Recruitment Warriors 2026/2027 Recruitment & Retention

Warriors 2026/2027 Recruitment and Retention Discussion​

Player	2026​	2027​	2028​	2029​	2030​
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	✔​	✔​	✔​
Freddy Lussick	✔​
Te Maire Martin	✔​
Haizyn Mellars	✔​	✔​	✔​
Luke Metcalf	✔​
Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad	✔​	✔​
Marata Niukore	✔​
Adam Pompey	✔​	✔​
Tanner Stowers-Smith	✔​	✔​	✔​
Taine Tuaupiki	✔​
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck	✔​
Demitric Vaimauga	✔​	✔​	✔​
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak	✔​	✔​
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: 30/30
2026 Supplementary: 1/6

2027 Top 30: 20/30
2027 Supplementary: 0/6

2027 Gains: Nil
2027 Losses: Nil

Off contract and free to sign elsewhere for 2027: Rocco Berry, Tanah Boyd, Kurt Capewell, Chanel Harris-Tavita, Freddy Lussick, Te Maire Martin, Marata Niukore, Taine Tuaupiki, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
Will be off contract and free to sign elsewhere for 2028 from November 1st, 2026: Mitchell Barnett, Erin Clark, 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

 

[Leon Black]

Shocking photo of Harry, looks mid 30’s. Like he was winning wrestles at the Crusaders, though how would stack up at CKB?

 

[Ref]

Jye Linnaine could be the dark horse of our halves stocks. The club were not put off by two ACL injuries and he moved to Auckland to get a head start on pre season recovery.
It will be interesting to watch his development in Cup.

Or go straight to BRL.

Jye Linnaine could be the dark horse of our halves stocks. The club were not put off by two ACL injuries and he moved to Auckland to get a head start on pre season recovery.
It will be interesting to watch his development in Cup.

He might skip cup and straight to first grade.

 

[france]

Or go straight to BRL.
He might skip cup and straight to first grade.

interesting that some in rugby were looking at him as a future 2nd five-eighth

 

[sup42]

Good news re the Union lad.

Dunno why Cappy cops some on here, this is an amazing bit of horse trading.

Don't mistake me for saying inch will be the next thing, rather I make the point that getting a Union lad on the up in a play making role from under the strongest province in the country is pretty sweet.

No matter the outcome, today League won a battle.

 

[Sammyw]

Boyd is not the answer, if Metcalf is outta here we better have something up our sleave that isn’t called TMM, Boyd or Hanson. Real kick in the guts if Mets goes. Halves market is dry as fuck

 

[Naynay]

Boyd is not the answer, if Metcalf is outta here we better have something up our sleave that isn’t called TMM, Boyd or Hanson. Real kick in the guts if Mets goes. Halves market is dry as fuck

Yeah its really a hope that the other guys they took a punt on (Jye or Inch) are good, but it does pretty much make it next year a premiership or we are looking at another 3-4 years.

Overall Mets leaving sucks and is a set back on the chances of winning from now to end of the 2020s

 

[Tokyo Warrior]

A quote from the Foxsports article about Metcalf hitting the open market:

"The Warriors are the favourites to sign Metcalf after tabling a two-year extension, with a host of his teammates on hand at his wedding in New Zealand last weekend."

 

[Noitall]

View: https://silvertails.net/threads/2026-recruitment-retention.63711/post-1771969







Manly forum saying it was on sen today that they are interested in Sam Healey. Seems like he’s got a lot of interest, have seen his name mentioned in multiple places

 

[JaggedJ]

The joys of winnings NSW Cup/State Championship.

 

[Noitall]

A quote from the Foxsports article about Metcalf hitting the open market:

"The Warriors are the favourites to sign Metcalf after tabling a two-year extension, with a host of his teammates on hand at his wedding in New Zealand last weekend."

Three horse race for rising Warriors weapon emerges as $1m pay day looms: Transfer Whispers

Three horse race for rising Warriors weapon emerges as $1m pay day looms: Transfer Whispers

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[Rick O’Shay]

Just a thought on the Metcalf rumours. In my experience, when you you sign up to go somewhere else for a gig you discuss it with your partner and family then make the call like, we will do this for 3 or 5 or 10 years and then quit to either retire or move to another place. The partner and family are usually the driving force and the old adage of happy wife, happy life is still true today. AFB was a good example of it not being happy.
Interestingly, having been to Bali for a few family weddings, getting married in Queenstown is a big high 5 to the club and to NZ especially with a lot of his team mates there.
I'm picking he stays

 

[Noitall]

Just a thought on the Metcalf rumours. In my experience, when you you sign up to go somewhere else for a gig you discuss it with your partner and family then make the call like, we will do this for 3 or 5 or 10 years and then quit to either retire or move to another place. The partner and family are usually the driving force and the old adage of happy wife, happy life is still true today. AFB was a good example of it not being happy.
Interestingly, having been to Bali for a few family weddings, getting married in Queenstown is a big high 5 to the club and to NZ especially with a lot of his team mates there.
I'm picking he stays

I guess when you consider it, he’s had to go about it this way to get top dollar because he’ll be 30 by the end of the contract if he hangs around

 

[Tokyo Warrior]

I understand him wanting to go to November 1. But the fact is that only a minority of players choose to stay when they do so.

 

[Cces]

he couldn't hold down a centre spot in Cup this year, seemed to be transitioning to second row in Flegg too.

He only returned from an ACL injury in late April then got a 4 week ban for biting the following week. Was never a legit NSW Cup starter contender with MGT & Harper having largely injury free seasons