Micky Higham joins Leigh Centurions for club record £50,000 fee
Wednesday 20 May 2015 17:42, UK
Leigh Centurions have broken their transfer record to sign Warrington Wolves hooker Micky Higham for a fee of £50,000.
The ambitious Championship club have signed the 34-year-old until the end of 2016 with an option to extend the deal by a further 12 months.
Higham, who played for Leigh from 1999-2001, could make his second Centurions debut in the Summer Bash game against Featherstone Rovers at Blackpool's Bloomfield Road on Sunday.
Centurions head coach Paul Rowley said: "In our continued efforts for success and the ongoing injury worries to Penky (Sean Penkywicz) it was important that we remained strong in the hooking role and the signing of Micky is another boost for us at this crucial time.
"We are truly blessed already having our vice captain Bob Beswick and our youngster Lewis Foster on board so to add Micky to this gives me an embarrassment of riches to choose from.
"Micky will provide quality on the field but will also continue to enhance our off-field culture and I welcome him and his family to the club and look forward to him making his second Leigh debut."
Meanwhile, Warrington coach Tony Smith has delivered a parting shot at Higham, who was under contract with the Wolves until the end of the season.
"I'm pleased it's over," Smith said. "It came as a shock to the team and staff and I'm glad to draw a line under it.
"I'm pleased we've got a great replacement in Brad Dwyer and it gives you a lesson in that you don't know everybody quite in the way you think you do.
"Sometimes you find out a bit more about people but overall I'm pleased it's been resolved and we've got a crew here now that are 100 per cent committed to the cause and that's what you want."
