Tobias Gerald Albert Cecil Lieven Flood (born 8 August 1985)[2] is an English rugby union coach and former player.

[8] A product of the Falcons academy, his third year at the university was completed on a part-time basis due to his rugby commitments.

The shine came off his season, however, when he injured his Achilles tendon in the 2008–09 Heineken Cup semi-final game against Cardiff Blues – right before professional rugby's first ever sudden-death kicking competition.

[11] The injury ruled Flood out of the first two months of the 2009–10 season as well, and he returned in November, in a 2009–10 LV= Cup win against Newport Gwent Dragons.

[13] Flood captained the Tigers to victory over fierce rivals Northampton Saints in the 2013 Premiership Rugby final.

Ashton included Flood in the Elite squad for 2007 Rugby World Cup campaign of France, as a replacement for then Newcastle teammate Jamie Noon.

Flood also came off the bench in the semi-final win over France and in the loss in the World Cup final to South Africa.

[21] Although England lost the first game,[22] Flood was able to link up with his club colleague Ben Youngs in a strong half-back pairing in the second.

[23] Flood's link with Youngs developed over the autumn internationals, starting with a good display in a loss to New Zealand.

[24] He also helped England to a victory over Samoa,[25] but was injured early into the last game with South Africa, and later revealed he couldn't remember anything after the incident.

Despite Flood's good form for England during their championship winning 2011 six nations he had been dropped for Jonny Wilkinson by the start of the Rugby World Cup 2011.

[28] In an interview with The Times on 21 August 2017, Flood revealed that he would consider resurrecting his Test career by playing rugby for Germany.