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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[peewee]

How do you know no one trains harder? Smarter? Demetric etc are looking in supreme shape.

Who do you take out of the NSW Cup forward pack to accommodate him?
Zyon Maiu’u, TSS, Ieremia-Toeava, Halasima, Demetric, Bunty?

He he to earn the right to get there which is a good thing

Hope there is a spot for him because that means a young bull has joined the top team

 

[Make my day]

Tobias has speed - can run 100metres in 11.6 seconds.
Has power - probably would have near the best bench press kgs at the warriors
He has agility and can side step opponents to score length of the field tries
He was an unknown coming to the Warriors trial day along with 1200 other hopefuls on open day. He was one of 20-25 who made it into the system. He turned heads in his open day trial by scoring three tries.
Havn't ever seen him ball play
In his NSW Cup game, even though he only played one match, he did two great hit ups and then it was unstructured after that and all the second rowers wanted to do one out hit ups and neither he of the other prop got the pill, with Toby then only really running decoy lines on each play for like I said other hunguses who were screaming for the ball.
Early last year they said he could only break tackles if guys went high on him. Since that criticism he has learned a lower arm bumper to brush off grass cutters. He is now a multt dimensional metre gainer.
There is no one who trains harder than him. And for that alone he should be given a shot at regular NSW cup play this year.

All great stuff but nothing about defence?

 

[John Nick]

All great stuff but nothing about defence?

Huge step up to be successful in NRL.
Great signs but a lot of learning to come. Hopefully

 

[Wrighty]

All great stuff but nothing about defence?

Crosby Haters gunna hate.

 

[Make my day]

Crosby Haters gunna hate.

You going to answer? Simple question.

 

[Boston Boy]

Rumour going around Hughes to make way for Pezet. Suggestions Hughes may head to the Wahs.

 

[WA Warrior]

Rumour going around Hughes to make way for Pezet. Suggestions Hughes may head to the Wahs.

I can’t put myself through believing this could be a possibility haha.

 

[Riz]

Rumour going around Hughes to make way for Pezet. Suggestions Hughes may head to the Wahs.

 

[Boston Boy]

I can’t put myself through believing this could be a possibility haha.

Probably get him at 33 after he’d done an Achilles. Just a social media poster who had several predictions but I think he might have had the Ben Hunt to the Broncs. Got no credibility it just felt like a sneaky possibility.

 

[Wrighty]

You going to answer? Simple question.

Kia ora eho

Barring one game he played Jersey Flegg all season for which there are no tackle efficiency stats.
However he was a number 8 for the Upper Hutt Rams premier division union side and as such would be a sound tackler. As to whether he is just sound or outstanding we will need to wait for hm to play at least 10 games of NSW cup where they publish extensive stats.

Nga Mihi

 

[WA Warrior]

Probably get him at 33 after he’d done an Achilles. Just a social media poster who had several predictions but I think he might have had the Ben Hunt to the Broncs. Got no credibility it just felt like a sneaky possibility.

You never know mate. Pezet is a bloody gun apparently.

 

[Ever Hopeful]

Rumour going around Hughes to make way for Pezet. Suggestions Hughes may head to the Wahs.

That's the dream of course.

It is also one of the most overused clickbait rumours out there. Seemingly on repeat every few months (interchanged with the much less desirable Dylan Brown rumour).

 

[Wrighty]

Rumour going around Hughes to make way for Pezet. Suggestions Hughes may head to the Wahs.

I will only weigh in once as I find the forum let's you have your say, even if controversial. as long as you don't bang on about it.
Putting aside he will be 31 in 2026 I don't want him to come here as he is a confidence player and that is written all over him. In the Storm system he will be terrific, for the Warriors he will be little more than a rich man's TMM.

 

[KO WAI RA]

We have built the blueprint for cookn our underdeveloped talented junior’s…..
Please let Eli be the absolute last mistake this club makes…..

With this,Webby takes his time without over exposing his youth players….
We entering yr 3 but can’t wait for yr 5 & beyond

 

[mrblonde]

I can’t put myself through believing this could be a possibility haha.

Hughes? No, I'm not putting myself through that, either.
Pezet? I think we're going to be putting ourselves through that. I'd suggest the poster got the names the wrong way, frankly.

 

[cock_o]

What's the page called that posted this romur?

 

[Noitall]

What's the page called that posted this romur?

Knights forum saying on the radio over in oz they heard Jackson Hastings to titans. Could be a whole lot of movement about to happen?

 

[cock_o]

Knights forum saying on the radio over in oz they heard Jackson Hastings to titans. Could be a whole lot of movement about to happen?

That's the kind of rumor that you know will never happen.
That just got ride of Boyd because they have Foran, Campbell, Brimson and Gordon.

 

[tajhay]

Knights forum saying on the radio over in oz they heard Jackson Hastings to titans. Could be a whole lot of movement about to happen?

That rumour has been around for a while:

Jackson Hastings linked with new NRL club in fresh blow to Super League suitors

Jackson Hastings has been linked with a move to an NRL rival which could end talk of a return to Super League.

tbrrugbyleague.com

 

[cock_o]

That rumour has been around for a while:

Jackson Hastings linked with new NRL club in fresh blow to Super League suitors

Jackson Hastings has been linked with a move to an NRL rival which could end talk of a return to Super League.

tbrrugbyleague.com

Maybe release Keano Kini and play Brimson at fullback. Hastings and Foran in the halfs. Campbell off the bench.