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Worcester's exertion to instrumentality to nonrecreational rugby adjacent play has been rejected by the Rugby Football Union.
But the RFU has approved Wasps' instrumentality adjacent season, with the nine acceptable to play successful the Championship, provided they adhere to a fig of conditions.
Both sides were removed from the Premiership aft going into medication successful October.
The RFU committee had been assessing the applications from bidders aiming to instrumentality implicit the 2 stricken clubs.
Worcester, whose debts totalled much than £30m erstwhile they went under, person been the taxable of a bid from erstwhile Warriors main enforcement Jim O'Toole and his Atlas consortium.
Atlas accused the governing assemblage of trying to enforce "onerous operational conditions" connected the radical arsenic they negociate a takeover with administrators Begbies Traynor.
The RFU said they had "put guardant a fig of conditions" for the prospective buyers to meet, including commitments not to dispose of onshore astir their Sixways stadium and the "swift" outgo of rugby creditors.
"The bidders, selected by the administrators of the insolvent WRFC Trading Limited, person informed america that they are not prepared to conscionable these conditions, and truthful the RFU committee was incapable to o.k. their application," it added.
More to follow.
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