Recruitment Warriors 2024/2025 Recruitment & Retention

Warriors 2024/2025 Recruitment & Retention Discussion
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-​	Player​	2024​	2025​	2026​	2027​	2028​
1	Bunty Afoa	✔	✔
2	Tom Ale	✔	✔
3	Mitchell Barnett	✔	✔
4	The Greatest of All-Time	✔	✔	✔
5	Kurt Capewell	✔	✔	✔
6	Wayde Egan	✔	✔
7	Addin Fonua-Blake	✔
8	Jackson Ford	✔	✔
9	Tohu Harris	✔	✔
10	Chanel Harris-Tavita	✔	✔	M
11	Shaun Johnson	✔
12	Edward Kosi	✔	✔
13	Jacob Laban	✔	✔	✔
14	Ali Leiataua	✔	✔
15	Freddy Lussick	✔	✔	✔
16	Zyon Maiu’u	✔	✔	✔
17	Te Maire Martin	✔	✔
18	Luke Metcalf	✔	✔	✔
19	Marcelo Montoya	✔	✔
20	Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad	✔	✔
21	Marata Niukore	✔	✔	✔
22	Adam Pompey	✔	✔
23	Demitric Sifakula	✔	✔	T
24	Jazz Tevaga	✔
25	Taine Tuaupiki	✔	✔
26	Roger Tuivasa-Sheck	✔	✔	✔
27	Dylan Walker	✔	✔
28	Dallin Watene-Zelezniak	✔	✔
D1	Ben Farr	D
D2	Etuane Fukofuka	D
D3	Leka Halasima	D	D	✔
D4	Patrick Moimoi	D
D5	Tanner Stowers-Smith	D
-	James Fisher-Harris	-	✔	✔	✔	✔

key: T = Team option, M = Mutual option, P = Player option, D = Development contract

Confirmed Top 30 2024: 28/30
Confirmed Development 2024: 5/6

Confirmed Top 30 2025: 26/30
Confirmed Development 2025: 1/6

2025 Gains: James Fisher-Harris (Panthers), Jett Cleary (Panthers)
2025 Losses: Addin Fonua-Blake (Sharks)
2025 Off Contract: Shaun Johnson, Jazz Tevaga

 

[Up the guttz]

Didn’t Hanson come from Panthers as well? Him and Jett might be mates….

 

[Whiteknight]

I imagine that Nathan will want to come to the Warriors and play with his brother in the future!

 

[Tookey 2.0]

At the same age Nathan had a year of first grade under his belt & Australian Schoolboys/Junior Kangaroos on his CV where as Jett is yet to play Jersey Flegg. Have injuries slowed down his development to date?

I know you're not saying it in a negative way, but most young guns are going to pale in comparison to what Nathan was doing at that age. Nathan will likely go down as one of, if not the greatest half of all time.

If he becomes half as good as Nathan has, we'd have an Origin (or Kiwi) star at about 24 or 25 years old

 

[sup42]

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Multi year, multi million dollar deal!

Source: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...k=c0657768583f3a4e43688d7aa41fb121-1713921478

Crikey I missed this.

I wrote a contrary post about how signing a Cleary was not a good idea, how we are being Cuckoo birded, we are now foster parents of a foreign species, we are going to provide the worm food, for one who will rejoin his own when nature (Ivan) recalls him home.

I like to try and have plasticity in my thinking (can be molded and not rigid) I like to try to be malleable, I like being wrong, I value most in life when my ideas are challenged and I have to make adjustments, because I believe that process is the hallmark of human intelligence.

Please make my post make me look like an idiot, already I am back pedaling so fast it is giving me ankle blisters.

Welcome home NZ citizen lmao.

 

[1995warriorsfan]

Thank you to Ivan for letting Jett come back to NZ. His dad would have given the final approval for him to come here.

 

[The Warrior Waka]

Thank you to Ivan for letting Jett come back to NZ. His dad would have given the final approval for him to come here.

I heard Nathan told him see you soon little bro?. Source - Me.

 

[BabylonPink]

Thank you to Ivan for letting Jett come back to NZ. His dad would have given the final approval for him to come here.

Not a rebellious teen?
" Screw you DAD! " - Jet Cleary
Source - me

 

[WahsaurusRex]

Didn’t Hanson come from Panthers as well? Him and Jett might be mates….

Both went to St Dominic’s College as well, would surely have played at least a small part in getting him over

 

[tajhay]

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Both went to St Dominic’s College as well, would surely have played at least a small part in getting him over

pretty sure someone posted a lineup in recent days where they both lined up in the halves last or the year before.

 

[JaggedJ]

We'll see.

I still remember Matt Lockyer

What one brother does won't always translate to the other.

 

[sup42]

Tony Iro gives an in depth account to real questions by the SENZ crew on our pathways.

While more relevant to the pathways thread, this interview has profound implications for recruitment and as such....as a inside look into the mentality of the Warriors scouts it belongs here in the main forward looking thread of the NZWARRIORS site.

Good to hear Iro admit they hunt athletes who have a work ethic.

We all knew the Warriors only signed the big athletic type, often times to a fault, but to have work ethic added to the conversation perhaps admits past failings in our junior recruitment where big was good enough on its own.

Also interesting to hear that the Warriors accept some families want to move to Australia off their childrens talents. That tells me we need a war chest mentality that wraps around whole families to out compete the Aussie clubs (he mentions Manly and the Roosters as having infrastructure the Warriors are aware of already embedded in NZ).
Those families looking to the Australian dream are families who have had a shit experience under their own flag, a grouping I believe the Warriors could easily recruit by offering packages that help those families to find better opportunities within their own negligent country.


View: https://youtu.be/9mKOe3nD88I?si=lcYuUg1NCmT1D8pO

 

[sup42]

We'll see.

I still remember Matt Lockyer

What one brother does won't always translate to the other.

One hopes that the Cleary name comes with Walters genes.

 

[mrblonde]

I imagine that Nathan will want to come to the Warriors and play with his brother in the future!

That would save his mother having to adjudicate how many points Jett's team can beat Ivan and Nathan's team before his Dad and Big Bro get upset this time.
Although that still leaves their father a bit snippy...

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

We'll see.

I still remember Matt Lockyer

What one brother does won't always translate to the other.

Somebody said copper johns to me today!

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

This poor kid has so much to live up to! I feel for him already, this will be interesting to say the least.

 

[snake77]

The more depth through the grades the better.

I know this signing can lead to thinking he'll be off in a few years to join his brother and father. But there is obviously reasons for him moving on and for choosing the Warriors. He would have consulted his brother and father about the options he had. It is a big vote of confidence in the club and Webster.

It is a nice change to see there young Australians wanting to move to New Zealand for a change. Like any Australian he's a chance of wanting to return home. The challenge for the Warriors is to make their time in New Zealand enjoyable.

Their time away from football the club can only do a certain amount. The more important part is the coaching, success on the field and being in a winning environment. The club want to be a development club so we need to tick all of those boxes.

When we had success in the 20s competition and we signed the two young English boys I thought it would be good for the Warriors to be the club to go to for success in the lower grades and to be developed. That didn't work out then but hopefully that's how thing head towards. Ideally the talent would be young New Zealand bred kids but if we can't get certain positions if they need to come from overseas so be it.

 

[Stalefish540]

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Multi year, multi million dollar deal!

Source: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...k=c0657768583f3a4e43688d7aa41fb121-1713921478

Now that is a jawline you could set your watch to.

Ivan, giving his approval, is a pretty good indicator for how highly he respects Webby if it wasn't already apparent.

 

[Worried2Death]

Jett Cleary is yet to play Jersey Flegg & one can only imagine that the Panthers won't elevate him up there this season if he isn't sticking around. He also didn't feature in the last 2 rounds of SG Ball so hasn't played since the 16th of March.
If he isn't injured, why wait until 2025 to start at the Warriors??
Nek minute, late inclusion for our Flegg side vs Panthers on Saturday

Agree, if he comes next year he'll be nearly 20 before the season starts, we need him in the system now. Would you start him in Flegg or straight into the cup team?

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Now that is a jawline you could set your watch to.

Ivan, giving his approval, is a pretty good indicator for how highly he respects Webby if it wasn't already apparent.

Can you open this pay wall?

 

[John Nick]

Now that is a jawline you could set your watch to.

Ivan, giving his approval, is a pretty good indicator for how highly he respects Webby if it wasn't already apparent.

Exactly mate. I posted the similar earlier