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. England Academy coach John Fletcher once said of Slade "the way he plays reminds me of a young Toby Flood or Rory Clegg."
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. 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. Henry attended Plymouth College and is now at University of Exeter reading for a BSc in Sports & Exercise Science.
Slade is the great nephew of former Portsmouth F.C. footballer Geoff Williamson.
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International Career
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. Slade was then named in Stuart Lancasters' 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 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
International tries
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References
External links
- Exeter Chiefs Profile
- RFU Player Profile
- Aviva Premiership Player Profile
- ESPN Player Profile
Source of article : Wikipedia
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