Can you believe some people are comparing shane williams to jonah lomu?

We are talking about 2 completely different players here.

In two different eras!

Jonah was huge and used his size to bump and hand off players but lacked skill and talent that Shane has!

Shane can run around and dodge players, Jonah just barged through them and lacked agility that Shane has.

Shane defends, he tackles players, Jonah hardly did this despite his size!

Shane can read the game well in a split second another thing that Jonah lacked!

I would go as far as saying, Shane is a better tactical player than Jonah ever was!

I mean how many RWC winners did he get through to score that try in the Autumn Internationals........was it 5, 6???????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzjyO7DJ1n0

He is IRB World Player of the Year mind you.

In respect, rugby is a different game now to the days of Jonah. Jonah hit the scene right at the end of amateurism, and was streets ahead of everyone else. He didn't really have the grace and sidestep of Shane, his main asset was his sheer size and brute strength, the likes of which had not been seen on the wing before. Now, players are stronger, train more, put on more weight and can stand up better to the "all power" winger. Take the failure of Vainacolo on the world stage as an example.

It will be interesting to see how Shane performs this summer, in what will almost certainly be his last Lions tour, a stage at which he has yet to perform to the levels that he has found for Wales.

if Jonah Lomu were the same size as Shane Williams who do you think would come out in top in a match?

and Rockoko, Siviavatu etc. they haven't got the vision and ability of Williams, they just have a better team around them giving them better opportunities

Shane Williams is just another bloke. Good no doubt, but at the end of the day he's just another rugby player. Jonah Lomu was the face of rugby. I went to Malaysia and I was in the cab with a guy who couldn't even speak english. I tried to explain to him I was stopping over on my way to NZ. He couldn't really understand. So thinking I might as well give it a shot, I said RUGBY! And straight away his eyes lit up and he went AH RUGBY! JONAH LOMU! JONAH LOMU!

I doubt there will ever come a time when a cabbie who speaks not a word of english will bellow Shane Williams' name at the top of his lungs.

Williams is good but he is no Lomu. Currently I would rate Williams behind Rokocoko, Ndgane, Tuquiri. As wingers go he is not up with the top rank from previous years. You couldn't put him in the same league as a Lomu or Campese or those fleet footed Welsh wingers from their golden period.

No other wing is anywhere near as good as Lomu, in fact only a small group of players from all positions can be compared to him.

Thats funny! Jonah and Shane hmmm sounds rediculously rediculous..

I would compare shane to Mils Muliaina but I reckon Mils is slightly better than Shane - I suppose the papers have to do something to boost the northern hemisphere teams

totally agree!!!!

lomu changed rugby!!! wat has williams done???

plus habana, rokocoko and rubeni are better!!! think the guy who wrote the article was on drugs or something!!! they always tend to build up the NH players as gods! they 4get that the big power houses are in the SH!

Lol! The reporters' been spending too much time reading grafetti at the bus stops!