Wood coached SimonArcher and Joanne Goode to Britain's first Olympic badminton medal, a bronze in Sydney 2000, and Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms to their silver in Athens in 2004.
The absence of England's first-choice second row is ameliorated somewhat by the quality of their replacements, Garath Archer and Simon Shaw, who are both senior internationals and have been playing some outstanding club rugby.