A popular young prop playing for the Blues in New Zealand has died at just 23. ?ocid=Social-WWOS
"It's tough. We'll get home and give Mikey a farewell during the course of the week. We get back to QBE [North Harbour] Stadium which is Mikey's home province, so we'll have plenty to play for.""He had a beautiful debut for us and earned the starting spot pretty much for that 2017 season," Coventry said,"He was a great kid … big happy-go-lucky chap, always up for a joke, always got a smile on his face, he never took himself too seriously.
"I remember the very first day he turned up he'd been on the building site, had his boots on, his Swandri, was covered in sawdust, and as Mike used to wear his hair pretty long, draped round his shoulders, I wondered who this rooster was who had turned up for training. "Our sincerest condolences are with Michael's family at this very sad time," Tew said in a statement.
Blues chief executive Michael Redman said: "Michael was a talented athlete and our focus is to offer our support and sympathy for the family, and we are supporting our team and staff, some of whom are currently overseas."
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