Jonah Lomu goes back to Tonga

***All Tongan supporters get to the Cloud, Auckland City this Saturday 6PM versus France. We want the largest crowd ever to watch the team on big screen. Get down there early. Let's shut down the city!!!


Rugby's first global star goes back to where it all started.

Training with the Tonga U-17 squad.

Alongside him were Murray McCully and other New Zealand government officials. The Pacific Mission aims to build closer ties with Pacific Islands, and to promote and encourage the inclusion of Pacific Islands in the the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

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[cokonuthusk]

@joe808boyz datz rite even bj [BRIAN WILLIAM] was coaching SAMOA MICHAEL JONES/TUIGAMALA/FRANK BUNCE/PATLAM/OFISA TONUU/ERONI CLARKE/IEREMIA/ TIMO TAGALOA AND MORE N MORE LOOK AT TIALATA HES BACK AT THE ISLAN SETTING UP HIS TRUST TO HELP OUT HIS VILLAGE ON DA TSUNAMI SAMOAN LOVE BRADA DATS HOW WE DO IT IS DA LUV N RESPECT USO NO MATTER WHAT DIS GUY JONAH I HOPE TONGANS VISIT HIM AT HOSPITAL HES GONE DOWN WIF DIS KIDNEY FINK AGAIN I WAS TOLD MY YOUNGER DAYS REZPECT UR PARENTS N U LIV LONGER

[187prettyboy]

@cokonuthusk But Jonah is not a coach. Like Tuigamala. Some players will just never be coaches.

[alLsway1]

after so many years and now that u have shyt u want to call tonga home?? get real n piss off its ok if ur going back just dont say ur giving back cause u aynt shyt...

[187prettyboy]

@alLsway1 lotokovi much

[T0NGAN676]

@hinano96795 True, Tonga doesn't need Lomu. This fool never acknowledged his Tongan heritage. Even Doug Howlett repped his Tongan side more and he ain't even full. After Lomu got his money he left South Auckland and forgot about everything!

[kaiukamea]

oh..now he wants to go back to tonga...wata joke...

[187prettyboy]

@toolowtoolow But Jonah was born in NZ. So thats where he came from. You must be talking about his father.

[toolowtoolow]

@ph046053

Yeah its sad that some players let their fame go to their head. They forget what they came from and how they got to that point in their life, and the blessings god gave them.

I still respect him for his skill, but other than that not really. In the end all we have as Polynesians is our identities, once we lose that we are like any other people that has lost their culture.

[ph046053]

@THeKanG423 I'll tell you why. I am half caucasion and half Tongan and I lived in Tonga for 3 years (1998-2001). During the world cup we got up to watch Tonga play the All Blacks on the TV, after New Zealand won they interviewed Lomu and asked him how did it feel to play against his home country and he said that it wasn't his country - it hurt deep to hear him say that. I am proud of my polynesian heritage, but it was as if Jonah was denying his. That is why alot of Tongans don't like him.

[THeKanG423]

all his haters are tongan why??

he is an idol

[wasabi12345678910111]

All you haters fuck off

[DarkKnyght23]

Fuck all you haters saying hes done nothing for his people, well what the fuck have you done? NOTHING. You dont know what he has or hasnt done. Just hate cause he was the best to do it & you were just observers.

[TohiKoula20]

@joe808 dnt talk hard now bitch. Lemu is how yu talk yu cocky motherfucka ai polo lo kama

[TohiKoula20]

(: hello haterz..talkin down den backin it all up again ay. True fact Lomuz legend everyone hu gets onda field all wish dey had dis horsepower and become dis legend.. Wahahahaa shame on yur jealouse asses ! Reaally hope a horse runs it straight into yur ribz and crush da fuk out of yuz.. yeeeeeeee boooi !

[cokonuthusk]

@187prettyboy NO WUT IM SAYIN IS ALL DIS SAMOAN GUYS DAT I MENTION DEY WERE ALL PLAY A PART IN SAMOAN RUGBY IS EITHER PLAY FO SAMOA OR COACH TUIGAMALA IS NOT A COACH HE PLAY FO SAMOA IN 1991 WQRLD CUP BUT LOMU DIS GUY CAME IN DA PICTURE WEN DERE WAS NO ISLANDER LIKE SBW IN DOSE DAYS HE WAS DA MAN IN DOSE DAZE BUT -----I HOPE HE BE WELL SOON