It would be stretching a point to suggest that Tom Wood, the brick-hard Northampton flanker who won a half-century of caps for England before calling it quits last year, has the political intelligence of Lyndon Johnson, the financial acumen of George Soros and the people skills of Jacinda Ardern.
However, it is tough to think of a better choice of players’ mouthpiece on the Premiership’s new sporting commission – a body charged with the not insignificant task of rescuing the professional club game from its own self-serving idiocies and re-establishing it as a product worthy of the paying pu...