Career
He is a part-time player, his day job is working as a plasterer. Bradford"s senior academy stand-off Hawkyard, 21, was drafted in for Paul Deacon and made his debut against Huddersfield in round 14 of season. Steve McNamara commenting on his debut against Huddersield, McNamara said: "I can"t fault Richie Hawkyard whatsoever.
We gave the kid a call on Wednesday night, he managed to get a day off Thursday so he could train but he had to work today.
"Richie"s a really tough kid. He carried a couple of kick-offs back to their big fellas, was really brave and he"s done tremendously well under the circumstances." Richie only made 3 appearances for Bradford in and is only picked when there are injuries.
On 27 September it was announced Richie had signed for Swinton. Paul Kidd commenting on the signing said "Richie has made a couple of first team appearances for Bradford, which says a lot about his quality as a player.
If he wasn’t a really good player he wouldn’t have got near to Bradford’s first team
He has certainly had the right grounding there but he needs more first team experience and that’s where we come in. From what I have seen of Richie it is clear that he has great potential. He is of Scottish descent and plays for Scotland at international level
