Steve Johnson

After 16 seasons in the AFL, Geelong premiership player and GWS veteran Steve Johnson will hang up the boots at the end of the 2017 season.

The three-time premiership player and 2007 Norm Smith Medallist has 289 games to his name over a decorated career, and also was known as one of the best trash talkers in the game.

From asking for tickets to a show to telling some young players just how successful he's been, here is some of Stevie J's best work.

Former teammate Shannon Byrnes recalls an incident at the Torquay Hotel back in 2007

“He got kicked out and he had this plan," Byrnes recalled on SEN radio on Tuesday morning.

"There’s a beer garden out the back there and we’re all standing out the back in a circle and he just had in his mind that he was going to come around and jump off the roof and land in the circle, grab a beer off the bloke next to him as if he’d never left.

"The only problem with that was he jumped from a two-story drive-thru bottle-o and he’s broken both ankles on landing. To his credit he walked straight out.

"I followed him out. I thought I’d better check on him here because he’s hit the deck pretty hard. And he’s just sitting in the gutter and he said, ‘Both ankles, gone’.”

Byrnes again, this time recounting a special moment in the 2007 grand final

“I was yelling out to him actually just to get him into structure and he wasn’t answering and he said, ‘It’s not my name, my name’s Norm’.

"Halfway through the third (quarter) of ’07 he changed the name to Norm so he was pretty confident he’d be up on the stage twice that day. We were going well, the team were going well. But he thought he was going even better than that.”

"I accept cash or credit" - In the Gold Coast's early days, Geelong were enjoying a big win over the new AFL club, and Stevie J was enjoying another fantastic game.

At one stage, Johnson asked Campbell Brown if he wanted to pay with cash or credit, and that left Brown bemused.

The former Hawk had to ask ex-Geelong star Gary Ablett about the sledge, and Ablett just told him Johnson was wondering how Brown would be paying for front row tickets to the Stevie J show.

"I've got more premierships than you've played games" - In one of GWS' first games, Stevie J just thought he should remind a few of their younger players they had a long way to go before truly making it in this league.

Western Bulldogs captain Robert Murphy recounts a meeting with Johnson back in his Geelong days.

"A minute later the chat started up again. ''Did you see me sneak on there through the interchange?'' he asked. ''Clearly not,'' was all I could say. And then he smiled for the first time of the night, and out the side of his mouth said: ''It was quite rascal-ish, wasn't it?'' How can you not love that?"

Johnson was obviously referring to Murphy's popular segment of AFL 360, where he would select a different 'rascal' each week.