18 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

No he didn’t. So as I said before he jumped in no Wrexham season pre Hollywood has a Wiki page. Glad to ‘educate’ him though..

Do you know what, you're right, we might as well shut the club down and give up given your totally meaningful, ground breaking and relevant revelation. Damn. It was just getting good too. 

Tell you what though, all is not lost, show your posts to the next attractive young lady you meet and she will not be able to keep her hands off you. 

12 minutes ago, Silas said:

Why not try and enlighten us. 

Don't have to take offence, but some of us don't know everything about clubs that have been 3 leagues apart for the most part.

Other than the recent hype.

Where do you think you're headed? Lots of talk about attendances, but with a 13k stadium, we're struggling to survive in Championship with 14/15k figures. 

So how do you reach higher than League 1 with FFP constraints?

Maybe we could have an adult chat instead of picking fights. Just a thought. 

Just did on another post. 🙂Happy to have a grown up conversation. 👍

I think we'll reach the championship eventually but I'll be happy in League One. When I started watching us in the 90's we were (in the main) a League One club although before my time we were once a Championship club (in the equivalent league) and have had European exploits too.

I think we'll be in League One for a while as there are some much bigger clubs in that league than us who are spending big.  We may initially struggle there.

We're signing three players in this window apparently who will improve our side considerably, so we should go up this season.

FFP isn't an issue, we have big name sponsors, US tour in pre season, the documentary and sell out every week. Our board said this before the season started that FFP won't be an issue. Our turnover has increased significantly, shirts & merchandise sell out extremely quickly etc. Our owners have stated that if we reach the Championship there will be a different approach/plan in place to compete. My gut instinct tells me they already have additional investors lined up. They are fully aware it will take major investment. 

By that time I expect we'll have a new Kop making our capacity around 15,500. They have already said thats just the start and the rest of the stadium will be developed too. So by the time, IF, we reach the championship our capacity could be 20k plus.

13 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Oh another one 😁

I did that’s why I posted it. Try going back a season from Hollywood FC’s first one here…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–21_Wrexham_A.F.C._season

Thats not our Wiki page for starters, blindingly obvious even if you just look at the link you posted and if you read literally the opening sentence it says: Wrexham A.F.C. was the football club's 156th season.

Here it is; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrexham_A.F.C.

Always happy to educate - I'm not offended either. Just some fans on this thread were asking why some of our fans 'have a bee in their bonnet' etc and its guff like this which is most likely why. 

14 hours ago, Ewood Ace said:

This will be like a cup final for Wrexham visiting former Premier League Champions and with our run of form they will fancy their chances. 

But whilst sides at our level may have worked us out the lower league sides we have played this season have not been able to handle our attacking intensity. 

Wrexham despite what they have spent are very average and play a very basic brand of football. The media will want the Hollywood story of their plucky darlings beating the former Premier League Champions but I think it will be a routine Rovers win.

How many times have you watched us out of interest? Its nonsense like this which gets fans backs up. A basic brand of football - whatever that means - is currently allowing us to win far more games than we lose. 

On 22/01/2024 at 06:51, Mattyblue said:

They were that small time before Hollywood their seasons pre Deadpool don’t even have a Wiki entry.

 

Not even close to being true, try doing a bit a research eh? Embarrassing stuff. 

On 15/01/2024 at 09:22, ABBEY said:

AW DEEDUMS .. poor you.

get your excuses in for not bringing 7000 after gobbing off .

only an hour and half tops. 

Almost sold out. Was 245 tickets left at 5pm yesterday. You were saying? 

"DEEDUMS"

21 hours ago, ABBEY said:

lesson to learn...dont gob off about bringing 7000 and then use excuses when it aint going to happen. it bites you on the sheeps arse .

This is borderline illiterate. You have my deepest sympathies at the challenges life has thrown at you. 

I've got absolutely no interest in your quest to have an argument online with someone, there must be others in your playground you can play hard man with.

Bye

28 minutes ago, ABBEY said:

AW DEEDUMS .. poor you.

get your excuses in for not bringing 7000 after gobbing off .

only an hour and half tops. 

Deedums? 🤣 WTF does that mean? Thanks for the geography lesson too.  I'll share that with fellow fans who will be extremely grateful for you sharing this pearl of wisdom. 

Oh and humble apologies for being in employment. 

On 13/01/2024 at 10:28, rigger said:

I think S4C is actually the Welsh version of Channel 4.

No it isn't - it is its own channel and completely separate to Channel 4

Well that's knackered it for a lot of Wrexham fans planning to go. Ridiculous decision that will cost both clubs. If it'd been on the Saturday night or the Sunday even fair enough. But a Monday night? F**k off. It will severely affected our numbers travelling.

There were around 8 of us planning to go, and now no one can go now due to work etc 

15 hours ago, ABBEY said:

Whats the matter with you lot..

The venkyscum have done a good job on you all. Fuck em , why are so many scared of a lower league team ffs. Only a few weeks ago everyone was talking playoffs,  now your all running scared of a reality TV team.

Could we lose ? Absolutely it's the cup things happen 

Should we lose absolutely not.

GET A GRIP !!!!

 

That was some visionary, who back in 1864 formed a reality tv team. Hats off to them. 

58 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

They are another club that has struck gold with geography too, only league club in north Wales and it’s a football area in contrast to much of the rest of Wales.

There will be plenty of folk sitting in that temporary Kop covering up their Liverpool and Everton tattoos.

Wouldn't say we struck gold. Although I can see why it would look that way.

There are a huge amount of Liverpool and Man Utd fans in Wrexham due to us only being around an hour away from both cities and plenty who saw Wrexham as their second team. Much of the town had written the club off and weren't interested. This goes back to the 90's even when we were in L1 and L2.

TBH in 2019 my patience for watching us go nowhere every season was wearing thin. I knew we couldn't compete financially. I knew that even if we struck gold with a manger that they'd likely be poached from us (Sam Ricketts to Shrewsbury - Keates to Walsall). I knew if we managed to sign any good players that they'd be leaving sooner rather than later for a better deal at the likes of Forest Green and Salford. I'm sure you get it that it grinds you down. 

We always had around 2-4k hardcore and another 5k floating who'd come to big games like against Chester and another 10k+ on top of that who'd come to Wembley for Play offs etc. Its hugely frustrating to see we could take 20k plus to Wembley then the next home league game would be under 5k there.

There's quite a bit of resentment in our hardcore fans to new comers "taking their tickets". But i guess if you want success this is the price you pay. 

Any fan Wrexham fan mocking Blackburn's attendances is clearly on the wind up and looking for a bite. 

53 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

My Mum was from Rhosymedre, so I keep an eye out for Wrexham's results. Someone in her family even knew Aarfon Griffiths-not Lloyd George, but still!

I am so envious of your situation, but glad you have got some decent owners at last.

Our owners continue to dumb down our club. No ambition, no community engagement.... no point!

It's like death by a thousand cuts. This goes on top of some more murky issues around the original takeover and what seemed to be wanton destruction of an historic football club during the first few years of this ownership.

The slogan "Made in Lancashire. Destroyed in India" still rings true for me, although the dumbing down and managed decline may be less obvious to the outside world.

Meanwhile, we seem to have a very good manager, who is being undermined by the owners via their current cardboard- cut-out board of directors.......but like the Murphy's, I'm not bitter....

 

Sorry to hear this. What's their goal though? They don't attend games, they don't invest and seemingly don't care and I would imagine they have to financially support the club(?) and must be well out of pocket overall.  So what is the point?

I grew up in Cefn Mawr, a stones throw from Rhosymedre.... Small world!

I still pinch myself to believe we have such great owners. This is not in anyway me putting the boot in or gloating by the way. But never thought it would happen. They have stuck to their word and delivered everything they said they would and more. Any fan would struggle to find any faults. There's been a few niggles here and there,  teething issues but they have all been resolved and washed away by our recent success. Things like ticketing issues etc. Caused by unprecedented demand. 

Under Fan ownership the money had run out, fans were sick of the small clique of fans running the club who were hell bent on staying in control despite all their lies, bare faced deceit and shambolic running of the club. Any transfer money we had got wasted and fans stopping contributing to the Trust as a result. Resolutions were ignored even though they were voted for. In my experience fans can save the club but not run it long term. There's a reason there are so few and even fewer who enjoy any sort of success. Then covid hit and we were in serious trouble. I don't think we would've survived without the takeover.

The FA have blood on their hands and so the the EFL. Until they get a grip of the ownership of football clubs more will go under. 

14 hours ago, bluebruce said:

I don't think we should get offended that a lot of Wrexham fans are disappointed in the draw they got. I think it's a lot more to do with them wanting to get one of the Big Six for the excitement of putting themselves up against one of the best sides in the country, and of course the bumper pay day which can really help in League Two. They know they won't win the FA Cup, so the pinnacle of what they can do in it is to play a game like that.

What they've ended up with is a midtable Championship side, who they know are odds-on to win the game and send them out the cup, but won't give them a big payday as our league crowds are only about 50% bigger than theirs, and early round cup games tend to bring in less. They also already had this sort of experience last season when they played Coventry and Sheff United, so it's not as novel for them this year.

After the initial disappointment they seem to be warming up to the idea that it'll still be much more exciting than their normal league games, they can take a massive away following for a great day out to a ground almost none of them have been to, and they even have a bit of a chance due to our poor form and their recent record of stepping it up against Championship sides.

That said, a couple of comments on their forum about it are a bit cringe. Then again, so are one or two of the ones on here...

Spot on this. Wrexham fans love a good away day. Its not too far away and hopefully you'll give us the full allocation.

Away tickets for most of our league games sell out in minutes and are hard to get, so days like these are welcome as it allows more fans the opportunity to travel away.

I see the map that the documentary team clearly planted deliberately is still getting a few bites. I'm stunned anyone believes this was a genuine mistake and not a wind up. 

Wrexham fans will have every sympathy with your ownerships woes. The last decent owner before the current lot we had sold the club in around 2001/2002 and sold it down the river to crooks. Since then we went from one disaster to another, lost ownership of our stadium on the way (its back with the club now) and we lost our training ground Colliers Park which is now owned by the Welsh FA. We still have no permanent training ground but they are currently in the process of finding a suitable site to build one. 

What's the situation with your owners now? 

4 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Well bullying you won't have to worry about and we struggle with any form of physical style but if you take us on a football it would suit us more.

Physically probably the weakest squad in the Championship and we are likely to have one of the youngest sides ever out in this one. The is no such thing as a long ball in this team or a centre forward and set piece goals are an alien breed at 2023/4 Blackburn Rovers.

It'll be an interesting clash of styles i'd wager.

I very much doubt we'll try to outplay you,  I very much doubt anyone sees that working against Championship quality.

More than likely we will be direct into Palmer, Fletcher or Dalby, whoever plays with Mullin (assuming we haven't signed another striker by then) or over the top / down the channels for Mullin etc to run onto. We'll look to win throw ins near your box for Tozer's long throw. We're pretty good at set pieces with McClean in the side.

Where we struggle is against teams who have a high press and are good at it, lots of teams try the high press but few are very good at it at our level. Also we struggle against pace, particularly running at our back three who aren't the quickest (Bar Hayden) and that's usually how we concede.

Our GK Arthur Okonkwo, who is on loan from Arsenal, is a giant too and looks like the real deal. I'd be well chuffed if we could sign him permanently. 

11 minutes ago, tomphil said:

A lot are just going over the top with it of course most Rovers fans want a big club tie home or away and our large element of once a season fans always pray for Liverpool or Utd at home.

Next best thing though is a home game against a lower division side and another good chance of progress (on paper) and who really cares how many turn up.  Longer you're in the comp money can be made and the chance of a big tie the odds get shorter.

The 'glamour' bit is nonsense in regards to this game unless half of Hollywood is turning up in Blackburn.

It does though have a lot of intrigue as Wrexham are a good side with massive incentive in this and Rovers are so easy to score against this season it's crazy. We also have the potential to put 4 or 5 past you though also and we never play it safe so i predict a crazy game and plenty goals.

It could be a cracker.

Well it looks that way, but we're nowhere near as good away from home though, so I'm expecting a defeat.

We're a big physical side that can mix it up and despite a lot of others fans calling Parky a dinosaur etc, when the time is right we can play good football too.  We rarely get bullied and this team doesn't know when its beat.

Of course we had a shocking start to our League two campaign but that was more down to a exhausting pre season tour of the US and getting back a week before the season kicked off along with a few other factors.

What can we expect from you?