Premiership Rugby side Worcester Warriors "will consider leaving the city" if it helps the proposed sale of the club, which is currently in last place in the league, according to the BBC. Warriors Chair Bill Bolsover said that the idea of leaving the city is "a long shot." But he also did not "categorically dismiss a Wasps-style move elsewhere" if owner Sixways Holdings Ltd. sells. Bolsover said, "We're going through the process of selling the club in total, rather than by investment. That has not been discussed in any detail. No one has said that's what they want to do. I think that would be a long shot. But until I have got an offer on the table I don't know whether it's in or out." The club's reported total market value is £26.7M ($35.2M), comprising the 50-acre Sixways site, valued at £17M ($22.4M), and the club, at £9.7M ($12.8M). It has averaged home crowds of "just over" 7,000 in its five matches at the 11,500-capacity Sixways this season. Warriors Managing Dir Gus Mackay said, "Commercially we are doing OK. But we are driven by crowd numbers, which we accept have not been what they should be" (BBC, 11/6).
