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

 

[Tragic]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heFdnQSy3uE&t=191s

Was playing centre in 2024 NSW Cup, maybe heading back there with MGT leaving. Walker referred to him as a centre below

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Watching that I prefer him at Centre, he likes traffic and can bust or break; at winger he defaults to always taking the outside option which will get figured out in 1st grade (still got to stop him though). When I seen him live he is always one of the most threatening wherever he played.

 

[Defence]

I can see a bit of a young David fusitua in kali.
I remember the first time I seen fus play live in a trial here on the gc- I think he was 18 at the time and he absolutely killed them.
He was a great talent and another one they tried to convert to center.

 

[sup42]

I can see a bit of a young David fusitua in kali.
I remember the first time I seen fus play live in a trial here on the gc- I think he was 18 at the time and he absolutely killed them.
He was a great talent and another one they tried to convert to center.

They even stride the same, a number of those corner finishes look like Fus minus the full on acrobatics.

They both have a very distinctive glide when they run....surprisingly Laban has that too.

All are guys that like to get up on their toes when they hit go,, other guys do that but put to much energy into the upward direction when they levitate to sprint (the Matulino skip) rather than a glide in a forward trajectory across the ground.

 

[sydneywarrior92]

They even stride the same, a number of those corner finishes look like Fus minus the full on acrobatics.

They both have a very distinctive glide when they run....surprisingly Laban has that too.

All are guys that like to get up on their toes when they hit go,, other guys do that but put to much energy into the upward direction when they levitate to sprint (the Matulino skip) rather than a glide in a forward trajectory across the ground.

hope he is more driven than Fus though. Wonderful athlete he was who could have been anything. But Fus really lacked the drive to be anything more than a solid first grade winger.

 

[sup42]

hope he is more driven than Fus though. Wonderful athlete he was who could have been anything. But Fus really lacked the drive to be anything more than a solid first grade winger.

It seems we have really learned our lesson with these ne'er do well attacking players.

Look at Ali, cannot break fg even though we badly need his attacking skills.

AKP will find the same if he tries to stay in his rut, he won't hold down a fg spot.

Not when you have the work rates of our current back three.

 

[Noitall]

Seems we’ve got 28 in our top 30, do people see us promoting one of these guys to one of the open spaces?







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TRAIN AND TRIAL SQUAD: Caelys-Paul Putoko, Bishop Neal, Harry Inch, Ngana Vake, Geronimo Doyle, Brandon Norris.