Here is the problem with signing Shaun Johnson for the Warriors.

One, they said they wouldn’t which was the right decision. Two, he’s not good enough and he walked.

Now the trouble with one is in changing your mind, you look like you make things up on the spot; you don’t look like you have got a plan.

The reason they said they didn’t want to sign him is we have all seen that what Shaun might once have been, he isn’t anymore.

Even when he left, it wasn’t like we were losing one of the greats. A headline, yes, impactful on a good day, yes, but a Jones or Wiki or Price?  No.

The trouble with Shaun, and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck has shown it, is he was wildly inconsistent.

Tuivasa-Sheck turns up every week, week in, week out. Johnson turns up every 3^rd week and in between he’s inexplicably absent.

My long running theory, and as time has passed, I am more and more convinced its correct, is that when Johnson got badly injured years back, he was out for a such a period of time he became afraid at the risk of re-injury, and when he got reinjured that only exacerbated the demons in his head.

His once legendary ability to attack the line was gone, he hesitated. His defence is non-existent.

The Sharks found the same thing; hence he’s not with them anymore. He signed with hoopla and headlines and never quite turned out to be what they thought he was.

Now this isn’t anti-Shaun Johnson – I have nothing against him – but we moved on. He chose to leave, and that’s how businesses and the business of sport works

Dallin Watene-Zelezniak is moving forward, Walsh and Fonua-Blake is moving forward.

Johnson is from days gone by and he doesn’t bring with him a sense of what is possible, because we already have his record.

This is already a season under a serious question mark. We have a side that is out of its league when it comes to contests with teams like Melbourne, and we have losses to sides like the Dragons that should not be happening.

Nothing we have seen or currently see in Johnson addresses any of that.

Sometimes, yes, you need to go backwards to go forwards, but this isn’t one of them.

I am more than happy to be shown to be wrong, but call me if that ever happens.