Jonah Lomu

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Jonah Lomu Rugby is still the greatest rugby game of all time

Demented moles. Ballydown Park. Laksanasompong. Will there ever be another rugby game as good as this?

By Jamie Wall | 2nd January, 2023

Contributing writer

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Jonah Lomu Rugby is still the greatest rugby game of all time

Demented moles. Ballydown Park. Laksanasongpong. Will there ever be another rugby game as good as this?

By Jamie Wall | 31st March, 2022

Contributing writer

Joeli Vidiri (left image by Ross Land, right image by Stu Forster)

Best of 2020: Scratched meets Joeli Vidiri, the greatest All Black that never was

All this week we're looking back on some of the best videos published on The Spinoff in 2020. Today, when Scratched caught up with Joeli Vidiri.

By Scratched | 14th December, 2020

Joeli Vidiri salutes the Eden Park crowd after scoring four tries in a Super 12 match against the Bulls (Photo: Phil Walter/Getty Images)

Joeli Vidiri was as good as you remember

In the Counties-Manukau and Auckland Blues teams of the late 1990s, 'Big Joe' was one half of a double act the likes of which we may never see again.

By Scotty Stevenson | 29th July, 2020

Senior sports writer

Joeli Vidiri (left image by Ross Land, right image by Stu Forster)

Scratched: Joeli Vidiri, the greatest All Black that never was

From tennis champions to dance craze inventors, Scratched celebrates New Zealand sporting heroes who never got their due.

By Scratched | 27th July, 2020

Moseses Vea’ila as Jonah Lomu in Jonah, the first episode of which lands on Three tonight

Review: Jonah is a troubled story of a tragic legend

Jamie Wall reviews Jonah, the two-part Three telefeature that follows the life of our most famous All Black, and finds it an effective but mixed retelling of the legend.

By Jamie Wall | 18th August, 2019

Contributing writer

Kiwis of Snapchat: Sensing Murder’s Kelvin Cruickshank has a yarn to Jonah Lomu (WATCH)

Kiwis of Snapchat: Sensing Murder’s Kelvin Cruickshank has a yarn to Jonah Lomu (WATCH)

We obtain exclusive footage of Sensing Murder psychic Kelvin Cruickshank trying to contact Jonah Lomu, again.

By The Spinoff | 27th April, 2017

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – NOVEMBER 30: (L-R) Rugby League player Manu Vatuvei and All Blacks player Jerome Kaino carry the casket carrying Jonah Lomu from the Public Memorial for Jonah Lomu at Eden Park on November 30, 2015 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

Jonah: A Legend So Big it Took a Stadium to Farewell Him

Jonah Lomu was farewelled today. Don Rowe reports from Eden Park.

By Don Rowe | 30th November, 2015

Contributing writer

Television: The Spinoff’s TV Week – Celebrating Heroic New Zealanders (Even Those on The Block)

Television: The Spinoff’s TV Week – Celebrating Heroic New Zealanders (Even Those on The Block)

Bringing together the best, worst and weirdest TV moments of the week, including tributes to Jonah Lomu, inside Parris Goebel's empire and VNZMA madness.

By Group Think | 20th November, 2015

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Sports: James McOnie Remembers Jonah Lomu

By James McOnie | 18th November, 2015

Sports: There Will Never Be Another Jonah

Sports: There Will Never Be Another Jonah

By Scotty Stevenson | 18th November, 2015

Senior sports writer