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England's Mike Ford Has A Day With The Pirates

30th November 2007

Mike Ford, an assistant coach with England at the recent Rugby World Cup, spent a day this week visiting the Cornish Pirates at their Mennaye Field training base.

Now 42years of age, the former Rugby League scrum-half who played 10 times for Great Britain was invited to provide some coaching by Cornish Pirates head coach Jim McKay, who is a close friend

Mike hung up his boots as player-coach at Oldham in 2001, was a year later appointed as Ireland's defence coach, and then had a spell working at Saracens.

Having coached the successful midweek British & Irish Lions side in 2005, Mike joined the England senior team in 2006.

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Jim commented:
"Mike's a good friend of mine and he's come down and done a bit of development work with us coaches and also done a few sessions with the players. It's good that he has been able to add some input to the team."

Mike Ford training