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​
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: 29/30
2026 Supplementary: 2/6

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

 

[Tookey 2.0]

Who cares about forcing a player swap.

There's 16 other clubs with free agents who we can put Barney's money towards.

If it were a 2026 swap I'd get it, but it's not. Just take the extra 2027 cap space and use it wisely.

Im not sure if you've seen what's available for next year, but theres no much to get excited about thays off contract, and even less that would commit to moving across to NZ.

Sooo...if you've got a wee bit of leverage...which we seem to have for once, I think it would be great if we used this.

Brisbane have precedent too - they gave up that young talented half to secure Pezet last year, so I think if we hold strong theres a good chance we get this young outside back were looking for. They seem open to swapping potential talent for what they need right now. They've just lost Haas so Barney is quite key for them currently...id stick at it til we get something we want!

 

[cock_o]

Matt Timoko cut from the Raiders 19 for this weekend. Would love to get him over Anderson

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Letting Roger go would be real progress for the Warriors, you cannot hold onto old guys too long, how many times have we done that? let great players go one season too long? (Arguably Johnson and Tohu were in that category, Stacey Jones being the most famous ageing flop).

Roger isn't like most his age though.

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Roger isn't like most his age though.

So he’s never going to slow down?

 

[sup42]

Roger isn't like most his age though.

Neither were the others until they were....as age advances the risk of father time increases....it is a game of risk....

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

So he’s never going to slow down?

Not yet he ain't

 

[Five&Last]

Who cares about forcing a player swap.

There's 16 other clubs with free agents who we can put Barney's money towards.

If it were a 2026 swap I'd get it, but it's not. Just take the extra 2027 cap space and use it wisely.

Most teams never let their good players hit the open market.

There’s already not much available.

 

[scottyb]

In the Telegraph today it's been reported Roger is looking for a 2 year deal in Sydney with a handful of team's interested. Look's like he is the one on the move, not Dallin.

 

[CWC]

I'd extend Roger for 2 years and release him to Sydney early if he gets outplayed by one of the juniors, I fail to see that happening this year and maybe not even next. Warbrick would be such a downgrade lol

Crazy Warriors can't develop young wingers, that's the easiest spot to fill in a country of 7s and union

 

[Fizurg]

Im far from an expert on this stuff but this feels to me like RTS has been offered a one year contract at a reduced rate. Hes come back and said he wants a two year contract, the Warriors haven't budged so his manager has spread this rumor to put a bit of pressure on the Warriors.

 

[CWC]

Im far from an expert on this stuff but this feels to me like RTS has been offered a one year contract at a reduced rate. Hes come back and said he wants a two year contract, the Warriors haven't budged so his manager has spread this rumor to put a bit of pressure on the Warriors.

Ya I think 1 is fair we don't know what he'd be like after this season (still 25 rounds to go), and another season, I'd give him 2 and release early if we see signs of slowing down

 

[Evil_Mush]

Who cares about forcing a player swap.

There's 16 other clubs with free agents who we can put Barney's money towards.

If it were a 2026 swap I'd get it, but it's not. Just take the extra 2027 cap space and use it wisely.

I thought the whole compensation deal Cam George was talking about was specifically if Mitch wanted to go during the 2026 season, so anything from next year would just be part of normal recruitment rather than 'player swap' anyway.

The fact we've started so well without him (pending forwards injury crisis or a total reversal of on-field performance) I suppose is giving us some leeway to not make any rash decisions for this year specifically.

 

[Matiunz]

Broncs playing hard ball with who to swap could go against them. 2 weeks ago Mitch thought he was going to the premiers hoping to go back to back, 2 weeks later they’re looking disjointed and rumours of Madge doing what Madge does might mean Bronx aren’t as desirable as first thought

 

[SBW1]

Do we get them this year or next should the player swap eventuate?

 

[Wahs_Ultras]

Broncs playing hard ball with who to swap could go against them. 2 weeks ago Mitch thought he was going to the premiers hoping to go back to back, 2 weeks later they’re looking disjointed and rumours of Madge doing what Madge does might mean Bronx aren’t as desirable as first thought

I hope the club never does businesses with the broncos again. They should have disallowed Barnett going there after the Reece Walsh bs.

Will be interesting if Cam George sticks to his word and lets the deal fall through if we don’t receive who we’re after. Barney’s cooling down period ends early next week.

 

[Wahs_Ultras]

Do we get them this year or next should the player swap eventuate?

Would be next year unless we get Arthurs who is off contract

 

[BrisbaneWarrior]

David Riccio on SEN is saying the Wahs told Rog to look for a payday to see what you’re worth and we’ll try to match it

 

[CWC]

I thought the whole compensation deal Cam George was talking about was specifically if Mitch wanted to go during the 2026 season, so anything from next year would just be part of normal recruitment rather than 'player swap' anyway.

The fact we've started so well without him (pending forwards injury crisis or a total reversal of on-field performance) I suppose is giving us some leeway to not make any rash decisions for this year specifically.

Barney's still contracted for 2027 so I thought any grant of him playing for another team in 2026 and 2027 will be at our courtesy so the swap should cover both years...

 

[rugged]

I think the whole Barnett thing has been a balls up the way we have handled it. I also think that Cameron George should come out now and say "We are committed to giving Barnett the release that he has requested on compassionate grounds, however any talk of him being confirmed with a club is premature until we have been compensated with a player that meets our standards. We look forward to resolving this matter and securing an outcome to benefit all parties."

I know there is no way we can force him to stay, but we do hold the cards - he can't go to Brisbane unless we give him approval. We should not do that unless we get something we want. In saying that we don't know for sure Antonio even wants to play here.

 

[CWC]

I hope the club never does businesses with the broncos again. They should have disallowed Barnett going there after the Reece Walsh bs.

Will be interesting if Cam George sticks to his word and lets the deal fall through if we don’t receive who we’re after. Barney’s cooling down period ends early next week.

I hope he let it fall though, it'll be a sequel to the cry baby/mana wave gesture and 360 will bash the Broncos for an episode, if you're selling a house how would you deal with a winning buyer in a multi-offer/auction scenario who starts demanding 20% off the price because he didn't have enough cash and your bathroom sucks, after he sold you a landslip house a few years ago