http://www.3news.co.nz/
This can't be real
fucking hell lads this hit me pretty hard
>All Blacks legend Jonah Lomu has passed away in Auckland today at the age of 40.
Former All Blacks doctor John Mayhew confirmed Lomu had died unexpectedly this morning.
that's no fucking age at all. what a beast he was
http://www.3news.co.nz/sport/jonah-lomu-dies-aged-40-2015111813#axzz3ra7Nj5Un?utm_source=hootsuite
Wtf?
What the fuck
How
>>63640953
I-is it real? Is that a reliable source? Was he having health problems?
kek
KEK
K-E-K
I'm no fan of rugby but I can appreciate this is a fucking big deal. And he was only 40 years old?! That's absolutely mental. Tragic.
>>63641017
sounds like it was unexpected
he did have pretty serious kidney issues but i thought he resolved them
>tfw not really a rugger fan but remember watching him tear up the 95 WC
Good lad tbhonest.
>>63640876
One of the few union hacks that would have made it in league
fuck ;_;
met up with him and nonu earlier this year and he seemed fine then
fuck.
>>63641038
...Jesus Christ. Fucking speecheless mate.
>>63641043
>>63641022
Not too soon after Jerry Collins either.
Seen him on a talk show here and seemed like a sound lad. Revolutionized rugby, obviously especially the wing. Was an absolute beast of a lad, just some athlete.
Very sad.
;_;7
no I'm not okay.
third worlder blown the fuck out
Dude was a monster. RIP.
No fucking way
I'm getting teary eyes tbqh. Fuck this hurts
From only 3 months ago
>All Blacks great Jonah Lomu has revealed his major ambition is to live long enough to see his two sons turn 21.
>Lomu has to receive dialysis on a regular basis because the kidney transplant that fixed his giant body in 2004 was rejected in 2011. The 40-year-old, who proved such a sensation at the 1995 World Cup in South Africa, and also played in the 1999 tournament in Europe, hopes to receive a second transplant but accepts the odds of his body rejecting the organ are now much greater.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/71571826/Living-to-see-his-sons-turn-21-is-All-Blacks-legend-Jonah-Lomus-greatest-goal
:(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0NLC3uk5xs
But... he looked fine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyJQYxAVU4
oh shiiiiiiiiiiit. This is not a joke thread. Fuck. RIP : (
Well fuck.
holy fuck rip
so sad
>>63641043
Well since Jiffy tore League the fuck up Lomu would've been the GOAT in League.
>>63641282
Vividly remember watching that game in a pub (i'm old), and England fans were cheering for Lomu by the end of the first half.
Man against boys.
First Jerry, now Jonah.
Can't deal with this tbhlads :'(
>tfw all your childhood heroes are slowly getting picked off one by one
I swear if Gene Wilder dies soon, I'm about ready to bawl my eyes for the first time in ages.
He was only 40 for fucks sakes
>
Where the mods at? Sticky this. A true legend of sport. RIP
>>63641450
ISIS STRIKES AGAIN
did he have any existing conditions? battling anything?
Literally who
>>63641518
Rejected kidney transplant about four years back, but there was no signs he was going to die soon. If anything he seemed to be getting a lot better, more public appearances and stuff.
He's never looked truly healthy even after his transplant in '04.
RIP you god
REAL MEN DON'T CRY YOU FUCKING SISSY FAGGOTS
wat teh fug
Fuck that's young, he was one of the greatest wingers to ever play and he was a good, humble man.
>you will never watch Lomu destroy Englel ever again as a kid and be influenced to play rugby
sad day lads
>>63641022
>this poopeelia butthurt
NOOOOO FUCK
YOUVE FUCKING DONE IT THIS TIME ISIL
;_;
>>63641449
Why did you have to bring this shit up mate? He's 82. He won't be around for much longer.
>>63640876
fuck no ;_;
I dont know who this is.
Looks like Junior Seau
>>63641594
that's a big stride he's about to embark upon. shorten it up, Gene.
>>63641594
>me and mum used to watch charlie and the chocolate factory every month as single parent and only child
>she's been gone for 10 years now
>still watch charlie and the chocolate factory because i know at least gene is still alive
i'm getting ready for that day he dies
Was he an alcoholic / roids / some other self imposed kidney failure or just unlucky?
>>63641701
>Growing up watching the inferior version
kek
KEK
How is it that Jonah died before Joost "literally a skeleton" van der Westhuizen?
>>63641679
One of rugby's GOATs
One of the first the NFL was seriously trying to pick up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfsDjm6xvAA
>>63641705
Sounds like he was unlucky from the statement. Had a serious condition but was healthy at the time.
>>63641679
good input bsa
This is literally worse than Paris for Kiwis.
>>63641735
>pandering in a RIP thread
>tfw he turned on my town's christmas lights a few years ago
he was so fucking young man ;_;
>>63641732
Hawking has the same disease and is somehow still alive after all these years
>>63641720
tim burton's was utter shite m8, you didn't honestly prefer that?
Holy shit, and I just watched the haka to get pumped for the uk-duke game before coming to /sp/. What does this mean?
was it roids?
>>63641776
Nigga he was the GOAT, no two ways about it
>>63641237
Maron
I'm really upset, he was a top bloke
>tfw you want to play Jonah Lomu Rugby again in his memory
no more suffering now, big man
>>63641237
Fuggg
Maori TV is gonna have Anger Within on tonight, gonna rewatch it desu
>>63641679
He was the Walter Payton of rugby
>>63641541
Didn't he lose a load of weight after that transplant?
>>63641791
the gene wilder one is called "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"
Don't know the first thing about rugby but this is basically a day of mourning for NZ right?
There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes...
>>63641022
NO
NO
WE HAVE LIMITS
WE HAVE LIMITS YOU FUCK AND YOU CROSSED THE LINE
I can't fucking believe it
>>63641237
A genuine sporting superstar, remember growing up and just being amazed by him.
Could run 100m in near 10 seconds despite being built like a shithouse. RIP
>>63641282
Drooped dead quicker than Mike Catts reputaion
>>63641705
well, there always had rumors that too much roiding was not unrelated to his health problems, but nobody knows
>>63641885
the fucker knew which one i meant anyway, why else would i mention gene wilder?
rip in teh paec u r wiv da angles now
![7325988[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/z0SThsJ.jpg "7325988[1].jpg")
>>63641923
The scary thing he was he was sick the whole time he was playing. Imagine if he was healthy.
This fucking sucks on so many levels.
>>63641237
>>63642007
WORLD CUPS WON BY MIKE CATT: 1
WORLD CUPS WON BY JONAH LOMU:
His wife should have cooked the man some kidneys
Fuck me.
Sleep tight big fella.
>>63640876
Christ lads.
A black day for New Zealand and world rugby.
Mike Catt and Jonah Lomu have both died for our memes.
Jonah died so /rug/ could live.
Damn.
This is terrible for everyone, best of luck Kiwi bros.
>>63642284
why are his parents shadow people
>>63640876
Wtf?
This requires sticky, sorry for your loss kiwibros
A blow to big guys everywhere.
FUUCCCCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!
HE WAS JUST AT THE WORLD CUP LOOKING HAPPY AND HEALTHY
GREATEST OF ALL TIME
maybe he's hiding in a big fish
RIP Big Guy
You will always live in our plans
What the fuck? November in the year of our Lord 2015 has been complete and total dildos.
RIP undisputed GOAT.
Richie McKuck will never be as good.
>>63641237
>>63642536
The fire rises.
don't know much about rugby
to which football player could he be compared?
r.i.p.
>>63642705
I'd go with Maradona. He was to rugby what Maradona/Pele were to football.
ABSOLUTE LEGEND!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJerH9jH2Qs
F
>>63641237
Damn man, damn.
RIP. The GOAT.
>>63642724
>>63642730
Yes I meant importance and overall status.
how did he die?
F
>>63642705
He was the first real superstar in a very sensationalist way of rugby so you decide. Puskas/Pele maybe?
>>63642705
don't have a clue about football, association or american. Probably easier to compare to American because they're more similar, relative, to a really fucking giant and fast running back GOAT
the thing about jonah was that the game was amateur when he started, and training was lesser. He was played on the position for really fast, but usually really small guys with a low workrate. They just had to finish off tries.
He revolutionized it. He was 6'5, fucking huge and really fast. He'd just run right through people and still be the fastest player on the team. Really encouraged people to bulk up the year or two after the World Cup. Led to players like Julian Savea.
He was a complete outlier in that position. Insane.
>>63642705
fat ronaldo
>>63642705
David Beckham
Had a really good period but overall his reputation plus marketing exceeded his actual production
Like Beckham he never won a World Cup
>>63642705
One of the ones that was a big dude who wasn't very skilled but ran over a ton of people.
He was a big guy who was fast and played in a position that was typically filled by small dudes. So he basically just ran over all the manlets that he was matched up against, often in spectacular fashion. As a result of him the game changed - defence became much more important and the size of the average player increased a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsXTa7UCGlk
>>63642756
Natural causes.
>>63642754
Yeah, he was a literal game changer. Both changed how the game was played on the field and could change the outcome of a game single-handedly.
I don't know about you guys but I think this news is clearly taking the piss
>he lived just long enough to see NZ win another rugby world cup
>>63642733
You now realize he was only 20 here
>>63642853
May he Haka in peace.
>>63642853
>he lived just long enough to see Habana fail to break his RWC try scoring record
based.
>>63642863
I know. I watched that game live.
RIP Lomu, you played for the greatest team of all time, the all Lomu team in Jonah Lomu Rugby
>aged 40
So, wanking accident?
>>63642853
>>63642881
>he lived long enough to witness Savea trample France like he used to in his old jersey
he must have been proud
I met the big guy once, it was at the Halberg awards (annual sports awards show). A bunch of people from my school were helping out and I got to show him to his table. This was when he first got unwell, before his transplant. He could barely walk.
When he got to his table he looked up after sitting down and said 'cheers mate' like I'd done him a huge favor. Really I'd done nothing, just pointed him to a table.
Always made me happy seeing him on TV the last 10 years or so, doing so well. Seemes like such a good guy.Not anymore tho lads. Tough day.
>>63642853
>>63642954
>greatest team
>not Mathers, the kicker with the bullshit boot and the big fucker on the Rage Team
Ben Tune was better
freaking out about my mortality lads
>>63643002
Was that the Codemasters teams with the players named after the devs?
rugby is a special sport to me for simple personal reasons, the professional game I've found has ALWAYS delivered, it's always been great and never shameful or disappointing, it's full of top lads and this man was one of the best, definitely one of the most important players of the game and this is incredibly sad at 40
>tfw i had a jonah haircut as a kid
>>63641022
Australian shitposting at its finest. RIP you motherfucker we didn't deserve you.
>>63643052
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyJQYxAVU4
It's pretty cool that he was getting that warm a reaction in another country 15+ years after retiring.
>>63640876
Literally who
>>63643052
>rugby is a special sport to me for simple personal reasons
have a look at this shirt lifter
>>63643020
>big guy Lomu dies
>a rugby legend if there ever was one
>if he died so soon, who's to say you won't die tomorrow
Will /bigguys/ ever recover?
>>63643043
yeah. they had the shittest team of all 3
>>63643097
>no John Eales
fuck. :(
First we lose big Jerry Collins and now this..
Shitty thing to wake up to. Fuck
RIP Jonah
>>63643110
:^)
I simply mean because it was the sport I played as a boy in school and in the local club with my friends
Tri Nations - July 2000 - Stadium Australia
Never Forget
was lucky enough to be there
>>63643020
Yeah me too. I live in Sydney so I could fall victim to anything from terrorists to herpes at any point now.
hold me lads ;_;
Literally the first and best example of the 'meme' player
I don't think anybody here is old enough to actually have watched him play and while he was very good there is so many guys I would say were better all round wingers than he was. Nobody was better at trampling small French accountants and Englishmen than he was and highlight reel is as good as it gets but overall I think he was iconic on an individual level based on how he looked and his size rather than his skill level.
He ayed when rugby was practically amateur and if you look at his competition there was some absolutely dreadful wingers that he played against
Gonna make me sick watching all the shit people will dribble about him even though they only watched his highlights reel on youtube today
Don't know who this is, but he would get absolutely destroyed in the NFL anyways. Rugby is a crap sport
>>63643202
Keep digging that hole m8
>Jerry Collins
>Jonah Lomu
New Zealand, stop this. At least tell me Temuera Morrison is OK. He's OK, right?
>>63643225
good post tbf
he's the neymar of rugby
Reminder that prime Lomu never existed because he was sick for pretty much his whole career.
RIP big guy.
>>63640876
Kidneys btfo
>>63643195
>2:30pm
>Wake up
No one has ever deserved anything in sport as much as he deserved the 1995 RWC
>mfw Wales has the most boxing world champions per capita in the world
>>63643086
What was it like growing up poor?
>>63643243
>I didn't see it so nobody did
Could millenials be any more self absorbed?
>>63642705
Tom Brady
muslims attack and now this ...
RIP
>>63643284
>most world championships in a dying sport
Lel. That's like Australia celebrating having the most rugby league championships lad.
>>63643277
NEET pride
>>63641237
dem feels
why 21 doe?
Is this
worse than 9/11?
>>63643310
Has ISIS gone too far this time?
We'll have to send some of the Soles over to Syria in retaliation.
>>63643225
>meme player with no skill
>played wing
What the fuck did you expect? Everyone winger to be Grant Fox or something? I watched Lomu for most of his career, as early as when he used to play No.8 for Auckland and this no skill meme is literally the shallowest. He was a winger who did his job 10x better than anyone else, you weren't expecting him to to flick passes or meme offloads, his job was to finish.
I know the NRL season is almost here m8, just wait a few more weeks to shitpost in /nrl/.
>>63643097
>no Mark Ella
Is this the most JUST thread in /rug/ history?
>>63643347
Just a benchmark age like 18.
Really sad news. He was GOAT.
RIP in pieces.
wtf man
>>63643225
he was a meme player, but he was a good meme, like beckham or muhammed ali, not the best, but an enigma for the game and a pretty great player in his prime for the time
>>63640876
REKT!!!
FUCK YOU AUSSIES
>>63643321
The thing to remember about the bogan is that their allegiance is not to any particular sport, but to the nation of Australia.
It is for this reason that the Australian bogan gravitates so strongly to the three tent-pole sports of boganism - Cricket, Rugby League and AFL. The bogan gravitates to these sports not because he enjoys, or even understands them. The bogan cares only that Australia is the best, thereby validating the bogan. And where else can the bogan assert that Australia is best, other than on the sporting field, where there is a clear winner and loser.
It is for this reason that the bogan will sometimes be seen supporting the wallabies - albeit often furrowing his brow in a vain attempt to understand the sport of rugby. They can't understand how an Australian team might not be the best in a sport, but they will support the team when the team appears to be on the cusp of establishing themselves as the best in the world, only to promptly decry the sport, and not the team, in the event that Australia should lose. A failure of the national side is a failure of the bogan himself, and the distancing of one's self worth from the worth of the national sporting team would require a degree of metacognition that the bogan is simply not capable of.
So the rest of Australia will continue to humour the bogan, as without them our shipping, construction and minerals industries would grind to a halt. And the television networks will continue to play AFL, rugby league and cricket in order to pacify these puzzling creatures. And every now and again on a humid summer breeze you will hear their cries of ">muh state of origin" and ">muh Warney" and you will know that the Australian economy is in safe hands, at least for the immediate future.
>>63643354
Someone who actually matted died today though
>>63641022
TOP KEK
>>63640876
Respect from Canada
Never saw this guy play a single game in Rugby but he was literally the only recognizable name i remember growing up so he must have been good
>>63643405
>french
>rekting anyone
u got some nerve m8
>>63643374
He was moved to wing because of his low work rate. But his speed/size were revolutionary. That's why he's up there with the GOAT wings.
Everyone from the All Blacks in the 90s from Mains to Fitzpatrick don't have a bad word about him, don't feel like they stole their thunder. He was something new.
He didn't have the best ball handling skills, but he was just so good at his memery that he was that good. He deserves to be remembered.
I don't watch rugby and didn't really know of him, but RIP...
Who could he be closely compared to in the NFL?
>>63643449
>He didn't have the best ball handling skills, but he was just so good at his memery that he was that good. He deserves to be remembered.
Literally Manu Vatuvei: the prototype
holy fuck
>>63643477
A GOAT RB that could just run the fuck over everyone and was still the fastest player on the field.
>>63643321
sorry lad, I'm producing a call-back meme for the rwc threads
subscribe
>>63643436
you are so butthurt that the guy the most famous in your jungke is dead now
>>63643449
>low work rate.
That was all because of his kidney issues, he actually worked harder than anyone else if you think about it.
Guy became a world class player while fighting through undiagnosed Kidney disorders that were literally killing him slowly.
If he'd been fully fit throughout his career he'd have been unthinkably good
>>63643477
Was there any individual player who completely changed the way the sport was played? Lomu's era changed the face of the game in a lot of areas, from tactics to player builds.
>>63643477
Imagine a typical roided up running back from the modern era playing in the 60s and smashing through all the malnourished manlets.
That's basically it.
is it possible he was on pooicide watch
>>63643516
This is the most kiwi post of all time
I'm literally hearig Slice of Heaven as I read it
>>63640876
Kek. Get rekt shitskin
>>63643512
lol u are assburgers as fuck m8
>>63643554
based AmEribrah
literally who
>>63643512
>his country needs to be prayed for
>>63643542
but he was a nice guy bro, he was a real nice guy..
>>63643548
His kidneys were always failing. He unironcally lived in pooicide watch throughout his entire life
>yfw Jonah Lomu's heaven is just running through millions of Mike Catts.
>>63643577
Nice move.
Are you atheist? Do you wear a fedora? Do you listen rock music?
>>63642443
>implying worldwide relevant sports get stickies
>>63643592
>his heaven is running through mike catts
>while jerry collins is high tackling millions of colin charvises
>>63643480
fuck off back to /nrl/ shitter, don't compare that faggot to jonah.
Fuck....
>all your heroes are going to die
>>63641022
>>63643527
Babe Ruth
Don Bradman
Tom Brady
>>63643553
Explain
>>63643624
Nope. nope. and fuck no. I do listen to Cortex every now and then though, best thing to come out France.
GUY'S CHECK TV3
TANA'S GONE AS WELL
WHAT THE FUCK
>>63643480
Vatuvei is the best comparison
He actually plays against decent competition though, unlike Jonah
>>63643527
So it's like if Harry Kane died?
>>63643370
It was up there
>The GOAT of Football, Tom Brady, is alive
>The GOAT of Rugby, Jonah Lomu, is ded
Football > Rugby
>>63643669
0/10
>>63643677
savea is closer, although savea is more all-rounded rather than just "run through you at 100kph"
>>63643669
I would literally end myself.
>>63643516
He's the Brock Lesnar of rugby.
Freakish athlete, rudimentary technique, dying slowly from undiagnosed illness.
>>63643663
You are based as fuck
>>63643677
Yeah, its as if someone played before him and changed the standards of how wingers should be after him.
>>63643702
TYBB
>>63643714
Y-you like Cortex too?
LOMU IS THE RONDA OF RUGBY
>>63643700
I always preferred Joe Roff as a role model
He was more relatable and had an IQ above that of a baboon
>>63643284
No it has 13 altogether for a population of 3.1 million whereas Ireland has 80 for a population of 4.5 million.
1 boxing champion per 230,000 people (Wales) =/= 1 boxing champion per 80,000 people (Ireland).
>>63643719
Lomu didn't do anything to change league wingers tho afaik
>>63643741
YEAH. You should take a look at G-Ress, GOAT OF THE GOATS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTOBqBWKF5Y
>>63643700
>idolising a back
lel. Spotted the casual.
>>63641022
fuck, even i'm not that cold.
>>63643814
SMELLY detected
>>63643814
>idolising forwards
insecure fat cunt detected
>>63643591
underrated post
You'll be missed big man.
; (
>>63643719
Mal Meninga was a centre who was better than Lomu in every way
He didn't play on the wing but he had a very similar play style and would have made Lomu look like a bitch, not to mention the skill gap between them
>>63643700
I preferred Wilkinson desu
>>63643853
kek
>>63643833
>>63643836
>implying I'm a FSP and not a BMESR
Literally every RWC winning captain has been a forward, with the exception of Farr-Jones and Kirk, who are both half backs (aka short cunts who are allowed to hang out with the forwards).
I'll just be over here being second row master race. Enjoy not being able to get things of tall shelves you manlets.
>>63643923
big muscular e????? second row?
>>63643879
Glad you liked it lad.
>>63643765
that post is a meme
t. professional memester
>ireland has 80 boxing world champions
what's your source on all that shit? I was under the impression ireland had only 17 world champs
In any case puerto rico has the most
>>63643512
>putting your nations flag over dead bodies on the street after the terrorist attack.
>>63643923
Forwards are literally just there to do the boring shit. If you actually unironically idolise forwards then you're either a) an insecure fat cunt, or b) really really gay and like watching men grapple other men
What the fuck guys? I didn't even know he was sick, what the fuck is even going on, fuck
RIP, am truly sorry to hear this NZ bro's, keep strong
the fuck is wrong with strayan in this thread? fuckin dingo
>>63643853
Those late 80s early 90s Raiders teams were so stacked. Sticky, Loz, Chicka Ferguson, Mal, Gary Belcher
>>63643225
He was a bit of a meme player even back then, he couldn't catch well or kick which were the only things the wingers had to do besides finish tries. Him and Campese changed that position though, Campo when on the blind side would wrap around and act as another half and set others up for tries constantly if he didn't back himself.
Lomu was special in that if he was healthy and had the ball pretty much no one was stopping him. He only started to get shut down when teams literally made it their goal to shut him down. He was the first winger who really could make something out of literally nothing and just go it himself, opposed to just getting the ball after the rest of the backs did all the work.
>>63643814
Lomu was unironically bigger than many locks today in weight and size who are typically taller AND heavier than the front-row.
>>63643967
Puerto Rico is part of America lad.
>>63643231
Thank you Mr.BSA
very insightful post
>>63644002
That's why league is a better sport, forwards actually do interesting shit. You won't see a union forward chase his own grubber and beat a winger to win a game in the 80th minute
>>63641022
I kek'd tbqh
>>63644002
This is the sort of simplistic understanding I would expect from someone who's job description is "run fast, try not to get tackled"
>>63644037
>idolising someone for their physical attributes rather than for their skills
this is elite memery.
>Tom Brady will die in your lifetime
