Martyn Wood

Martyn Wood
Personal information
Full name Martyn Benjamin Wood
Date of birth (1977-04-25) 25 April 1977
Place of birth Harrogate, England
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 207 lb (14 st 11 lb) [1]
Club information
Position Scrum-half
Current club Retired
Senior clubs*
YearsClubApps (points)
1996–2003
2003-2005		Wasps
Bath		84 (50)
44 (5)
Representative teams
2001England2 (5)
* Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only.

Martyn Benjamin Wood (born 25 April 1977 in Harrogate) was a rugby union footballer who played at Scrum-half for Wasps and Bath.

Early Career

Wood attended Harrogate Grammar School from 1988-1995 where he played in the School Rugby team. Wood would become a successful part of the Senior 1st XV. He also played for Harrogate

Club career

Wood began his career at Wasps, making his debut in 1996[2] and remained there until 2003. Whilst at Wasps he won the Challenge Cup in 2003 (scoring a try in the final)[3] and the domestic Anglo-Welsh Cup (currently known as the LV Cup) in 1999[4] and 2000.[5] He was also part of the Wasps team which won the Premiership in 1996/97[6] and 2002/03,[7] In the summer of 2003 he joined Bath and signed a new contract with them in 2005.[8] However, in November 2005 he injured his neck in a freak trampolining accident,[9] leading to him having to retire from the game exactly a year later.[10]

International career

Wood was called up as injury cover for both the 1999 Rugby World Cup[11] and the victorious 2003 Rugby World Cup.[12] However he was never officially added to either squad after certain players recovered, meaning he was unable to pick up a medal for the 2003 success despite flying out to Australia.[13]

Despite his World Cup near misses, he only received two caps, both as a replacement in games against Canada and USA in 2001, scoring a try against Canada in the process.[1]

Honours

References

  1. 1 2 "Martyn Wood". ESPNScrum. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "Martyn Wood". wasps.co.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "Bath Rugby 30 v 48 London Wasps". ercrugby.com. 25 May 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  4. ↑ "Wasps win Cup at last". BBC. 16 May 1999. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  5. ↑ "Wasps deny Saints cup double". BBC. 13 May 2000. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  6. ↑ "London Wasps Squad 1996/1997". wasps.co.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  7. ↑ "Melville rails against loss of title deeds". Guardian. 2 June 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  8. ↑ "Wood signs new contract with Bath". BBC. 4 March 2005. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  9. ↑ "Wood sidelined by freak accident". BBC. 13 November 2005. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  10. ↑ "Neck injury forces Wood to retire". BBC. 10 November 2006. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  11. ↑ "Bracken and Rees out of World Cup". BBC. 23 September 1999. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  12. ↑ "Healey flies home". BBC. 12 November 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  13. ↑ "Wood called up as cover in England scrum-half crisis". Telegraph. 14 October 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

External links


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/23/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.