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November 18, 2015 4:10pm by David Farrar

RIP Jonah Lomu 1975 – 2015

His 37 tries for the All Blacks. My favourites are the four against England on 18 June 1995.

Such a sad loss. 40 is far too young.

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Jonah Lomu
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dad4justice

Sad stuff and heartfelt sympathies go out to Jonah’s family.
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November 18, 2015 4:27pm
Keeping Stock

Take a keen interest in try #33; around the 6:40 mark. Lomu’s try, against Scotland at Murrayfield, comes after a bust by another young player who would also become an All Black legend on his own account; one Richard Hugh McCaw.

But there are some fantastic tries there from the man who completely changed the way wings played. Imagine how good he would have been had he not been beset by kidney disease for much of his career.
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November 18, 2015 4:29pm
Captain Mainwaring

What sort of sicko would downtick that?
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November 18, 2015 4:30pm
labrator

Thanks for the memories big guy. Go well.
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November 18, 2015 4:31pm
Northshoredoc

RIP Jonah.
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November 18, 2015 4:33pm
Kimbo

The man who made professional rugby possible. And spawned the greatest piece of rugby commentary since Winston McCarthy. Keith Quinn’s “Lomu, oh! oh!” pretty much captured what he did to Mike Catt…and the effect he had on world rugby from that moment on.

Not really the greatest All Black left winger from a purist point of view (maybe that accolade belongs to Ron Jarden) – Lomu’s positional play on both attack and defence was a bit suspect – hardly surprising as he was pitched straight into the wing position from No. 8 as an All Black, and due to his size he was sometimes a bit slow to turn. And he didn’t have much reason to practice his chip-kicking skills! But compared to the natural gifts he brought to the game, which delighted followers and will still be raved about 100 years from now, that is mere quibbling as he always the first guy you would pick. An incredible athlete.

Along with his rugby, his various wives/partners and an agent who once allegedly negotiated to have him as a henchman in a James Bond movie, Lomu packed a lot of living into an all-too-brief but eventful life.
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November 18, 2015 4:34pm
PJM

Thanks so much, DPF, for sharing this post and the wonderful video. I had not seen it before, but will treasure it. I’m still crying at such a sad loss to NZ and to Jonah’s wife and family. God bless them!
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November 18, 2015 4:36pm
stigie

The greatest No.11 the world has ever seen. RIP Jonah you will be missed.
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November 18, 2015 4:36pm
kiwi in america

I was at rugby training here in the US when a mate from home texted the shocking news. I was administering the beep test to some new recruits so I had my phone on me rather than in my bag. Trouble was that not many neophyte rugby playing US high school boys knew who Jonah was. I know people in Auckland close to Jonah’s family and I had heard that, after the rejection of the donated kidney, his health was deteriorating. In his role as ambassador for some of the RWC sponsors, he made several media appearances during the recent RWC and he was interviewed about the accomplishments of Ritchie McCaw and Dan Carter. He seemed cheerful and humble. What a terrible tragedy for his wife and young family and my thoughts and prayers are with them.

Jonah inspired many of our current All Blacks and countless other players, he enthralled millions and became arguably the first rugby international media superstar after his stunning tries at the 1996 RWC in South Africa. His achievements are all the more remarkable when you factor in the gradual debilitating shadow of his kidney disease.

New Zealand mourns your passing – world rugby mourns as well. One of the greatest players of the game we love has left far far too soon.

Jonah Lomu – RIP!
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November 18, 2015 4:37pm
dad4justice

“What sort of sicko would downtick that?”

Bloody unbelievable Captain Mainwaring.
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November 18, 2015 4:39pm
Kimbo

Also a big shout-out to his mum, Hepi, a South Auckland cleaner who raised the money to get him off the bad streets of South Auckland and away from bad company and into Wesley College where his life began to change.
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November 18, 2015 4:42pm
Longknives

An absolute legend- One can only imagine what his record would have been had he not been struck down by illness at a very young age..
His form in 1995 was simply off the planet.
RIP.
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November 18, 2015 4:45pm
Unity

Such a sad loss and way too young. My heart goes out to his family especially his widow and two little boys. He was a brilliant guy and a role model to many.
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November 18, 2015 4:50pm
Dave_1924

When I first saw him play it was a shock… sitting at home watching the Condor Sevens and I thought there was a man playing for Wesley College…. but it was a 17-18 year old Jonah. Running mostly around opponents with an in and away which was just freaking awesome…..

To come back from what was a pretty average performance against Les Bleu in 1994 for such a young guy was a testament to his mental strength. Some players would never have recovered from that as the French made him look pretty average on defense especially against kicks in behind.

Sir Gordon I believe made him who he was by taking him in to the Sevens environment and getting him Tiejtchens fit, which is really other world fitness. And then the Runaway Train set the 1995 RWC on fire….

Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist, Super Rugby Winner, NPC Champion [thank you Jonah, us Lions supporters would love you forever just for that one sublime game at the house of evil in Canterbury!!!], All Black winner of the Bledisloe and the Tri Nations.

But for me the things that really rate are:

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Taking being sat for the 1996 Series in South Africa for Glen Osborne and Jeff Wilson as wingers. That must have hurt, but he didn’t bitch he just supported the team

2 [and the real biggie for me]

1999. Semi Final. Playing like an absolute beast and his team mates gave in to a French comeback. Les Bleu rallied from half time and ran away with it. And when the final whistle blew and distraught All Blacks disappeared from the field what did the big man do? He stay out and congratulated the French players… CLASS.

Big Man, Big pride in the Jersey, Humble in Victory, Gracious in Defeat. LEGEND
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November 18, 2015 4:53pm
thedavincimode

To the sad fuck downticking: you are nothing, nada, zilch. Jonah was everything as a man that you will never be.

How incredibly sad that he’s died.
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November 18, 2015 4:54pm
Dave_1924

Well said DVM… some people are very petty
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November 18, 2015 4:55pm
igm

RIP “Le Cheval” (a complimentary French nickname given him) you were great!
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November 18, 2015 5:00pm
Keeping Stock

Amen to that davinci. It’s almost as bad as the tweet from Harbrow at No Right Turn which I posted on the GD thread where he used Lomu’s death to make a snide comment about the PM. There are some sick, petty and gutless people out there.
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November 18, 2015 5:00pm
Longknives

“It’s almost as bad as the tweet from Harbrow at No Right Turn which I posted on the GD thread where he used Lomu’s death to make a snide comment about the PM. There are some sick, petty and gutless people out there.”

Jesus Keeping Stock I just saw that- The left really are fucking pathetic..Using the death of a NZ sporting legend to have a crack at John Key.
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November 18, 2015 5:04pm
mikenmild

I already commented about Jonah Lomu on the GD, but I’m very glad DPF has put up a separate thread.
Few sportsmen get to be known widely by their first name or nickname only: Jonah.
The first global superstar of the game as it went professional.
The pattern for all subsequent blockbusting wingers.
A real gentleman – I’ve never heard a bad word spoken about him. He always seemed a genuinely humble man.
I count myself fortunate that he moved to play for Wellington and the Hurricanes so that we could watch him in action here in the capital.

RIP.
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November 18, 2015 5:09pm
Dave_1924

@mikey – don’t forget his two games for the Green and Blacks……. Mary Crowther Park has never seen so many people as the time he trained for the first time with the Wainuiomata Senior side…
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November 18, 2015 5:15pm
Keeping Stock

@ Longknives – he takes nastiness to a new level.
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November 18, 2015 5:21pm
Longknives

It really is shit Keeping Stock.
Back to Lomu though- I just saw some footage of him from some Promotional work during the RWC. He looked very,very unwell.
Very sad, I like to remember him as the destroyer he was in the mid 90s..
And he was, by all accounts, a bloody nice guy.

Here’s him visiting Joost- and telling him he will pray for him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIpv_KrT4_w
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November 18, 2015 5:26pm
tom hunter

I missed a good chunk of Lomu’s career due my US isolation from rugby. All I had was what I heard of him from friends and emails. But he was probably still near near his peak when I saw him play in that great Tri-Nations series against the World Champion Wallaby side in 2000. Watching him I realised that he was every bit the legend I’d heard about. As a guy who’d been regarded as “big, fast” winger in my day I just had to laugh at that notion in the age of Lomu.

And I still recall the shock of seeing him shuffle across the stage to get an award just a few years ago. People were in tears in the audience and I was close: just so sad.

There have been, are and will be better players and better wingers – but I’d pay money every day of the week and twice in Sundays just to see Lomu play as he once did.

And when the final whistle blew and distraught All Blacks disappeared from the field what did the big man do? He stay out and congratulated the French players… CLASS.

Big Man, Big pride in the Jersey, Humble in Victory, Gracious in Defeat. LEGEND

This!
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November 18, 2015 5:34pm
RRM

A legend who came out of nowhere to be recognised by not only serious rugby heads, but we the general unwashed as well.

I remember being shocked when he started looking like shit not very long after that world cup performance. He’s been a pretty sick boy for a long time, what a life.
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November 18, 2015 5:35pm
tom hunter

You know what else I’d give really good money for?

To know who the prick is down ticking every comment.
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November 18, 2015 5:38pm
Nostalgia-NZ

As he freely admitted rugby helped Jonah turn his life around, but what he was far more circumspect about was the impact he had on uplifting others, closing down prejudices and not afraid of admitting vulnerability coming from a violent and tough childhood. It was great to see him emerge from a person shy and barely able to speak on camera to someone relaxed with himself and confident. And what a name, that took a real legend to fulfil. He will be widely missed, far, far, too soon.
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November 18, 2015 5:39pm
stigie

I would also pay big money to know who the downticking prick was Tom !~

Bloody disgraceful.
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November 18, 2015 5:41pm
RRM

We have always had a couple of staunchly “look at me I HATE RUGBY” people on here. You probably know who I refer to…?
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November 18, 2015 5:45pm
Dave_1924

@RRM yip…. but ya know they don’t have to open the post and work through it and stay in the post downticking everything.

It speaks to a sick personality to do that…. whoever you are get a life…
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November 18, 2015 5:51pm
Lance

@Dave_1924
They must have run out of flies to pull the wings off.
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November 18, 2015 6:01pm
Colville

Jonah was a revelation, he changed the game. The first truly massive fast wing.

How many tries did Kronfeld score simply by hanging off Jonahs elbow and get the simple catch and score?
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November 18, 2015 6:31pm
starboard

aw man far too young to die..you poor bugger, RIP big fella.
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November 18, 2015 6:33pm
deadrightkev

He was a great player. A tragedy for his young family.
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November 18, 2015 6:34pm
big bruv

A real tragedy. RIP young man.
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November 18, 2015 6:35pm
dime

This sucks so bad. His boys are only 5 and 6. Not even old enough to appreciate who he was outside of home. Most of us think of our dads as a super hero at that age, in their case, their dad was.

I have no doubt his image and legend will outlive all of us.

Just a sad sad day.

R.I.P
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November 18, 2015 6:51pm
Mobile Michael

I’ve loved seeing all those great tries from Lomu again, what an exciting player. Plus he didn’t ever waver, he saw the line and burst through defensive lines like a hot knife through butter. Sure his defence was not great but he more than made up for it by scoring at will at the other end. While the Mike Catt ‘tackle’ remains the iconic try, I think his tries against Ireland and Wales earlier in the 1995 World Cup were his best.

And I always remember how he never gave up on his desire for that Black Jersey, but he knew he had to prove it first. That drive and his humility on and off the field make him the type of person young people should aspire to be, whether it be in sport or any other profession they follow.
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November 18, 2015 7:05pm
gump

It’s a real shame he is dead. Hopefully the next generation of players will learn the danger from mega-dosing on Creatine.
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November 18, 2015 7:08pm
Manolo

A good, humble, and decent human being, and a PLAYER for the ages. We are lucky for having seen him in action.
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November 18, 2015 7:12pm
mikenmild

i hope you have some evidence for that slur, gump.
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November 18, 2015 7:16pm
Northland Wahine

That’s low grump. Disgustingly so.

RIP you Tongan gentle Giant.
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November 18, 2015 7:21pm
gump

It’s not a slur and I don’t know why you think it is disgusting. The danger of megadosing on creatine monohydrate wasn’t well understood in the mid 1990s and is now believed to be a major contributing factor to his nephrotic disease. There’s a number of international players from his generation who suffer from the same problem.

Creatine monohydrate isn’t a drug. It’s an amino acid that’s widely used by athletes as a nutritional supplement (it’s naturally found in red meat). It’s perfectly safe unless you take too much and over-load your kidneys.

Hopefully the next generation of players will learn from this.
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November 18, 2015 7:49pm
Ross12

John Mayhew says Jonah probably had the health issues from very early on in his life but wasn’t really aware of the underlying causes.
I’d listen to him before you gump.
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November 18, 2015 7:52pm
starboard

time and a place gump..
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November 18, 2015 7:58pm
gump

@Ross12

This is an area in which I have domain knowledge.

But if you don’t want to believe me, go and talk to Joeli Vidiri.
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November 18, 2015 7:59pm
wreck1080

i hate the way the news media are camping outside his house. They should be ashamed of themselves.
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November 18, 2015 8:04pm
sam green

Sad day for his family and a sad day for all of us. RIP Jonah.
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November 18, 2015 8:11pm
dog_eat_dog

Gump: Plenty of Pacific Islanders who have never been inside a gym, let alone near micronised creatine supplements suffer kidney issues.
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November 18, 2015 8:12pm
mikenmild

gump
1. Creatine supplements have not been conclusively linked with kidney failure
2. There is no evidence that Jonah Lomu took creatine supplements
3. Your attack on him is tasteless, to say the least, on the very day of his death.
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November 18, 2015 8:19pm
Rowan

Really sad news about Jonah, a true legend of the game
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November 18, 2015 8:20pm
Brian Smaller

My favourite Lomu try was the one that won us the 2000 Bledisloe Cup/Tri Nations game in Sydney – 39-35 I think the score was. That was the test when the ABs went 21-0 up in five minutes, and Lomu’s try in the dying seconds won the game.

I also remember him outside the old Rugby Union HQ in Wellington signing autographs for kids and mucking about with them on their skateboards.
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November 18, 2015 8:20pm
sam green

Some dirty down ticker here. What a coward. State your issue.
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November 18, 2015 8:22pm
Scott Hamilton

‘Some dirty down ticker here. What a coward. State your issue.’

I’m just guessing, but I doubt whether the people who have taken to posting links to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and neo-Nazi websites at Kiwiblog would be very keen on Jonah.

I grew up down the road from Wesley and Lomu was a legend in the district even before he’d finished school. Friends would rave about seeing him at a party, and speculate about when he’d make the move to the NRL. Back in the early ’90s no one could imagine how quickly and thoroughly rugby would professionalise.

I think that Jonah won the hearts of New Zealanders partly because of the way he combined massive, devastating power on the field with a gentle, almost diffident personality. He’d literally walk over a hapless England winger, but everyone knew there was no malice involved. His modesty and his complete lack of rancour somehow made him seem like an ordinary guy off the street, despite his herculean play.
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November 18, 2015 8:54pm
Satantango

Re the down-ticks. This isn’t an ideological/political issue. There are about the same number of numpties making similar comments on John Key’s Facebook comment on this. So there is clearly a class of people who are so utterly bereft of human decency and so craving of attention that they will take any opportunity to parade their immaturity and personal inadequacies including dissing the greatest rugby player of the modern era. I mean, how low can you go? I know it is against the Libertarian spirit of this blog but personally I would slap a few weeks ban on such numpties. My only consolation is that they must be desperately unhappy people who will never know the warmth of human embrace.
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November 18, 2015 9:06pm
Tauhei Notts

I never realised what a hero he was on the WORLD stage, until I saw Jonah Lomu video games for sale in Athens, Greece.
Rugby players in Greece?
Unbelievable.
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November 18, 2015 9:22pm
James Stephenson

I can still remember my jaw hitting the floor of the London pub I was in in ’95, and I’m possibly still carrying the bruise.

His legend will only grow. RIP
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November 18, 2015 9:26pm
Keeping Stock

The biggest irony tonight; Paul Hobbs from One News standing outside the Lomu home ( and telling the world what suburb they were in), whilst reading out the statement from Nadine Lomu requesting privacy. We didn’t need to know that the hearse had just left, or that Michael Jones, Eroni Clark and Ofisa Tonu’u had just left, looking really upset.

Sometimes our media people are just ghoulish in their pursuit of a story, and tonight was an excellent example of that. It did TVNZ no credit whatsoever.
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November 18, 2015 9:28pm
gump

@mikenmild

No evidence? Do you think the Director General of WADA was telling lies when he stated that excessive creatine use is a cause of liver and kidney failure? Or that Joeli Vederi – Jonah’s teammate on the Blues – is mistaken for blaming creatine as a factor in developing his own nephrotic syndrome?

It’s not a slur to talk about the dangers of excessive creatine consumption. It’s not a drug and the dangers weren’t understood when Jonah was still playing. Talking about it doesn’t diminish Jonah’s achievements or reflect on his character – it is simply an opportunity to educate.

You can sweep it under the carpet if you wish, but I work with young athletes and have a moral obligation to talk about what has happened.
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November 18, 2015 9:28pm
Scott Hamilton

I just had a look at Matangi Tonga, one of the leading voices in Tonga’s thriving media scene, and I see they have a piece up honouring Lomu:
http://matangitonga.to/2015/11/18/jonah-lomu-super-athlete-rugby-legend-dies-aged-40

They’ve claimed Jonah as a great Tongan rugby player. Reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend in Tonga on the eve of the World Cup final. I asked him whether he was disappointed Tonga had done so badly in the World Cup, and he replied ‘No, there are Tongans in the All Blacks and in the Wallabies. The final is Tonga versus Tonga’. When my wife and I were in Samoa in 2009 we gave a long ride to a bloke who spent the journey telling us that the All Blacks were a Samoan team. At the time I think they are six or seven Samoans in the ABs. The blurring of the boundaries between the tropical Pacific and New Zealand, with a generation of young Pasifika people now identifying intensely with both regions, is one of the most important developments in recent NZ history, and the All Blacks have come to symbolise the symbiotic relationship we now have with Tonga and Samoa and to an extent Fiji.

I think some Tongans were disappointed that Jonah didn’t visit his ancestral homeland more often. It may well have been hard for him to spend long there, though, with his medical condition.
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November 18, 2015 9:31pm
Rowan

Am guessing that our resident downticker is a sad sack like Stephiethebot, not even Big blub, or his many identities here would go that low!
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November 18, 2015 9:41pm
dime

Gump – just fuck off
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November 18, 2015 9:42pm
Rowan

I will always remember that 2000 Bledisloe cup game in Sydney won by the ABs after an 80th minute try from the big man. It was probably the greatest game you will ever see
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November 18, 2015 9:43pm
Keeping Stock

@ Rowan – Sky TV has a Jonah pop-up channel. I’ve just MySkyed that match, and the 1996 Athletic Park Bledisloe Cup match to record overnight and to watch sometime tomorrow.
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November 18, 2015 9:53pm
stephieboy

Rowan (3,298 comments) says:
November 18th, 2015 at 9:41 pm

You deserve only one thing and that is to be turfed off KB with your highly defamatory and nasty remarks .

Refer to my posts on General debate today, notably at 2.48 and 2.40 pm

Then apologise ,coward !
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November 18, 2015 9:58pm
Ross12

I’ve just watched Jonah’s story on Maori TV . Great player, great thinker on the game, great man. RIP

Polly Gillespie’s tribute needs to be shared.( From her FBook page)

Polly Gillespie

My heart is smashed..

I don’t know what to do with my aching heart. I don’t want to answer the phone. I can’t believe it’s true. So many times stupid rumours have been passed around that Jonah had died, and they were just horrible tasteless lies.

This is not a hoax…..Oh God that it was…..

One of my best friends is gone. Jonah who would talk with me about everything from Versace dinner ware to silly drinking games has gone. Jonah always stood up for me. He actually stood up for me like a big brother. Jonah stayed with us for months and we’d talk and hoon around and laugh, and always watch Antiques Roadshow. One thing about my boy is he had great taste in women, and through the years I became friends with the lovely Teina, the indomitable Fiona, and the ever loving Nadene. He sure had great taste in women,

Jonah I’m going to miss your calls from all the strangest places in the world. I’ll miss telling you off and telling you the truth when no-one else will do it. I’ll miss your big hands describing the cool things you’ve seen, and the quiet dignified way you handled, fans, foes and your illness.

Jonah I miss you arriving in the middle of the night with a big feed and presents for the kids [Far too generous] I’mll miss the way you always called me Miss Polly, and would come in to the lounge, lie on my couch and immediately go in to a deep sleep for hours. It was the magic couch eh J-Lo?

Grant and I loved you like our own brother, and life without you already hurts so badly. I can’t stop crying. I can’t stop wishing I could have somehow done something. I’m going to miss you like a naughty little brother. Oh Jonah…what are we to do without you? I still have half your stuff stored in your room at our house. My God you were more than the worlds greatest to me. You were just my friend, and I miss my friend.

Jonah I love and miss you, and my heart is breaking….
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November 18, 2015 9:59pm
Sponge

Gump,

What dime said.

Your post at 9:28 is utterly disgraceful. If you are educating young sportsmen/women and think it is ok to post something like that on the day of the death of Lomu then I doubt you could be teaching them the right sort of values about sport or life.
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November 18, 2015 10:07pm
Rowan

Hence the suggestion that instead of being an individual here, that the downticker was a KB bot instead, I thought was plausible, however if it isn’t Stephie then it is obviously still a pretty sad pathetic individual that would stoop that low with all the downticks on here!
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November 18, 2015 10:38pm
Tookinator

Jonah was very supportive of my campaign to improve the organ donor system.
I talked to him about championing the cause.
He declined at that time as he was waiting for a kidney and didn’t want to be seen as “self serving”
But out of the media spotlight on the issue he was encouraging and an inspiration to my cause.
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November 18, 2015 11:05pm
sam green

Yep. A bot. But there’s also a couple of c#%ts around.
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November 18, 2015 11:31pm
sam green

Nah. Why would it happen just on this thread?
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November 18, 2015 11:37pm
V

It was about more than just the tries …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FkJ1Wp9iko
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November 18, 2015 11:44pm
itstricky

Nah. Why would it happen just on this thread?

Because clearly you are a left wing progressive bastard who would downtick. Clearly. I mean who else would do such a thing? Who else? Anyone but a gay left wing progressive? Nah must have been a gay left wing progressive.
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November 19, 2015 12:51am
starboard

ahhh, the dirty downticker has exposed himself @12.51am.
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November 19, 2015 5:34am
Kiwi_in_Paris

Never forget when he stomped over those Poms at the world cup.
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November 19, 2015 6:09am
Paulus

I hear on RNZ this morning that a State Funeral is being called for as a leading Maori ?
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November 19, 2015 8:50am
stephieboy

John Eales and Gavin Hastings summed it up well on RNZ this morning . Jonah Lomu such a formable powerhouse on the field and such a humble unassuming one off the field .

True greatness for you !
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November 19, 2015 8:58am
stephieboy

Paulus, no it was just a suggestion on how best to remember and honour Jonah . No mention of “Maori” was made i

Keth Quinn felt there should be a state funeral .
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November 19, 2015 9:02am
Unity

I find the downticks on this thread abhorrent. Surely this thread should be where we can offer our respect for Jonah and our sympathy to his family. Those who feel otherwise should just stay out of it and vent whatever it is they have, elsewhere or just keep it to themselves. If they can’t say something good about him then just stay out. It makes you really wonder about some people!!
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November 19, 2015 10:41am
wikiriwhis business

“What sort of sicko would downtick that?”

The truth of Kiwiblog and the right wing
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November 19, 2015 1:51pm
David from Chch

RIP Jonah. A legend on and off the field. Not many athletes are recognised from just one name, but those that are, are legendary athletes. He stands in the parthenon of legends.

And I upticked most (but _not_ all) of the posts here, just to compensate for the sad f*cker who is downticking almost all of them.
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November 19, 2015 2:03pm
sam green

@itstricky
“Because clearly you are a left wing progressive bastard who would downtick. Clearly. I mean who else would do such a thing? Who else? Anyone but a gay left wing progressive? Nah must have been a gay left wing progressive.”

Are you accusing me of downticking all those posts? Your above comment is pure wank and nasty to boot. Fuck off!
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November 19, 2015 2:33pm
deadrightkev

Jonah was a great player and he will be remembered for being a star.

A state funeral is for a Kiwi that has done an immeasurable good for NZ. Does Jonah fit that category? No. He did a lot for rugby and rugby supporters.

John key wouldn’t fit in the state funeral category either IMHO.
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November 19, 2015 2:44pm
gump

@Sponge

“Your post at 9:28 is utterly disgraceful. If you are educating young sportsmen/women and think it is ok to post something like that on the day of the death of Lomu then I doubt you could be teaching them the right sort of values about sport or life”

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Post something like what? The fact that Jonah took Creatine and later suffered from nephrotic syndrome?

These are facts. If talking about these facts helps young athletes to make good choices that keep them healthy, then that is a good thing.

I can only assume from all the downticks that most Kiwiblog commentators don’t actually know what creatine is. It isn’t a drug – its a nutritional supplement that contains a substance that is naturally found in meat. It’s entirely legal and used by many athletes in many sports. The issue is that it isn’t inherently safe because of the load it places on the kidneys, and that’s the message that young athletes need to learn from Jonah’s death.
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November 19, 2015 8:29pm
mikenmild

Still on about that gump?

To repeat:
1. Creatine supplements have not been conclusively linked with kidney failure
2. There is no evidence that Jonah Lomu took creatine supplements
3. Your attack on him is tasteless, to say the least, on the very day of his death. (still applies tonight)
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