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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Sport
Adam Hathaway

What next for Wasps? Even with a miracle, they may live on in name only

Wasps have become the second Premiership club to enter administration

(Picture: PA)

As the dust started to settle on another Premiership club going into ­administration and 167 people walked out of the door at Wasps, the big ­question was: what is next for the two-time European champions?

On Sunday, the RFU’s chief executive, Bill Sweeney, said rugby’s model is broken and clubs have been living been beyond their means. A day later and that was brought home again in savage fashion when virtually everyone from Joe Launchbury down at Wasps was cast onto the saturated job market. Throw in some Worcester players being available still, leading internationals, like Mike Brown, who could not get contracts in the summer, and there are more bodies than vacancies.

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