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21-07-2025
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Relaunched Worcester out to 'create own history'
Worcester Warriors chief executive Stephen Vaughan insists the club will be ready when they return to professional rugby this autumn. The Warriors' brand-new squad trained for the first time last week as they build towards their first season since administration at the start of the 2022-23 campaign. They were admitted to the second-tier Champ Rugby in April and will make their much-anticipated return at home to Coventry on 4 October. Under head coach Matt Everard, the Warriors have recruited a blend of former Premiership players alongside young newcomers. "We obviously started with a blank piece of paper a few months ago," Vaughan told BBC Hereford and Worcester. "It's quite a proud moment, really, to see it all come from an embryonic thought and suggestion to reality now." Despite the experience brought in, such as former British and Irish Lions back Billy Twelvetrees and Saracens prop Fraser Balmain, Everard faces a big challenge to mould together his quickly-assembled squad. "Naturally, we will not have the combinations that other teams will have and all the rest of it, but we're not seeing that as a weakness," Vaughan said. "We're seeing it as an opportunity to create our own history." 'Worcester is a Premiership set-up' The Warriors were a Premiership side for all but two seasons from promotion in 2004 until 2022, and Vaughan is keen for a return to the top flight, but he has also tempered talk of immediate promotion. "Worcester Warriors and Sixways is a Premiership set-up," he added. "It needs to be in the top flight at some point, but considering where it was from administration to where we are now, I think it would be crazy of us to start putting ridiculous targets in place. "But naturally, we'll go out to try and win every game." Vaughan, who was group CEO with Wasps when they also went into administration in October 2022, soon after Worcester, says the club will be "unapologetically commercial" to avoid history repeating itself. Plans were submitted to develop their Sixways home last November and Vaughan wants to host concerts and events at the stadium to give the club a sustainable future. "We have to make sure that we're more commercial going forward, develop the site, because that's the way we can then invest more money into the rugby," he added. "But not in a way where you can create investor fatigue or a situation where you're relying on one single individual, because we've seen what's happened in the past." Listen: Sport's Strangest Crimes - Bloodgate Listen to the latest Rugby Union Weekly podcast
BBC News
21-07-2025
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- BBC News
Relaunched Worcester out to 'create own history'
Worcester Warriors chief executive Stephen Vaughan insists the club will be ready when they return to professional rugby this Warriors' brand-new squad trained for the first time last week as they build towards their first season since administration at the start of the 2022-23 were admitted to the second-tier Champ Rugby in April and will make their much-anticipated return at home to Coventry on 4 head coach Matt Everard, the Warriors have recruited a blend of former Premiership players alongside young newcomers."We obviously started with a blank piece of paper a few months ago," Vaughan told BBC Hereford and Worcester."It's quite a proud moment, really, to see it all come from an embryonic thought and suggestion to reality now."Despite the experience brought in, such as former British and Irish Lions back Billy Twelvetrees and Saracens prop Fraser Balmain, Everard faces a big challenge to mould together his quickly-assembled squad. "Naturally, we will not have the combinations that other teams will have and all the rest of it, but we're not seeing that as a weakness," Vaughan said. "We're seeing it as an opportunity to create our own history." 'Worcester is a Premiership set-up' The Warriors were a Premiership side for all but two seasons from promotion in 2004 until 2022, and Vaughan is keen for a return to the top flight, but he has also tempered talk of immediate promotion."Worcester Warriors and Sixways is a Premiership set-up," he added."It needs to be in the top flight at some point, but considering where it was from administration to where we are now, I think it would be crazy of us to start putting ridiculous targets in place."But naturally, we'll go out to try and win every game."Vaughan, who was group CEO with Wasps when they also went into administration in October 2022, soon after Worcester, says the club will be "unapologetically commercial" to avoid history repeating were submitted to develop their Sixways home last November and Vaughan wants to host concerts and events at the stadium to give the club a sustainable future."We have to make sure that we're more commercial going forward, develop the site, because that's the way we can then invest more money into the rugby," he added."But not in a way where you can create investor fatigue or a situation where you're relying on one single individual, because we've seen what's happened in the past."
BBC News
10-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Worcester to play Coventry on Championship return
Worcester Warriors' first game back in professional rugby will be a local derby at home against Coventry on the opening day of the new Championship match will take place at Sixways on Saturday, 4 October and will mark Warriors' return to the sport for the first time since the former Premiership club were suspended from competition in September 2022 before entering also face Ampthill, London Scottish, Nottingham, Cornish Pirates, Richmond and newly-promoted Chinnor at Sixways before the end of the go to last season's champions Ealing in their first game of 2026 on 3 January and finish the campaign with the return against Coventry on Saturday, 9 May. Warriors, under new head coach Matt Everard, have carried out an extensive recruitment drive ever since announcing their application to be part of the new, revamped second tier had been successful in likes of club legend Matt Kvesic, former Wales scrum-half Lloyd Williams, Dragons fly-half Will Reed, Newcastle Falcons full-back Louis Brown, ex-Gloucester and Northampton Saints wing Tom Seabrook and Leicester Tigers forward Matt Rogerson have all signed up to be part of the re-launched club.
BBC News
05-06-2025
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Worcester sign Newcastle full-back Brown
Newcastle Falcons full-back Louis Brown has become the latest player to join Worcester Warriors ahead of the former Premiership club's return to who can also play on the wing, joined Falcons from Coventry on a two-year deal ahead of the 2023-24 his two campaigns with Newcastle, Brown appeared 20 times and scored five made nine of those in the Premiership this term as the Falcons finished bottom of the table, 16 points adrift of Exeter Chiefs."I'm looking forward to being part of a team that gets Worcester back where they belong," Brown said the vison of head coach Matt Everard and the club's "incredible" fan base made moving to Warriors "an easy decision". Brown is the second player to join Worcester this week following the arrival of former England back Billy Twelvetrees, who came out of retirement to take up a player-coach role at back Juan Gonzalez, Leicester Tigers prop Tim Hoyt and Exeter Chiefs prop Billy Keast have also signed up for next club have also brought in Cornish Pirates full-back/wing Will Trewin, Warriors legend Matt Kvesic, former Wales scrum-half Lloyd Williams, Saracens prop Fraser Balmain and Dragons fly-half Will are preparing for next season's new-look Championship as professional rugby returns to Sixways for the first time since the club went into administration in 2022.
BBC News
02-06-2025
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Twelvetrees comes out of retirement to join Worcester
Former England back Billy Twelvetrees has come out of retirement to join Worcester Warriors as a who won 22 caps for England and played one game for the British and Irish Lions after being called up as a replacement in 2013, retired as a player last year to become a coach with Championship side 36-year-old becomes the Warriors latest signing ahead of their return to professional rugby next season, two-and-a-half years after going into administration."Joining Worcester Warriors as a player-coach is a fantastic opportunity," said Twelvetrees."I'm excited to be contributing both on and off the field, helping to develop talent and bring real energy to the squad."It's a challenge I'm ready for and I can't wait to get started."Twelvetrees began his 17-year career with Bedford Blues before joining Leicester Tigers in 2009 where he won the Premiership in his first centre then moved to Gloucester in 2012 and made 273 appearances in 11 years with the Cherry and move reunites Twelvetrees with former Leicester Tigers team-mate Matt Everard, who was appointed Warriors head coach in May."Billy is one of those special people that after spending just a short amount of time with, you will never forget," said Everard."Kind, incredibly hard-working and always has such a positive impact on people."Twelvetrees joins a number of new recruits at Sixways ahead of the club's return, including Uruguay back Juan Gonzalez, Leicester Tigers prop Tim Hoyt and Exeter Chiefs prop Billy Keast. The club have also brought in Cornish Pirates full-back/wing Will Trewin, Warriors legend Matt Kvesic, former Wales scrum-half Lloyd Williams, Saracens prop Fraser Balmain and Dragons fly-half Will Reed.
