Biography

Mike started his life with Grammarians when his son Jake joined the under 9's in 2003. In January 2004 Mike became a coach, alongside Dave Aitken for the under 9's team. The following year saw the under 9's step up to under 10's and the squad being split into the blues and clarets resulting in a team apiece for Mike and Dave. After a good season at under 10's both teams finished together in the league. With the departure of Dave Mike was joined by Rick Campbell to take the team into 11 aside and in 2006 the team became league champions with a formidable performance of unbeaten games and gave Grammarians their first league championship win. Mike has also been responsible for the organisation of the Grammarians Youth Football tournament which has just completed its 4th year and continues to be a very successful event for Grammarians. After standing in as acting Chairman for the latter part of the 2008/09 season Mike contnues as chairman to date and can now spend more time in the running of the club after standing down as manager of the under 15's in 2010 after 7 years.