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Lomu
Batsman for Cricketweb Blue
Stats:
--------M-----I----N.O---Runs---Average---50's--100's--HS
OD: -62---56----15-----1342----32.73-----10------0-------99 (seriously)
FC: --40---77-----8------2067----29.96-----12------2-----120
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Jonah Lomu
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The big fella:
Worthy winner for mine. Sure there's been more talented ball players, but Jonah's talent transcended the sport. It's a shame his career was so truncated by his kidney problems.
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Originally Posted by Richard
Good to see a kiwi win.
Hopefully we will see another Jonah sometime...
Last edited by BlackCap_Fan; 07-07-2007 at 04:27 PM.
For all the New Zealanders who saw Michael Jones in the 1987 World Cup:
What does Jonah have over Michael Jones?
Might sound irrelevant, but I thought the person who won this should have at least won a world cup. I think there's a couple of cases better than Jonah's...
Jonah's WC performances in '95 and '99, particularly his 4 try effort over England in '95, took playing rugby to another level. He introduced a new world to the game when his feats were shown on sports news's in countries that didn't usually follow the game. When I was travelling through Brazil a Brazilian guy asked me where I was from. When I told him NZ he immediately said "ah, Jonah Lomu". He didn't know the name of any other rugby player. Never before had a player that size been so fast and destructive and we haven't seen one since.
Michael Jones was a far greater player than Lomu, but Lomu was a Superstar and so he won this poll. Simple really.
Probably fair enough. It's easier for the non-union fan to appreciate Lomu's talent than Jones's tho. Given it's such a specialised sport in a lot of positions it is hard to separate players on anything other than gut instinct because you aren't comparing like for like.
Think "far greater" is a bit of an exaggeration tho, good as Jones was.
Joens usually gets rated as one of the best All Blacks ever in NZ. As high as #3 on a list they did toward the end of the 90s.
Can you get into SmarksChoice Daniel?
They moved to another board.
e-mail me somehow.
Last edited by ohtani's jacket; 09-07-2007 at 07:02 AM.
Another board? One of my e-mails is francis_okeeffe@hotmail.com. I don't have your e-mail so you can tell me what's happened New Zealander...
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