Tom Wood: Premiership Rugby commission role for ex-England captain

Tom Wood played for Northampton Saints from 2010 until his status past year

Former England skipper Tom Wood has landed a cardinal relation connected Premiership Rugby's caller sporting commission, arsenic the league looks to alteration however the nine crippled is run.

It comes aft a disastrous play disconnected the field, with Worcester, Wasps and London Irish each going retired of business.

Wood won 50 caps for England, retiring successful 2022 aft a 15-year career.

The erstwhile flanker won 2 Six Nations titles successful 2011 and 2017, captaining the nationalist broadside connected their circuit of Argentina successful 2013, and led Northampton to the Premiership rubric successful 2014.

He volition supply a player's position arsenic portion of the seven-person commission, which volition see 3 much autarkic figures from athletics and business.

It is understood Ministry of Justice committee subordinate Mark Rawlinson, who was portion of the "Red Knights" radical which attempted to bargain Manchester United successful 2010, volition besides beryllium portion of the commission, arsenic volition starring shot enforcement Jane Purdon and governance adept Carys Williams.

The sheet volition beryllium chaired by Premiership Rugby authoritative Nigel Melville and volition besides see main enforcement Simon Massie-Taylor and rugby manager Phil Winstanley.

The radical has been fixed the powerfulness to marque decisions connected behalf of the 10 remaining Premiership clubs implicit important areas specified arsenic the calendar and play structure, successful a bid to debar the struggle and vested interests that has hamstrung the league's decision-making process.

As outlined past December, different governance changes volition see the constitution of a fiscal monitoring panel, which volition oversee each nine finances successful a bid to debar the fates that befell Worcester, Wasps and London Irish.

Meanwhile, talks proceed implicit a caller Professional Game Agreement betwixt the Premiership, the Rugby Football Union and the Rugby Players' Association, arsenic the crippled successful England desperately attempts to retrieve from the calamitous events of the past 9 months.