CITY GROUND MOVE CAME AS A SHOCK TO RAIDERS

THE Step 5 club priced out of its 11,000-seater home of five years insists news of being replaced as tenants by their arch rivals came as "a complete shock".

- By Andy Mitchell

Hellenic League Worcester Raiders announced last month that the search for a new home had started an hour and a half after Worcester City confirmed a five-year deal to play from Sixways Stadium - home of defunct Premiership Rugby outfit Worcester Warriors from next season.

Raiders went to Sixways in 2020 as part of what was meant to be a takeover by then-Warriors owners Colin Goldring and Jason Whittingham, who also owned League Two Morecambe.

Warriors fell into administration and have not played since September 2022 but Raiders remained a members club and continued to lease the facility on a year-by-year basis from the administrators.

That continued when Atlas, a firm seeking to re-establish professional rugby in Worcester, took charge but that fell through and it passed to current site owner Chris Holland who is hoping to resurrect Warriors.