Henson 50% through his Cardiff term

With Gavin Henson making his first Blues start on Friday and then his 2nd and final start a week or so later, which club will he move onto next?

smh wum

WUM or no WUM, it's factually correct.

I'm optomistic that he's only a third through his career with us

6 games is a possibility but not a realistic one.

If no reality TV shows come a calling and he doesn't break a fingernail I think he may get to 4 games.

I'm not convinced he can string more than 2 games back to back anymore

Oh ye of little faith. He seems alot more humble and focussed on rugby now, good luck to him

Well it got a smile from me , not sure if Gavin does humble stating that he doesn't really want to play full back .If he does get interested could be a lot more than two games in him though.

I think (hope) he's coming to the realisation that in his late twenties his playing days are nearing their end- if he doesn't knuckle down and produce at the Blues he will have blown his talent for good.

I hope he has a break from the injuries that have plagued him and becomes focussed - if he can't get a game at 10 at the Blues theres no one else in Wales at least will give him a shot - I think we should get behind him - he's at the last chance saloon, the Blues have got problems at outside half which he might resolve and he can still offer Wales something.

Where next as he moves down the rugby pecking order? Dragons?

stevetynant wrote:I think (hope) he's coming to the realisation that in his late twenties his playing days are nearing their end- if he doesn't knuckle down and produce at the Blues he will have blown his talent for good.

How true. Whatever happens with Henson, he will have splashed his best days up the wall for all the Hello/OK wrong reasons. I was rigid with fright of the impact he might have made. But he turned out to be a mild variant of Paul Gasgoigne.

I guess that with his booming boot plus the raw talent he could have eclipsed BOD. But that'll never happen now.

If only he had the true dedication whilst avoiding the health/injury issues of Jonny or Jonah he could have been a true,true great.

If. Big word 'if'...

I don't think he was injured for too long a time. His injuries were always blown out of proportion. Not being selected for the WC 2003 and 2007 when he was CLEARLY fit and playing well were big knocks to his confidence. Ridiculous TV work made his time away from the game even bigger.

His best years were between 2002-2005 then his ego went wild and he was poorly managed. He did and said some stupid things and he never had the intelligence, politeness, professionalism and respect that BOD has.

So many times in sport do you see people with a self-destruct button built-in.

Some players like Federer, Beckenbauer, Charlton, John, Jonny etc. have no such gene.

But there are those with a completely inevitable weakness like Best, Maradona etc. have unique genius talents bestowed upon them only to ultimately fail as a human being.

Most sportsmen fall in some part of the continuum. Henson failed at the second or third hurdle.

O'Sullivan is another good example of someone whose mentality cannot cope with his talent.

don't people say theres always a very thin line between genius/insanity?

Henson is far from thick he's quite a clever bloke.

Was very shy before the grandslam and wouldn't do any sort of post match interview.

He lacks intelligence in other ways.

He, like most reasonably intelligent people, lacks common sense.

He's played for 3 of the Welsh regions after tonight. So surely a move to the other one would nicely complete the set for him.

Chunky Norwich wrote:He's played for 3 of the Welsh regions after tonight. So surely a move to the other one would nicely complete the set for him.

I think its only Blues and Ospreys, isn't it?

Yep. The only players to play for 3 regions are Mike Phillips & Tal Selley, i believe? Although Tal has played for all 4.

tbf to henson in all the interviews i have seen him in since he has signed for the blues he has come across well and looks focussed- he is also being at lot more honest- he said in 1 interview, he almost managed to get to go to the world cup but he was glad he didnt as he didnt deserve it.
good look to him i hope it goes well

No. Henson has played for 3.

Who is the 3rd?

Llanelli Scarlets

when the heck has Henson ever played for us?!

rugbydreamer wrote:when the heck has Henson ever played for us?!

Probably about 10 years ago now.

I would wager he has never, ever played for us.
Didn't he play for Swansea before he joined the O's??

rugbydreamer wrote:I would wager he has never, ever played for us.
Didn't he play for Swansea before he joined the O's??

How much you want to wager?

ha nowt, I'm skint!

Seriously though he's not played for us. Unless you mean at one time he was so bad against us it was almost like he was playing for us.....(am thinking of his time with silver hair.....)

Yeah, he played for Swansea before the regions and had an...incident at Stradey involving an advertising sign and throwing a llanelli player in to it

rugbydreamer wrote:ha nowt, I'm skint!

Seriously though he's not played for us. Unless you mean at one time he was so bad against us it was almost like he was playing for us.....(am thinking of his time with silver hair.....)

Feast your eyes on this Mr Dreamer.

You owe me 5 cyber pounds

http://www.scarlets.co.uk/eng/rugby/match_centre.php?section=lineups&fixid=123514

aye that's the one I'm thinking of gcBlues.

I can't believe that!

Chunky Norwich wrote:

rugbydreamer wrote:ha nowt, I'm skint!

Seriously though he's not played for us. Unless you mean at one time he was so bad against us it was almost like he was playing for us.....(am thinking of his time with silver hair.....)

Feast your eyes on this Mr Dreamer.

You owe me 5 cyber pounds

http://www.scarlets.co.uk/eng/rugby/match_centre.php?section=lineups&fixid=123514

Unfortunately, Llanelli was the club side

gcBlues wrote:

Unfortunately, Llanelli was the club side

Fair enough.
Good point.

Still, alot of people don't realise he's played for Llanellli - he likes to keep it very hush hush if you know what I mean.

Also I've just noticed, I would be a Miss not a Mr Dreamer cheers


aha, yes club side, but still, can't believe he's ever done it. So weird!

rugbydreamer wrote:Also I've just noticed, I would be a Miss not a Mr Dreamer cheers


aha, yes club side, but still, can't believe he's ever done it. So weird!

Ooops apologies.

Well, we've always beena region really haven't we. so there's not much difference. He played for the 1st class team.

One of the best kept secrets in welsh rugby that is.

well aye, I had no idea.

Bet it's something neither side wants bandied about!

rugbydreamer wrote:well aye, I had no idea.

Bet it's something neither side wants bandied about!

Sure. I know Henson doesn't really acknowledge it!

He was in the youth academy I believe for a couple of months and filled in up in Scotland when our 1st choice 10 had a knock. I think that was actually his debut in 1st class rugby. But if you ask him when his debut was - I guarantee he won't cite that match.

how strange!!! well cheers guys, you learn something new everyday

How many matches did he play for them?

What was the reason?

Just the 1

Wikipedia page updated!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Henson

thanks to me LOL

westernosprey wrote:Wikipedia page updated!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Henson

That's good work that is.

I hope he checks it.

Having said that, Luke Charteris' Wikiepdia page states that he's played 75 times for the Scarlets.

oh yeah, that really isn't true. Was raised on the Scarlets' forum the other week. Unless it was for U16's, he's not played for us! (and I don't think he did even then!)

I changed something else on Wikipedia a few weeks ago and it stuck.

For some reason I wanted to read about Lenny Henry and the first line was, "Lenny Henry is a Black British comedian".

I thought to myself, "why does it need to say he's black"? I thought it a bit odd. All we need to know is that he's a comedian. If you type in Peter Kay it doesn't say, "Peter Kay is a white British comedian".

Maybe it meant Black Comedy.

Patrice Evra is a Negritan French footballer.