Richard Henare (born 12 October 1968) is a New Zealand former

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played at club level for

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, in the

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for the

Warrington Wolves Warrington Wolves are a professional rugby league club based in Warrington, England. They play home games at the Halliwell Jones Stadium and compete in Super League, the top tier of British rugby league system, British rugby league. Warringto ...

, and the

Swinton Lions The Swinton Lions are a professional rugby league club based in Swinton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in the RFL League 1 . The club has won the Rugby Football League Championship, Championship six times and three Challenge Cups ...

Playing career

Henare began his career playing for

before joining the

in 1996. In the 1996 and 1997 seasons he played twenty-four

matches for the Warrington Wolves. Richard Henare made his début for

on Friday 5 April 1996, and he played his last match for Warrington Wolves on Friday 11 July 1997, he was Warrington Wolves' leading try-scorer in 1996's

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with 17- tries. He later played for

before being released in 2000 after receiving a twelve-month ban for testing positive for cannabis.

References

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