Shaun Johnson
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- NRL 2025
The khawd, the bat and the ugly: The 2025 NRL awards that really matter
Some were bullied, others were bashed. Some drank from toilets, others drank from the fountain of youth. Season 2025 had it all.
- Michael Chammas
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Johnson back from retirement to rescue injury-hit Kiwis
New Zealand hero Shaun Johnson has the chance for the perfect sign-off to his rugby league career after coming out of retirement to replace Jahrome Hughes.
- Jasper Bruce
- Opinion
- NRL 2024
Glasshouses, goons and gladiators: The best and worst of NRL 2024
Some players put their names up in lights, others just put themselves under the spotlight. We rate all the defining moments of the season.
- Michael Chammas
Inside the fitting final play of Shaun Johnson’s glittering NRL career
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.
- Dan Walsh
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- NRL 2024
Shaun Johnson produces miracle win in last minute of his career
Shaun Johnson has led the Warriors to a come-from-behind 30-28 win over Cronulla with his last touch in the NRL.
Shaun Johnson was urged to retire. His revival might be the best in NRL history
The seeds of a stunning resurgence were sown over a golf game between a mohawked millionaire and a former million-dollar No.7. This is the story of how that seed blossomed.
- Dan Walsh
‘I didn’t think the Warriors needed me’: The moment that sparked Johnson’s remarkable resurgence
Struggling on and off the field last year, Shaun Johnson contemplated retirement. Now, the resurgent Warriors star is in contention to be named the NRL’s best player.
- Adrian Proszenko
The graft behind the genius: Inside Andrew Webster’s 20-year journey to overnight NRL success
The Warriors have united a nation with a rookie head coach who describes himself as ‘a player who was slow, very unathletic and lacked any ability’. So, how did Andrew Webster get here?
- Adam Pengilly
‘Can’t pay for happiness’: Why the penny’s finally dropped for Johnson
Shaun Johnson has heard it all in 13 years of first grade, and taken plenty of criticism to heart, too, as he finally discovers a new kind of magic that has him and the Warriors flying.
- Dan Walsh
- Opinion
- NRL 2023
Rugby league might not have long to live – but it’s never been better
The NRL just had its finest and funkiest weekend in years, capped with miracle wins for the Warriors and Bulldogs.
- Andrew Webster