Mike Adamson (rugby union)

Mike Adamson (born 17 May 1984) is a former Scotland 7s international rugby union player and now professional referee. His primary playing position was at fly-half. Adamson played professionally for Glasgow Warriors and London Scottish and at amateur level for Glasgow Hawks. Adamson is now a SRU referee for the Pro14, European Professional Club Rugby and World Rugby[1]

Mike Adamson
Birth nameMichael Charles Adamson
Date of birth (1984-05-17) 17 May 1984
Place of birthStirling, Scotland
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight75 kg (11 st 11 lb)
SchoolDollar Academy
UniversityGlasgow University
Occupation(s)Rugby union referee
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2003-14 Glasgow Hawks ()
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2006-10
2011-12		 Glasgow Warriors
London Scottish		 1
1		 0
0
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)





2006		 Scotland U16
Scotland U17
Scotland U18
Scotland U19
Scotland U21
Scotland Club XV
National sevens team(s)
Years Team Comps
2006-2011 Scotland 7s 30
Teams coached
Years Team
2012-14 Glasgow Hawks
(Development Manager)
Refereeing career
Years Competition Apps
2016-17
2017-		 Pro12
Pro14		 8
25

Rugby union career

Playing career

Amateur career

Adamson was born in Stirling, Scotland. He played for Glasgow Hawks. He played with the Hawks for 11 years.[2] He helped Glasgow Hawks to National Cup victory in 2007.[3]

Professional career

Adamson went on to play for Glasgow Warriors, first securing a part-time contract in 2006.[2] At the start of 2006-07 season he played in two pre-season friendlies against Moseley[4] and Newcastle Falcons.[5] He also played for Glasgow Warriors in a friendly at the end of the 2006-07 season against Scotland U20s, scoring a try and four conversions in the match.[6]

He then secured a full-time contract with the Glasgow side in May 2007. He was involved in all 3 pre-season matches for the Warriors in 2007-08 season.[7] He made his only competitive appearance for the Warriors in the Celtic League on 4 January 2008 against Newport Gwent Dragons.[8]

Although he stayed with the Warriors until 2010 he was unable to gain more competitive appearances, finding himself behind Dan Parks and Ruaridh Jackson for the fly-half berth.

He moved on to play for London Scottish but he was to similarly play only 1 competitive match for the exile side, against London Welsh in the 2011-12 season.[9]

International career

Adamson played for Scotland through the age grades:- Scotland U16, U17, U18, U19, U21 and Club XV.[9]

He received senior caps for the Scotland 7s side. He was Scotland 7s player of the season in 2006-07 and went on to play in 30 World Rugby 7s events. He was a Plate Winner in the 2009 Dubai tournament and represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.[9]

Referee career

When Adamson finished playing professional rugby he turned to refereeing. He stated: "Former players usually go down the coaching route after retirement but I feel I will be able to achieve more through refereeing. I have gained a lot from rugby and would like to give back to the sport."[2]

He has worked his way up the refereeing ladder, officiating in the Anglo-Welsh Cup in England, the Currie Cup in South Africa as well as PRO D2 in France.[10] His refereeing progress and development has been deemed a rapid rise.[11] He has now also refereed in Japan's Top League.[12]

Adamson has been refereeing World 7s matches since 2014.[13] He was appointed to the Refereeing Panel for the Olympic Games Rugby Sevens for Rio 2016.[14]

He refereed his first Pro12 match on 26 November 2016; the match Munster versus Treviso.[1] He became the first ex-player to play and referee in the Celtic League / Pro 12 league.[15] He refereed the 2nd Leg of the 1872 Cup between Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby at the end of the 2016-17 season.[16]

He was named as one of the 9 referees that will take charge of the World Rugby U20 Championships in Georgia 2017.[17]

gollark: I am saying that gods are also complicated so this doesn't answer anything.
gollark: For purposes only, you understand.
gollark: There are lots of *imaginable* and *claimed* gods, so I'm saying "gods".
gollark: So basically, the "god must exist because the universe is complex" thing ignores the fact that it... isn't really... and that gods would be pretty complex too, and does not answer any questions usefully because it just pushes off the question of why things exist to why *god* exists.
gollark: To randomly interject very late, I don't agree with your reasoning here. As far as physicists can tell, while pretty complex and hard for humans to understand, relative to some other things the universe runs on simple rules - you can probably describe the way it works in maybe a book's worth of material assuming quite a lot of mathematical background. Which is less than you might need for, say, a particularly complex modern computer system. You know what else is quite complex? Gods. They are generally portrayed as acting fairly similarly to humans (humans like modelling other things as basically-humans and writing human-centric stories), and even apart from that are clearly meant to be intelligent agents of some kind. Both of those are complicated - the human genome is something like 6GB, a good deal of which probably codes for brain things. As for other intelligent things, despite having tons of data once trained, modern machine learning things are admittedly not very complex to *describe*, but nobody knows what an architecture for general intelligence would look like.

References
  1. "Mike Adamson". 24 November 2016.
  2. "Mike has travelled a long way in 3 Years - News - Glasgow Hawks RFC". www.glasgowhawks.com.
  3. "Glasgow Warriors - Mike Adamson". www.glasgowwarriors.com.
  4. http://www.glasgowwarriors.org/news/06/08/11/winning-warriors-start-season-style
  5. http://www.glasgowwarriors.org/news/06/08/18/proud-warriors-do-double-over-falcons
  6. "Third Win For Warriors Back-Up - Glasgow Warriors". www.glasgowwarriors.org.
  7. "Glasgow Warriors - Rotherham Titans v Glasgow Warriors". www.glasgowwarriors.com.
  8. "Dragons Move Up To Sixth After Gutsy Away Win". pro12rugby.com.
  9. "London Scottish FC". londonscottish.com.
  10. "Former Leicester scrum-half to referee in Pro12 - The Rugby Paper". www.therugbypaper.co.uk.
  11. "Adamson crowns rapid refereeing progress - Scottish Rugby Union". www.scottishrugby.org.
  12. "SA Rugby Referees". sareferees.com.
  13. "First PRO12 game for Mike Adamson".
  14. "Olympic Appointment for Mike Adamson - News - Glasgow Hawks RFC". www.glasgowhawks.com.
  15. "Congrats to Mike Adamson - News - Glasgow Hawks RFC". www.glasgowhawks.com.
  16. "Edinburgh dispatch Glasgow to end season on a high". 6 May 2017.
  17. worldrugby.org. "Match officials announced for U20 Championship".
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