The opposition in the reconstituted “Champ Rugby” are Coventry, the club Kvesic joined after going to Zebre in Italy when he lost his Worcester job. “There’s been a hell of a lot of work to get Worcester Warriors back,” says Reader. We’ve got an education provider in the south stand; we’ve had Worcester City [football] men and women move here. The Rugby Players’ Association (RPA) say players are owed sums ranging from the low thousands of pounds to tens of thousands. “There was that romantic, full-circle moment around the Bath game in particular, nigh on three years to the day from when we last played rugby to looking around a sold-out Worcester Warriors, Sixways Stadium game,” says Reader.