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: 23/30
2027 Supplementary: 0/6

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

Off contract and free to sign elsewhere for 2027: Rocco Berry, Kurt Capewell, 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, Chanel Harris-Tavita, Sam Healey, Eddie Ieremia-Toeava, Ali Leiataua, Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, Motu Pasikala, Adam Pompey, Dallin Watene-Zelezniak

 

[CWC]

Leadership wise, it is wise to have Capewell stay. We need leaders who can verbalise their messages on field. Our young blokes are developing but they basically need another finals baptism to increase their ability to perform under pressure and lead others. Demetric and Tanner will be leadership material next season I speculate.

Probably Clark and Ford if Fish goes down next year, but a Cape is handy can always give him a 2 year deal and early release him to Perth in 2028 if needed, Bears won’t complain

 

[Beastmode]

NZ Warriors have officially become associated with a secondary school. Trainspotters will note that this school is not in Auckland but located in the scenic Garden City of Christchurch.
St Thomas College, winners of 2 of the last 3 secondary schools national champs are now part of the NZW players nursery. Hats off to St Thomas and Andrew Aumatangi in locking in this partnership that emphasises education with sporting opportunities.
Exciting times

Wow

St Thomas. Strong school

 

[WAH MAN]

Probably Clark and Ford if Fish goes down next year, but a Cape is handy can always give him a 2 year deal and early release him to Perth in 2028 if needed, Bears won’t complain

Do Clark and Ford have the verbal skills to get messages across? The players I've seen verbally speaking from memory are Barney, Fish, Tanah, Taine, Wayde, Kurt. Not sure about Erin or Jackson.

 

[sup42]

Fuck Sayfarth! Just saying.

SayWah't?

Have you seen his long kicks? It’s interesting to me that he’s plugged at LEFT centre and he happens to have pace and pass

Anderson’s probably that centre/wing utility we need next year as well. Roger’s tragic but I wonder if Cappy actually foresee the risk….(copium from me )

Nothing on that limited Newcastle highlights video (offensive in goal kick, offensive short range aerial kick).

It may well be that the reason he is not being played in the halves is that his rehab plan say's no kicking.

Also if he had a decent long kick playing him long term at Center in this team would be a bizarre call in the least.

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

Also if he had a decent long kick playing him long term at Center in this team would be a bizarre call in the least.

Or?

So bizarre, it might just work....