Name Richie Barnett Role Rugby player | ||
Education Leeds Beckett University | ||
Richie Barnett is a professional English/Jamaican rugby league footballer who plays for Hunslet Hawks.
He is known as a winger with a second to none strike rate in Super League, with the best average gain per carry in the Warrington Wolves squad in 2006.
His early days were spent playing semi-professionally at Gateshead Thunder, while he was also studying business computing at Leeds Metropolitan University. He was a key player for Leeds Metropolitan University, leading them to numerous cup and league triumphs. He was top scorer for two out of the three years he was at the university. While still at university Richie represented Great Britain students which paved the way for Gateshead Thunder to take him on.
Barnett was sold to Hull F.C. in 2004 who paid an appearance-linked deal worth £15,000. He proved his worth by scoring 23 tries in just 25 starts, making him one of Super League's top scorers. Along the way he also picked up a Challenge Cup winners medal with Hull. He joined Warrington Wolves in 2005 and became one of the most consistent try scorers for the club.
Richie joined Salford City Reds in July 2007.
In March 2008, Barnett received a two-year ban from rugby league after testing positive for epitestosterone in a drugs test the previous year. He signed for Sheffield Eagles when returning to the game in 2010.
In 2011, Richie represented Jamaica in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup Qualifiers, where the Jamaicans took on the USA and South Africa. In 2015, Richie played for Jamaica in their 2017 Rugby League World Cup qualifiers.
He is known as Richie Barnett Jr because he used to play with an un-related older player, also named Richie Barnett.