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

 

[John Nick]

nrlw player! a halfback i think

Okay cheers mate

 

[j_p]

A Boyd/Metcalf combo might have the highest ceiling but that's specifically on attack. It also has the lowest floor defensively

Ok I hear what you're saying. Cht to fullback...

 

[Wah's Up]

Just saw a post on Tictoc, we have signed a young guy "Kenji Leniu".
Anyone know anything about him?

 

[CWC]

I have just come to the view that the Boyd/Mets issue is not an "either/or" proposition as many have hypothesized (including myself in the past). I think we can get to a GF with CHT/Boyd but I don't think we can win it. Conversely I don't see us getting to one with CHT/Mets. They both have to be in the team. Don't know if it makes sense at this stage of his career to retrain him in another position (FB), especially one as physically demanding as FB. So that's not the answer for me.

As unpopular as this opinion is right now, I'd like us to try the Mets/Boyd combo again at some pt, maybe with CHT coming off the bench as a utility and Healey dropping off. I totally get this might cost us some games/momentum and might be the dogs situation with Galvin all over again. But I'm not entirely sure Mets was the problem. Granted, he wasn't ready to come back but he wasn't the only change in rds 4-5: we also changed CNK to center. I'm starting to think that was the bigger issue defensively for our fall off. Whatever we do with our halves, CNK can't ever be center again, which I think is the consensus on here.

I think we just wait till CHT's injured or HIA'ed and Luke's the 1st drop half so we'll get Boyd/Metcalf again this year, naturally.

Although there's the chance due to defensive concerns others have mentioned and TMM becomes the 6 back up instead?

 

[Tookey 2.0]

Just saw a post on Tictoc, we have signed a young guy "Kenji Leniu".
Anyone know anything about him?

Yeah that sounds like Spencer's little half Japanese brother.

Or they could be unrelated, I really don't know

 

[sydneywarrior92]

I think we just wait till CHT's injured or HIA'ed and Luke's the 1st drop half so we'll get Boyd/Metcalf again this year, naturally.

Although there's the chance due to defensive concerns others have mentioned and TMM becomes the 6 back up instead?

Yeah, I don't think webby needs to make a choice- injury will bring Luke back into the fold. As far as I'm concerned, TMM and CHT are in the same lane for 6 and Boyd/Metcalf are competing for 7. But until injury happens persevere with CHT/Boyd. TMM and Mets come back via cup next week. But eventually, I think we will revisit Mets/Boyd at NRL level at some pt.

 

[WAH MAN]

Unsure why they posted that on the men’s page, I thought it was initially a guy as well

Unisex name like Erin.

We also have a Chanel.

Now we have a Jay.

We just need a Crusher to go with our Brick.

 

[CWC]

Unisex name like Erin.

We also have a Chanel.

Now we have a Jay.

We just need a Crusher to go with our Brick.

Morgan from UK and Stacy

 

[WAH MAN]

Morgan from UK and Stacy

These days you wouldn't know if a Chopper was NRLW or not.