Wasps to Sixways - Telegraph

[Garuda]

I'm in south Birmingham. From a purely selfish perspective it's less than 30 minutes to Sixways for me.

Doubt we'll be welcome though. IF we do play at Sixways next season, even though it will only be on a rental basis, I can still imagine the crap coming our way.

I know this won't be popular, but it makes me wonder whether a Worcester Wasps merged team might in the end have proven the lesser of two evils.

[WonkyWasp]

If  (IF)  we do move to Wuss I think our family and maybe several others in this neck of the woods will be some of the few supporters who would benefit journey-wise.  From almost 3 hours to AP and then 2 and a quarter to Coventry we would have well under 1 hour to travel, and for this reason I can't quite believe it would ever happen.  But it would be selfishly nice. 

[FishingWasp]

Likewise travel to Sixways (from mid Wales) would cut my travel time by about a hour each way. Parking on the trading estate near Sixways also convenient.
Still don't know if I am entirely comfortable with using Sixways - really feel for Warriors supporters.

[Shugs]

I'm in south Birmingham. From a purely selfish perspective it's less than 30 minutes to Sixways for me.


Doubt we'll be welcome though. IF we do play at Sixways next season, even though it will only be on a rental basis, I can still imagine the crap coming our way.

I know this won't be popular, but it makes me wonder whether a Worcester Wasps merged team might in the end have proven the lesser of two evils.

I?ve got to be honest I don?t really give a rats ass what supporters from any other club thinks.

[WonkyWasp]

Agree, FishingWasp. My family would park  by the Beefeater when picking up family members heading to Cov. 

[Marlovian]

I'm beginning to think we need a sugar daddy league where they can do what they like with wage caps etc and which they can ring fence if they want, but no bail outs or other money from the RFU, and then for what is now the Championship to become the top of a meritocratic pyramid.

This.

8 franchised teams managed in the same way as the Premier 15s. Completely ringfenced and guaranteed financially by sugar daddies.

[wasps]

All professional sport is financed by sugar daddies


Even football with all the millions / billions spent each year is only possible due to mega rich owners.


It really is a shame, but professional rugby has always been and will always be a loss making business.

[NellyWellyWaspy]

I'm beginning to think we need a sugar daddy league where they can do what they like with wage caps etc and which they can ring fence if they want, but no bail outs or other money from the RFU, and then for what is now the Championship to become the top of a meritocratic pyramid.

This.

8 franchised teams managed in the same way as the Premier 15s. Completely ringfenced and guaranteed financially by sugar daddies.

Agreed. I do wonder if I even want Wasps to be in that at all. I mean, in the long term, for individual clubs, it isn't sustainable. The sugar daddy would have some form of attachment to the club, and when they depart, everything falls apart.

[Garuda]

Agreed. I do wonder if I even want Wasps to be in that at all. I mean, in the long term, for individual clubs, it isn't sustainable. The sugar daddy would have some form of attachment to the club, and when they depart, everything falls apart.

I can see it now. The EA's rising to the top of a cesspit of corruption.

[WonkyWasp]

Not too sure if they didn't do that years ago.

[Vespula Vulgaris]

It really is a shame, but professional rugby has always been and will always be a loss making business.

With the RFU at the top, and club appointments made on the basis of the old boys club I fear you're right.

Lots of new blood, new ideas, and a little courage could sort it pretty quickly. But it'll never happen.

[Neils]

From the WW Board it sounds as if Stourbridge have poured cold water on the proposals. In effect sent the new guys away to return with firm thought out proposals.

[wasps]

I started supporting Wasps about 20 years ago.
Living in East London/Essex at the time, I supported them despite them being in high Wycombe, not because of it.


I then moved to Norwich, to buy continued as a season ticket holder at Adams park.
When the move to Coventry happened, I followed. Again, not because of the Ricoh, but despite it.


The stadium and the location has been irrelevant to me throughout the time I've followed the club.


I've also never met any of the owners, except Derek.
As such, I don't see the club owner as my reason for supporting them.


I've seen us win things, and I've seen us lose lots of games and play terribly, but my support for them had never wavered.


Players come and go, coaches come and go.
I don't know what it is that I'm attached to, and I have no idea if any new Wasps club would feel the same.
It will be a case of waiting and seeing if it feels like Wasps

[wycombewasp]

+1

[WonkyWasp]

Exactly. Me too.