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

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Could we Loan metcalf?
He gets game time at 7. That way.

As long as the cover the injury cost.

 

[sydneywarrior92]

I broadly agree with Holic's take here. Don't want him to leave but if Luke's desire to play 7 trumps the broader interests of the team, we shouldn't stand in his way. Although I think he is jumping the gun again as no facts have been established yet and we don't even know if this is anything more than manager agitation.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qLngsTxjDY

 

[sydneywarrior92]

A social post denial would be ideal from the warriors or metcalf PR team, news cycle runs for 72 hours and it’s almost out and no denial. Might have to wait till team naming to have reporters ask webby directly about it. Not life and death but PR savvy staff paid to do this would usually deal with it swiftly

So someone said RNZ asked and it was no comment from the club?

maybe the idea is to not give fuel to the fire and hope this all blows away within a week once we get to magic round. Already this story is getting sidelined by other headline stories regarding Sydney clubs. I don't even think they discussed it on 360.

 

[CWC]

Well i mean its the same as when people were saying he was giving dirty looks at boyd, but then suddenly smiling at clark.

That was Wahs_Ultras alone

 

[ToiletDuck]

Asking for some clarification isn't a wild thing to do, for anyone in any job - if that is all it is. What is a bit strange is that surely he could get clarification from Webby just by having a chat with him.

From Metcalf's perspective I would've thought Tanah Boyd's form would actually be a positive. Boyd is the more natural 7, has a better kicking game, better organiser. Metcalf has a better running game. Takes pressure off him coming back into the side, not being responsible for guiding the team around the park. He'd also be the first person blamed if we start losing.

He's still on the same $$, if it was me I'd be stoked. Jarome Luai for example is hardly a lesser player or less attractive to other clubs because he plays 6. I dunno what the obsession with 7 is.

 

[sup42]

A social post denial would be ideal from the warriors or metcalf PR team, news cycle runs for 72 hours and it’s almost out and no denial. Might have to wait till team naming to have reporters ask webby directly about it. Not life and death but PR savvy staff paid to do this would usually deal with it swiftly

So someone said RNZ asked and it was no comment from the club?

Nah I posted that RNZ stated there was no comment from the club. Nothing to do with them actually confirming they had asked the club.

By now there will be enquiries by NZ media because the Aussie media have managed to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

As for the club issuing a statement? They are smack bang in the middle of two contract negotiations for their form halves, any statement by the club at this stage just feeds the circus.

Better to say nothing and get the CHT and Tanah Boyd contract negotiations done.

Then say something about Metcalf if it is even relevant.

I imagine that Webster being who he is, will be disappointed in Metcalf if he did get his agency to leak this story.

We all know that Andrew Webster would have already had the conversation with Metcalf. Before team naming Tuesday last week. He would have made it clear how things are.

One thing Andrew Webster has been quoted saying for years is "we have had conversations, we are talking with it other, I am happy with where things are at" (he has said this at post team pressers for several players that are up for contract).

I am imagining the Club making a statement now before they have options locked in, and Metcalf's people pulling the compassionate release plug....

wot a colossal fook up that would be.

 

[Beastmode]

What’s the news with Joey Manu?

Boyd - Manu pairing works over Metcalf -CHT if they walk

 

[Noitall]

Is there a way Mehcalf comes out of this in a good light?

Not at the moment, and that’s why I’m hesitant to think it’s been leaked from his party? At the moment he comes across to many I’m reading around the place as dropping his lip in many ways when he’s in no position to be demanding with his history of injury

 

[roguei]

That was Wahs_Ultras alone

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Aye now the'res at least one more

 

[Beastmode]

Not at the moment, and that’s why I’m hesitant to think it’s been leaked from his party? At the moment he comes across to many I’m reading around the place as dropping his lip in many ways when he’s in no position to be demanding with his history of injury

Leaking to force the Warriors hand to make a decision

 

[sup42]

Asking for some clarification isn't a wild thing to do, for anyone in any job - if that is all it is. What is a bit strange is that surely he could get clarification from Webby just by having a chat with him.

From Metcalf's perspective I would've thought Tanah Boyd's form would actually be a positive. Boyd is the more natural 7, has a better kicking game, better organiser. Metcalf has a better running game. Takes pressure off him coming back into the side, not being responsible for guiding the team around the park. He'd also be the first person blamed if we start losing.

He's still on the same $$, if it was me I'd be stoked. Jarome Luai for example is hardly a lesser player or less attractive to other clubs because he plays 6. I dunno what the obsession with 7 is.

Yeah it is stupid, it is like no one has ever heard of Wally Lewis, Darren Lockyer, or Laurie Dally, or Brad Fittler, Benji Marshal even.

7 has been the thing since Andrew Johns was proclaimed the GOAT.

 

[WAH MAN]

Funny thing is, they still get paid, right? He has a three year deal. There is plenty of time and anything could happen. Could just be a greedy manager, or he could be like Curren, and have a sense of entitlement.

Agreed. Why chuck your toys when opportunity approaches

 

[WAH MAN]

Yeah it is stupid, it is like no one has ever heard of Wally Lewis, Darren Lockyer, or Laurie Dally, or Brad Fittler, Benji Marshal even.

7 has been the thing since Andrew Johns was proclaimed the GOAT.

I'm not a professional player and never have been but I know that if I was a stand off and needed to drive the team I could and would do it.