Henry Slade (rugby union)

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Henry Slade
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Slade at the 2013 IRB Junior World Championship
Birth nameHenry James Harvey Slade
Date of birth (1993-03-19) 19 March 1993 (age 28)
Place of birthPlymouth, England
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight98 kg (15 st 6 lb; 216 lb)
SchoolPlymouth College
UniversityUniversity of Exeter
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre, Fly-half, Full-back
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2011–2012
2011–		 Plymouth Albion
Exeter Chiefs		 11
178		 (21)
(548)
Correct as of 3 September 2017
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2012–2013
2014–
2015–		 England U20
England Saxons
England		 13
2
41		 (144)
(13)
(39)
Correct as of 28 November 2019

Henry James Harvey Slade (born 19 March 1993) is an English rugby union player. He plays for the Exeter Chiefs in Premiership Rugby and represents England at international level.

Education[]

Slade attended Plymouth College and then University of Exeter reading for a BSc in Sports & Exercise Science.[1][2]

Playing career[]

Club rugby[]

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.[3] England Academy coach John Fletcher once said of Slade "the way he plays reminds me of a young Toby Flood or Rory Clegg."[4]

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.[5] He was a replacement as Exeter Chiefs defeated Wasps to be crowned champions of the 2016-17 English Premiership.[6]

He started both of Exeter's victories in the Champions Cup and Premiership finals during the 2020/2021 campaign, and was man of the match during the latter.

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

Slade was selected for England's 2018 Quilter Autumn International Series, and played in all four Test matches.[9]

International Appearances[]

Nation Played Won Lost Drawn Points Scored WIN %
Argentina 5 5 0 0 0 100
Australia 3 3 0 0 0 100
Canada 1 1 0 0 0 100
Fiji 1 1 0 0 0 100
France 4 4 0 0 5 100
Georgia 1 1 0 0 0 100
Ireland 3 3 0 0 10 100
Italy 4 4 0 0 5 100
Japan 1 1 0 0 0 100
New Zealand 2 1 1 0 0 50
Samoa 1 1 0 0 5 100
Scotland 2 0 1 1 0 0
South Africa 5 2 3 0 0 40
Tonga 1 1 0 0 0 100
Uruguay 1 1 0 0 5 100
USA 1 1 0 0 0 100
Wales 4 2 2 0 5 50

International tries[]

As of 28 November 2020 [10]
Try Opposing team Location Venue Competition Date Result Score
1  Uruguay Manchester, England City of Manchester Stadium 2015 Rugby World Cup 10 October 2015 Win 60 – 3
2  Samoa London, England Twickenham Stadium 2017 Autumn Internationals 15 November 2017 Win 48 – 14
3  Ireland Dublin, Ireland Aviva Stadium 2019 Six Nations 2 February 2019 Win 32 – 20
4
5  France London, England Twickenham Stadium 2019 Six Nations 10 February 2019 Win 44 – 8
6  Italy Rome, Italy Stadio Olimpico 2020 Six Nations 31 October 2020 Win 34 – 5
7  Wales Llanelli, Wales Parc y Scarlets 2020 Autumn Nations Cup 28 November 2020 Win 24 – 13

Personal[]

His mother is Jayne and he is the oldest of three boys, his brother Seb (b.1995) is an actor, the youngest, Albert (b.2000), is a rugby player and student. Slade has Type 1 diabetes,[11] and often injects insulin at half-time in a game.[12]

Slade is the great nephew of former Portsmouth F.C. footballer Geoff Williamson.[4]

In March 2020, Slade and his partner, Megan Browse, announced that they were expecting their first child. On 14 August 2020, Browse gave birth to a daughter, Olive Margot Slade.

Slade has been criticised for comments he made in an interview in May 2021 where he stated that he would not take a vaccine for COVID-19.[1] He has since made a statement through his club clarifying that his remarks were not to be taken as opposition to the Government's vaccine roll-out.

The comments attributed to me in regards to the Covid-19 vaccination form a very small part of an exclusive interview I had with the newspaper, which was set up to talk about living with Type-1 diabetes. Not only as a professional sportsman, but also a person who has to closely monitor my health levels every day, I am acutely aware of the importance of vaccines and the role it plays in helping save lives.

— Henry Slade, https://www.exeterchiefs.co.uk/news/statement-from-henry-slade

References[]

  1. ^ "Plymouth rugby star Henry Slade keen to repay England". thisisplymouth.co.uk. 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Henry Slade - Official RFU England Player Profile". RFU. Archived from the original on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  3. ^ "Chiefs academy member Henry Slade scores on England debut". thisisexeter. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
  4. ^ a b "Future Faces - Henry Slade and Tom Brown". Rugbyworld. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  5. ^ "ESPN SCRUM - Exeter Chiefs v London Irish at Exeter". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  6. ^ "Premiership final: Wasps 20-23 Exeter Chiefs (aet)". BBC. 27 May 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  7. ^ "England v France". ESPN scrum. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  8. ^ "Exeter centre Henry Slade has surgery on leg injury". Sky Sports. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  9. ^ "Eddie Jones names England squad for autumn internationals". The Independent. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  10. ^ "Henry Slade". 7 July 2019.
  11. ^ "Rugby fly-half Henry Slade signed his first professional contract with Exeter Chiefs at the age of 18, the same year in which he also developed type 1 diabetes". Diabetes. 15 January 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  12. ^ Squires, Neil (11 January 2018). "Exeter centre Henry Slade lifts lid on coping with diabetes in professional rugby". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2021.

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