Personal information
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Full name | Christopher Johns | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1964 Queensland, Australia |
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Playing information
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Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 85 kg (13 st 5 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Centre, Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: NRL Stats
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Chris Johns (born 1964 in Queensland) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s, and 90s. He played in the centres, achieving representative honours for Australia and New South Wales. His club football career was spent with the St. George Dragons and Brisbane Broncos, as well as two spells in England, first with Castleford in 1986-87 and then Barrow in 1989-90. After retiring from the playing field, Johns worked in the administration of the Brisbane Broncos and Melbourne Storm clubs.
Johns made his first grade debut for St. George during the 1984 NSWRL season and the following year played as a reserve back for St. George in their 6-7 loss to Canterbury in the Grand Final after earlier playing in the Dragons winning reserve grade grand final side.
Johns played Centre, i.e. number 4, in the 31-24 victory over Hull F.C. in Castleford's 1986 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1986–87 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds, on Saturday 11 October 1986. Johns then moved to the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership's newly created Brisbane Broncos in 1988.