Worcester’s hopes of resurrecting as an elite level club have been plunged into danger with their prospective new owners braced for the Rugby Football Union to refuse entry into next season’s Championship due to demands which “raise the spectre of shadow dictatorship”.
The consortium – led by the chief executive Jim O’Toole – has taken aim at the RFU, claiming the union’s conditions for approval are “unreasonable” while on another dramatic day for Worcester, Steve Diamond – the club’s former director of rugby whose rival bid had previously failed – also declared his consortium was still primed to swoop in.
