Day: Phoenix clubs must pay off debts

RPA chief Christian Day insists collapsed clubs should pay debts to their players before being reintroduced to the top tiers of the league structure.

- ADAM HATHAWAY

Wasps, Worcester and London Irish were Premiership outfits who have gone bust leaving a trail of debt whilst Jersey from the second tier also went to the wall.

Players were left out of pocket, and forced to find other employment, but the RFU are keen to get them involved again – if they are financially viable.

But Day, below, the general secretary of the players’ union, says his members should be paid out before the clubs can be resurrected and welcomed back into the system.

The former Sale and Northampton lock said: “On the prospect of those phoenix clubs, the pain the players went through, and we had to help those players in conjunction with everyone else, they need to make good those rugby creditors if they want to do that.