Mickey Higham

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

**Mickey Higham**
Personal information
Full name	Mickey Higham
Date of birth	September 18, 1980
Place of birth	Leigh, England
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Nickname
Position	Hooker
Youth clubs
	Leigh Miners ARLFC
Professional clubs*
1999-2000 2001-2005 2006 2006-	Leigh St Helens Bradford Wigan	100 (33) 0 (0) 29 (4)
National team
2004-	Great Britain
* Professional club appearances and (tries) counted for the domestic league only.

Mickey Higham (born September 18, 1980) is an English rugby league player who currently plays for English club Wigan Warriors in the Super League competition. His position of choice is hooker.

Higham joined Saints from Leigh Centurions in November 2000. He made over 100 appearances for St Helens, scoring 33 tries.

He made his Great Britain debut in the 2004 Gillette Tri-Nations against New Zealand, after recovering from an ankle injury which ruled him out of most of Super League IX.

Higham joined Wigan Warriors in October 2005 after a transfer deal involving three clubs and fellow hooker Terry Newton. Higham was unable to join Wigan directly as his club, St Helens, would not sell. However, Bradford Bulls stepped in and bought Higham from Saints for £70,000 and then immediately released him to Wigan. In exchange, Wigan allowed Terry Newton to join the Bradford Bulls. Higham signed a three-year deal with the Warriors and commented: "It looked at one stage as though I would be playing next season at Bradford but when the opportunity to join Wigan came up at the last minute I jumped at it." At Wigan, Higham again teamed up with coach Ian Millward who he had played under at both Leigh and St Helens. Ian was however sacked by Wigan in April 2006 and Mickey is now coached ironically by Brian Noble who was Bradford coach at the time of the "three-club transfer".

http://www.wiganwarriors.com/News_full.asp?newsid=1666 Higham and Calderwood Meet The Media (November 11, 2005)

[edit] External links

Mickey Higham Profile

Wigan Warriors - Current Squad
1 Ashton \| 2 Calderwood \| 3 Bailey \| 4 Withers \| 5 Richards \| 6 Barrett \| 7 Leuluai \| 8 Fielden \| 9 Higham \| 10 Paleaaesina \| 11 Hock \| 12 Fletcher \| 13 O'Loughlin \| 14 Vaealiki \| 16 Millard \| 18 Prescott \| 19 Hansen \| 20 Goulding \| 21 Hill \| 22 Tomkins \| 23 Colbon \| 24 O'Carroll \| 25 Mcilorum \| 26 Coyle \| 27 Gleeson \| 28 Flanagan