & Retention

Warriors 2025/2026 Recruitment & Retention Discussion​
-Player20252026202720282029
1Bunty Afoa✔
2Tom Ale✔
3Mitchell Barnett✔✔✔
4The Greatest of All-Time✔✔
5Kurt Capewell✔✔
6Erin Clark✔✔✔
7Wayde Egan✔✔✔
8James Fisher-Harris✔✔✔✔
9Jackson Ford✔
10Leka Halasima✔✔✔
11Tohu Harris✔
12Chanel Harris-Tavita✔M
13Edward Kosi✔
14Jacob Laban✔✔
15Ali Leiataua✔
16Freddy Lussick✔✔
17Zyon Maiu’u✔✔
18Te Maire Martin✔
19Luke Metcalf✔✔
20Marcelo Montoya✔
21Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad✔
22Marata Niukore✔✔
23Motu Pasikala✔✔✔
24Adam Pompey✔
25Demitric Sifakula✔C
26Taine Tuaupiki✔
27Roger Tuivasa-Sheck✔✔
28Dylan Walker✔
29Dallin Watene-Zelezniak✔
D1Kalani GoingD
D2Tanner Stowers-SmithD
T1Jett ClearyTDD
C = Club option, M = Mutual option, P = Player option, D = Development contract, T = Train & Trial contract

Confirmed Top 30 2025: 29/30
Confirmed Development 2025: 2/6
Unconfirmed Top 30 2025: 29/30
Unconfirmed Development 2025: 3/6 (Luke Hanson, per Zero Tackle)

Confirmed Top 30 2026: 13/30
Confirmed Development 2026: 1/6

2026 Gains: Nil
2026 Losses: Nil

Off Contract: Bunty Afoa, Tom Ale, Jackson Ford, Tohu Harris, Ed Kosi, Ali Leiataua, Te Maire Martin, Marcelo Montoya, Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, Adam Pompey, Taine Tuaupiki, Dylan Walker, Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, Kalani Going (D), Tanner Stowers-Smith (D), Chanel Harris-Tavita (M), Demitric Sifakula (C)


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Wrighty said:
If Afoa is not going to play much first grade then he will be playing NSW cup and maybe they view a NSW cup spot is valuable as they have guys coming out of Flegg too old to go around again in Flegg.
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Fair! It should be a development team really. Sprinkled with those who can't make the first team. And not 120+ game veterans.
 
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Tohu at 80% is better than Ale, Sifakula, Bunty, Zyon Maiu’u, Jazz, ford, Niukore, even in 2025. He was banged up, to the point where he’d realised he needed to pull pin & get tidy up surgery. This man will go down as one of the best warriors & kiwi. People have such short memories, it’s mind blowing.

He’s getting older & as a result his minutes will diminish, like any other player who’s played in the middle in the nrl for any length of time.

He’s a starter for us in 2025. I think he’ll be in the middle with Fish, Barnett on an edge to then come into the middle rotation.
 
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Tohu’s_Knees said:
Bloody hell, some members talk as if Tohu Harris has just completely fallen off a cliff. Is he the player he once was? Frankly, no.
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In my defense, I speak VERY hyperbolically. I'm also on the ass end of a proper rough flu.

I would point out the visible difference to our attack (the one that bet the Panthers...etc) when we bought him back from injury.

As I said, I have move for the dude. He just didn't bounce back, like he did last year.
 
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FormerlyJamesW said:
Fuck me. Are we going to get a puff piece from every player that leaves the club?

First Curran, now Jazz?

Bet the Storm doesnt have to put up with this shit.

www.zerotackle.com

'Hard pill to swallow': Jazz Tevaga speaks on Warriors exit

“I always thought I’d be a one-club man."
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www.melbournestorm.com.au

Tom Eisenhuth: "It's been an unreal journey"

Tom Eisenhuth chats to Melbourne Storm after announcing his departure from the Club.
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NRL star Josh Addo-Carr praises Melbourne ahead of departure to Canterbury after 2021 season - ABC News

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CBF linking to it, but the club put pictures from their awards night on instagram and along with jazz and afb holding framed photos is RTS doing the same. He gone?

Or just acknowledging his 200 game milestone?
 
FormerlyJamesW said:
Fuck me. Are we going to get a puff piece from every player that leaves the club?

First Curran, now Jazz?

Bet the Storm doesnt have to put up with this shit.

www.zerotackle.com

'Hard pill to swallow': Jazz Tevaga speaks on Warriors exit

“I always thought I’d be a one-club man."
www.zerotackle.com www.zerotackle.com
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This interview was from a long time ago. I think it was prior to his last home game. I thought it was honest without burning bridges, or coming across as a victim.

Gotta love modern journalism though. Make sense of this:

Uncontracted at the moment, Tevaga revealed that he has found a new NRL team for the 2025 season, meaning he won't move overseas to play in the Super League or switch codes to rugby union.

At this stage, no club has yet to confirm an interest in his services, but he has been linked with a potential move to the Manly Sea Eagles to play under Anthony Seibold.
 
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FormerlyJamesW said:
In my defense, I speak VERY hyperbolically. I'm also on the ass end of a proper rough flu.

I would point out the visible difference to our attack (the one that bet the Panthers...etc) when we bought him back from injury.

As I said, I have move for the dude. He just didn't bounce back, like he did last year.
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He didn't come back from injury though. In fact, he was still injured and it had gotten worse. They shouldn't have played him at all let alone 'brought him back from injury' He should've had an op at the end of '23 and this year could've been a different story.
Anyway, 2025. Looking forward to a fit and firing Tohu...yes, even at 33, (jwh & jesse b. and a few others older than him say hello! ).
Reduced minutes probably, out wide sometimes, putting those young fellas in space, defending his a*** off & mixing it with Egan & co. in the middle on occasion.
If he can't, he's the type to call it.
 
Juno said:
He didn't come back from injury though. In fact, he was still injured and it had gotten worse. They shouldn't have played him at all let alone 'brought him back from injury' He should've had an op at the end of '23 and this year could've been a different story.
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Then why'd he come back? The players get a pretty big say in whether or not they're ready, after all they're the ones with the injury..
 
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