Adam Blair would immediately become one of the leaders at the Warriors.

The Warriors are chasing Adam Blair to join the club next year, with coach Stephen Kearney and managing director Jim Doyle having a meeting with the Kiwis prop.

The club have been toiling away in the background to improve the roster for 2018 and have targeted Blair as a player they'd like to have on their books.

They've had a meeting with Blair to explain to him what they're trying to create at the Warriors and how he could play a big part in the club's future.

Blair's contract at the Broncos doesn't run out until the end of next season, but Wayne Bennett could allow him to go early to free up space inside the salary cap.

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The Broncos have recently signed Jack Bird from the Sharks for $4 million over four years and have upgraded Anthony Milford's contract with a new four-year deal, believed to be worth more than $1 million a season and they're also keen on keeping Darius Boyd.

Sam Thaiday, Alex Glenn, Jordan Kahu and James Roberts are also off contract at the end of the season and looking for new deals.

With so many big contracts, the Broncos are likely to be in a situation where they need to offload some players.

Blair would be a perfect fit for the Warriors, at the age of 30, he's still in his peak years and not only is he one of the NRL's top props, he's also a leader.

That's something the Warriors haven't had with Wests Tigers bound Ben Matulino and with Ryan Hoffman leaving next year another strong voice among the forwards would come in handy.

He has a good relationship with Kearney, who despite overlooking him for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, made him co-captain with Issac Luke for the 2015 tour to England.

Blair left Whangarei when he was 16, recruited by the Melbourne Storm and he moved to their feeder club, the Norths Devils in Brisbane.

He was one of the Storm's best players before he left to join Wests Tigers for a big money deal in 2012. He failed to live up to the hype around him in Sydney and moved to the Broncos in 2015, where he was able to regain his best form.

Signing Blair would continue the Warriors' theme of looking to bring back New Zealand players, with Tohu Harris already signed for next year, but it shows they're being innovative with their recruitment.

The Warriors can look at players who are coming off contract and in that case they're competing with other clubs for the player, or they can look at players who aren't coming off contract, but might be granted a release because of salary cap pressure.

That's the situation at the Broncos, as it is with the Bulldogs, who are going to have to release players to get under the cap in 2018, now they've signed Aaron Woods and Kieran Foran for next year.

Sam Kasiano has been linked to a move to the Storm and there are number of clubs who'd be interested in picking up James Graham.

Meanwhile at a press conference last week Kearney said there could be news sooner rather than later on which direction the Warriors will head in to get a replacement for Foran.

The chances of keeping Foran for another year were higher than most people speculated, but they had been exploring other options while they waited for a decision.

They had been talking to a few halves and have narrowed that down to a couple of options, with Te Maire Martin from the Panthers being one of them.

The Tokorua-born Martin is keen to come, but the Warriors haven't decided which way they're going to go yet.

The Panthers, who are chasing Cooper Cronk, wouldn't stand in Martin's way if he asked for an early release from his contract to join the Warriors.

Martin has fallen out of favour at the Panthers and with the team that was tipped by many to win the Premiership this year, having got off to a poor start there has been a change in philosophy at the club.

Instead of going with two young and inexperienced halves in Martin and Nathan Cleary, they now want to bring in a more experienced player and are looking to sign Cronk to partner Cleary next year.