Henry Slade (rugby player)

Henry Slade
Slade at the 2013 IRB Junior World Championship
Birth name Henry Slade
Date of birth (1993-03-19) 19 March 1993
Place of birth Plymouth, England
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 87 kg (13 st 10 lb; 192 lb)
School Plymouth College
University University of Exeter
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half, Centre, Fullback
Current team Exeter Chiefs
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2011-2012
2011-		 Plymouth Albion
Exeter Chiefs		 11
102		 (15)
(429)
Correct as of 3 September 2017
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2012-2013
2014-
2015-		 England U20
England Saxons
England		 13
2
13		 (144)
(13)
(10)
Correct as of 23 June 2018

Henry Slade (born 19 March 1993) is an English rugby union player, who plays for the England rugby team.

Slade plays for Exeter Chiefs in the English Premiership. He was dual-registered to Exeter Chiefs and Plymouth Albion in the 2011/2012 season. He has also represented England at U18 and U20 level, Henry made his debut in for the Under 18s on 22 July 2010.[1] England Academy coach John Fletcher once said of Slade "the way he plays reminds me of a young Toby Flood or Rory Clegg."[2]

Slade made his Premiership debut against London Irish on 13 April 2013 coming off the bench to replace Gareth Steenson, Slade scored his first premiership points in this game kicking over a conversion following a try from Dave Ewers.[3] He was a replacement as Exeter Chiefs defeated Wasps to be crowned champions of the 2016-17 English Premiership.[4]

Henry attended Plymouth College and is now at University of Exeter reading for a BSc in Sports & Exercise Science.[5][6]

Slade is the great nephew of former Portsmouth F.C. footballer Geoff Williamson.[2]

International Career

Slade made his debut for England in a match against the Barbarians on 1 June 2014, kicking 15 points and putting in an impressive performance though it was an uncapped game. Slade won his first cap for England on 15 August 2015 at Twickenham against France in a World Cup warm up match. He started at outside centre partnering Sam Burgess in the midfield. It was a game England won 19-14. [7] Slade was then named in Stuart Lancaster's 31 man squad for the world cup. Slade then won his second England cap again at outside centre against Uruguay in the pool game, scoring a try.

Slade suffered a nasty broken leg [8] for Exeter Chiefs in the 2015/16 season ruling him out for the six nations under new coach Eddie Jones. Despite this Slade recovered from his injury to earn a further 2 caps from the bench against Fiji and Argentina in the 2016 autumn internationals as well as a bench appearance vs Italy in the six nations. In 2017 Slade started both tests against Argentina on the summer tour in the absence of Lions Ben Teo, Owen Farrell and Jonathan Joseph.

He also started his 5th game and 3rd against Argentina in the 2017 autumn internationals in the inside centre position. He then featured from the bench against Australia, and started against Samoa.

In early 2017 he was named in Eddie Jones' Six Nations squad for 2018.

International Appearances

Nation Played Won Lost Drawn Points Scored WIN %
Argentina 4 4 0 0 5 100
Italy 1 1 0 0 0 100
Fiji 1 1 0 0 0 100
Uruguay 1 1 0 0 0 100
France 1 1 0 0 0 100
Samoa 1 1 0 0 5 100
Australia 1 1 0 0 0 100

International tries

1 Uruguay 10/10/15
2 Samoa 25/11/17

References

  1. ↑ "Chiefs academy member Henry Slade scores on England debut". thisisexeter. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Future Faces - Henry Slade and Tom Brown". Rugbyworld. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "ESPN SCRUM - Exeter Chiefs v London Irish at Exeter". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Premiership final: Wasps 20-23 Exeter Chiefs (aet)". BBC. 27 May 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Plymouth rugby star Henry Slade keen to repay England". thisisplymouth.co.uk. 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  6. ↑ "Henry Slade - Official RFU England Player Profile". RFU. Archived from the original on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  7. ↑ http://en.espn.co.uk/statsguru/rugby/match/248675.html
  8. ↑ http://www.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/19081/10092451/exeter-centre-henry-slade-has-surgery-on-leg-injury


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