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	The Greatest of All-Time	✔	✔
5	Kurt Capewell	✔	✔
6	Erin Clark	✔	✔	✔
7	Wayde Egan	✔	✔	✔
8	James Fisher-Harris	✔	✔	✔	✔
9	Jackson Ford	✔
10	Leka Halasima	✔	✔	✔
11	Tohu Harris	✔
12	Chanel Harris-Tavita	✔	M
13	Sam Healey	✔	✔	✔
14	Edward Kosi	✔
15	Jacob Laban	✔	✔
16	Ali Leiataua	✔
17	Freddy Lussick	✔	✔
18	Zyon Maiu’u	✔	✔
19	Te Maire Martin	✔
20	Luke Metcalf	✔	✔
21	Marcelo Montoya	✔
22	Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad	✔
23	Marata Niukore	✔	✔
24	Motu Pasikala	✔	✔	✔
25	Adam Pompey	✔
26	Demitric Sifakula	✔	C
27	Taine Tuaupiki	✔
28	Roger Tuivasa-Sheck	✔	✔
29	Dylan Walker	✔
30	Dallin Watene-Zelezniak	✔
D1	Kalani Going	D
D2	Tanner Stowers-Smith	D
T1	Jett Cleary	T	D	D

C = Club option, M = Mutual option, P = Player option, D = Development contract, T = Train & Trial contract

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

Confirmed Top 30 2026: 14/30
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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[Inruin]

JAC is well past his best, more injury prone than ever and doesn't make the cut in the no dick heads stakes either. For me, even if he was available and wanting to come to the Warriors, it's a very easy no, not what we are looking for. Thank you. Have a nice day. Next please.

 

[Aman 2.0]

Do we know exactly how much RTS is on?

 

[tajhay]

Do we know exactly how much RTS is on?

~650k as per rich list 100 for 2024.

 

[Aman 2.0]

~650k as per rich list 100 for 2024.

So we could have picked up either Cobbo or staggs for another 200k.

Damn he’s really tucked us up.

 

[Leon Black]

That one May brother?
The guy who reefed that bloke to the ground, centre I think?
The players goona be players m8.
All get on the bags and party lol.
To think otherwise is naieve.

No you’re joking do they? How naive of me, we all know that but time and place for it.

Not saying he needed to buy a charger never returned, lied to the boss of the club. JAC is a massive w@nker.

May got sacked and he is the same guy who assaulted someone in a QLD pub. Tyrone got sacked 2021 his bro.

 

[CWC]

So we could have picked up either Cobbo or staggs for another 200k.

Damn he’s really tucked us up.

We’ve still got enough to buy 1 of them
SJ was on $500K and now add Monty and JFH is on less than AFB
Roger is a tackle break machine the coach just didn’t use him properly this year to maximize it, how many linebreaks has any of our backs had outside Roger and Ali?

 

[SouthernWorrier]

We’ve still got enough to buy 1 of them
SJ was on $500K and now add Monty and JFH is on less than AFB
Roger is a tackle break machine the coach just didn’t use him properly this year to maximize it, how many linebreaks has any of our backs had outside Roger and Ali?

Agree, Rogers still got lots to add but he's bulked up from rugby which hasn't helped and he was mr fixit all over the shop which makes it hard to shine. Settle in a slot (Wing or ideally FB) and another offseason to tune him back for league 650K seems good value to me

 

[Noitall]

Agree, Rogers still got lots to add but he's bulked up from rugby which hasn't helped and he was mr fixit all over the shop which makes it hard to shine. Settle in a slot (Wing or ideally FB) and another offseason to tune him back for league 650K seems good value to me

I think we’re going to see the best of RTS in the upcoming season. I reckon he’ll be hurting from this season and all the noise of him returning was to the detriment of the club. Hopefully getting into the Samoa camp if he’s selected, he can gain some confidence through that

 

[Noitall]

Really interesting regarding Leo Thompson and the speculation around raiders. Nothing can offered at present so obviously just interest but his price could get pushed up too high if interest is too willing? There’s also his brother and do they advertise themselves as a package deal? If that’s the case that pushes their price up further, though the upside of the two could be huge? A club like ours with JFH could be huge for their development, though their youth could block some highly regarded young players already at the club? Interested in that rumour some time ago on here regarding Naufahu Whyte and wonder if he or Siua Wong could be pushed out of the roosters?

 

[MrFrankWhite]

So we could have picked up either Cobbo or staggs for another 200k.

Damn he’s really tucked us up.

Rather have RTS than Cobbo

 

[CWC]

Not sure why people want JAC at the club, can foresee him turning us into the Bulldogs and mess up the club room way worse than whatever happened this year. Guy's doing coke, not fighting annoying teenagers

 

[Zaggo]

Rather have RTS than Cobbo

100%. Cobbo is a guy that will give you a 10/10 one week, but then run for 40m and make 5 errors for the next three.

 

[Noitall]

jrtiger​

Well-known member​

Heard some Intel he's already off to NZ.

He could've won em the semi...
But his actions let his team down.
Not ready for the crocodile roll.

if they’re sniffing around him I’d say Montoya’s a done deal to us.








This is off the tigers forum regarding JAC. Not sure if I’ve fallen for another pisstake off their forum?

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

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[HEADING=3]jrtiger​

Well-known member​

if they’re sniffing around him I’d say Montoya’s a done deal to us.








This is off the tigers forum regarding JAC. Not sure if I’ve fallen for another pisstake off their forum?

Sniffing around who?

 

[Noitall]

Sniffing around who?

Going back through the posts to decipher who they’re talking about, it looks like Josh Addo Carr?

 

[CWC]

Going back through the posts to decipher who they’re talking about, it looks like Josh Addo Carr?

Ya could have won them the semi = Dogs losing by 2 to Manly knockout game, Monty to us = we've got a winger replacement

Doubting their "intel" and why would we want a guy who will let us down before a knock out game lol

 

[Noitall]

Ya could have won them the semi = Dogs losing by 2 to Manly knockout game, Monty to us = we've got a winger replacement

Doubting their "intel" and why would we want a guy who will let us down before a knock out game lol

Doesn’t make much sense to me either

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

To me that would be a weird signing. Surely that would mean

1 R T Sheck
2 D W Zelezniak
3 C N Klokstad
4 Ali Ali Leiataua
5 J A Carr

Of course! J A C!!!

 

[Tohu’s_Knees]

Missus was flying in from overseas and said Andrew Webster was at the Airport this morning (she would have been there around 9:30am) and said that he was there “with several other guys” she didn’t know. (She doesn’t really like NRL)

Welcome party for someone probably.

(She said they were “older white guys” definitely not players. I showed her photos of Cappy and Cam George and she didn’t really know)

 

[peewee]

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[HEADING=3]jrtiger​

Well-known member​

if they’re sniffing around him I’d say Montoya’s a done deal to us.








This is off the tigers forum regarding JAC. Not sure if I’ve fallen for another pisstake off their forum?

Montoya IS a done deal