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RIP Jonah Lomu

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    #62
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,175 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Crikey! RIP, big fella. :(


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    #63
    screamer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭screamer


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Not necessarily, but if one said they were both taking supplements and said their condition was due to that, you would dismiss his concerns, right?

    I think it's not the right time to discuss this type of thing. Given that the poor guy only got home from the UK and died the following morning, I'd think more along the lines of DVT or something like that. Regardless anyways, the poor guy is dead and his family is devastated with 2 small kids with no dad. My heart goes out to them.


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    #64
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Jonah was a gifted player who was the first true global superstar for rugby around the world. We'll never again see a player who impacted and changed the game the way he did. A monster on the field and a teddy bear of it.

    RIP Jonah.


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    #65
    spud82
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭spud82


    Lads can everyone please stop discussing what caused Jonah's health problems today is not the time or the place to do that

    I saw this today and it broke my heart

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIpv_KrT4_w


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    #66
    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,655 ✭✭✭✭josip


    "I am hoping not to come across him again. He's a freak - and the sooner he goes away the better."

    Well he's gone now Will, but it's not for the better :(


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    #67
    Red_Wake
    Registered Users Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    screamer wrote: »
    I think it's not the right time to discuss this type of thing. Given that the poor guy only got home from the UK and died the following morning, I'd think more along the lines of DVT or something like that. Regardless anyways, the poor guy is dead and his family is devastated with 2 small kids with no dad. My heart goes out to them.

    I disagree. If there are allegations of a club's drug/diet regime impacting the health of former players so seriously, there deserves to be a serious discussion on it, as it could potentially be impacting the health of current players.

    Having said that, I also believe rugby needs to have an open discussion on the use of drugs in the modern game - it clearly happens, so it's worth educating people on the dangers of steroids[one of which is kidney failure, incidentally] and other PEDs.


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    #68
    Blackwell
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭Blackwell


    Shocked to hear this. RIP


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    #69
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    I love that story Keith Wood says about Paul Burke during the game they played against the All Blacks in the 95 World Cup

    "He’d been capped the previous year the same as myself,” he says. “I was a couple of years older than Jonah. I remember sitting on the bench and watching this devastating display of skill, speed and power. And Paul Burke, the Ireland sub out half, famously there was an injury in the backs and saying ‘I’m not going on, I’m not going on.’"



    http://www.the42.ie/jonah-lomu-keith-wood-2451505-Nov2015/


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    #70
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    RIP Big Man


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    #71
    Darkest Horse
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭Darkest Horse


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Darkest Horse wrote: »
    Two people in the same family die of cancer. It must have been the same cause, right?

    Not necessarily, but if one said they were both taking supplements and said their condition was due to that, you would dismiss his concerns, right?

    I'm not going into the science of it here but if you look up any articles in PubMed or Google Scholar, you'll find that your opinion is outdated.


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    #72
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Watching the documentary on Setanta,brilliant stuff

    Very humble man Jonah Lomu is coming across as,a gentle giant.


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    #73
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Kerrydude1981 wrote: »
    Watching the documentary on Setanta,brilliant stuff

    Very humble man Jonah Lomu is coming across as,a gentle giant.

    Watching it myself what's the lump on his left bicep?


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    #74
    nacho libre
    Registered Users Posts: 16,656 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/newzealand/12004193/Jonah-Lomus-power-speed-balance-and-dexterity-made-him-devastating-he-changed-the-game-of-rugby-forever.html#disqus_thread

    A good piece by Brian Moore.


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    #75
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Watching it myself what's the lump on his left bicep?

    Was wondering that myself


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    #76
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    R.I.P Jonah Lomu.


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    #77
    irish coldplayer
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭irish coldplayer


    RIP Jonah probably my favourite ever player.
    He also lent his name to the greatest rugby video game ever, spent hours in college playing Jonah Lomu rugby on the playstation with my mates


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    #78
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    irish coldplayer wrote: »
    RIP Jonah probably my favourite ever player.
    He also lent his name to the greatest rugby video game ever, spent hours in college playing Jonah Lomu rugby on the playstation with my mates

    Without doubt it was the best rugby game ever,the commentary was brilliant


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    #79
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKaqoq5NVVs


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    #80
    gavdolfini
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    “I’m really lucky, I’ve already lived more in one lifetime than many would in six or seven lifetimes, for me, the important thing is to ask ‘can you look in the mirror and say you’ve done everything to enjoy life?’.”


    R.I.P Jonah Lomu :(


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    #81
    Hammer89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    Very disappointed to hear this. I trained with him and a few of his star-studded teammates when I was a teenager. I remember two things about that day. Firstly, he had something very weird poking out of gigantic calfs; something resembling a golf ball. Secondly, he was relatively shy. Even in the company of a bunch of teens who basically looked upon him as a god, he didn't say anything that wasn't related to the rugby drills we were doing.

    We were also given tickets to the match, because they were in Ireland to play us, and I remember him flattening the naive Shane Horgan, who bent down, led with his shoulder as if it was any other winger running at him. Problem was, it wasn't any other winger. It was a freakishly strong, freakishly quick freight train who ran straight through him.

    I've seen tributes referring him to as the first superstar of rugby, which is absolutely accurate, but will we ever see someone like him again? Has there been anyone since? People standing 6'5 and weighing 18 or 19 stone are not supposed to be wingers; nor are they supposed to be so much faster than their opposite numbers, but he was. Dunno. This is just terrible.


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    #82
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Him running over Mike Catt is one of the most iconic scenes in rugby union. The guy was something else, sympathies to his wife and kids.


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    #83
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,557 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Watching it myself what's the lump on his left bicep?

    Pseudoaneurysm, apparently. Possibly caused by dialysis.


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