The Wrexham game could be a test of how we will fair in League 1.
Will be have just enough extra skill to get over the line in games (as with the last time we were in that league)? Or will we cave under a bit of extra lower division fight?
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Will be have just enough extra skill to get over the line in games (as with the last time we were in that league)? Or will we cave under a bit of extra lower division fight?
The last time I was in Wales was a trip to the lovely Conway Castle and supposedly the "smallest house in the world" back in the good old days of summer 2006.
We had just finished 6th in The Premier League to qualify for the UEFA cup. And for reference Man City finished 15th and Wrexham were pretty much were they are now in League 2 (4th division), albeit in mid-table.
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khmerblue
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I wonder how much we get of BBC Wales for this game.It will obviously effect the gate, i for one think Wrexham would have filled the Darwen End if it was a saturday.Maybe they will bring 4k for the game now, the club waited till the televised games were named before pricing the game .I reckon if the game was on a sat it would have been £25 a ticket.
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Wrexham have sold 7k (they sold out last Fri morning)
Rovers have sold 5k.
Old Darwen Blue
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No they wouldn’t have. Although I remember Crewe coming here in the FA Cup and amazingly brought 5000. Wrexham are another sign of what’s wrong with Football. They are now a glitzy Hollywood toy owned by yanks with too much money.
goozburger.
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We should know better than anybody that Wrexham will still have to "balance the books" despite their wealthy owners.
Wonder if Taylor Swift fancies owning an English football club? I've read that she's made lot's of filthy lucre recently.
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I would ask her but she has her hands full.I’ll ask her in the morning.
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blueandwhitehalves
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I've been watching the 'Welcome to Wrexham' TV series and its really good. Rob and Ryan seem stand up blokes to be honest (which I expected anyway as you can just tell from the humour in the outstanding 'Always Sunny in Philadelphia' that Rob definitely doesn't taken himself too seriously).
One comment they made in an episode that stood out to me though was where they said their ultimate aim is for Wrexham to be a self-sustaining club at the highest level they can get it to. Thats exactly what Jack Walker used to say, and thats where you have a problem.
TV money is so massive in the Premier League these days that you can be sustainable at that level regardless of your fanbase size, but you must never get relegated (which, one more time, is the exact reason why the hoofball critics of Sam Allardyce were so woefully off point on what was important for Rovers). In the Championship though, if Rob/Ryan halt the money train and expect sustainability, then it'll be difficult for them with a club based in a town of 45,000 people.
Course they've a far bigger catchment area than us and one that isn't becoming Muslim fast, plus they'll have built up a sizeable overseas fanbase for the merchandise/sponsorship revenue. So that puts them above Rovers. But I'm not sure it puts them level with the likes of Leicester, Southampton, Leeds, Norwich, Sunderland, Sheff Utd, Middlesbrough, Notts Forest, Fulham. So it'll definitely be a challenge for them when/if the owner money stops.
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