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), Marata Niukore (Newcastle Knights), Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (Wakefield Trinity)

Off contract and free to sign elsewhere for 2027: Rocco Berry, 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

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Odds on Anderson being the next Ford?

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

How do we respond to this!!!

Bring snacks? anything appropriate for a witch hunt.

 

[CWC]

Odds on Anderson being the next Ford?

81min of propping? 30:1

 

[Ever Hopeful]

The line about the Broncos making a counter offer is interesting. He only just signed there last year so could have got an upgrade. Also interesting as it looks like the Warriors were sticking to their guns about wanting someone in return for releasing Barnett. So, it is a bit weird the Broncos making an offer. Could just be the reporter putting 2 and 2 together and getting 7.

It is good having the speculation about Barnett over. Now he can concentrate on his final year here.

Anderson seems like a good get. Mcguire went after him early last year to get him to the Broncos. Hopefully, he recovers from his injury and gets some football in to finish the year.

We are losing some experience at the end of this year. The flip side of that is it frees up cap space.

I call bullshit on the counteroffer. Media spin.

We are not able to approach him, so the Broncos have obviously offered him to us in the Barnett deal. So they are either okay with him going or not. If they are not then he is already under contract, no need for a "counter offer."

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Boyd - 100, extend +500=600?
CHT - 400, extend +200?

Min wage is like $140k and hes a half. Dreaming if you think he's on mininum

 

[Dead Man Switch]

Odds on Anderson being the next Ford?

85% likely to happen

 

[CWC]

Min wage is like $140k and hes a half. Dreaming if you think he's on mininum

That means less than +460K to upgrade to 600K Is that your point?

 

[Tookey 2.0]

So we’re burning Charnze at the stake now?

Fine. I’ll get my torch.

Haha aw im a fan of CNK and what hes done for the team, but if hes the difference between us getting KP or not - who could be the missing piece to the puzzle - id be pulling the trigger on that ASAP.

 

[MrFrankWhite]

85% likely to happen

Anderson gives me the same hard grafter vibes. Backing Webby to get him to step up a level

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

Haha aw im a fan of CNK and what hes done for the team, but if hes the difference between us getting KP or not - who could be the missing piece to the puzzle - id be pulling the trigger on that ASAP.

So let me get this straight.

We have an injury prone halfback, an injury prone center, and now we want to sign an injury prone fullback?

Are we trying to collect them all, or something?

 

[Ever Hopeful]

I love all the "fuck the Wahs" stuff from Broncos fans.

Remember when Reece Walsh wanted to head to the Dolphins, and the Warriors said nah, you can only go to Brisbane? Yeah I know, it was to screw PoS over, but still...

Edit - Okay, shame on me, I have just read the Broncos forum and they acknowledged this. Good fellas!

 

[Tookey 2.0]

So let me get this straight.

We have an injury prone halfback, an injury prone center, and now we want to sign an injury prone fullback?

Are we trying to collect them all, or something?

But for those 3 games theyre all available for all year....oomph! Chefs kiss

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Bring snacks? anything appropriate for a witch hunt.

Guys kmon! Let's see how he plays against the titans!

 

[JaggedJ]

So let me get this straight.

We have an injury prone halfback, an injury prone center, and now we want to sign an injury prone fullback?

Are we trying to collect them all, or something?

Gotta catch em all!

PokeWahs!

 

[Cces]

Welcome to adjust my couch potato guess

Boyd - 100, extend +500=600?

Minimum is $140k & there's no way he's even close to that low. He signed a 2 year deal at the Titans at the end of 2023, where he had 21 straight starts as their #7 that season & 29 consecutive starts dating back the year prior. Granted we offered him job security for 2026 as well, but he signed that last Titans contract as their starting Halfback. At a guess, that'd be 400k a season so he wouldn't have left any money on the table, plus the hassle to relocate countries, so I reckon we signed him for at least 220k a season. No doubt a sizeable, and well deserved, salary jump is incoming but the suggestion, that's been heard in here numerous times, that he came here on minimum doesn't add up especially when we carry relative newbies like EIT & Healey in our 30 along with a genuine rookie in Fatialofa.

 

[CWC]

Minimum is $140k & there's no way he's even close to that low. He signed a 2 year deal at the Titans at the end of 2023, where he had 21 straight starts as their #7 that season & 29 consecutive starts dating back the year prior. Granted we offered him job security for 2026 as well, but he signed that last Titans contract as their starting Halfback. At a guess, that'd be 400k a season so he wouldn't have left any money on the table, plus the hassle to relocate countries, so I reckon we signed him for at least 220k a season. No doubt a sizeable, and well deserved, salary jump is incoming but the suggestion, that's been heard in here numerous times, that he's been on minimum don't add up especially when we carry relative newbies like EIT & Healey in our 30 along with a genuine rookie in Fatialofa.

Guys the table is a wild couch potato draft estimate, fix as appropriate

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Those that want drinkwater, better go drink some water and have a real think about what they are asking for.

He's fucken cake!

 

[CWC]

Those that want drinkwater, better go drink some water and have a real think about what they are asking for.

He's fucken cake!

Does the cake have raisin though?

 

[CWC]

Gotta catch em all!

PokeWahs!

Pongimon!

 

[3rdstriker]

So let me get this straight.

We have an injury prone halfback, an injury prone center, and now we want to sign an injury prone fullback?

Are we trying to collect them all, or something?

#bigcollections!