Worcester are gone!!

Jay and the Gloucester Kings... Waiting in the wings

Blimey. I'm no fan of Wolves but this is terrible.

Very sad news but as the statement says no crowds means no revenue and sponsors are also having to pull their oars in to stay afloat. Im sure they will be back in the future but at the moment it's clearly not financially sustainable. It also demonstrates just how tight the margins must be when you consider that the previous season every game was a virtual sell out. NBL and rebuild from there.

Blimey. Bolt from the blue. For what seemed a stable franchise to disappear must send shockwaves across the league. But as Dave said, an inherent risk of a Uni franchise and not bring core business.

Club statement advises that they will be in the NBL

A 10 team league will be a joke. I hope that’s not still the case for long

Guarantee theres 11 next season still

Gutted 😞

Gutted that we are no longer in the BBL but we will have a team in the NBLhence there will always be basketball in Worcester

They have their own use of an arena. Their operating costs are going to be towards the bottom of the league.

We are looking at a late September start. Plenty of time to look at the Covid situation between then and now. If fans were still restricted then (which is unlikely) the league could move back a few weeks without issue. My view is that there is likely to be an attendance bounceback as people look forward to attending live sport again.

All players will be out of contract. They could reduce their wage budget for next year in accordance with sponsors issues. No way the entry is unviable, this smacks of a decision taken by the university. Look at the lack of urgency in getting imports in last season, it’s likely that this decision was in the offing then. The simple financial argument for me does not stack up.

What a surprise you're back. Your first post for six months. Talk us through how last season didn't happen. Because you promised us it wasn't going to happen. 

Some thoughts.

You really are a piece of work aren’t you? You don’t know why Worcester have left and I doubt any of us ever will read a truthful public explanation. There will undoubtably be NDAs in place which prevent either side disclosing why this parting of ways has occurred. This simply doesn’t add up and your rant about the organisation taking the government money and running seems way off the mark to me. This is probably more to do with a refusal to bow down to the proposed almighty 777 takeover, than financial reasons and I doubt Worcester will be the only club to do this. The BBL is at a crossroads and I genuinely hope it survives. Unlike you, who seem to thrive on clubs leaving the BBL.

You spout off (your often offensive BS) as if you are the fountain of all knowledge. Grow up man and get a life. There are many Worcester supporters, myself included, who have been rocked by this news today. Staff, players and coaches who we have got to know over the many years we have followed the club home and away have probably lost their jobs. The affinity the 2000 fans who filled the arena every week had with the coaches and the players was huge - this is an extremely well supported club we are talking about here (no wonder you are jealous and bitter), not some tinpot organisation with creaking bleachers to accommodate a couple of hundred supporters.

The arena won’t sit empty, by the way, it is not just used for BBL basketball, it is in constant use for multiple purposes. Super league netball, wheelchair basketball, WNBL basketball, BUCS basketball, conferences, exhibitions…

As long as little Dave gets to have his spiteful digs though (on his sad little blog which I just had to look at for the first time in 12 months just to see what bitter and twisted drivel you had penned)…you sad, sad man.

PS - Admin can ban me for daring to call out the almighty Hersey, for all I care, he ruins (or should that say runs) this site for many people, that’s why they don’t post anymore.