Jonah Lomu
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Jonah Lomu
Just seen the news. Awful. RIP Jonah. Remember meeting the guy at Cooke rugby club about 10 years back. What an inspiration! What a player!
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Sad news
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Very sad news indeed. Had his fair share of tough battles off the pitch. Will never get his world cup exploits in particular.
It takes a pretty special player to be the standout in an All Blacks team in any era
It takes a pretty special player to be the standout in an All Blacks team in any era
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This is absolutely awful news. He was my first rugby idol.
RIP big man
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What a shock, terrible news. He was tweeting just a day or two ago. A real rugby legend. RIP big man.
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Absolutely gutting news to be wakening up to. RIP Jonah, one of the games true legends.
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It has not been a good week or so. RIP Jonah.
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Watched a programme recently on him visiting Joost van der Westhuizen who has been struck down by MND. Jonah looked well but visibly shocked by poor Joost. You would have given short odds on who would have survived longer.
Cruel end for an abundantly talented player, I'll never forget sitting with my uncle in Dublin watching him trample poor Tony Underwood as he blasted over and through him for one of the four trys he scored in that quarter-final. He was just unplayable at his best and though increasingly you see big wingers, few have the skills that Jonah had when he was simply one of a kind.
By all accounts a real gent too. Very sad news.
Cruel end for an abundantly talented player, I'll never forget sitting with my uncle in Dublin watching him trample poor Tony Underwood as he blasted over and through him for one of the four trys he scored in that quarter-final. He was just unplayable at his best and though increasingly you see big wingers, few have the skills that Jonah had when he was simply one of a kind.
By all accounts a real gent too. Very sad news.
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Probably safe to say that he was the first global superstar
of rugby. His legacy will long be past of the folklore
of this great game.
of rugby. His legacy will long be past of the folklore
of this great game.
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RIP big man ...... one of the games true superstars and a gentleman
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RIP Nevin Spence 1990 - 2012
RIP Nevin Spence 1990 - 2012
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I liked to think I shared some attributes with Lomu.
He would me my personal choice as the most influential player on the game of rugby.
I follow him on Twitter and notice he had gone quiet for a while and then seemed to do a tour to Europe for the RWC accompanied with his family.
Touring around when you are on dialisys is a very tricky thing to do, even just from a logistical point of view.
His tweets in recent months seemed to have a lot of "So glad to visit X, with my family." Makes you wonder if he knew his health was declining.
He was a sad loss to rugby a decade ago. Today he is a much sadder loss to his family and friends.
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Absolutely devastated. Fantastic man on the pitch, an even better man off it. Will be sorely missed.
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His transplanted organ apparently failed in 2011 & he was waiting for another to become available.
If you enjoy good health, consider yourself lucky & never take it for granted ..........maybe never decide somebody else is a malingerer unless in full possession of incontrovertible facts.
If you enjoy good health, consider yourself lucky & never take it for granted ..........maybe never decide somebody else is a malingerer unless in full possession of incontrovertible facts.
NEVER MOVE ON. Years on, I cannot ever watch Ireland with anything but indifference, I continue to wish for the imminent death of Donal Spring, the FIRFUC's executioner of Wee Paddy & Wee Stu, and I hate the FIRFUCs with undiminished passion.
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Very sad indeed and unexpected as his last kidney transplant had gone well and he was looking well at the RWC and there is a photo of him last week in Dubai.
He brought rugby to a lot of people who previously had no real interest in the sport, RIP
He brought rugby to a lot of people who previously had no real interest in the sport, RIP
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