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: 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

 

[Emerald]

The rumour being correct ≠ him sulking

But we don’t know whether the rumour is correct.

Following this thread at the moment is so exciting, it’s like watching daily episodes of that TV soap that nobody bothers with any more.

OK, forget I wrote that, what’s the latest?

 

[3rdstriker]

I'm sure someone was hovering with a sack Webby thread

Probably Beastmode?

 

[Garry Saloon]

Looked like a statement of fact.

Come on bro. you're better than this.

The statement "Metcalf is sulking" is logically incoherent. It is based on his management requesting a meeting to clarify his place in the club's plans. Now, first of all, the meeting is rumoured to have been requested. If it has not been, then we cannot assert that Metcalf is sulking. He may be sulking for some other reason, but we cannot say he is sulking. It is not logically necessary that he is sulking. But let us take the rumour as fact. Let us say the meeting was requested. It is still not logically necessary that Metcalf is sulking. It is possible he is sulking. Something that sits in the space between logically necessary and possible is logically contingent. It's truth is contingent on some new fact that would make it necessary. In other words the rumour being true ≠ Metcalf sulking.

Contingency: Explanation and Examples

I. Definition If you notice a fact about the world, you can put it in one of two categories: necessary or contingent. A necessary fact is one that has to be the case, whereas contingent facts could have been different. Contingency means the outcome was the result of events that might have...

philosophyterms.com

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[WAH MAN]

So you've turned on Tanah Boyd then?

Nasty stuff, nasty.

(tongue in cheek people I think some need to chill a bit - it's ok you can still like Metcalf the wonder 7, I like him too, swinging both ways).

A bit more like I still want the team to win the premiership and issues like this can either derail or galvanise a squad. Regarding Boyd, I did not know his junior pedigree or what the experts saw in him to get him here and honestly thought his ceiling was being the boss of NSW cup. And really, how he is playing this season is still a shock and surprise to me that I absolutely like. So yeah five bucks each way.

 

[WAH MAN]

Not allowed thoughts and speculation in this thread mate.

I have a post doctorate in speculation. My major was "The Warriors. This is our year. For sure"

 

[WAH MAN]

Does it matter what number Jersey anyone wears here?

Do we put Tanah into 6 to appease Metcalf?

If both guys are smart, shouldn't they both be thinking, hell we could be one special halves pairing... let's win a title? Lets sit down in a room together with Fish, Clark, Egan... The leaders and sort this out now.

The one who loses here could be CHT. Who has played his socks off this year. Fairly he could get a much larger payday elsewhere.

I think it's the emergence of two halves wanting the boss seat