Career Record for Featherstone
Appearances			Tries	Goals	Drop Goals	Points
Total	Start	Sub
112	102	10	71	0	0	284

Signing for his hometown team was always on the cards for talented teenager Richard Newlove, although it can’t have been easy for him, son of Hall of Famer John Newlove and following in the footsteps of his older brother, an international centre. Richard was a different build to Paul, and he had a quiet start which didn’t bring immediate success. Signed at the advent of summer rugby from the Academy side, with injuries and a spell away from the game he played just 25 matches in five seasons, despite showing glimpses of his obvious try scoring prowess. In 1998 he lined up against his older brother for Featherstone against St. Helens in the Challenge Cup, screened live on BBC. The game resulted in a heavy Saints win, but individual honours were even, the youngest Newlove grabbing a try.

After more than two full seasons out of the game in 2000 and 2001, Newlove came back with a bang in 2002, fit and ready to go. He had a superb year under coach Peter Roe, and grabbed 25 tries in 31 games, part of a free-scoring Rovers team than really entertained the fans. When coach Roe moved to Wakefield at the end of the season, he took Newlove and Jamie Rooney with him, and it was a big blow to lose two such quality players at once.  Newlove enjoyed a decent season with Wakefield in Super League, without convincing the doubters about his lack of size and physical presence. He came back to Rovers in 2004 and topped the try scoring charts with 22 in 28 games. After Rovers relegation in 2005 he moved to first Doncaster and then Sheffield.

His Featherstone career record of 71 tries in 112 games speaks for itself, and Richard made a sizeable contribution to the Newlove family legacy at Featherstone Rovers, with father John and his three sons scoring an astonishing 341 tries between them in just over 650 games.