SIXWAYS — Looking round the Worcester Warriors’ changing room, where the white cubicles and blue seats are the same but the players are different, Matt Kvesic chooses the word “weird” to describe his feelings.

“Three years feels like three minutes,” says Kvesic, the 33-year-old flanker, and the one player out of the 48 who were made redundant when the old Warriors went bust in September 2022 who has returned for the team’s second coming.

It would have saved a lot of heartache and hard work, and ecstasy for some and lingering rancour for others, if the comeback had indeed taken three minutes instead of three years.

But here they are, ready for Saturday’s first league match for the new Warriors, at the same home stadium at Sixways, but now in the second-division Championship, one level be

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