when he went missing from warrington he moved to arply street in town my m8 had a flat on the same street and i knew richie anyway we used to go for mini games of rugby and when hes stood in front of you he could easly send you one way and shoot off the other from stood still he had amazing pace. i knew him very well. i remember being in his house one time and it was when nigel vagana just signed for us and he was there it was crazy

Richard henare.



what next a thread on Rick Thackery..

Good lord, the passing of time really has rose-tinted a few peoples' memories. He wasn't that good, or even close.

yet people will remember him! for his pace and entertaining rugby.

I remember Kevin Penny for both of those things.

Thats the one atribute that all wingers have...

he still plays for us though!

helped beat saints on 2 occasions!

and then went to swinton and got banned for a positive drug test....legend

characters in a team make it worth watching even when they have their bad moments.
we are losing a lot of charismatic players in the modern game.

Can you name a XIII of current players that you could comfortably label charismatic ??

only two players i have seen donning the primrose and blue were able to go out on a saturday night, get completely p*$$ed, so as they didn't even know what planet they were on, let alone what team they were to playing for the next day, and play a blinder were kelly shelford and richard henare.

Henare was a poor man's Graham Appo. Great for one season, when he was in shape, and was one of the quickest players around, but came back for the next season out of shape and disinterested.

Henare managed to get himself sacked halfway through his second season, where Appo lasted another two seasons so Henare still retained a cult following where Appo didn't.

If Henare had been SL standard when he was sacked by us he wouldn't have ended up playing for Swinton and Chorley.

Out of interest are you condoning that behaviour?

I can remember a lot of days when Shelford was rubbish and same with Henare, so I presume those were the "mornings after" that rubber duckie is referring to

not like what he had thay dont!

also he was one hard bloke i remember when he dove over a player to punch glen tomlinson whilst mark forster was getting batterd on the other side of the pitch by i think it was sonny nickle.

Henare was an exciting player without doubt and left us with some great try scoring memories. However what a balloon he was off the pitch.

I used to play pool with him regular.Was usually in a different world when he was on the dreaded weed not to mention being p$ssed all the time but nevertheless a true gent.Sad end to what could have been a much longer career.

?? he was a top bloke!

just once he had a beer he would shove anything down his neck.

Precisely. Shameful for him to watse his talent and the opportunity he was given.

That hardly makes him well hard does it, Tomlinson was a small halfback, would he have gone for Sonny Nickle, I doubt it.

Yes Henare punched Tomlinson once and he beat his girlfriend up but would you fancy him in the ring against Drummond, Cullen or Nat Wood?

henare would take them on regardless of who you thinks hardest.

You obviously never saw Phil Ford cut some rug in Fiesta at 2.00am on a Sunday morning......................

or mateaki mafi moonwalking in the showboat


he bought me a pint and told me he would be right next day,he was wrong,he knocked on 4 times in the first half but fair play i dropped my pie and peas at half time.

You did well to hold on to your pie and pies until half time Tache- most people had followed through by 3.25pm - never buy a pie on a Sunday, Frank Muir told you that one................

There aren't many players in the world that would draw an extra 2k in.