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
-	Morgan Gannon	-	✔	✔	✔
-	Jye Linnane	-	✔	✔	✔
-	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: 25/30
Confirmed Supplementary 2026: 1/6

2026 Gains: Jye Linnane (Newcastle Knights), Morgan Gannon (Leeds Rhinos)
2026 Losses: Nil

Off Contract: Bunty Afoa, Tom Ale, Morgan Harper, Edward Kosi, Te Maire Martin, Tanner Stowers-Smith
Off Contract from 01/11/25: Rocco Berry, Tanah Boyd, Kurt Capewell, Chanel Harris-Tavita, Jacob Laban, Freddy Lussick, Luke Metcalf, Marata Niukore, Taine Tuaupiki, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck

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[run_it_str8_again]

I saw in some photos of CHT that his younger brother was beside him in his Broncos shirt. Calvin is in their development squad and is rumoured to be tyhe better of the two brothers - playing for the Kings 1st XV too.
Should the Warriors make a play for him or do we just go for Australian halves now?

I googled Martin Offiah and saw he has an 18 year old son playing rugby in England. Just being a recruiter hahaha

 

[Boston Boy]

I saw in some photos of CHT that his younger brother was beside him in his Broncos shirt. Calvin is in their development squad and is rumoured to be tyhe better of the two brothers - playing for the Kings 1st XV too.
Should the Warriors make a play for him or do we just go for Australian halves now?

Surely if he is a very good prospect we should look at it. Being a kiwi makes it realistic that he will stay. Also we have a good pull to get him over to play with CHT. I don't know how good he is though, saw a highlight and he runs like CHT just hopefully he is faster.

 

[Theking267]

I think it’s the best thing for young kiwi halves to go over to Australia develop their game management skills and if they don’t like it over in Aus they can always come back. CHT with the Broncos and Charlie Webb with the Roosters, Brent Webb’s son

 

[John Nick]

I think it’s the best thing for young kiwi halves to go over to Australia develop their game management skills and if they don’t like it over in Aus they can always come back. CHT with the Broncos and Charlie Webb with the Roosters, Brent Webb’s son

I don't think we all realize how intense the Oz junior league levels are.

 

[Playdaball]

I think it’s the best thing for young kiwi halves to go over to Australia develop their game management skills and if they don’t like it over in Aus they can always come back. CHT with the Broncos and Charlie Webb with the Roosters, Brent Webb’s son

Charlie, ex Ellerslie Eagles

 

[Boston Boy]

The energy, arrogance, and aggression Vaimauga and Leka bring to this team is crazy. These young kids contribute so much. We have to lock these boys up for a long time. The attitude reminds me a little of those Penrith boys as they were going on their run. Luai, Leniu, Crichton etc very healthy to have.

 

[Playdaball]

Message to Cappy and co:
Not taking anything away from our current performances but please give us a decent big name signing soon or serious back up to extend the squad!
Cheers

 

[Get them onside ref!]

Message to Cappy and co:
Not taking anything away from our current performances but please give us a decent big name signing soon or serious back up to extend the squad!
Cheers

Do you want a back or fwd

 

[1995warriorsfan]

Charnze resigned for 2 more years

 

[WA Warrior]

Chance resigned for 2 more years

Not sure how I feel.
Feel a bit for Taine, thought he would get a crack at the FB jersey.

 

[Playdaball]

Not sure how I feel.
Feel a bit for Taine, thought he would get a crack at the FB jersey.

I've got similar feelings too.

We are a side that needs speed, however CNK offers stability, leadership, passion and a utility factor too - he has played 1st grade at fullback, centre, wing and stand off. Perhaps even a move to the forwards one day? This move does widen our depth.

Hopefully the signing wasn't an expensive one. At least now he can spend time with his family.

 

[hornbybrown]

I love the CNK extension. Not as down on him as most. Love his work rate, his passion and I think he is better than Taine overall but they are quite different types of player.

 

[CWC]

Would be great if his role next year is utility and if we have other big signings on top with all the $$ we have

At least we have the status quo, we know how our backs can drop like flies and we don't need to resort to playing the likes of Harper

 

[dylpickle]

I'm sure in his negotiations he put a claus in that he can only play fullback.

 

[CWC]

Nicoll-Klokstad rejects overseas offers to remain with Warriors

The fullback is staying put until the end of the 2027 NRL season.

www.nzherald.co.nz

 

[Warriorsfan92]

re-signing an international fullback sounds pretty good to me! I also don’t think this means taine is gone either. I think cnk would’ve signed on unders to remain in Auckland & seeing the progression of the club. I think eventually he finds himself on the wing or in the centres, as it’s evident that taine is the future of our club.

 

[Tookey 2.0]

I'm hopeful this is more of an insurance blanket for us.

Charnz is 30 this year in August, so will be 32 at the end of his contract, and last I checked there's not many 32 year old fullbacks running around the NRL atm.

We all saw how hard it was to pick up even a half decent outside back this year when we really needed it, this should help us not get to that level over the next few years.

I'm okay with the signing as long as it doesn't block any potential big signings

 

[Zaggo]

it’s evident that taine is the future of our club.

There's a lot of guys I'd potentially put the "future of the club" label on, and none of them are Taine.

 

[JustLikeStartingOver]

They seem to be pushing towards having a good top 20ish players rather than several million dollar players surrounded by minimum salary ones. Similar to how pompey keeps being extended even though he's not guaranteed to be first choice.

he adds a lot of value, but you wouldn't have CNK, Taine AND a marquee fullback on the books though.

have literally no idea where they are planning on spending all their cap, relatively old and expensive players like Niukore and RTS will be up soon as well. Give Leka a 10 year 8 million dollar contract?

Wait for the next AFB to personal reasons his way out of a team?

 

[Stalefish540]

I love CNK, can not fault him on effort whatsoever but he's essentially doing what Roger did without the footwork.

Are we just destined to be a team that doesn't want a fullback with some attack in them.

Constant hit ups when you should be in position to chase a kick or be link man in attack. It's exactly frustrated me about RTS.