Celebrating Jonah Lomu as the ultimate construction of destruction | Eddie Butler

Jonah Lomu will be remembered for his rampaging runs and turbo-charged hand-offs but he also changed the All Blacks for ever and his legacy lives onThese are days of contrast in New Zealand. The nation is still aglow with the achievements of the finest rugby union team of all time, a group so wedded to the notion of “filling the shirt” for however much or little time they have as Blacks that they threaten to burst the very seams they are honouring. Last week NZ heard that the shirt’s proudest tenant – you’re never an owner – had taken it off for the last time. Richie McCaw, the best of the bes…