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Rodney Howe

Rodney Howe
Personal information
Born (1973-01-31) 31 January 1973 (age 51)
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Height186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight107 kg (16 st 12 lb)
PositionProp
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1992–93 Newcastle Knights 10 1 0 0 4
1993–94 Widnes Vikings 10 1 0 0 4
1995–97 Western Reds 40 2 0 0 8
1998–04 Melbourne Storm 106 4 0 0 16
Total 166 8 0 0 32
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1997 New South Wales (SL) 1 0 0 0 0
1997 Australia (SL) 1 0 0 0 0
1998–01 New South Wales 8 0 0 0 0
1998–00 Australia 4 0 0 0 0
Source: [1]

Rodney Howe (born 31 January 1973) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played in the forwards for the Newcastle Knights, Western Reds, Melbourne Storm, New South Wales and the Australian national side.

Early life

Born in Newcastle, New South Wales. Howe was educated at St Francis Xavier's College, Hamilton, where he represented 1990 Australian Schoolboys.[2]

Career

In 1998 Howe was banned for 22 matches for using stanozolol.[3]

Howe played at prop forward for Melbourne in their victory in the 1999 NRL Grand Final.

In 2000 Howe was named the Melbourne Storm's player of the year.[4] In 2001, Howe won a special sports edition of the Australian game show The Weakest Link, defeating Kangaroos AFL player David King, winning $46,300 in total winnings and donating it towards the Cancer Council of Victoria.[5][6] It was, at the time one of the highest ever scores achieved on the show.

Howe was again named the Storm's player of the year in 2002.

References

  1. ^ Rugby League Project
  2. ^ "SportingPulse Homepage for Australian Secondary Schools Rugby League". SportingPulse. Retrieved 10 October 2008.
  3. ^ Hooper, James (5 October 2006). "Webcke defends 'cover-up'". Fox Sports. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  4. ^ melbournestorm.com.au. "NRL Honour Board". Club. Melbourne Storm. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013.
  5. ^ 2002 Melbourne Storm Info Guide. Melbourne Storm. p. 123.
  6. ^ "Recent news | AFANA".


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