Harvey Howard

Harvey Howard
Personal information
Born 29 August 1968 (1968-08-29) (age 43)
Playing information
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight 16 st 10 lb (106 kg)
Position Prop
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1990–94 Widnes
1993 Easts (Sydney) 4 0
1994–96 Leeds
1996–99 Wests (Sydney) 58 4
1998 Bradford Bulls 6 1 0 0 4
2000 Brisbane Broncos 14 0
2001–02 Wigan Warriors 52 4
Rochdale Hornets
Total 134 1 0 0 12
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1995–2000 England 6 0 0 0 0
1998 Great Britain 1 0 0 0 0

Harvey Howard is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. A Great Britain, and England international representative Prop, he played club football in England for Widnes, Leeds, Bradford and Wigan, and in Australia for the Eastern Suburbs Roosters, Western Suburbs Magpies and Brisbane Broncos, with whom he won the 2000 NRL Premiership Grand Final.

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Career

Played in Australia, while going over to England regularly. After four seasons with Wests in the late 1990s, Howard could not win a place in the joint team, Wests Tigers. Wayne Bennett had no such concern, using Howard as a stop-gap Prop and bringing him off the bench in the Broncos 14-6 Grand Final Win over the Roosters in 2000.

During his time with the Western Suburbs Magpies on the playing roster, he gained several nicknames, including Harves and Harvester, freight, but also mainly as Night Train. This was because of a song at the time which he insisted the whole team listen to a song called "Night Train".

Harvey Howard is the only player to win England caps whilst at the Brisbane Broncos.

Harvey has returned to Australia on a permanent basis, and now works full time for the Western Suburbs Magpies DRLFC as Development officer, in charge of the junior grades of football, as well as the Junior Magpies development teams.

International honours

Harvey Howard won caps for England while at Leeds in 1995 against Wales, while at Brisbane Broncos in 2000 against Australia, Russia (sub), Fiji (sub), Ireland (sub), and New Zealand, and won a cap for Great Britain while at Bradford Bulls in 1998 against New Zealand (sub).[1]

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