‘Every chance’: Crunch call looms for Warriors star
“If he can‘t physically do it, he can’t play.Shaun Johnson and Warriors coach Andrew Webster during a training session The Warriors are happy to trust Johnson, who has enjoyed a career resurgence this season, to make the final call on his fitness and he’ll need to be able to run to play.
“When we‘ve got an experienced player like Shaun, who knows his body really well, if he says I’m really good to go, then we’re going that way,” Webster said.“Soft tissues are different to sore shoulders or sore knees, bone on bone, corks.“He wanted to play desperately but when I say the word soreness, I mean it‘s aggravated the injury. He couldn’t play.”
Johnson has had as big an impact on his team this season as any individual player in any side across the NRL. Two of the Warriors’ three losses since June have come when Johnson, one of the favourites for the Dally M medal, was out of the side. Victory for the Warriors will secure them passage to a preliminary final showdown with the Broncos in Brisbane.
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