Why The Rugby World Got So Excited About A Young Julian Savea | Highlights

Julian Savea was nothing short of phenomenal in his early days playing rugby. His form for the Wellington, the Hurricanes and New Zealand rugby had many rugby fans comparing him to the great Jonah Lomu. Footage here from when he was just 19 shows him playing for Wellington. #RugbyHighlights
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[@edsmith4160]

The hatrick he scored in the quarter final against France in 2015 was all class.

[@willus259]

Gee, Hosea Gear AND Julian Savea on the wings in this Wellington team... that would be a nightmare to defend against.

[@shanerangihuna4482]

There will never be another player like Jonah ever He consistently destroyed defences both domestically and internationally throughout his whole career RIP Big guy

[@damo9961]

Laugh react

[@damo9961]

Like Hansen said in 2015, he was better than Lomu. Lomu was so overrated - terrible defense, terrible under the high ball, no kicking game, terrible at going backwards - he just had a nice highlight reel of him running over a 60kg English winger at the end of the amateur era.

[@Sulu-sw3zo]

@@damo9961 someone's a bit triggered, dry your eyes

[@fomofud9479]

Lomu was never scored against the Boks in 11 games

[@karlosdeevs]

@@Sulu-sw3zo still a phenomenal player in his own right

[@viliametui1954]

Julian is Julian. Spectacular star!

[@zangetsu9843]

My all time favourite what a beast respect✊

[@joebeazley831]

Would've been the highest try scorer ever for the ABS ,sadly personal issues got in the way

[@alexanderthegreatestalex2900]

Tonight against the crusaders was his best match in 5 years. Bullied Richie mo'unga like he did to Israel dagg back in 2013. Bumped him off 3 times in the last 30 minutes.

[@alexanderthegreatestalex2900]

Unfortunately it wasn't even shown in the highlights package 😕

[@norrissiaki6760]

Savea remember who you are ..alu le manusamoa uso..pride to be 🇼🇸

[@ValHemi265]

Half a step, full step, side stepped. And he was only 19! 2 cool jules. #UPTHECAPITAL

[@tonymontana5943]

Lomu never got bumped off😂

[@fabiov8412]

youve obviously never seen the one on one tackle from brian lima

[@TheSilkKing]

@@fabiov8412 what game?

[@fabiov8412]

@@TheSilkKing manu samoa vs all blacks.. brian lima is the only person that stopped lomu one on one.

[@inokerogoyawa]

@@fabiov8412 The Chiropractor wasn’t scared of anyone !!

[@tommyboy.3594]

James Small from the spring bokz back in 1995 world cup did it and so as George Gregan, and they were tiny compared to Jonah.

[@dirtysouthauckland1436]

He was good until they started comparring him to Jonah Lomu.. thats when his carrer started going downhill and eventually got let go by the ABs due to lack of perfomance. Dont speak of a Rugby Kings name!

[@Dino_dopedub525]

Class The Bus

[@BLUEZz73]

WoW pure class the future G.O.A.T Amazing

[@boboff1538]

huh?

[@Bornilonelyocean2024]

I wondered if he can match up with Joshua Tuisova the Fijian flair

[@salvationsound2826]

Julian Far Farr surpassed Joshua

[@Jery.rbn.22]

No...josua tuisova is the New lomu... ago longtime

[@bullsailor1521]

Big and Fast scary combination

[@tmaktmak1464]

I’m glad I was there 2015 in Cardiff to see him clapping 4 French defenders with his thighs. What a sight it was🤣

[@rogerwaihaperoger.1157]

Graham Henry and Steve Hanson were the two that buggered his rugby career up..They knew he had issues off the field,instead of helping him to try overcome those issues-Nah -they left him out in the cold..Thats when his rugby started to get worse everytime he went out on the field...Could'nt catch a ball ,His tackling was feeble,just about everything he done went all wrong.. I always said and still stand by it-2015 rugby world cup -game against *FRANCE* was the best i seen him play-He just Bulldozed his way over the line for 3 tries..Yep he was great in his teens right up to the 2015 world cup..

[@mikerandall8289]

Looks like he would have made a good All Black

[@camwells9726]

Good player was Julian , brother is pretty handy too

[@sakabula1285]

Yes..if only I got a dollor for every new Jonah there was the last few years...

[@SA-dx5sx]

He’s no Lomu. Lomu was an AB for years. This guy lasted only 5 tops. His brother was a better AB.

[@loveadventures88]

Not even close to lomu when you compare to Taqele Nayaravoro. Nayaravoro his the real Lomu of today . Watch all his highlights.

[@ivywong-tebbitts2586]

Lomu was a lot bigger

[@kitgumayegang2562]

the moment he kinda bends his back ...boi you know it's disaster

[@karlosdeevs]

it was his way doing it, never see folks calling tuilagi's style a disaster

[@seansmith9936]

Nxt lomu hahaha savea is useless

[@ejsmith9194]

He won a world cup and was one of if not the top winger running around from 2012-2015. How's he useless? You ever win a world cup? No.. you're worse than uselss

[@WalterWhite-sm2dr]

Ask the owner of Toulon what he thinks of Savea!

[@jb-xm1yi]

What happened?

[@charlesarmstrong5292]

Miles and miles better than Lomu and half his size.

[@meneeringenieur1866]

Meh..average player

[@ejsmith9194]

Was one of if not the best winger going around 2012-2015 and won a World Cup. He was dangerous everytime he got the ball in those years. Could bump anybody off and did so. How is he an average player?

[@damo9961]

Like Hansen said in 2015, he was better than Lomu. Lomu was so overrated - terrible defense, terrible under the high ball, no kicking game, terrible at going backwards - he just had a nice highlight reel of him running over a 60kg English winger at the end of the amateur era. Lomu wouldn't make a super rugby side today and I'd bet my life on it. Really separates the people that know rugby and those that dont lol

[@Sulu-sw3zo]

You had to copy and paste your comment three times on this video, keep copying and pasting buddy. There, there, good boy.

[@fomofud9479]

As a Saffa, I can honestly say that Lomu in his prime was one of the best wingers ever to play the game even though he never scored against the Boks in 10 or 11 games it took so many Boks to defend against him that Christian Cullen scored 11 or 12 tries in those same games. Even if he wasn't scoring his presence alone created a huge psychological edge over opposition sides. Jono Lomu, this Saffa salutes you. May you rest in peace big man. To the numb nuts who wrote the original message, you really do not know much about the game and I'm kinda embarrassed on your behalf.

[@TheSilkKing]

Hansen is overrated

[@hmmmyeahnahdoh823]

Mate, is everything Black & White in your world? Anyone that leaves out key pieces of information or tries to diminish someone's achievements to validate their opinion, is either insecure or doesn't have all the information to form an objective unbiased critique. Some might call it uninformed, for want of a more colloquial reference but I prefer to use the term Unbalanced. The real world has more colour's than just Black & White. Maybe when you start seeing or acknowledging those colour's the world will become a lot clearer otherwise they'll remain binary, thereby rendering your analysis, meaningless and irrelevant. If you need to ask what I'm talking about then you obviously don't possess the necessary skills to analyze and decipher facts to arrive at the correct conclusion because they aren't grounded in all the available facts (including context) BUT rather, half truths (cherry picked or implied facts) by the deliberate omission of key facts. The only conclusion you can draw is some personal crusade to discredit them through misinformation, which seems to be more contagious and a lot more dangerous than a certain virus. Now that you've mastered copy/paste, maybe you should start working on those other skills.

[@Sulu-sw3zo]

@@hmmmyeahnahdoh823 an eloquent riposte, well said. But you and I both know that your words are wasted on this person.

[@glennwohlgemuth3282]

In his prime the guy was absolute world class, Unplayable. Would loved to have seen him in the black jersey a couple of more years.

[@David_Lee92]

Sadly, Rieko Ioane took over his spot and became a phenomenon on the left wing. A new breed of generation.

[@karlosdeevs]

@@David_Lee92 yh exactly. Never know how long you might hold the torch for, then you give it to the next man..

[@marcdaniels9079]

And even playing when sick he still got selected as first choice and was awesome. Without the terrible illness who knows what he could have achieved

[@hunnabah3299]

Worried to much about his hair and not how he was playing his footy, harsh conclusion. Ardie always had that fire in him to push higher in the international ranks

[@benzo_676]

Hard out man! I think once he had his first kid his playing dropped down big time.

[@pixelpotato4874]

"I coached him in the junior grades and thankfully he ignored everything that I said to him,and he's gone on and done well" Onya Ken😂😂😂

[@realifehaps6307]

Stop comparing players.. they all awesome in their own ways.

[@barney151]

when he got dropped the next season after doing those 3 French players, I thought holy we got some depth or are we trying to get too fancy?, then we leave Laumape out the next world cup, yeah we getting too fancy lol ..

[@Shot1964]

There’s only 1 Lomu

[@hanoitripper1809]

Theres no “next Lomu” silly how its always pushed, even dean hall was touted as “the white Lomu” 🙃😂

[@whitefire06]

I remember being frustrated with how he couldn't catch kicks when he was first being hyped up. He fixed that pretty quick and became a great winger. Still looked pretty good last season too.

[@marcdaniels9079]

Lomu was absolutely unique and comparisons of anyone with him, no matter how good they may be, are pointless. RIP Jonah.

[@samuelwells4018]

Never forget that Jonah never scored a single point against the Springboks.

[@marcdaniels9079]

@@samuelwells4018 Doesn’t change anything. Still the GOAT.

[@tyelav13]

@@samuelwells4018 he didn’t score against Wales neither.

[@michaelkonelio7452]

Lomu was great, but he was one dimensional….he had a running game but lacked passing, kicking and his defence was questionable. Wingers these days are more well rounded and that’s just the truth.

[@damo9961]

Like Hansen said in 2015, he was better than Lomu. Lomu was so overrated - terrible defense, terrible under the high ball, no kicking game, terrible at going backwards - he just had a nice highlight reel of him running over a 60kg English winger at the end of the amateur era.

[@Styllah]

Not the next lomu

[@noalomu459]

No doubt he was the best in his prime, would have loved to have seen him in the black jersey a few more years but at least we have highlights to watch of Julez 🙌🔥

[@3vimages471]

There can only ever be one Lomu ... unchallenged.

[@okay7321]

Annnd wellington still can't win a comp after 22 years. Painful.

[@hanrichlaubscher8879]

Never

[@horsecodenumbers]

The next silly robot.

[@warriorsouthseasislanders4901]

No

[@johanventer5730]

If they could play defensive he would be just another rugby player. Bad bad tackling....

[@chrischris5240]

Any good winger can score these tries, an intercept? Come on man...he's scored heaps better tries than these and so has a lot of other players

[@marccouasnon6973]

It's true that there is some "LOMU" in him, but I much prefer the RTS style of the Blues...

[@jacksonjoe7456]

What about when the tomarata terror from northland bowled him over

[@davidvincent9545]

Posted one day ago and this is old as the hills!

[@leewilson229]

He was good but no Jonah Lomu

[@pedrorivera8255]

What happened to him??? I thought he could be the next Lomu but after the 2015 RWC he somehow never reached his old form...

[@NZENZN]

He ate himself out of form

[@Nattyuce685]

Let’s remember players on the win were not that big back then compared to now days

[@NZENZN]

they were bigger, im not even joking

[@g685uso5]

one can beat the records of jonah lomu.

[@mananz5877]

There was a few big wingers that hit just before Lomu and Savea. Timo Tagaloa, Inga Tuigamala, John Kirwan, Norman Berryman among a few others. In NZ we have been blessed to watch some big barnstorming wingers growing up watching the NPC.

[@trento9487]

To bad he peaked early and never amounted to much after all his success with all blacks and overseas etc

[@cm2877]

Funny what pressure can do. I don’t think he peaked early, it Just gives me more respect for players who can play for a long time.