TODAY IS D-Day for former Premiership rugby club Worcester Warriors, with the deadline between proposed owners Atlas Consortium and administrators Begbies Traynor set to expire.

The administrators, who took over the club in September, swapped contracts with Atlas - led by former Worcester chief executive Jim O'Toole and ex-player James Sandford - on 1 February with the intention of the deal being completed and signed off within 90 days. Last week in a progress report Begbies Traynor confirmed that 2

May, was the deadline for the deal to go through, while also confirming that the club were in the process of losing access to the Premiership's central funding pot.

Sandford did not reply to a request for comment on today's deadline, amid suggestions that the Atlas consortium was still looking to raise the required funds.

If the purchase goes through, Atlas plan to merge the club with Stourbridge RFC and work themselves back into the Championship.

But the Rugby Football Union has said teams cannot buy a place in the rugby pyramid.

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