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Rugby league great Andrew Johns says stripping away their NRL premiership titles won’t stop Melbourne players believing they were the champions.
Johns, who won premierships with Newcastle in 1997 and 2001, said those achievements will stay with him forever, as will the Storm’s triumphs in 2007 and 2009 for their players, even though the NRL has erased those titles from the record books for salary cap breaches.
“What they (NRL) have done means nothing at all,” Johns told the Nine Network’s Sunday Footy Show.
“Are we going to take Churchill Medals away from (Greg) Inglis and (Billy) Slater?
“”If they took away my grand finals in `97 and 2001 I would laugh at them.”
Parramatta veteran Nathan Hindmarsh said he would not want the Eels to be handed the premiership stripped from the Storm, who have had all their major NRL achievements of the last five years wiped from record books.
The Eels were beaten 23-16 by the Storm in last October’s grand final at ANZ Stadium.
“It was fair enough, they beat us, but they had the team to beat us,” said Hindmarsh who has been on the losing side in two grand finals.
“If they hand the us premiership it would be an empty feeling it wouldn’t mean anything to us.”
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