: Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:17 pm  

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

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:39 pm  

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 ??

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:56 pm  

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.

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:00 pm  

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.

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:03 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

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.

Out of interest are you condoning that behaviour?

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm  

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

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:30 pm  

the ditch wrote:

Thats the one atribute that all wingers have...

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.

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:32 pm  

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.

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:33 pm  

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.

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:34 pm  

mark_m wrote:

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.

?? he was a top bloke!

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