{"id":671468,"date":"2026-07-03T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671468\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:31:18","slug":"richie-mccaw-and-dan-carter-didnt-hesitate-naming-rugbys-goat-page-4-of-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671468\/","title":{"rendered":"Richie McCaw and Dan Carter didn&#8217;t hesitate naming rugby\u2019s GOAT &#8211; Page 4 of 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#1. Jonah Lomu (New Zealand)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Position:\u00a0Winger<br \/>Height:\u00a06 ft 5 in<br \/>Weight:\u00a0262 lb<br \/>Caps:\u00a063<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dan Carter said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe bowled me over about 5 m when I tried to tackle him in one of my first games. A superstar. Gutted I never played with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richie McCaw said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I first became an All Black he was in the team. To play alongside a guy you had watched as a young fella was pretty amazing. He made me look silly in training more than once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know?<br \/>New Zealand sevens star Eric Rush played a touch game with Lomu when he was 14 years old and was so impressed he invited him to a sevens tournament in Singapore the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bio:<br \/>Jonah Lomu (1975\u20132015) revolutionised rugby union with his blend of size, power, and speed. He burst onto the world stage during the 1995 Rugby World Cup, where his devastating runs made him an international superstar. Despite a career cut short by kidney disease, he remains one of the sport\u2019s most iconic and influential figures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"#1. Jonah Lomu (New Zealand) Position:\u00a0WingerHeight:\u00a06 ft 5 inWeight:\u00a0262 lbCaps:\u00a063 Dan Carter said: \u201cHe bowled me over about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}