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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[Leon Black]

Leo Thompson being courted by Raiders and now the Dogs. Be pissed if we don’t make a play for him and he ends up at Belmore!

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Kosi just needs to get smarter, faster, better at defense and attack and he could be anything.

You had me for a second!

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Leo Thompson being courted by Raiders and now the Dogs. Be pissed if we don’t make a play for him and he ends up at Belmore!

I'm sure he's been looked at.

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

I know we need halves but also hope the club does try for either Thompson or Willison. It would be future proofing for when JFH is gone, we should use that bargaining chip while we have it.

 

[CWC]

All we need now is for someone to say it's all good as long as it's not done during the team song.

JAC with the mana wave (of powder)!

 

[CWC]

I know ow we need halves but also hope the club does try for either Thompson or Willison. It would ne future proofing for when JFH is gone, we should use that bargaining chip while we have it.

1-2 elite props for 2026 with Walker/Tohu money is a must to take over/wean off the alpha roles from JFH and Barney

 

[The Warrior Waka]

JAC isn't coming here. And fuck him anyway.
Kosi is here, And with all his faults on the field he has no off field indiscretions. He's a good kid.

Anyway, I'm more excited in the future of Pasikala with us.

 

[Falcon]

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?

I really believe we will sign Leo Thompson. We currently have very senior players at the back end of their careers and raw potential with a smattering of first grade but nothing in between.
This signing would ensure over the next 2/4 years you have a settled and established front row combo with another few good years of young guys getting good first grade exposure with a view to transition into starters.
You heard it here first.

 

[Noitall]

I really believe we will sign Leo Thompson. We currently have very senior players at the back end of their careers and raw potential with a smattering of first grade but nothing in between.
This signing would ensure over the next 2/4 years you have a settled and established front row combo with another few good years of young guys getting good first grade exposure with a view to transition into starters.
You heard it here first.

Would love that. With him going to market in November, if we were to secure him fairly quickly it would be interesting to see if the knights would cut their losses considering that Tyrone Thompson gets there on a development contract and would be a waste of time for them unless he was staying on himself and Leo departed? You could imagine that if it came to that then a player trade would be sought by the knights for an early release?

 

[CWC]

Would love that. With him going to market in November, if we were to secure him fairly quickly it would be interesting to see if the knights would cut their losses considering that Tyrone Thompson gets there on a development contract and would be a waste of time for them unless he was staying on himself and Leo departed? You could imagine that if it came to that then a player trade would be sought by the knights for an early release?

They can have Bunty and Kosi

 

[Noitall]

They can have Bunty and Kosi

Can recall them wanting Zyon Maiu’u on a loan deal that we rejected. I’d do the deal you mentioned in your post, but not Zyon Maiu’u. Worst case scenario is we dig our heels in and get Thompson in 2026 and knights potentially waste the time and a development spot on Tyrone if he intended to leave with Leo?

 

[cock_o]

Is Tyrone confirmed going to the Knights next year?

 

[Noitall]

Former NRL utility back on the lookout for a new team

He last played in the NRL in 2015.

www.zerotackle.com

Carlos Tuimavave on the lookout for a club

 

[juju]

Former NRL utility back on the lookout for a new team

He last played in the NRL in 2015.

www.zerotackle.com

Carlos Tuimavave on the lookout for a club

Wonder if a reserve grade contract would interest him

 

[tajhay]

Wonder if a reserve grade contract would interest him

for who?

Warriors? You would want him to take a spot in the reserve grade team over someone like Pompey/Ali (Assuming RTS/Berry are the starting centres) or Chanel (assuming Metcalf/TMM are the first grade halves)?

 

[Tohu’s_Knees]

Given a real opportunity to do so, the club would be mad not to sign Leo Thompson.
He’d be a way more valuable replacement for Tohu than Erin Clark is.
Erin is a good player, but that’s it.

Carlos Tuimavave? Hell no……. That would be madness. Regardless of the contract.
Good luck to him though.

 

[Wrighty]

I guess we are now waiting for
a) the playoffs to be complete
secondly b) November 1st
Before we all start reading Zero tackle every day.

I still think there will be an email to Dylan Brown's agent. Their team might say no. But I can't see us not asking.

 

[Matiunz]

I guess we are now waiting for
a) the playoffs to be complete
secondly b) November 1st
Before we all start reading Zero tackle every day.

I still think there will be an email to Dylan Brown's agent. Their team might say no. But I can't see us not asking.

People tend to get hung upon that November 1st thing and tend to get disappointed when there’s not the flurry of signings they were expecting.

 

[Wrighty]

People tend to get hung upon that November 1st thing and tend to get disappointed when there’s not the flurry of signings they were expecting.

100% agree

That said there are above average number of players free for 2026. This will be a busy off season. But yes no news for sone weeks after Nov 1,

 

[tajhay]

100% agree

That said there are above average number of players free for 2026. This will be a busy off season. But yes no news for sone weeks after Nov 1,

If you are a decent player, and probably have demand for your services it would make very little sense to sign a contract as soon as that window is open - unless ofcourse you had been waiting for that team to come knocking and know no team will outmatch that offer. 12 months is a long time and if you are half decent, you would have to be a moron to sign a contract that early.

And btw noone would be reading zerotackle for news. They have become a bit of a joke - one of their headlines in past few days was that "Latrell signs for Broncos". It was Latrell Siegwalt a QLD cup player.