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	✔​	✔​
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	✔​	✔​	✔​
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak	✔​	✔​
Connor Bowden	U​	U​	✔​
Jett Cleary	S​	U​
Kayliss Fatialofa	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: 28/30
2026 Supplementary: 2/6

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

 

[mrblonde]

"standout among his peers" can be anything from "could be an Immortal one day" to "better than most of the players who his team haven't picked for NSW Cup/U21s/U19s 'because they're deemed not deserving of selection."
Just watch when Metcalf's comeback is delayed by one week. "Warriors in disarry and Premiership hopes in tatters as Metcalf left out of team for Round 8 game"
The title implies he's just a standout because he's maybe fatter and taller than normal...

 

[watcher]

Pommy backpacker walking along a back country road in Australia when he sees a bull attacking a youg aussie kid. He jumps the fence and gets between the bull and the child and kills it wifh his pocket knife saving the child. When interviewed by the local paper it comes out he is english. The newspaper headline was 'pommy bastard kills chilfs pet'.

 

[Five&Last]

I’ve watched more NSW Cup and junior footy than half these ‘experts’ combined and I’ve never heard of this bloke. Not one standout game. This is peak pig-headed, dumb-as-dogshit Aussie journalism.

The source? The Mole. That’s when you know it’s cooked — makes Phil Slothchild look half respectable.

Move along… as if this random kid is the contingency plan for Koloamatangi

I’ve seen him play. Not the goods.

Was a worthwhile punt from the club and I like the thinking as he’s tall.

But yeah more than likely that he wasn’t offered a contract and forced to move to Aus.