One of rugby league's greatest players,

Small correction

Clive is the smaller of the two on the trophy, Norm provan was the tall one.
two of the best the sport has produced.

 

actually the "tall" bloke is Norm Provan, captain of the Dragons during their 11 straight premiership winning team, the "small" bloke is Arthur Summons, captain of the Magpies during the same era, Clive Churchill played from the late forties to late fifties and is considered one of the "Immortals"

 

I knew that.


Clive was known as the little master.

 

Bugger you Wiz, I was trying to suck MagicMike in, and you took the bait.:zlove:

 

be god and begorrah.. !! totally ignore who you support

.. and simply accept god given talent presented to us over 15 brilliant years .. the john's gift is something we will not see for a long time into the future ..

.. and to compare "sonny bill" .. ??? .. give him another 10 years .. just maybe .. but today .. never, ever .. let's get real ....!!! ..

and for the one, already scarred individual .. if you cannot accept the reality that there are heaps of sports out there for all to enjoy .. we do not need the tunnel vision of locking into one sport, to the exclusion of all others ... learn to think outside the square ( where have you heard this before ..???)... lol ..!!

.. if the forum can accept a fuel fume affected Z31 addict, perhaps you may extend your largesse, just a smidgin, to accept that no one sport stands predominant .. all sports are there to absorb, enjoy .. and appreciate ...!!

 

I always thought he was a little overrated.
But he made things happen.. he had a knack of reading the play beautifully and putting other players in the right spot... and his short kicking was second to none.
Very unselfish player too.
I remember when he went to England last year, basically stepped off the plane and scored 30+ points and got man of the match with a side he's never even trained with.
Hard to knock him, he seemed to be a very fair player too that was often targeted.
Egg

 

Yes Lockyer is good, BUT......

He has to break a few more records for his club, his state and his country and then score more points than any other player in the game to be in the same league as "Joey" and thats FACT, mate ...............
The brilliant Andrew Johns - the Hunter Valley lad who has gone on to captain the Newcastle Knights, NSW and Australia - is the only player to have been twice named the best rugby league player in the world.

In 1999 and 2002 the brilliant playmaker - the greatest points scorer in NRL history - was named winner of Rugby League World magazine's prestigious Golden Boot award as the world's No. 1 player based on a poll of Australian, British and New Zealand journalists.

The ranking simply reaffirmed the status Johns enjoys in the NRL competition. For five successive seasons John was voted the best player in the game in a Rugby League Week survey involving 100 players. No other player has been voted in No. 1 position as many times since polling commenced in 1986.

Still on the home front, Johns, in 2002, claimed a record third Dally M Player of the Year award - the first player to win this prestigious honour on three occasions.

Johns supporters for the worlds best crown include former champion Test halfbacks Peter Sterling and Ricky Stuart, Australia's greatest-ever lock John Raper and former Great Britain captain Shaun Edwards.

According to Sterling, Andrew 'Joey' Johns, 32, is the best halfback in the history of the game.

Says Stuart: Joey is the complete package - the most complete footballer in my time. You could throw him into any era and he would adapt and still be regarded as special.

Adds Raper: He has toughness and skills to make it in any era. Andrew is a champion - a great footballer.

And Edwards, a former Great Britain halfback, has even gone a step further: he rates Johns the greatest player in rugby league history.

Since making his debut for Australia in 1995, the durable Knights No. 7 has played halfback and hooker for Australia with great distinction. He captained Australia for the first time in October 2000 - in a World Cup warm-up match against New Zealand Residents.

It was Andrew 'Joey' Johns who produced the touch of magic in a memorable final few seconds of the 1997 ARL Grand Final to deliver the Optus Cup to Newcastle for the first time. And it was the gifted halfback who steered the Knights to NRL premiership honours in 2001 with a decisive victory over minor premiers and grand final favourites Parramatta. His performance in the 2001 decider won him the Clive Churchill Medal as the best player on the field.

Captain of the Origin-winning NSW Blues in 2003, Johns has won every major award the game offers: Golden Boot (1999/2001), Dally M (1998/1999/2002), Proven-Summons People's Choice (1998/1999/2000/2001/2002), Rugby League Week Player of the Year (1998/1999/2002), The Footy Show Player of the Year (2002), The Footy Show Punter's Pick (2003), Most Valuable Player in 1995 World Cup, Player of the Series Australia v Great Britain 2001 and, of course, the Clive Churchill Medal (2001).

In 2003, he was awarded a Centenary Medal by the Australian Government for his outstanding service to rugby league and as a role model for youth.

After playing for NSW Schoolboys in 1989 and NSW and Australian under 19s in 1993, Andrew Johns made a fairytale first grade debut in 1994. Against South Sydney at the Sydney Football Stadium, he showed signs of a golden future when he scored a premiership record 23 points on debut - two tries, seven goals and a field goal. During the 2001 season - against the Canberra Raiders at Newcastle's Marathon Stadium - he established a new personal points scoring record in the NRL with a 34 points haul (four tries and nine goals). This eclipsed a record-setting display earlier in the 2001 season against the New Zealand Warriors of 29 points (three tries, eight goals and a field goal). In 1995 when he played his first Test for Australia - against South Africa in the World Cup - Andrew rewrote the record books again, this time breaking the world record for most points on Test debut, with a total of 30 points in Australia's 86-6 romp against South Africa. The 30 points also equalled the overall world record of points in a Test held by countryman Michael O'Connor. He later broke that record when he amassed 32 points in a one-off Test against Fiji in 1996. The 12 goals he kicked in that match equalled the world record set by New Zealander Des White back in 1952. In the 1995 World Cup final against Great Britain at London's Wembley Stadium - a match Australia won - Andrew Johns was voted Most Valuable Player.

Andrew Johns played 21 Tests for Australia and made 23 State of Origin appearances for NSW. He is the highest points scorer in NRL history with 2,108 points from 240 first-grade matches. He has also scored more points with the one club in the NRL competition than any other player.

 

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