Ben missed the entire 2004/5 season with a badly broken leg picked up during a Development Team match against Northampton late in the 2003/4 campaign.
 
After 18 months out of the game he finally made his comeback against NEC Green Rockets in Tokyo, scoring with his first touch of the ball.

Woods went on to make his mark for the first team throughout the 2005/6 campaign, earning a place on the England Saxons Churchill Cup tour, where he was man of the match against Canada, scoring a try.

The openside flanker has also won a Blue for Cambridge University, and represented England Saxons for the second season in succession by helping them to the 2007 Churchill Cup.

School/university: QEGS Wakefield, Durham University, Cambridge University

Previous clubs: Durham City 2nd XV, Hughes Hall, The Owls

Nicknames: Les, Slumber, Lloyd Christmas

Favourite TV show: Family Guy

Favourite film: Dumb And Dumber

Favourite music: Jimmy Nail

Favourite book: Anything by Aristotle

Favourite food: Steak dinner

Most like to meet: Floyd Mayweather and Ricky Hatton

Least like to meet: Ed Williamson due to his halitosis, or Ed Williamson’s dentist

Best moment in rugby: Winning Cuppers with Hughes Hall, Cambridge 2004

Best moment outside of rugby: When George Purling soiled himself in Thailand. Becoming an Owl

Favourite place to visit: Rehab at the Hard Rock Café in Las Vegas. Eni Gesinde’s landing – it’s just so spacious

Team-mate least like to share a room with and why: Jon Golding, he’s so aggressive

I love: Goths, Eni’s comedy comments – he’s so arrogant

I hate: Ed Williamson’s breath, George Purling’s emergency line out meetings, exposure to the sun