Wasps/Worcester

@boatyjames wrote: A Community Club Union is the daftest idea out there. Clubs need to re establish good governance at the Union we already have and that we all own not set up some rival - that would be a death spiral for the “community” game.

Thatbloke wrote: Difficult not to agree with Diamond's take on things

Fully agree the RFU should stop repeating old mistakes and approve and fund a joint groundshare of Wuss & Wasps at sixways in the Championship from September. Promote Ealing and Cov (or Pirates or Donny) if Cov turn the offer down. Reintroduce merit based promotion and relegation and sort the funding out properly. Rant over...

corporalcarrot wrote: Thatbloke wrote: Difficult not to agree with Diamond's take on things Fully agree the RFU should stop repeating old mistakes and approve and fund a joint groundshare of Wuss & Wasps at sixways in the Championship from September. Promote Ealing and Cov (or Pirates or Donny) if Cov turn the offer down. Reintroduce merit based promotion and relegation and sort the funding out properly. Rant over...

What ever happens should this merger go ahead we will lose 1 Club from the leagues. The sad thing about this is that when the National Leagues down to level 4 were well funded. Stourbridge ensured that the RFU funding was used to develop their clubhouse and stand, which is what the RFU should have ensured that all clubs did the same and in addition introduced Ground and Clubhouse criteria for all levels of the National leagues. If they had then we would have not be having this conversation now. 

Spanner in the works maybe

Thatbloke wrote: The problem for Stour is that they have run their 1st XV largely on the back of loan players from other clubs and now claim it is impossible to run without them and that this route is the only way out of a troubled position. That there are "no local players around" is absolute "tosh" How about doing what the rest of us have to do? If their finances are sound, as claimed, it's not difficult to identify and recruit players on permanent contracts and/or growing your own through a well run youth system! Stourbridge is within easy reach of major conurbations so "no players around" is totally laughable. Look at teams in that league - Luctonians, Barnstaple, Newport - all fairly isolated but regularly putting out 3 or 4 teams and a Colts side. I hope the "Stour" members treat the proposal with disdain and throw it out as it will quite clearly be the end of Stourbridge as they know it - how many of the Stour would travel to watch effectively New Worcester? Relegation doesn't mean the end of the world - it's an opportunity to step back, re-assess and rebuild for a better future

islander wrote: What Worcester RFC make of all this

Presumably they will be expediting player registrations, as the registration dead line is this Friday. Unless of course  it's already been  completed.

Thunderbird wrote: Presumably they will be expediting player registrations, as the registration dead line is this Friday. Unless of course  it's already been  completed.

Yes for this season. If they want to avoid relegartion with the squad they have it will be a miracle. So presumably they will need new players to avoid going to level 5.