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40 Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>30</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
Sport<br />
Johnson brushes off Greg Alexander’s praise<br />
SHAUN JOHNSON isn’t one of<br />
those players who insists they<br />
don’t read what is written about<br />
them or switch off whenever<br />
their latest performance is<br />
critiqued on the TV or radio.<br />
It’s just that he’s learned to ignore<br />
it – even the good stuff being<br />
said about him ahead of the<br />
Warriors clash with the Canberra<br />
Raiders tomorrow.<br />
At the club’s media session this<br />
week, a reporter said his eyecatching<br />
performance in the 36-<br />
16 pounding of the Panthers had<br />
prompted Fox League analyst<br />
Greg Alexander to rate him the<br />
best No 7 in the premiership,<br />
reported NRL.com.<br />
“Geez, the week before I<br />
wasn’t,” Johnson said with<br />
raised eyebrows, remembering<br />
the criticism he copped after<br />
the Warriors had been edged<br />
by Lachlan Lewis’s last-gasp<br />
drop goal for the Bulldogs the<br />
previous round. It’s not that<br />
Johnson wasn’t quietly chuffed<br />
with Alexander’s salute. Few<br />
are more qualified to analyse<br />
a halfback than the legendary<br />
Penrith, Warriors, Blues and<br />
Kangaroos No 7.<br />
But the Warriors’ playmaker<br />
knows the only people who he<br />
really needs to answer to are<br />
“within our four walls at the<br />
Warriors”.<br />
“I’ve learnt just to worry about<br />
the things that matter, which<br />
is the boys, the coaching staff<br />
and just improving each week,”<br />
Johnson said.<br />
“I mean, (as) an example, the<br />
whole year I’ve been told to run<br />
the ball more and after the weekend<br />
[against the Panthers] I got<br />
told I was greedy and a ball hog.<br />
So do the math on that.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re are weeks where there<br />
will be reports that I’m playing<br />
poorly or I’m quiet or I need to<br />
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<strong>The</strong>n there’ll be weeks where<br />
they’ll be pumping me up and I<br />
know that wasn’t the case either.<br />
“So it’s sort of a bit all over my<br />
head. As long as I’m heading in<br />
the right direction, which I feel<br />
like I am.”<br />
So too does coach Stephen<br />
Kearney, who offered rare praise<br />
for Johnson as the club looks<br />
forward to their first finals appearance<br />
in seven seasons.<br />
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