The club are seeking voluntary liquidation due to not being able to afford a playing budget of £1.7m with crowds as low as 400. The Exiles were granted a temporary licence on 22 December to play their last two league games after going into liquidation last month. The club now hope to shift to a semi-professional set-up and form a new company to return back to English rugby's second tier. RugbyPass is the premier destination for rugby fans across the globe, with the best news, analysis, shows, highlights, podcasts, documentaries, live match & player stats, live blog feeds, and in some territories live streaming of the world's greatest rugby tournaments all in HD. Maybe in the future but not currently. Hawkins said on the club website: "London Welsh has reached a difficult point in its illustrious history. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. The rugby club London Welsh has entered voluntary liquidation after its directors and chairman accepted that their business model had become fundamentally unsustainable. - A judge has dismissed an attempt by British tax authorities to have cash-strapped London Welsh wound up after one of England's most important and historic rugby union clubs went into liquidation. They were the amateur team of London Welsh until the professional team's liquidation in 2017. It just has to be. To go three years on the bounce without a loss would have been quite a big ask.”, What a way to finish the season! It’s a minor complaint, though, given the enormous project being undertaken to breathe fresh life into a club that had its fire extinguished. We need to be sustainable. Being an ex-professional I feel the game at the top can be quite sterile. Last updated on 7 December 20167 December 2016.From the section Rugby Union. For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunionexternal-link on Twitter. “The boys really enjoy it and the supporters really love it as well. “The debts accrued from trading in this way have left the club with no alternative but to seek liquidation. London Welsh have ceased to exist as a professional club after being refused permission to stay in the Championship by the Rugby Football Union. It was challenging, but the bonus was we came back to Old Deer Park and were playing all our home games there. London Welsh have formally entered liquidation but will be able to fulfil their next two fixtures against London Scottish and Yorkshire Carnegie. That had its own downfalls… but we won the Championship that year and the team went up to the Premiership, but I left to go back to the Ospreys. London Welsh, one of the oldest clubs in English rugby, said on Wednesday they were seeking voluntary liquidation due to large debts and a 'totally unsustainable' business model. That was my fault. We’re happy with that. It’s class, though. Having to break that news to 40 staff members yesterday was extremely difficult.
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