Andrew Johns previews Sunday footy
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The game you'll see live and free on 9 and you'll hear with the continuous call team is Newcastle and West Tigers from Macdonald Jones Stadium and Andrew Johns is back in his old stomping ground and he's on the line. G'day Joey. G'day.

Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Joey. You'll have a trip back to Newcastle. I will say this, though. What's happened to your Knights, mate? They've lost three in a row and they've scored just 34 points. What's doing? Don't start me. I'll start crying again. Well, hopefully they aim up here. It'll be a big crowd here today. Fast track. So hopefully they aim up. Hey, Joey, it's not old boys day yet, is it, Newcastle? It's not today, is it?

Isn't it usually at the end of the year? End of the year. I think one of the last games of the year, yeah. What are you doing? Because you guys do do it the best. And when you said you were going to cry then, I thought you may have had a big night and you were getting a little emotional. Well, it is Sunday. I was actually down at Young yesterday. I did a speaking gig for the Young Cherry Pickers. Oh, nice. I put in an immortal performance. LAUGHTER

That's what we want to hear. You know you're going well when you're speaking and up the front there's a table of 70-year-old blokes just looking at each other with their jaws hitting the ground. LAUGHTER Did you give them the A-grade speech, did you, Joey? The no-holds-barred. Oh, yeah. I just say, what do you want? Do you want G or do you want MA or do you want R or do you want X? LAUGHTER

Let me guess. I think there was an X involved in it. Yeah. Triple X. Oh, jeepers. Oh, Joey. Hey, Joey, I've got to ask you, mate. A match like today where you've got two teams that have been faltering along, what's in it for these teams this afternoon? Oh,

Well, for Newcastle, it's aiming up at home. You know, we'd be a big crowd here again. So, you know, you're playing for pride, playing for your teammates, playing for your town. So that's for Newcastle and the Tigers. Well, they've just got to be consistent. I'd say a few of them are playing for their future. But

But I'm looking forward to watching the young blokes, the Tigers, go about. Young Galvin, I'm being impressed with him. So one thing about it, it'll be high scoring, it'll be entertaining. I'm looking forward to it. Just on Galvin, mate, he's had a great season. I don't know where he's at with regards to his contract situation, but for a bloke to come in and almost run a side like he has, and a side that's under the pump big time, he's done a phenomenal job. He's done a great job because some of those games where he's standing out,

his forward pack's getting smashed. So he's doing it behind the pack, not going forward. He's a real player of the future. I hope they lock him down pretty much long term.

All right. Well, Joey, enjoy McDonald Jones Stardew. We always love footy in Newcastle. Like you say, big crowd. The Nova Castrians will be out there to cheer on the Knights, win, lose or draw. Good on you, mate. We'll see you on the deli. Can you send someone up the con box to give me a cuddle? See you, mate. See you. There he is, Andrew. We actually had a couple of messages yesterday from people in Young saying how good he was. And when you get to hear from the immortal, it's always great with the immortal stories as well.