A PHOENIX club could be formed by disillusioned supporters in preparation for Worcester City’s “eventual demise”, it has been revealed.

Worcester City Supporters’ Trust are set to table the idea to members who have been left frustrated at the club’s “lack of transparency”.

A number of City’s shareholders told the trust they would be willing to pump money into a new team after a proposal to help keep the Vanarama National League North outfit alive was rejected.

Trust director Rich Widdowson, who was behind the failed bid to make City a community benefit society, slammed the club’s bosses for not listening to supporters.

And he revealed the trust could launching a “fighting fund” while chairman Anthony Hampson and his board battle to keep the exiled club, who have about £530,000 left in the bank, afloat.

“I think it is the end of the football club,” Widdowson said.

“I have stood here talking to people and have had half-a-dozen of them saying they will put money into the supporters’ trust for setting up a club for when City goes bust.

“We need to go to our members as we are a democratic society and ask them if they want us to set up a fighting fund for the eventual demise of Worcester City.”

Widdowson continued: “I think people have had enough. They know where the club are going because it has only gone down over the last 20 years.

“The board have already allocated for a loss of £120,000 this year, so if that’s the way the fans want their club to be run you have got two to three years left.”

Earlier this week, trust members Rob Crean, Jem Pitt and Mike Davis resigned as directors after claiming they had been “deliberately excluded” from board meetings.

Crean feels the club are on an “inevitable decline to extension” but insisted the trust would still be there to “pick up the pieces”.

“The way the supporters’ trust works is in an open, transparent and honest manner,” he said.

“We don’t get the impression the club do that as there is no communication between the club’s board and the shareholders.

“Nobody knows what their agenda is, what the future is, what their plans are and it is that lack of communication and lack of transparency which has created the anger.”

Crean added: “Whether we wanted to be at Perdiswell, at Bromsgrove or at Worcester Warriors, community ownership is the way forward.

“If it means the club aren’t at the same level they are now and go down the Hereford FC route, there has got to be a group of people to bring them back up to where we need to be. It won’t be these people on the board, will it?

“They will be gone, like the previous directors who promised the earth and disappeared. The people who will be there are the fans and the supporters’ trust are there on behalf of them.”