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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2089593, member: 1764"] One of the few stories about Johns that I liked came from an associate of David Waite, who coached Newcastle when Johns was a junior coming through. One day at training Waite gave Johns a video tape of a series of kicks from Mortimer, Sterling, Alexander, Langer, Stuart et al, and said "this is the level you need to get to". There were banana kicks, grubbers, long kicks, short kicks, bombs, spiral bombs, anything you can think of. "Go away, study and practice". He came back to training the next week and said "Done. Have you got another video for me?" Waite had intended that to occupy him for months, if not the whole season. He supposedly did it in a week. So Waite just laughed and said "OK Joey, show us what you've got". And for the next hour Waite stood there gobsmacked as Johns ran through all the kicks on the video and executed them almost perfectly. There's NO doubt in my mind how good Joey could be. I am just not of the mind that he produced it as often or as consistently as the likes of Sterling and Langer. Can't comment on Billy Smith or Holman. [/QUOTE]

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