The New Zealand Warriors have turned their attentions to Brisbane's Jake Turpin, as they look to bring the out-of-contract playmaker to the club.

According to News Corp's Brent Read, the Warriors are interested in Turpin, who has impressed for the Broncos in a number of different positions.

Turpin is still on a cheap deal, and is yet to be locked down beyond this season.

โ€œTheyโ€™ve been attacking the Broncos ... they went after Matt Lodge, they went after Tevita Pangai Jr, and now theyโ€™re after Jake Turpin,โ€ Read told Triple M on Sunday.

โ€œTheyโ€™ve made a big offer to Jake Turpin. Heโ€™s off contract at the end of the year and heโ€™s yet to do a deal with the Warriors.

โ€œThe Warriors have come in really big for Jake Turpin.

โ€œI think the Broncos are pretty optimistic theyโ€™ll keep him, heโ€™s been a really valuable player for them this year.

โ€œHeโ€™s one of those blokes I think every club needs.โ€

However, Read believes there might be a little more to the Warriors' constant attempts to poach Broncos, suggesting they could be trapping Brisbane into needing to offload some star talent in years to come.

โ€œTheyโ€™ve made the Broncos probably up the ante with those guys, make them pay more than they maybe would have paid for them ... Iโ€™m wondering if theyโ€™re plotting long term maybe going after someone else at the Broncos," Read said.

โ€œThey are thinking if we keep pushing up the price on these other guys it might actually free up a player down the track we can have a shot at.โ€

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  1. Warriors should sign Danny Levi, Josh Pappalii and George Fai. Then they should release Adam Keirghan, Issac Luke, Blake Ayshford and Ligi Sao.

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