Reply to: RIP Jonah Lomu

[Dactylion]

Jeepers. If in doubt, don't upset Will Carling!

Carling was a self important dick IMO.

Bumface always was and remains to this day an absolute twunt!

That aside - RIP Jonah, who was awesome on and off the field.

[MyUserName]

My (false) memory of the 1995 World Cup is of Lomu incessantly rumbling over the tryline while half the Japanese side clung onto him. Yet Wikipedia indicates he didn't even play in that game.

ISTR NZ put their second team out for that game?

It didn't seem fair, somehow, watching games where his opposite number would be desperately trying to tackle him - like a flyweight trying to outbox a heavyweight.

I recall seeing him when they played England simply throwing Underwood off the pitch by his jersey. I can barely imagine the nerve Underwood must have had to go at him in the first place!!!

A loss to the world

[TykeMerc]

It's a great shame, he was a superb player who changed the game, 40 is far too young to die.

[DaveB]

Jeepers. If in doubt, don't upset Will Carling!

Carling was a self important dick IMO.

[FatLazyContractor]

Very sad and depressing. RIP Lomu

[Bluespider]

Watched him score a corner try at Murrayfield, absolute poetry...

And the thing is, he carried his kidney problem his entire life, knowing that the harder he worked with his body the quicker the disease would overtake him...

Absolute Legend.

[LondonManc]

WDS+1

“He is a freak and the sooner he goes away the better” - Will Carling (1995)

Dug out some old quotes from when he first appeared.

Jeepers. If in doubt, don't upset Will Carling!

[psychocandy]

NZ v England. Lomu goes past a few people, got Mike Catt the full-back to beat.

I'm sitting in a bar in Menorca (I think) on my own with loads of English people. I shout "Go through him". And Jonah does. Luverly....

I wasn't popular for cheering.

Awesome player. Very sad.

[WTFH]

My (false) memory of the 1995 World Cup is of Lomu incessantly rumbling over the tryline while half the Japanese side clung onto him. Yet Wikipedia indicates he didn't even play in that game.

It didn't seem fair, somehow, watching games where his opposite number would be desperately trying to tackle him - like a flyweight trying to outbox a heavyweight.

...that was the England team, not the Japanese.

[I just need to test it]

My (false) memory of the 1995 World Cup is of Lomu incessantly rumbling over the tryline while half the Japanese side clung onto him. Yet Wikipedia indicates he didn't even play in that game.

It didn't seem fair, somehow, watching games where his opposite number would be desperately trying to tackle him - like a flyweight trying to outbox a heavyweight.

[DaveB]

Tw@t

WDS+1

Dug out some old quotes from when he first appeared.

"I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing." - Colin Meads (1995)
"There's no doubt about it, he's a big bastard." - Gavin Hastings (1995)
“He is a freak and the sooner he goes away the better” - Will Carling (1995)

[Pondlife]

He was astounding in his day and the start of the trend towards much bigger, more physical players. These days he'd not look out of place in any of the major teams.

Way too young to be gone though.

WDS.

Definitely changed the game.

[Dallas]

On the bench are we?

Tw@t

[DaveB]

Very sad news. The guy was a legend. I think I'm going to have to spend the rest of the morning on YouTube watching him running over/through opponents wingers for fun.

He was astounding in his day and the start of the trend towards much bigger, more physical players. These days he'd not look out of place in any of the major teams.

Way too young to be gone though.

[Martin Scroatman]

Very sad news. The guy was a legend. I think I'm going to have to spend the rest of the morning on YouTube watching him running over/through opponents wingers for fun.

On the bench are we?