The group seeking to rescue Wasps has looked into buying fellow stricken club Worcester’s Sixways Stadium.
The Wasps Legends outfit holds preferred bidder status in a fight to resurrect the folded Gallagher Premiership club.
The consortium headed by former Wasps players is understood to have sourced strong funding, raising hopes that the famed brand can be back in business next season.
Wasps will need a new home however as the prospects of staying at the Coventry Building Society Arena appear slim to none.
A return to London would be craved by many involved with Wasps, but options are not thought to be plentiful in the capital. And Worcester's Sixways has now emerged as a shock option as Wasps' future home, Standard Sport has learned.
A groundshare situation where both Wasps and Worcester called Sixways home would not be out of the equation, it is understood.
Wasps fell into administration on October 17 off the back of debts spiralling beyond £100million.
Worcester suffered the same fate in September, with both clubs now looking to rebuild through prospective new owners and a drop into the second-tier Championship next season in the best-case scenario.
Former Worcester chief executive Jim O'Toole and business partner James Sandford have claimed preferred bidder status for the Warriors. The duo have secured strong investment and boast ambitious plans for their desired Worcester revamp.
O'Toole's Atlas Worcester Warriors Consortium has already started work on a fly-on-the-wall documentary charting the club's turbulent times.
Worcester's preferred bidders will doubtless want the Sixways ground for their own use, and will be confident of completing a deal to rescue the club on such terms.
The groups looking to save both folded Premiership clubs can ill afford to take their candidacy for granted however, with administrators continuing to pore over submissions in both situations.
Disgraced former Worcester owners Colin Goldring and Jason Whittingham left the Warriors with debts totalling more than £30million ahead of the club's administration.
Premiership Rugby boss Simon Massie-Taylor and RFU chief Bill Sweeney faced an MPs panel last week, in a grilling on the state of club rugby.
Julian Knight MP, chair of the select committee for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, hit out at “failure on an epic scale of the game” in lamenting the collapse of both clubs.
