Vaughan, a former CEO at Wasps, has been at Sixways since current owner Chris Holland assumed control in September 2023 and helped oversee the rebuilding of the club from scratch under head coach Matt Everard for their return to rugby last autumn.
Vaughan, who knew Everard from their time together at Wasps, where the latter was a coach, said the Warriors boss was someone they could “trust” to handle such a big project.
“This is a guy that’s going to buy into a long-term plan here. He’s pulled together a group of people, coaches, medical analysts who are very good.
“Matt is the kind of guy, when you’re setting up a new organisation, we knew that we could trust him – he’s a great human being and is respected by people across the game.”
After close to 40 players were brought in last summer, Vaughan said expectations were realistic.
“We never set any physical targets to the playing group because we felt it was a bit odd to do that when we hadn’t played together, we didn’t know how things going to work,” he said.
“When we were recruiting players the only pool we could fish in was one that where players weren’t already contracted somewhere else. They were all free agents. Being competitive was key.
“We’re learning all the time, we know we’ve got to improve in lots of areas, on and off the pitch, and we will. We hope to again be very competitive next season and make those play-offs.”
