Claims from up to 50 former Warriors players relating to the period leading up to them being made redundant in October 2022 are understood to be based on a demand for five weeks’ wages plus image rights.
An RFU condition of Warriors returning at this level, as opposed to starting again at the bottom of the league ladder, is for “rugby creditors” of the previous entity to be paid off.
Chairman Christopher Holland has asked for patience (Photo: Getty)
The image rights claims in a small number of players’ cases could run into tens of thousands of pounds.
Former consultant Steve Diamond, now the director of rugby at Newcastle Falcons, said in March he is one of the creditors and he told The i Paper this week: “I have provided the information to the historic-claims people, it’s right and equitable that this is being done, and I am pleased with the process, so far.”
Junction 6 are therefore taking steps to “examine the full scope of any claim and to ensure that we are complying with the obligations that the RFU have placed on us”.
The players are being guided through the claims process by the Rugby Players’ Association (RPA).
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Holland said on 3 April the new Warriors had made conditional contact with players with the aim of forming a squad for next season. It is thought likely some of the claimants would be hoping to play for the new club, who plan to play at the same Sixways Stadium as the old team.
Other clubs have simply gone bust and left the debt.
Junction 6 said in the letter “we do not have unlimited resources” and asked if rugby creditors would accept a phased repayment of their claims, or to gift the sums they are owed to a Warriors community rugby programme.
Other creditors under the law included HMRC over unpaid tax, and the Government who via DCMS made Covid-survival loans totaling £15.7m to Worcester Warriors during the pandemic in 2021, which with interest gave a debt of £16.1m.
The outstanding total is not known but administrators Begbies Traynor reported to Companies House in September 2024 that DCMS had been paid £9.8m after the receipt of a similar sum from Premiership Rugby Limited to buy back the old Warriors’ P share in the top league.
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