Sugar cracks 100 RFC games

[one-eyed]

Johnson to crack 100 club games
Shayne Hope
31st March 2008, 11:00 WST

Richmond skipper Kane Johnson is set to become the 31st player in AFL/VFL history to play 100 games at two seperate clubs when he returns to the Tigers' line-up this weekend.

Johnson, who imposed a one-match suspension on himself after he was arrested for being drunk in a public place and urinating outside a police complex, will take his place in the side against Collingwood on Sunday to rack up his 100th appearance for Richmond after crossing from Adelaide after the 2002 season.

The 30-year-old debuted for the Crows in 1996 and was a part of the South Australian club's premiership teams in 1997-98. He played a total of 104 games for Adelaide before being traded to Richmond in a deal that saw Jason Torney leave Punt Rd for West Lakes.

Richmond go into the Collingwood clash on the back of 41-point a thrashing at the hands of North Melbourne. The Magpies and Tigers sit in 7th and 8th positions respectively.

LIST OF PLAYERS WITH 100 GAMES AT TWO CLUBS

Bernie Quinlan 366 games (177 Western Bulldogs, 189 Fitzroy)
John Blakey 359 games (135 Fitzroy, 224 Kangaroos)
David Cloke 333 games (219 Richmond, 114 Collingwood)
Gary Dempsey 329 games (207 Western Bulldogs, 122 Kangaroos)
Barry Round 328 games (135 Western Bulldogs, 193 Sydney)
Paul Salmon 324 games (224 Essendon, 100 Hawthorn)
Roger Merrett 313 games (149 Essendon, 164 Brisbane)
Alastair Lynch 306 games (120 Fitzroy, 186 Brisbane)
Paul Williams 306 games (189 Collingwood, 117 Sydney)
Russell Greene 304 games (120 St Kilda, 184 Hawthorn)
Gavin Wanganeen 300 games (127 Essendon, 173 Port Adelaide)
Peter Bell 275 games (123 Kangaroos, 152 Fremantle)
Darryl Wakelin 261 games (115 St Kilda, 146 Port Adelaide)
Sav Rocca 257 games (156 Collingwood, 101 Kangaroos)
Fraser Gehrig 256 games (115 West Coast, 141 St Kilda)
Matthew Clarke 255 games (130 Brisbane, 118 Adelaide, seven St Kilda)
Daniel Chick 252 games (149 Hawthorn 103 West Coast)
Greg Williams 250 games (34 Geelong, 107 Sydney, 109 Carlton)
Robert Scott 245 games (132 Geelong, 113 Kangaroos)
Paul Hudson 245 games (134 Hawthorn, 107 Western Bulldogs, four Richmond)
Stephen Paxman 240 games (102 Fitzroy, 138 Port Adelaide)
Dean Rice 234 games (116 St Kilda, 118 Carlton)
Anthony Daniher 233 games (115 Sydney, 118 Essendon)
Jeff Farmer 231 games (118 Melbourne, 113 Fremantle)
Darren Jarman 230 games (109 Hawthorn, 121 Adelaide)
Ian Hampshire 224 games (113 Geelong, 111 Western Bulldogs)
Tony McGuinness 222 games (109 Western Bulldogs, 113 Adelaide)
Tim Pekin 219 games (107 Fitzroy, 112 St Kilda)
Earl Spalding 211 games (109 Melbourne, 102 Carlton)
Leigh Colbert 209 games (105 Geelong, 104 Kangaroos)
Kane Johnson 203 games (104 Adelaide, 99 Richmond)

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[bluey_21]

How is this thread going to be received

[1965]

Gives us another father/son option down the track.

 

[richmondrules]

Looking at the list the large majority of players have pretty close to equal numbers of games with both teams. Does this mean Sugar will retire at the end of the season?

[Ox]

Gives us another father/son option down the track.

 

How wonderful.

[1965]

Just trying to find something positive.

 

[Little Jackie]

lets hope he has a psisser of a game

[Mr Magic]

Well done Kane.
Hopefully has a ripper match against the arch enemy.

[WA Tiger]

Good on you Kane and as a supporter, player and Captain there could not be a better way to celebrate your 100th than a win against the old foe Collingwhinge!!

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lets hope he never has a son

[mightytiges]

Congrats to Sugar. Owes the club big time this week.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Congrats to Sugar. Owes the club big time this week.

Ditto. Needs to have a huge game for THE CLUB ,TEAM, HIMSELF AND THE FANS and a win as well. Otherwise he can get caught peeing up walls every week and suspend himself.

[bushranger]

Yahoo lets all go and pee on his car wheels. I think he has played 99 games too many.

[one-eyed]

A quiet achiever marks a milestone
Nick Sheridan | April 6, 2008 | The Age

IN HIS 12 years as an AFL footballer, Kane Johnson has preferred to let his actions speak for him, both on and off the field. Which is why the Richmond captain was so embarrassed and ashamed when caught urinating on a police station two weeks ago.

"For him on the Sunday … embarrassed is probably an understatement," Richmond's director of football, Greg Miller, said. Johnson told his club that as a result of his actions, he intended to sit out the following week's game against North Melbourne.

The extent of Johnson's embarrassment was further highlighted when he declined to speak to The Sunday Age about the fact he will today become only the 31st player in AFL/VFL history to have played 100 games at two clubs in his career.

"He had fears of how the players would respond to him, but that was dispelled the next day when the players, to a man, came out in great support of him," Miller said. "They didn't even want him suspended, but he said no, that stands, because I feel that strongly about it."

Malcolm Blight, who became coach of Adelaide in 1997, a year after Johnson was drafted to the club, said he was immediately impressed by the then 19-year-old.

"Kane had this baulk, or a swerve — he had this wonderful hesitation with the footy … he just caught my eye," Blight said, adding that the young man's nature off the field was also something that stood out to him. "He was a quiet kid … and he was a good listener. He wanted to take it all in."

Over the following two years, Johnson played in back-to-back premierships, and earned himself a reputation as a formidable run-with midfielder.

Gary Ayres, who coached Johnson for three years at the Crows after Blight left, said his discipline and determination were two of the attributes that had him earmarked for leadership from a young age.

"In my time at Adelaide, he was touted as a leader amongst the group … and he was very, very professional in the way he went about his business — in those days, he had a bit of a hamstring issue that was recurring, so he had to adopt a program that was very much self-driven because he knew his body better than anybody," Ayres said.

It was that quiet determination that stood out to his new teammates when, in 2003, Johnson moved back home to Melbourne to play for the club he had followed as a kid — the Tigers.

"He was reasonably understated when he was at Adelaide, we didn't know too much about him," said Wayne Campbell, the Tigers' captain at the time. "But he made an immediate impression with the way he went about it (at Richmond).

"He certainly taught a lot of people at Richmond just the level that you need to work at — he's the kind of guy who's got absolutely everything out of the ability that he was given and has provided a good example for a whole range of people, not just young guys, but older guys as well," Campbell said.

A year later, when Nathan Brown crossed to Richmond from the Bulldogs, Johnson revealed that the dedication that had taken him so far on the football ground was also applied to another field, with arguably less success. "He was certainly one of the great dance-floor movers of our time," Brown said.

Since becoming the Tigers' captain in 2005, Johnson has curtailed his dance-floor activities to concentrate on developing a positive culture around his club.

"I think since he's matured a fair bit and become captain — he's not the dancer he used to be," Brown said. Miller said that Johnson's influence on his teammates could not be overestimated.

"He's been fantastic for our footy club. You know some people try and measure trades by how many games, or how many goals a player kicks — there's a lot more measurements internally in a footy club, and all those measurements have been fulfilled so positively by Kane," Miller said. "He's led the change in culture at our footy club in terms of off-field and around the peripherals."

But for all of his hard work, Blight maintained that there was at least one aspect of Johnson that still needed work. "Have you ever seen him kick on his left foot?" he laughed. " … I really enjoy watching Kane as a player but I'm still waiting for him to kick a lot on his left foot."

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