It's looking increasingly inevitable that Worcester will play no further part in this season, however much we'd love to see them back.
Surely better to scratch the 3 games they have played than to arbitrarily award points for the 21 that are yet to be played.
Irish and Exeter lose 5 points that the rest of the league haven't yet had the opportunity to gain. Newcastle no points to lose from their game. It's not exactly going to turn the table on its head, is it? Just 3 teams will effectively have had an extra early season friendly.
The complication then arises that the rest of the season will have 2 clubs not playing each weekend (except what would have been Worcester's own off weeks), and too late in the season surely to rewrite the schedule. Meanwhile (selfishly, but hey, we do have serious money problems of our own!) Wasps miss out on their most lucrative game of the year.
That we have seen no deal already suggest that it will be a long slog. The current owners have hived off parts of the business/club and are unwilling to part with them within an overall deal. Thus, it becomes a fire sale. The part that 'owns' the players contracts will become worthless in 11 days, when the grace period to pay the players expires and they can serve notice to be free of contract. At that point the whole thing becomes moot. A club with no players is not a club. A ground without parking is useless, and so on. Sadly, at this point, I would put more money on the ground being levelled and becoming an industrial estate or shopping mall. The 'name' would be sold for peanuts and start as an amateur club all over, if at all.
Topic: Bath look to loan Worcester players (Read 1609 times)
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