[2][3][4] Born in Bolton, England, Haines started his speedway career in 2006 with the Cleveland Bears and then joined the Scunthorpe Scorpions in 2007 in the Conference League winning the League Championship, the Knockout Cup and the Conference Trophy in his first full season.

[5] Wolverhampton Wolves signed Haines just after his sixteenth birthday[6] and immediately loaned him to the Workington Comets for the 2008 season.

He was part of the Workington four who won the Premier League Four-Team Championship, held on 26 July 2008, at Derwent Park.

[7] He started the 2009 season as the number eight for Wolverhampton[8] and rode for Rye House Rockets in the Premier League.

While riding in Australia during December 2010 he crashed in a race and suffered serious injury, which included a broken shoulder and ribs, a punctured lung, and vertebrae damage.