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​
Luke Hanson	S​
Motu Pasikala	S​	U​
Caelys-Paul Putoko	S​
Jason Salalilo	S​	U​	U​
Makaia Taufa	S​	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: 6/6

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

 

[Shauns_Johnson]

Hand on heart do you think Boyd can go to another level at finals time?

I'm personally not Tanah's biggest fan so probably not the right person to ask

 

[CWC]

You're not wrong - I think it's two of them and that includes Metcalf.

Tanah was signed on unders, CHT came back from a sabbatical and then added one more year on. I reckon they're both on say 350-400k. Both will want 650-700k in this market (ie what they cost combined). It's just not smart cap management to have them both and Metcalf.

I just find it unlikely that Metcalf will leave this year. If this was all coming to a head next year then maybe, but even if management was brutal and ditched him one year into a new three year deal I don't think teams have a mill in cap space sitting around when Metcalf is a risky signing.

I think this year will be him getting his body together and an option to go to when we're sliding, but the offseason could be interesting because they could work out us chipping in say $400K then he'd only cost $500K for others and we can use the different to retain other halves or upgrades...and we just had set a precedent for player swap so that could be another possibility for the other team to manage cap as well...

Would be wonderful if Webby can make all 3 work in the 17 somehow this season....

 

[CWC]

Hand on heart do you think Boyd can go to another level at finals time?

He did last year, we should have knocked over the 4x premiers

 

[Cces]

He did last year, we should have knocked over the 4x premiers

Not much love from the forum for his efforts that day. Different tier this year though. Looking back to the stats that day it shows CHT was our main kicker. Granted he played an extra 16 minutes, but there was quite a disparity (389m vs 189m)

 

[roguei]

Not much love from the forum for his efforts that day. Different tier this year though. Looking back to the stats that day it shows CHT was our main kicker. Granted he played an extra 16 minutes, but there was quite a disparity (389m vs 189m)
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Probably been brought up before but for some reason this is the first time I've seen one of the old stat blocks @tajhay has made for the site come up in a thread. Quite cool to see historical data recorded back then come up in threads!

 

[tajhay]

Probably been brought up before but for some reason this is the first time I've seen one of the old stat blocks @tajhay has made for the site come up in a thread. Quite cool to see historical data recorded back then come up in threads!

Theres stats for every player, every game (that has recorded stats going all the way back to 2002 or so

For example if you wanted to see how shaun johnson went throughout his career...

https://nzwarriors.com/showcase/shaun-johnson.1/mpt-stats

 

[Rick O’Shay]

Hand on heart do you think Boyd can go to another level at finals time?

Yes.

Same question can be asked of the whole team. If they are reaching another level it will make it easy for both halfs

Guy can't do it on his own nor should he be expected to.

Will he choke as you suggest?, maybe, however we are already seeing some subtle increases in confidence.

Nailed the conversion to win us the game on the weekend. Pretty clutch kick

 

[Noitall]

Yes.

Same question can be asked of the whole team. If they are reaching another level it will make it easy for both halfs

Guy can't do it on his own nor should he be expected to.

Will he choke as you suggest?, maybe, however we are already seeing some subtle increases in confidence.

Nailed the conversion to win us the game on the weekend. Pretty clutch kick

As much as it likely comes across as I’m hating on the guy I’d say the same of all our halves, but the more appearances, the more accustomed they will become. 2023 was a window really because of SJ’s purple patch of form and even throughout his career we weren’t exactly regulars at finals time. I’ve mentioned constantly that I back the club to make the right calls and nothings changed