Wade Horder
FullnameWade Horder
Birth date6 December 1975 (age 50)
Retiredyes
Club 1North Sydney Bears
Year1start1996
Year1end99
Appearances 116
Tries 17
Goals 10
Fieldgoals 10
Points 128
Updated24 January 2019
Source[1]

Wade Horder (born 6 December 1975) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played for the North Sydney Bears in the National Rugby League. He played as a winger.

Playing career

Horder made his debut for North Sydney in the 1996 ARL season against the Western Reds in round 11, coming off the bench in a 28-6 victory. This was the second Horder to play for North Sydney, the first being the winger and North Sydney "Team of the century" member Harold Horder. Wade Horder is the great nephew of Harold.[2][3]

Horder scored his first try for Norths against the Sydney City Roosters on 28 March 1998 and then a week later scored a hat-trick against St. George. In round 6, against the Auckland Warriors, Horder was involved in a controversial try involving a ball boy. Instead of the ball boy placing the ball on the line, Horder called for the ball which was thrown to him from the touchline, Horder passed it to North Sydney hooker Mark Soden who raced away to score as Auckland did not know what was happening and were not ready.[4] Horder was a member of the 1999 North Sydney squad and played in the final game that North Sydney ever played in first grade: against the North Queensland Cowboys in Townsville. Norths won the match 28-18.[5][6][7]

References

  1. ^ "Wade Horder - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project". Rugbyleagueproject.org
  2. ^ "North Sydney Bears Team of the Century • Rugby League Opinions". Rugbyleagueopinions.com
  3. ^ Ferguson, Shawn Dollin and Andrew. "Wade Horder - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project". Rugbyleagueproject.org
  4. ^ Carayannis, Michael (16 August 2014). "'You would always do what the players wanted': Former ballboy tells of his own sideline drama". – via The Sydney Morning Herald.
  5. ^ "North Sydney Bears". Misterfixit.tripod.com. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  6. ^ "The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales on January 25, 1998 · Page 102". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
  7. ^ "The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales on May 23, 1999 · Page 114". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2017-08-24.