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	Jett Cleary	✔	S	S
9	Wayde Egan	✔	✔	✔
10	James Fisher-Harris	✔	✔	✔	✔
11	Jackson Ford	✔	✔	✔
12	Leka Halasima	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
13	Morgan Harper	✔
14	Chanel Harris-Tavita	✔	✔
15	Sam Healey	✔	✔	✔
16	Edward Kosi	✔
17	Jacob Laban	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
18	Ali Leiataua	✔	✔	✔
19	Jye Linnane	✔	✔	✔	✔
20	Freddy Lussick	✔	✔
21	Te Maire Martin	✔	✔
22	Luke Metcalf	✔	✔
23	Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad	✔	✔	✔
24	Marata Niukore	✔	✔
25	Adam Pompey	✔	✔	✔
26	Tanner Stowers-Smith	✔	✔	✔
27	Taine Tuaupiki	✔	✔
28	Roger Tuivasa-Sheck	✔	✔
29	Demitric Vaimauga	✔	✔	✔	✔
30	Dallin Watene-Zelezniak	✔	✔	✔
S1	Kayliss Fatialofa	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
-	Morgan Gannon	-	✔	✔	✔
-	Haizyn Mellars	✔	✔	✔
-	Motu Pasikala	T	?	?

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

Top 30 2026: 29/30
Supplementary 2026: 1/6

2026 Gains: Morgan Gannon (Leeds Rhinos), Haizyn Mellars (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
2026 Losses: Edward Kosi (South Sydney Rabbitohs)

Off Contract: Bunty Afoa, Tom Ale, Morgan Harper
Can negotiate with other clubs from Nov 1, 2025 (Entering final year) : Rocco Berry, Tanah Boyd, Kurt Capewell, Chanel Harris-Tavita, Freddy Lussick, Te Maire Martin, Luke Metcalf, Marata Niukore, Taine Tuaupiki, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck

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[Neo]

I hear Jono Wright is available.

AW can make big offseason moves, we saw it this year. I think the only person 100% guaranteed to be in his position rnd1 next year (in the backs) and thats CNK. Id say RTS too but theres a chance he takes up the overseas gig.

Isn’t that rugby comp only coming into existence in 2027?

 

[Leon Black]

Size and speed the next "Will Warbrick" style player ... If only Rocco wasn't made of glass I'm sure he would have been one of our stars ...so gutted for the guy coming from someone that has a he fair share of injuries like most of the time as I age LOL

Agree—if he’s fit, he’d make a quality centre. Warbrick’s handling was all over the place last night. That Fijian we had four or more years ago was absolute fire for the Drua—what a player! Think his name was Ravutaumada, aka ‘Pre-season Sand Dune God’? Could be wrong, but he looked unstoppable. Signed to French Rugby now

 

[JaggedJ]

Great effort, but ultimately our limited creativity/talent is going to cost us like it has all year.

With the breeze Cleary will grind us down.

 

[The Warrior Waka]

Great effort, but ultimately our limited creativity/talent is going to cost us like it has all year.

With the breeze Cleary will grind us down.

We need set plays that involve Leka & Pompey and isolatiing there opponents with one on one opportunities. We know what Leka can do. Pompey has it in him too.

 

[JaggedJ]

We need set plays that involve Leka & Pompey and isolatiing there opponents with one on one opportunities. We know what Leka can do. Pompey has it in him too.

Agree, but hard against riff at the best of time. These conditions make it harder.

Feel like kicks or Egan creating something from short range are our best hope which unfortunately brings us back to our breeze/Cleary issue.

 

[JaggedJ]

Dummy half scoot!!!

So effective, not used often enough.

 

[Ever Hopeful]

This is the recruitment thread fellas.

 

[JaggedJ]

This is the recruitment thread fellas.

We need to recruit dummy half scooters.

 

[The Warrior Waka]

Bring Sam on!!

 

[Five&Last]

Agree, Leroy Carter, Caleb Clarke would be nice, but plenty of quality in NPC too!

Have you seen much of Harry Tauafiafi-Iutoi in our Jersey Flegg?

The last 3 or 4 games of the season he looked unbelievable after being pretty quiet prior to that. Size, speed and power for a wing.

We poached him from the Auckland Club Rugby scene, he's 21 I believe. But he looks like he might have a future in first grade.

After dropping Rapheal Sio for him, Brandon Norris and him were just terrorising teams on each wing.

Give it two years and we will have some really strong wing stocks (age in two years time) -
Sio Kali (22)
Haizyn Mellars (23)
Ezekiel Davidson Faaiuaso (20)
Brandon Norris (22)
Motu Pasikala (22)
Harry Tauafiafi-Iutoi (23)