Only comparison with Dessie is that he was exciting going forward, got the crowd on their feet. Dessie had a lot more going for him and his record for Leigh the Wire and GB shows that. Don't think Henare is in the same league IMO.

Unfortunately Henare let himself go and his career at the top flight was so short.

i remember getting his autograph when i seen him staggerin out of the jolly tanner bladdered, started having a pass about with us, legend, remember him once getting a nose bleed he ran that fast

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?