The 8th Immortal

[Usain Bolt]

Congrats Joey. Judge him by what he did on the field.

Agreed. That is why OJ Simpson will always be one of the top 5 greatest running backs of all time

 

[some11]

Agreed. That is why OJ Simpson will always be one of the top 5 greatest running backs of all time

He really had that killer instinct when carving up the competition.

 

[Parra Pride]

He really had that killer instinct when carving up the competition.

:lol::lol::lol:

 

[The Tank]

Great player, well deserved.

 

[The Eagle]

He really had that killer instinct when carving up the competition.

Well played my lord

 

[LazyDreamer]

Bloody hell - whose nan did Provan shag?

Hopefully he will become an immortal before it'll be reported as, "....was tonight posthumously inducted..."

 

[carcharias]

Probably the best I have seen play.
Well done.

Gallen next.

 

[Canard]

Good to see Joey inducted in this NSW players club.

Only chance a QLD player had of even getting a sniff was to be the greatest League player of all time.

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

Congrats Joey.

And lol at all the Qld butthurt. Really, this whole "Queenslander" mentality is pathetic.

 

[Aaron_sfas]

Good to see Joey inducted in this NSW players club.

Only chance a QLD player had of even getting a sniff was to be the greatest League player of all time.

But Johns is a NSW player...

 

[Frank_Grimes]

Congrats Joey.

And lol at all the Qld butthurt. Really, this whole "Queenslander" mentality is pathetic.

Yeah it's rampant isn't it?

:roll:

 

[greg]

Good to see Joey inducted in this NSW players club.

Only chance a QLD player had of even getting a sniff was to be the greatest League player of all time.

Silly comment. Artie and the King are already there. Is the criteria now that future immortals must be Qlders to even up the numbers? By that reckoning the next 4 immortals must be Qlders so that there is no accusations of bias. :roll:

 

[Jobdog]

Provan, Meninga, Coote, these guys all did far more for rugby league than a pill-popping, petulant little merkin from the arse end if the earth.

The Immortals clearly means nothing anymore.

What a f***ing joke. What a fantastic example for future players. "Hey kids, do drugs your whole career and you can be an immortal like me, Joey johns" the immortals have now lost all credibility.

:lol: An anti-Newcastle and a Queensland opinion. Well there you go.

 

[Snoochies]

Comments are going crazy here. lol

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...-8th-immortal/comments-e6frep5x-1226482857272

 

[Knightmare]

^ :lol:

I think Roo of the Sunshine Coast summed up the comments pretty well:

"The 'anti Queensland' bias whinge has already started.............. That said, the Queensland inferiority complex is well deserved."

Honestly, some people need to take a chill pill, travel outside their beloved state a bit more and realise that Qld, NSW and the other states are all still Australia! Joey was not just a great player for the Knights and NSW, but AUSTRALIA. Last time I checked, Qld players also represented AUSTRALIA. Yet if Joey Johns had grown up in Charters Towers, not Cessnock, a considerable number of these same people would defend him to the hilt as a "bit of a larrikin, nothing more" the way certain players are not deemed as grubs but "passionate" because of the jersey they wear 3 times a year...

 

[Knightmare]

Another gem:

"Not too much support here from Queenslanders, who obviously take 'sport' much more seriously than those 'thugs' south of the border. NSW is so biased, yet they don't even try to hide it. This award is a disgrace to the League, and a slight against a truly great player in Mal Meninga. Sorry NRL, but you have absolutely NO credibility after that disgusting decision (a bit like the way your refereeing decisions are made?)."


:lol:


In my experience, "NSW bias" is saying anything that doesn't agree with the "Qld is #1 at everything!" propaganda that gets shoved down the throats of the Qld public by the media pretty much from the day they learn to read...

 

[carcharias]

Mal was good ( awesome in full flight ) ...but seriously, he was physically massive in a time of avg to scrawny looking centres and wingers.
He should have been a front rower.
He could run fast over the top of much smaller blokes and pass....plus kick goals .

Johns was a genius with the ball in his hands .
Johns was a genius with the ball off the boot.
Johns was a very good defender.
He dominated entire games ... Club , state and country.
He was so far ahead of meniga in sheer skill it is not even a fair contest.
He also had to come back from much worse injuries than Mal.

I will go as far as to say that A.Johns was even better than Wally on the whole.
Wally was the SOO king ...no question...but not week in week out. IMO.

 

[Knightmare]

Wally was consistently better in the big games, whereas Joey was consistently better week in, week out.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Another gem:

"Not too much support here from Queenslanders, who obviously take 'sport' much more seriously than those 'thugs' south of the border. NSW is so biased, yet they don't even try to hide it. This award is a disgrace to the League, and a slight against a truly great player in Mal Meninga. Sorry NRL, but you have absolutely NO credibility after that disgusting decision (a bit like the way your refereeing decisions are made?)."


:lol:


In my experience, "NSW bias" is saying anything that doesn't agree with the "Qld is #1 at everything!" propaganda that gets shoved down the throats of the Qld public by the media pretty much from the day they learn to read...

What a sweeping generalisation. You assume that most Qlders can read at all.

 

[Frank_Grimes]

Wally was consistently better in the big games, whereas Joey was consistently better week in, week out.

Wally was a better leader IMO. Everything else between them is hard to split.