Career
He used to play as a property He first played for Auckland, in 1971, and went onto to play 122 matches for them including captaining them between 1977 to 1981. Johnstone had 13 caps for New Zealand, from 1976 to 1979, scoring 2 tries, 8 points in aggregate.
During the 1978 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland, he completed a "Grand Slam" with the four Home Nations.
He was the head coach of Fiji at the 1999 Rugby World Cup finals. He was assigned subsequently to Italy, where he stayed from 2000 to 2002.
Problems with the Italian Rugby Federation led to Johnstone"s dismissal in 2002.
