Harvey Howard
| Personal information | ||||||
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| Born | 29 August 1968 England | |||||
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994–96 | Leeds | 61 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 1996–99 | Wests (Sydney) | 59 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1998 | Bradford Bulls | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2000 | Brisbane Broncos | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001–02 | Wigan Warriors | 57 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Rochdale Hornets | ||||||
| Total | 201 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1995–2000 | England | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | Great Britain | |||||
Harvey Howard is an English 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.
Playing career
Howard played in Australia, while going over to England regularly. In the 1992–93 Rugby Football League season he played at prop forward for Widnes in their Challenge Cup final loss. Moving to Leeds he played in both the 1993–94 Rugby Football League season and 1994–95 Rugby Football League season Challenge Cup Final losses to Wigan. Also while at Leeds, in 1995 he won his first international cap for England against Wales.[1]
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". While at Bradford Bulls in 1998 Howard won a cap for Great Britain against New Zealand as a substitute.[2]
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' 2000 NRL Grand Final win over the Sydney Roosters. After that Howard represented England in the 2000 Rugby League World Cup, also mostly from the interchange bench.
He played for the Wigan Warriors at prop forward in their 2001 Super League Grand Final loss to Bradford Bulls.
Post playing
Harvey 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.
Howard was appointed Hull Kingston Rovers' first team coach in late 2004. Howard was dismissed shortly before the Northern Rail Cup Final, which Rovers went on to win 18-16 over Castleford Tigers, with the Robins utilising the temporary player-coaching abilities of James Webster. Permanently taking over from Howard was the former Toulouse coach, Justin Morgan.
References
- ↑ "England Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ "Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
External links
- Harvey Howard at the Brisbane Broncos official website. (This link no longer works, please see the template page to change.)
- England Statistics at englandrl.co.uk
- Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk
- Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org
- Profile at Leeds Rhinos official website
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