Haka funeral jonah lomu biography

Jonah Lomu was given an emotional and, at times humourous send-off from former All Black and former mentor, Eric Rush, as the giant All Black was laid to rest at a public memorial service at Eden Park, Auckland, attended by over 8,000 people.

Rush started out by saying that he and his team-mate had always taken the mickey out of one another, “and that’s not going to change now”, he quipped that he’d “tell a few stories about the big fella, and hope he doesn’t sit up”, to laughs from the assembled crowd.

At the start of the service, the Haka was performed by students at Wesley College, the school Lomu attended, and a star-studded group of current and former All Blacks, there to pay their respects, including Michael Jones, Buck Shelford, Jeff Wilson, Tana Umaga, Sir John Kirwan, Josh Kronfeld and Ian Jones, while World Cup winner, Jerome Kaino was a pallbearer.

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