Jonah Lomu

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  1. MarioKempes

    MarioKempes Well-Known Member

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    Breaking news that Jonah has died aged 40. What a legend of Rugby Union.

    Far too young. RIP Jonah.
     
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    MarioKempes, Nov 18, 2015
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    My favourite Union player, awesome to watch, I dont even like the game but he was worth watching.
     
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    He certainly was mate. I remember him breaking onto the scene and terrorising teams, including England. I believe he is still the highest try scorer in world cup history.
     
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    I think the South African guy Habana(?) equalled him this World Cup, but I am probably wrong
     
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    You are correct. He definitely equalled him in one game, and may have surpassed him. He retired after the RWC 2015.

    I was back for 2 of the RWC 2015 games at Twickenham. I remember reading how Jonah was there as a Rugby ambassador and had fallen in love with the UK, as had his family. He was talking of moving to England.

    I saw him in his prime several times at the Hong Kong 7s and against Australia in the Bledisloe Cup.

    A great player and a sad loss to the game. Illness cut his career short too.
     
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    Really sad news..a lad fortunate enough to be born with all the physical attributes to be one of the all time great players, and achieved that in a career cut short by illness...but despite the highs and lows always remained a really nice bloke....a very sad loss.
     
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    I was bumped him to him ( literally) in Liverpool in the Premier season after we had beaten Liverpool me and Gordon Ottershaw went into a pub in Liverpool and the NZ rugby team were there took me about a millisecond to apologise then about 5 minutes to walk round him he was ******* huge. Brilliant to watch and sadly missed.
     
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    Sad news that. RIP Jonah. He was awesome as a player, would literally run through people.
     
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    A real man mountain RIP Jonah
     
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    He put Rugby Union on the map for thereev, who never really bothered with it before.

    Awesome player

    Rip
     
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    He's (literally) the only rugby player of either code I could name.

    RIP.
     
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    RIP. big fella.
     
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    Or over them as Mike Catt would testify.
     
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