Warriors halfback brought the curtain down on his 13-year NRL career with a “touch footy highlight” from his teenage days. For his next trick, he wants to start up a playmaking academy and teach young halves to do the same.
Shaun Johnson, stopped, paused and thought briefly, longingly, of a beer 267 games and 13 years in the making, before skipping one way, then the other – just as he has for 267 games and 13 years.
Thankfully, Johnson’s grand post-playing plan is to keep breaking down rugby league’s most seductive art. Johnson was the architect of Luke Metcalf’s opening try – “lying with his eyes” as Mick Ennis aptly described his midfield show and go – and a second-half revival from 22-4 down against high-flying Cronulla.
“That feeling of being in the zone, where you know why you’re doing something and the look you want to create. One tackle later and working from Barnett’s quick play-the-ball, Walker’s surge to the line has three Cronulla defenders spaced tightly together.
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