Playing Career
Howard played in Australia, while going over to England regularly. In the 1992–93 Rugby Football League season he played at prop forward for Widnes in their Challenge Cup final loss. Moving to Leeds he played in both the 1993–94 Rugby Football League season and 1994–95 Rugby Football League season Challenge Cup Final losses to Wigan. Also while at Leeds, in 1995 he won his first international cap for England against Wales.
During his time with the Western Suburbs Magpies on the playing roster, he gained several nicknames, including Harves and Harvester, freight, but also mainly as Night Train. This was because of a song at the time which he insisted the whole team listen to a song called "Night Train". While at Bradford Bulls in 1998 Howard won a cap for Great Britain against New Zealand as a substitute.
After four seasons with Wests in the late 1990s, Howard could not win a place in the joint team, Wests Tigers. Wayne Bennett had no such concern, using Howard as a stop-gap Prop and bringing him off the bench in the Broncos' 2000 NRL Grand Final win over the Sydney Roosters. After that Howard represented England in the 2000 Rugby League World Cup, also mostly from the interchange bench.
He played for the Wigan Warriors at prop forward in their 2001 Super League Grand Final loss to Bradford Bulls.
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