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Wasps have raised hopes among their fans that they will follow them London Irish and launch a return to gaming after making an announcement on their official Facebook page over the weekend.
Wasps announced on Sunday morning: ‘The uprising has begun. More to come’, in the first post on their official Facebook page since Tom Voyce’s death in December 2024.
It is more than four years since the former PREM and European champions went into administration with debts of £95m, including more than £21m owed to public authorities.
Since then there have been several false dawns surrounding a potential return to play, including in December 2022, when HALO22 Limited, a company owned by Christopher Holland, purchased the intellectual property, history and memorabilia of Wasps RFC.
They later claimed they had met the RFU’s demands and would return for the 2023-24 season, while two years after going into administration it was revealed they had bought land in the south-east near London to build a new stadium.
The Netherlands is now the owner Worcester Warriors, who returned to playing in the Rugby Champ, which they won at the first attempt last season. They suffered their first defeat of the season, 36-27, against Doncaster at the weekend.
The Sixways outfit went out of business in September 2022, a month before six-time champions Wasps England and two-time European champion, made redundant a total of 167 players and club staff.
Companies House records show that Wasps Rugby Football Club Ltd has one director, Derby barrister James Timothy Dysterre-Clark, which only adds to the mystery.
Last month, London Irish said they could return to professional rugby as early as next season after Essex entrepreneur Steve Daniels’ Gamechanger Investments bought the club’s name, brand and associated intellectual property.
Daniels vowed to put the club “firmly back on the rugby map” after citing a potential return to the Champ, with Hazelwood, the club’s former training base in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, among the options for a new home.