Wade Horder (born 6 December 1975) is an Australian professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer who played for the

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in the

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. He played as a winger.

Playing career

Horder made his debut for North Sydney in the

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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 Harold Norman Horder (23 February 1894 – 21 August 1978) was an Australian rugby league player. He was a national and state representative player whose club career was with South Sydney and North Sydney between 1912 and 1924. Regarded as on ...

. Wade Horder is the great nephew of Harold. Horder scored his first try for Norths against the

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on 28 March 1998 and then a week later scored a hat-trick against The

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. In Round 6, against the

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, 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 Mark Soden (born 23 November 1968) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the North Sydney Bears for eleven seasons. Early life Soden, from Dubbo was captain of the 1986 Australian Schoolboys and played his ...

who raced away to score as Auckland did not know what was happening and were not ready. 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

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in Townsville. Norths won the match 28-18.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Horder, Wade 1975 births Living people Australian rugby league players North Sydney Bears players Rugby league wingers Place of birth missing (living people)