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	Morgan Harper	✔
13	Chanel Harris-Tavita	✔	✔
14	Sam Healey	✔	✔	✔
15	Edward Kosi	✔
16	Jacob Laban	✔	✔
17	Ali Leiataua	✔	✔	✔
18	Freddy Lussick	✔	✔
19	Te Maire Martin	✔
20	Luke Metcalf	✔	✔
21	Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad	✔
22	Marata Niukore	✔	✔
23	Adam Pompey	✔	✔	✔
24	Tanner Stowers-Smith	✔
25	Taine Tuaupiki	✔	✔
26	Roger Tuivasa-Sheck	✔	✔
27	Demitric Vaimauga	✔	✔	✔	✔
28	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
-	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: 23/30
Confirmed Supplementary 2026: 1/6

2026 Gains: Nil
2026 Losses: Nil

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

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[Boston Boy]

The fact that Boyd is not a big spend or marquee half, does it leave us room to get someone else or atleast plan for a marquee for 2026?

 

[The Warrior Waka]

Meh,......Ok, Enough with my negative ass energy. Welcome to the club young fulla. I suppose lol. Nah......, Nau mai haere mai e hoa!

 

[Wrighty]

The fact that Boyd is not a big spend or marquee half, does it leave us room to get someone else or atleast plan for a marquee for 2026?

Yes we have space in our top 30 for 2026 signings
However have now reached 30 for 2025 unless we release someone else

 

[Dannevegas]

Stonestreet next

 

[The Warrior Waka]

Meh,......Ok, Enough with my negative ass energy. Welcome to the club young fulla. I suppose......, Nah ,

Stonestreet next

Yes! , That would lighten up the mood a little lol

 

[jmb_31]

I am officially whelmed. Didn't think much of him at the Titans, hopefully he can achieve something here. We're in trouble though if he's in the 7 jersey to start the season.

 

[JaggedJ]

So much negativity when we should be Boyd by this signing. I think he's going to surprise a Tanah people.

 

[Wrighty]

Webster likes acquiring the occasional Aussie
Good to see we are a destination of choice for Australians

Welcome Tannah

 

[Ever Hopeful]

I am okay with this if we can add a couple of offensive threats around him as we tinker with the roster for 2025. A speedy winger/fullback, and a ball-playing 2nd rower (Niukore, Barnett FR). Teams who don't invest in high value halves should be able to afford to this, and without it we don't look threatening at all next year. I'm optimistic that this is the club's thinking for 2025, but we certainly seem to be setting up well for a 2026 cap redistribution.

A 2 year contract suggests the club is playing pretty safe with this.

 

[BabylonPink]

What dissapoints me the most is we went from the sexiest halves pairing in the comp to now potentially the ugliest

 

[BabylonPink]

LeChad mark2

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

LeChad mark2

Chad won a premiership. Is that a bad thing?

 

[JustLikeStartingOver]

He sucks (mechanical, no skill or vision) and this forum will hate him if he has to play more than 2 games in a row. But he can goal kick and tackle and do that deep bomb on the last that every team does and we need another half as metcalf is glass so sensible signing

 

[Canonball]

Ok, again not stoked about the Boyd signing but, as I said earlier, when you have SJ and SJ on your staff they going to be consulted about any halves acquisition - if he's ok by them then he's ok by me

 

[Inruin]

Ok, again not stoked about the Boyd signing but, as I said earlier, when you have SJ and SJ on your staff they going to be consulted about any halves acquisition - if he's ok by them then he's ok by me

I'm kind of in the camp that both SJ and SJ need to stay away from the halfs...

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

I'm kind of in the camp that both SJ and SJ need to stay away from the halfs...

But what about SJ? I heard he's got a lot of wisdom to share.

 

[WahsaurusRex]

But what about SJ? I heard he's got a lot of wisdom to share.

SJ is fine, its SJ you need to worry about

 

[Tookey 2.0]

The fact that Boyd is not a big spend or marquee half, does it leave us room to get someone else or atleast plan for a marquee for 2026?

I reckon!

Just for a bit of fun:

Losses:
SJ - $700k
Jazz - $350k
Montoya -$300k

Gains:
Healey - $300k?
Clark - $450k?
Boyd - $400k?

So that would leave us with about 250k, plus I think we had a bit of change from the AFB->JFH deal.

Plus, we'd have to get someone else off our books to bring someone else in so if we lost say Bunty, you'd put his $250k together with AFBs money and the difference between those blokes above. I'd guess we'd have anywhere between 4-700k for someone for next year.

 

[mrblonde]

So much negativity when we should be Boyd by this signing. I think he's going to surprise a Tanah people.

He could show the boys how to be part of a team that scores 66 points while only conceding 6, for a start!

Although Tanah could find helping to turn the Warriors back into Grand Final Contenders a Titanic strugle! Too much Coasting and not enough Gold...

 

[Falcon]

Every squad needs value signings, and then cross the fingers that they over perform.
The current squad has a terrible imbalance of older players and exciting youth but no much in between.
I expect further signings of players with 3-4 seasons of experience regardless of position.