Martyn Wood

Martyn Wood
Personal information
Full name Martyn Benjamin Wood
Date of birth (1977-04-25) April 25, 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.

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.

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