Recruitment Warriors 2026/2027 Recruitment & Retention

Warriors 2026/2027 Recruitment and Retention Discussion​

Player	2026​	2027​	2028​	2029​	2030​
Grant Anderson	-​	✔​	✔​	✔​
Mitchell Barnett	✔​	​
Rocco Berry	✔​
Tanah Boyd	✔​
Kurt Capewell	✔​
Erin Clark	✔​	✔​	✔​	✔​
Wayde Egan	✔​	✔​
Kayliss Fatialofa	✔​	✔​
James Fisher-Harris	✔​	✔​	✔​
Jackson Ford	✔​	✔​
Morgan Gannon	✔​	✔​	✔​
Leka Halasima	✔​	✔​	✔​	✔​
Chanel Harris-Tavita	✔​
Sam Healey	✔​	✔​
Eddie Ieremia-Toeava	✔​	✔​	✔​
Alofiana Khan-Pereira	✔​	✔​	✔​
Jacob Laban	✔​	✔​	✔​	✔​
Ali Leiataua	✔​	✔​
Jye Linnane	✔​	✔​	✔​
Te Maire Martin	✔​
Haizyn Mellars	✔​	✔​	✔​
Luke Metcalf	✔​	✔​	✔​
Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad	✔​	✔​
Marata Niukore	✔​
Adam Pompey	✔​	✔​
Tanner Stowers-Smith	✔​	✔​	✔​
Taine Tuaupiki	✔​	✔​	✔​
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck	✔​
Demitric Vaimauga	✔​	✔​	✔​
William Warbrick	-​	✔​	✔​	✔​
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak	✔​	M​
Connor Bowden	U​	U​	✔​
Jett Cleary	S​	U​
Sio Kali	U​
Braelan Marsh	U​	U​	U​
Motu Pasikala	U​	U​

✔ = Signed to Top 30, C = Club option, M = Mutual Option, P = Player option, S = Signed to supplementary list, U = Unclear

2026 Top 30: 29/30
2026 Supplementary: 2/6

2027 Top 30: 22/30
2027 Supplementary: 0/6

2027 Gains: Grant Anderson (Brisbane Broncos), William Warbrick (Melbourne Storm)
2027 Losses: Mitchell Barnett (Brisbane Broncos), Marata Niukore (Newcastle Knights), Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (Wakefield Trinity)

Off contract and free to sign elsewhere for 2027: Rocco Berry, Tanah Boyd, Kurt Capewell, Chanel Harris-Tavita, Te Maire Martin
Will be off contract and free to sign elsewhere for 2028 from November 1st, 2026: Jett Cleary, Wayde Egan, Kayliss Fatialofa, Jackson Ford, Sam Healey, Eddie Ieremia-Toeava, Ali Leiataua, Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, Motu Pasikala, Adam Pompey, Dallin Watene-Zelezniak

 

[CWC]

Is it just that easy to rip up a contract with 2 years left to play out? Making it sound like there are clubs who are willing to pay more than 900k for metcalf, but for some reason none who are willing to pay more than 700k for boyd or cht? Seems like a lot of posters feel like they can "Have their cake and eat it too".

Freight and minimize the hit if we have to choose. I prefer to keep all 3. Most of our expensive signings are leaving end of the year

Edit: or “compassion release” and con another aussie player

 

[Ryno 2.0]

Freight and minimize the hit if we have to choose. I prefer to keep all 3. Most of our expensive signings are leaving end of the year

Edit: or “compassion release” and con another aussie player

Ah I like this compassionate release for the Warriors fan base!

 

[3rdstriker]

Metcalf was clutch as fuck

Was? Let Metcalf ease his way back in slowly while his career is on a knife edge.

 

[roguei]

3 scenarios to think about:

1. Metcalf reaches potential and is injury free for the next 2-3 years = Money well spent!

2. Metcalf continues to have injuries, next 2-3 years he plays half a dozen games = Worst decision ever, probably costs us 1-2 key players. This is the more likely one unfortunately that I see.

3. Metcalf because of consistent injures medically retires. = probably the best outcome for the club, money freed up can then be spent immediately

Now I’m not sure if the Warriors management have any specific clauses in the contract but surely they would have had to think about those things knowing the injury history??

Happy to be proven wrong. But by the looks of it they were happy to take the gamble that'd he'd come good by the end of this year/start of next year. As ACLs may heal in 7-11 months, but the player themselves will not be 100% till much later. At least as far as luke kerry is concerned as someone who snapped two ACLs.

But i'd assume they were hoping for 1. Gambing that he'd have a great season or two. I doubt number 3 happens before the end of the season unless he has a major head injury. But if KP, Turbo and Latrell are still playing. I cannot imagine metcalf would retire unless he loses hunger for the game like papenhuyzen.

So i guess like @CWC put it, to eat the risk now we'd have to pay for him to leave. And therefore, how much would the boyd signing and metcalf payout be worth?

 

[CWC]

Just saw timoko score.

Maybe Cappy’s betting on Berry getting to at least playable shape?

Ali/GA/Pompey if GA is also first wing cover we’re probably a centre short, Berry should be cheap if he can get on the field either cup or FG