Retired from NRL
Cronulla Sharks winger John Williams has announced his retirement from the NRL.
Williams was undecided as to his future direction in the game, however he made his decision known to the club yesterday (Thursday).
A Parramatta junior and the brother of Manly Sea Ealges winger David ‘Wolfman’ Williams, John debuted in the NRL for the Eels back in 2005 in a round 17 match against the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
From there he went on to play 104 NRL games at four different clubs – the Parramatta Eels, Sydney Roosters, North Queensland Cowboys and then Sharks – overcoming a serious neck injury along the way.
A member of the Sharks side beaten in week one of the finals this year by the Canberra Raiders, Williams enjoyed two seasons at the Sharks, playing 32 games, crossing for 12 tries and kicking 27 goals.
This season he became a regular on the Sharks left flank, scoring six tries in 19 appearances.
Maybe the Tigers could coax him out of retirement.
Thanks for your consistancy Johnny good luck for the future
GOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for playing at the sharks, been a good player and good role model, good lukpck into the future
why is he retiring?
No one offering a contract. He was exploring the UK as well
thank you for your time at the sharks it was up and down for you but as a fan we appreciate what you have done for our club good luck in the future.
He didn’t have the best hands but he was a great defender and goal kicker.
Good Luck John in retirement but i hope you don’t take up a job that requires catching or hanging onto a ball cause mate your qualifications aren’t up for that. Gummy fans aren’t use to hanging onto to something though like a premiership trophy keep buying Gummies no excuses now hey
^^^^^ idiot!!
Is Comeonthedragons retarded? I’m picturing him as one of those drooling special needs kids that run out with the players. If thats the case I feel sorry for you and forgive your pointless rambling posts. BUT if your just butthurt that your club is f#cking hopeless atm and ours is on the up I want to give it to you till you cut a big red V into your wrist.
UP UP CRONULA – THE UNMERGED!!!!!!!!
hahahah he seems mad, you might have hit the nail on the head, hahahah
Why do sharks fans post shit 44 years and still jack .its like having a retarded relative just pls shut the f… Up you and your team contribute nothing .pls no more posts from sharks fans. Btw u talk shit
@Hitman
Leave the special needs kid out of this. Just be grateful you don’t have any.
grateful *greatful
Grateful was correct.
Sorry and thank you Josh. My error.
Are you a sharks fan in disguise? You are always in our section.
ZERO TACKLE
You need take some responsibility!
Troll like this should be banned from website .
“I want to give it to you until you cut a big red v in your wrist ” is totally unacceptable. Fierce debate is great but that sort of crap should never make it onto a website.
Seriously? People like you who cry about idiots making stupid comments is how the government is attacking free speech. Who gives a shit what someone writes in a public forum, or on twitter or facebook. If you people get so offended by words you need to toughen the hell up. It is theeasily offended that are giving governments the excuse to stop free speech. Only the Americans seem to value free speech over your desire not to be offended. Grow a set of balls!!!!!!!!
Hey at least they have won a premiership, OH YOU JUST GOT BURNED!!!
Oh and another thing.WOW, Your club was not merged, That is such a massive achievement(Sarcasm), also South Sydney, Roosters, Knights, Titans, Broncos, Cowboys, Storm, Panthers and Eels aren’t merged too so yeah it doesn’t matter if you guys keep calling yourself that because that’s the only thing you guys can be proud of XD
sHitman i bet the gummies are really happy that they have unintelligent tossers like yourself following them. Do you wear your costume to the games you clown??? Go and clean the dust out of your trophy cabinet loser as who knows now that your club is trying to buy a comp you MAYBE able to put a trophy in there one day. Oxygen thief
o when the saints they had to merge
o when the saints they had to merge
you are the Illawarra Steelers
o when the saints they had to merge
Idiot, you mention we have an empty trphy cabinet. Not true. We have an Amco Cup trophy from 1978. The last one if I may recall. All your merged mob has is 1 trophy. Looks like we are even.
HAHA Buy a comp, coming from you dragqueens hahahah turn it up!
2010 premiership winning team. Local Illawarra/St George Juniors. Young, Gasnier, Hornby, Creagh, Cooper, Morris, Hunt, Weyman, Merrin, Prior, Scott ( not sure though) plus others over the last 2 seaons including Rein etc etc. Not bad hey sHitman. Gummy juniors sHitman in the same period?? We bought a comp did we? DH
Cmonthedragqueens, Scott began at the Sharks you DH
@Cmonthedragons, u also left out nightingale another renown junior, I beileve, even though he went to school at Jannali, the shire, and plays for NZ
44 years of nothing must hurt
I’m 26 so it’s only hurt for that long
Solid team for next year guys!!!
1. Nathan Gardner
2. Johnathan Wright
3. Michael Gordon
4. Ben Pomeroy
5. Beau Ryan
6. Todd Carney
7. Jeff Robson/Chad Townsend
8. Bryce Gibbs
9. Issac De Gois
10. Ben Ross
11. Chris Heington
12. Luke Lewis
13. Paul Gallen
14. Andrew Fifita
15. John Morris
16. Wade Graham
17. Anthony Tupou
Really keen on seeing a Carney/Townsend combination next year. Anyone agree???
We have a very good side next year we might just win the comp
Keep giving it to these Dragqueen supporters. This big brother mentally is getting old. Two areas to select juniors from and still have to poach from other areas and still can’t field a quality team. We may have bought a couple recently but makes up for many years of not buying. 2013 is looking good. Go the Sharkies!
Thats a real good side if you dont get close with that side you never will
Hey Catapultluch (wtf) I see you know your players in the NRL. As you can see in my post i said Beau Scott (but not sure). Scott began at the Gummies hey???? Wrong!!! Picton Magpies junior before he signed with the Dragons where he played lower grades then signed with the Gummies and played reserve grade. Made his first grade debut against the Storm then resigned with the Dragons in 2007. Who’s the DH you Tosser
Whatever you still only have one trophy as a joint venture. We also have one. An Amco Cup trophy. Difference is we will have a decent team whereas you will have sHit
Whatever you still only have one trophy as a joint venture. We also have one. An Amco Cup trophy. Difference is we will have a decent team whereas you will have zip
Whatever you still only have one trophy as a joint venture. We also have one. An Amco Cup trophy. Difference is we will have a decent team whereas you will have squat.
So Scott still isnt a local junir then. And you still only have one trophy as a joint venture. We also have one. An Amco Cup trophy. Difference is we will have a decent team whereas you will have squat.
You still only have one trophy as a joint venture. We also have one. An Amco Cup trophy. Difference is we will have a decent team whereas you will have squat.
Yep you have bought well Catapultluch but where’s your juniors???? Dragons need to rebuild as we are getting old but i still think we will be more than competitive next season. Better than the Tigers anyway. I love how you Gummy supporters are so proud of your Amco Cup my boss is a big Gummy fans and he mentions that every now and then when i’m hanging crap on him. Cheers
i am not a sharks supporter but you’ve got one bought premiership , please tell me again how you were a premiership threat prior to 09, haha . the fact of the matter is no bennett no Dragons . So please be quiet and let us all know what the wooden spoon tastes like next year.
This is about the retirement of a sharks player and thanks about it. No bagging out of teams.
Let’s drop it down a notch and play nice. We are all rugby league supporters and want every time to succeed. There are so called supporters that prefer to sit on their computers and bag out others, in which is pretty sad. If you want to bag people /teams, say it to their face.
Delete time and insert team. My mistake.
It is a shame that John is retiring early.
I echo Panthers Girl’s sentiments. Many believe he was the better footballer of the two Williamses but simply lacked the image. I guess he is qualified to make a better living elsewhere.
Its a shame no one wanted him
sharksforlife the sharks team you picked can really give the comp a shake next year interesting to know you only picked two pacific islanders in there in these times its pretty rare but maybe its the way to go, tupou is my favorite especially when he played for my roosters.