By PAUL REES
Learning curve: Stalwart Tom Wood benefitted from a spell playing academy playing in New ZealandPICTURE: Getty ImagesTOM Wood could have challenged for a place in New Zealand’s back row rather than England’s but for the intervention of a Welsh coach. The 35-year-old Northampton forward, who is retiring at the end of the season after a senior career that started with Worcester in 2007, was playing in Otago having taken time out from the Warriors’ academy because he wanted to learn through playing rather than pumping iron. A family connection put him in...