Martyn Wood

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Birth nameMartyn Benjamin Wood
Date of birth (1977-04-25) 25 April 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Harrogate, England
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight207 lb (14 st 11 lb) [1]
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum-half
Current team Retired
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1996–2003
2003-2005		 Wasps
Bath 		84
44		 (50)
(5)
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2001 England 2 (5)
Coaching career
YearsTeam
2019 Yorkshire Carnegie

Martyn Benjamin Wood (born 25 April 1977 in Harrogate) was the Director of Rugby at Yorkshire Carnegie in the RFU Championship, he was previously a rugby union scrum-half who played for Wasps and Bath. In 2001 he gained 2 caps for England.

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Early career

Wood attended Harrogate Grammar School from 1988 to 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 (though he was not part of the squad for the 1999 final). [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 an injury replacement for the 1999 Rugby World Cup [11] and also as injury cover for the victorious 2003 Rugby World Cup. [12] However he was never officially added to the 2003 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 involvement, 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]

Coaching career

On 24 July 2019 Wood was appointed as Director of Rugby at Yorkshire Carnegie in the RFU Championship, [14] he was dismissed from the post less than a year later after losing the first 13 matches of the 2019–20 Season. [15]

Honours

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References

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  2. ↑ "Martyn Wood". wasps.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "Bath Rugby 30 v 48 London Wasps". ercrugby.com. 25 May 2003. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. 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. Archived from the original on 11 March 2012. 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.
  14. ↑ "Yorkshire Carnegie appoint Wood as new Director of Rugby". Yorkshire Carnegie. 24 July 2019. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  15. ↑ "Joe Ford in temporary charge at crisis club Yorkshire after sacking of Martyn Wood". rugbypass. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2020.


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