According to The Telegraph, Wasps are now in talks to share Sixways Stadium with Sixways Rugby, the newly rebranded Worcester Warriors.
This could bring professional rugby back to Sixways just a few months after the Warriors’ liquidation. Wasps, who were relegated from the Premiership after their own liquidation last year, are now seeking to join the Championship and any move to Sixways would have to comply with the Rugby Football Union’s conditions.
On a tumultuous day for the former Premiership clubs, it was also announced that Worcester Warriors will no longer exist, with Sixways Rugby taking their place in National League 2 West after rebranding semi-professional club Stourbridge.
The Rugby Football Union had given Worcester Warriors a deadline of February 14th to meet the requirements for playing in the second tier, but Jim O’Toole, part of the Atlas takeover with James Sandford, announced that discussions on the matter have ended.
“There were a number of key clauses in the contract that we couldn’t sign,” said O’Toole.
He told BBC Hereford & Worcester: “This decision will clearly upset and annoy a number of people.
“The sad fact of life is that the Worcester Warriors brand and the Worcester Warriors business is gone.
“The name sadly will disappear. We are rebranding as Sixways Rugby.”
The new club will instead partner with fourth-tier side Stourbridge, who ex-Warriors chief executive O’Toole says will play at Sixways for the rest of the season.
Next season, under the new name of ‘Sixways Rugby’, they will compete in the National League 2 West.
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#13. Exeter Chiefs – £13m
#12. Gloucester – £27m
#11. Northampton Saints £26.5m
#10. Worcester Warriors – £26.5m