Tom Wood: ‘If I play for England I want to play on merit in a quality team’

The Northampton captain has not played for England since last year’s Rugby World Cup, but he hopes his performances for the Saints can get him back on Eddie Jones’ radarA year ago on Monday England were leading Wales by seven points entering the final 11 minutes of their pivotal Rugby World Cup pool game at Twickenham. Everyone remembers the punchline – Gareth Davies’s party-pooping try, the doomed decision to kick for the corner, the painful Wallaby coup de grace. For Northampton’s Tom Wood, who has not featured since the tournament, it will always be a subject laced with nagging regret.Wood …