Career
He has been the club"s Head Coach and leading points scorer for the past six seasons. Before moving into coaching full-time, Mike enjoyed a very successful playing career for Saracens, Leeds Tykes/Carnegie, Harrogate and Hull Ionians. He was also capped by England U18 in 2001.
His specialist position is scrum-half, but in recent years he has regularly appeared at fly-half.
Mike became Head Coach at Harrogate in 2007 and following a strong few seasons for the club was invited by Andy Key and Neil Back to join the Leeds Carnegie backroom staff in 2010 for their assault on the Premiership. Throughout his time at Leeds Mike continued to play and coach at Harrogate, overseeing a record equaling 12 game victory streak.
Having left the Carnegie set-up in the summer of 2012, Mike returned to Harrogate full-time to concentrate on his RFU Level 4 coaching course and broaden his experiences. In August 2012, Mike was appointed Head Coach at Manchester University and introduced a new coach mentoring system at Harrogate.
