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I dont think i ever saw someone abuse defenses like Johns did.

I just remember betting on overs all the time and just cashing in, no one could stop him.

I remember what he did to Canberra one Sunday arvo in very wet conditions......I just kept on doing this....... 

I doubt we will see someone as good as him in our life times.

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Parramatta 42-10 leading the Knights

I knew you would mention this

I saw it as well and thought 'how long will it take him to post?'

Was that the game at Newcastle when we won 50 odd to 12 or something. Johns scored 4 tries and kicked 8 goals I think.

Front page of the Herald said:

Johns 32

Canberra 12

NB: my numbers may be out but they're close..

I was at so many of those games..

When he kicked the goal from halfway after the siren: I left my nephews christening 'after party' to go to the football with my father-in-law and lass who would become my wife

I was at the 32-30 game v St George as well.

Good times

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Andrew Johns was the best tackler also

fuck yeah bra, he tackled like a forward. Old school, hit with the shoulder and lift and drove.

He invented the modern halfback.

Banana kick = Joey

Torpedo bomb = Joey

I remember reading how Andrew and Matthew would stay back for hours after training and try out new kicks. Once they mastered the torpedo bomb, they realised that as it came down, at the last minute, it would move away from the fullback, back towards the chasing team.

They laughed at how, and I quote: fullbacks shit themselves

I just remember Johns picking up Hindmarsh in the 01 GF and driving him backwards and dumping him on his back.

Remember that one Ace?

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So true Battler.It`s the sign of the times:Games we went to and watched live are etched in our minds..Where as games we watched on T.V or listened to on the radio just fall by the way side..
I remember the Roosters coming back from being down 20-10 to the Dogs at Belmore in `79 then winning with a field goal at the buzzer..
Those were the 3 point try days and are still the best in this noggers egg nog mind.....Thanks for the trigger..

I was a gleam in my fathers eye in 1979

Blue

I remember every tackle, every play-the-ball, every run of 2001 GF.

I was there, and then when I got home, still pissed days later, I bought the official tape. None of these DVD things kiddies, I'm talking VCR baby

Fucker cost me $30 in 2001

My wife was born in 1979 though.

Loves the cradle snatching cougars does the Battler

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Andrew Johns commentary

true. I have heard him be quite amsuing on the Triple M MNF call though

Joey commentray > Freddie commentary