Hugh Godwin, of the Sunday Independent, talks to the next potential England captain - Tom Wood.
"Appropriately for the numbers he is accustomed to wearing on his back, Tom Wood is a man at sixes and sevens when judging this season as it nears the halfway point. In one breath he is answering the question of what he would say if he was offered the captaincy of England – "Yes please" is the simple reply – and in the next he is explaining why the World Cup made him "bitter and angry" and his club Northampton are at a low ebb playing a Heineken Cup pool match today with three defeats out of three in the tournament behind them.
A less engaging conversationalist than Wood might resort to the term "roller coaster". But an hour chatting to the 25-year-old from Coventry is time well spent. There is a detailed analysis of the flanker position he plays with Northampton – a mix of blind and openside which, Wood says with a glint in his steady gaze, is misunderstood by TV commentators – and how he was misused by Martin Johnson's England."
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