Worcester Head Coach
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Topic: Worcester Head Coach
Posted By: Bearblue
Subject: Worcester Head Coach
Date Posted: 12 May 2025 at 20:02
| I see they are due to name the head coach this week. Toby Booth was mentioned, there was a glint in Paul Turners eye when I wished him good luck for the future on Saturday. |
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Posted By: Rothman2
Date Posted: 12 May 2025 at 20:59
| I heard it is Matt Everard. |
Posted By: TeflonTed
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 10:18
Confirmed this morning by email to subscribers, then public shortly afterwards. ------------- TeflonTed, 2 miles from Sixways |
Rothman2 wrote:Posted By: Paul10
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 10:28
Turner is going back to Newport I think.
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Posted By: cheshire exile
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 11:12
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Worcester Warriors have named former Leicester Tigers defence coach Matt Everard as their new head coach. Warriors are set to https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c62gjv9rg29o" rel="nofollow - return to professional rugby union next season in the Championship, two-and-a-half years after going into administration. The 34-year-old former Leicester and Wasps back-rower began coaching with Wasps after retirement in 2017. He returned to Welford Road initially as a senior academy coach for the 2022-23 season before moving into the role of defence coach in December 2022. He https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cpql0w28w5vo" rel="nofollow - was stood down from that post in February . Worcester were suspended from all competitions in September 2022 and https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/63038335" rel="nofollow - put into administration over unpaid tax, but passed an RFU-led tender process to enter the expanded second tier next season. Everard said the decision to take the job was a "no brainer". "What we're doing is one of a kind really, building from scratch with a clean slate," he told BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester. Everard said the club would put together a squad of 30-40 players involving a "good blend" of big-game experience and "familiar faces" with youthful energy, adding that he had been "inundated" with players and agents reaching out. Announcements on player signings should begin "this week", he said. |
Posted By: cheshire exile
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 11:13
| Note the penultimate paragraph. |
Posted By: Camquin
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 11:47
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If an agent was not sending resumes, they are not doing their job. There are 35 new full-time positions to fill. ------------- Sweeney Delenda Est |
Posted By: JZSmith
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 12:12
| Anyone who signs a contract with Worcester Defaulters can't complain if future wages aren't paid. It's part of their "proud tradition". |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 12:22
Quite. Every pro and semi-pro club will have been bombarded by now. ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: Se7en
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 13:42
Where does it say that it is part of their "proud tradition"?
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Posted By: Runitback
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 14:32
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Well Gloucester just had a massive clear out, and Cardiff hardly secure!!!!! ------------- Run with it |
Posted By: Bearblue
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 14:59
| Rumours circulating around Bedford about names on their way to Worcester. |
Posted By: Carlton Lad
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 15:10
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Happens every season, I’m sure Rayer has some options. We lose some and sign some.
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Posted By: Jester10
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 16:27
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I do wonder if they'll actually be ready for the 25/26 season ------------- Enjoying life! |
Posted By: Runitback
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 16:29
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They will but they still have to start paying debts off, and if Falcons fold do they get bounced up again??? ------------- Run with it |
Posted By: Bearblue
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 17:38
| In Mikey Rayer we trust. |
Posted By: titans.chris
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 17:46
| Heck of a lot of work to do, particularly to be competitive in a tough league! |
Posted By: Carlton Lad
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 17:47
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Posted By: Jester10
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 19:26
If that happened would another club from Nat 1 get promoted to replace the interlopers? ------------- Enjoying life! |
Posted By: Robb
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 19:52
Since when does a new club have a proud tradition anyway?
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Posted By: Camquin
Date Posted: 13 May 2025 at 19:58
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It depends on when they fold. The National and lower Leagues are locked in place earlier than the top two. Without looking it up, I think the deadline is in August. So, when Jersey withdrew, it was September, and too late to rearrange leagues - so the Championship went ahead with 11. But, had they been a Premiership side going bust, even in September, theoretically a Championship side should have been promoted. But as they need to have passed a ground audit, they would not be. ------------- Sweeney Delenda Est |
Posted By: JZSmith
Date Posted: 14 May 2025 at 12:20
I believe when you were trolling everybody a while back I said it wasn't worth engaging with you and my view hasn't changed.
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Posted By: JZSmith
Date Posted: 14 May 2025 at 12:26
Since the "new" club used its proud tradition as a part of buying its way into the Championship! (But I realise it was a rhetorical question
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Posted By: Mark W-J
Date Posted: 14 May 2025 at 18:55
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One thing that is really bugging me at the moment is the number of Worcester fans insisting that the reason they've been readmitted to the Champ is because they have paid off their creditors, whereas other clubs - most notably Richmond, Scottish and Welsh - started at the bottom because they all refused to take responsibility and simply defaulted on their debts. Apparently - according to the Worcester fans - this rule has always been in place, although none of them seem to be able to explain a) how long you have to pay your debts and then get readmitted (24 months in their case) and b) the mechanism for parachuting a team into the league structure without the knock-on effect of forcibly relegating an extra club at each level of the pyramid to make way for them. As far as I'm aware - and I could be wrong - no team has ever dropped out of the league system and been allowed to rejoin higher than County league level. It doesn't just apply to the clubs suffering financial difficulties - a few years ago Haywards Heath dropped out of our league on safety grounds just before the season started having had all of their front row players poached by a local rival, but they still got dropped to the Sussex leagues. Am I going mad? Is anyone else aware of this loophole? As far as I'm aware - and again, I could be wrong - Worcester are only back in the Champ because they were invited (as were every club outside the top two tiers) to apply for membership of the new league. But they couldn't have simply waltzed back in uninvited after two years away by virtue of paying off their debts, as many of their fans are adamant is the case, could they?
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Posted By: Bluesman11
Date Posted: 14 May 2025 at 19:39
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I’m also not sure they have actually paid all the debts off yet, but have made a commitment to paying off all their remaining debts over a phased period. That was how it was reported in various news outlets. Not sure what happens if they default on those payments… ------------- Championship Prediction League Winner 11/12 |
Posted By: ROLLO
Date Posted: 14 May 2025 at 20:39
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Worcester are paying rugby creditors as defined by the RFU , and I am sure that those recieving the payments will be if not happy , then less sad. The world has changed, an invitation was made for clubs to enter the new structure and Wuss were accepted after some very strict investigation. In the last round the total gates for all Championship games was just over 8K. If you look at Sixways Stadium and its potential why would rugby not want a further 4 or 5K added to that number? Or indeed the employment opportunities for players ,coaches and backroom staff , plus hostpitality and administration. With this infrastructure is there a Championship side that is equal to it ?
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Posted By: FHLH
Date Posted: 14 May 2025 at 21:04
Not sure of the relevance of this ------------- "My father told me big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through their hearts." |
Posted By: cheshire exile
Date Posted: 14 May 2025 at 21:15
You completely miss the point. I know I’m an old Cornish fossil but from where I sit, a “club” has been created which promises to pay off some debts over an unclear period; pontificating that the rest of us should be grateful for your munificence is frankly insulting.
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Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 14 May 2025 at 22:06
8k is not great is it? However, had Bedford and Cov been at home the numbers would be quite a bit higher, with the two clubs getting a total of between six and ten thousand (depending on the opposition) between them. And I can assure you that Cov would be pulling in close to 5k a week or more in the unlikely event that they were smashing the league. All totally irrelevant to the whole argument though, like the 8k figure accrued by clubs who are disgracefully unsupported or promoted by their own feeble governing body. ------------- Our Club |