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"Bring on the Deadpool and Rob McIlhenny" - Welcome to Wrexham!
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Warning Season Two Spoiler!:

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Congrats to Wrexham for moving into a tie in points for first place with a game in hand (meaning they can move int first place outright once they play as many games as Notts County if they win or draw).

Condolences to Wrexham for not getting leveling up cash from the Govt. for the Koop stands renovation.  But construction has started and Wrexham have a Plan B.

Finally good luck to Wrexham in the FA cup.  They had the best upset of the last round and their game for the next round is being picked up by the BBC because it is a likely candidate for another Wrexham upset.

 

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Congrats to Wrexham for moving into a tie in points for first place with a game in hand (meaning they can move int first place outright once they play as many games as Notts County if they win or draw).

Condolences to Wrexham for not getting leveling up cash from the Govt. for the Koop stands renovation.  But construction has started and Wrexham have a Plan B.

Finally good luck to Wrexham in the FA cup.  They had the best upset of the last round and their game for the next round is being picked up by the BBC because it is a likely candidate for another Wrexham upset.

 

The FA Cup started with over 700 teams participating from the amateur level to Premier League teams.  There are now just 17 left.  Exiting the competition last round were, amongst others Arsenal (leading the EPL) and Liverpool, still alive is Wrexham!

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They nearly knocked off recent EPL team Sheffield United who are expected to return to the EPL at the end of this season as they are very comfortably in second place in the Championship League (tier 2).  The led 3-2 in stoppage time but SU got a goal with a minute left to salvage a tie. Instead because they tied thry have to to replay the game.


Wrexham are the last non-League (League is top four tiers) team left as they play in tier 5.  

If Wrexham win their next game they will play Tottenham at the Racecourse.   Tottenham sit in a League four tiers above Wrexham (equivalent of MLB team playing a Rookie A development level team).  Wrexham literally sit around 90 places or more below Tottenham in the standings of the Top 5 levels of leagues.  The documentary makers must be loving life.

Is the FA cup cool or what?

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On 2/1/2023 at 7:59 AM, sfcityduck said:

Is the FA cup cool or what?

My favorite thing is when a Premier League team has to travel to one of these lower-division club's home ground. Some of them have stadiums that are not as large as my high school's.  In my view, it's a great look for English football.

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The FA Cup started with over 700 teams participating from the amateur level to Premier League teams.  There are now just 17 left.  Exiting the competition last round were, amongst others Arsenal (leading the EPL) and Liverpool, still alive is Wrexham!

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They nearly knocked off recent EPL team Sheffield United who are expected to return to the EPL at the end of this season as they are very comfortably in second place in the Championship League (tier 2).  The led 3-2 in stoppage time but SU got a goal with a minute left to salvage a tie. Instead because they tied thry have to to replay the game.


Wrexham are the last non-League (League is top four tiers) team left as they play in tier 5.  

If Wrexham win their next game they will play Tottenham at the Racecourse.   Tottenham sit in a League four tiers above Wrexham (equivalent of MLB team playing a Rookie A development level team).  Wrexham literally sit around 90 places or more below Tottenham in the standings of the Top 5 levels of leagues.  The documentary makers must be loving life.

Is the FA cup cool or what?

With a little better defending on the corner kicks they would have won that match.

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Big game today is on ESPN2 and ESPN+ at 11:45 am Pacific / 2:45 pm Eastern.  I have seen pundits predicting a 5-0 thrashing of Wrexham.  Winner gets Tottenham.

I don't know the score but don't bet against Mullin scoring 1 or more goals.  

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On 2/7/2023 at 10:13 AM, piper said:

I don't know the score but don't bet against Mullin scoring 1 or more goals.  

He scored 1, should have been 2 (which would have given Wrexham a late lead).  A decisive moment when he missed a penalty (good goalkeeping as shot was on goal).  No shame for Wrexham and I hope Mullin is not injured as he came up a bit lame a minute later.  And once he exited the game, Wrexham could no longer keep SU on their heels.  

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He scored 1, should have been 2 (which would have given Wrexham a late lead).  A decisive moment when he missed a penalty (good goalkeeping as shot was on goal).  No shame for Wrexham and I hope Mullin is not injured as he came up a bit lame a minute later.  And once he exited the game, Wrexham could no longer keep SU on their heels.  

Bad miscue by the defender on that late 2nd goal. Definitely deserve promotion!

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Wrexham avenged their loss to Chesterfield earlier this season.  Top of the table. Plenty of storylines for Season 2.  

And now Manchester United are supposedly going to play a pre-season friendly against Wrexham in the US in the Summer.  

Great advertising.  

 

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On 3/16/2023 at 11:34 AM, piper said:

It’s going down to the wire!

Up three points with a game in hand. Notts County no longer controls their destiny.

Wrexham fans are getting a little crazy about Mint Mobile being acquired by T-Mobile for $1.35B.  They seem to think that means Ryan Reynolds is a billioniare and can provide unlimited funding for their dreams.

He's not.

He's only making $300M or so.  So his net worth is only up to about a half billion.  

He's going to have to up his productivity to get Wrexham into the Premier League!

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Great article about Wrexham's finances:

https://theathletic.com/4372950/2023/04/04/wrexham-accounts-2021-2022-reynolds/

Worth noting it does factor into the equation the earnings the owners make from the documentary (unknown but increasing) or the two owners net worth (Rob $50M+ and Ryan $250M+ easily).

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On 4/11/2023 at 2:31 PM, piper said:

Wrexham definitely looks to be on the verge of promotion.  That was a huge win against Notts County!

They still have work to do but they are on track. The documentary makers could not have dreamt up a better ending to that game.  I have read the doc is making Rob and Ryan around the same $ they are losing on the team.  No doubt that Season 2 will have a much larger viewership.  And the profit/loss equation improves with promotion because income increases for the club and, ironically, costs likely go down.

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On 4/19/2023 at 8:05 AM, sfcityduck said:

Two games to go - one win needed.

Season Two is going to be interesting!

It was a little nerve wracking for a while. 0-0 till the 60th minute. Hopefully they can wrap it up at home on Saturday!

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Mission accomplished.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🥲 <a href="https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VancityReynolds</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RMcElhenney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RMcElhenney</a> in tears watching their <a href="https://twitter.com/Wrexham_AFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Wrexham_AFC</a> seal promotion <a href="https://t.co/xZ7fCbfaRh">pic.twitter.com/xZ7fCbfaRh</a></p>&mdash; Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) <a href="https://twitter.com/btsportfootball/status/1649858947493289987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2023</a></blockquote> <--script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></--script>

 

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