Are Wrexham FC And Ryan Reynolds Ready for a Championship Promotion?
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Wrexham FC go into EFL League one as one of the favourites to reach the top 3 or at the very least reach playoffs. The kop stand is not built, we don't have a proper training ground. Are Wrexham FC, Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mcelhenney ready for the EFL Championship?
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Sounds like either option is a winning situation for Wrexham FC and the fans. Just hoping the club has another great year of play, with minimal injuries to the players. On one hand if another promotion does not happen, then as you said, there is time to build the infrastructure and maybe get the issue of a new stadium or an upgrade build of the current stadium resolved and maybe even started. If promotion does happen again, then the rocket ship keeps climbing and interest in the club and the series grows. Pretty sure the folks behind the scenes working with Reynolds and McElhenney are up to the challenge either way.
As for the series , I am pretty sure it was only ever going to be 4 but if we do get promoted again or interest does not wane then they may do a season 5. We need to get the kop deal done because if we don't we could lose the gateway money from the council. Its a hard one, everyone wants the club to go up as high as they can but you don't want to go up and come back down again either.
Don't be so scared, we're not going anywhere ! Dream BIG !
Thanks for the vote of confidence!
I'm Ipswich and we're back in the Prem. Are Wrexham's facilities good enough for the Championship!🚜
I'd say no to be honest with you.
@@WrexhamAFCfanzone You've got about fifteen months and plenty of £ to sort it.All neutrals want to see the Wrexham do well because it's a great story. I might go one day, but it's a long way from Ipswich!
@@PUNKinDRUBLIC72 Thanks nice to see some people wishing us well. Lots call us Disney fc and rant a bit haha. Yeah its quite a drive from there but if you stayed over and made it into a short break you'd enjoy it. Lots of people come and see the Turf, the ground, the stuff from Welcome to Wrexham.
I love this club ❤
Nice to know, Tom, from a fellow Tom!
This is one of those situations where I think Parky brings in the best players he can to fill the holes and upgrade the released positions and we let the chips fall where they may. A treble promotion would be amazing, but the Kop and especially a training ground really need to be sorted right away. I don’t think anyone would be mad if we had a mid table finish or even made the playoffs but stayed in league one for a season or two to let infrastructure catch up before pushing for the Championship and Prem.
Exactly, 100% everything you just said, Phil. I would be ecstatic if we went up again and would be over the moon. Just worried if we made that leap then just came back down again , it would be terrible for the club. I am pretty sure by the time we've reached halfway through the season that it will be somewhat clear how well we are doing. If we are sitting in the top 5 for example, I think alarm bells will be ringing about the need for more investment , work to begin and for those dragging their feet to get moving. The Kop has to start soon, its very concerning.
Quite ... naive Americans unused to promotion/relegation would be turned off by TALK of "consolidation", but if the club makes a push for the playoff spaces and falls short of sixth place, or is not the one of the four that punches their ticket, that won't be any disaster.
We already got promoted out of the national league which was huge for us. For us one season later to be promoted again is beyond anyone's dreams. Every fan wants promotion but I am just hoping that if we do its not a flash in the pan and we end up back down again. Championship wages alone combined with improved infrastructure would be incredibly costly.
I think that if Wrexham get promoted again then they’re assured more financial assistance. Maybe not as much if they don’t, but investors cannot ignore this team.
I think we do have what a lot of club's don't have and that is worldwide exposure on at least a weekly basis with the show. Also Ryan and Rob are brands in themselves.
Super Paul Mullin! He will carry to the prem!
I really hope he shines in league one with no injuries in the USA tour and he gets to start the season.
It would be amazing to see Wrexham get promotion but being realistic I cant see it happening for at least a few years unless they signed EPL players and splashed the cash.
Money Talks and BS walks so it will take time. The competition will intensify and the level of football will be a real challenge. Being of Welsh heritage makes me feel proud of their achievements.
I think we need to be patient. It is hard after a back to back promotion as there is almost an expectancy that we are going to march away up to the premier. We will have a better idea when we see the transfers that Parky brings in during the summer. I'm almost thinking the level of spending will dictate the club's urgency to go up.
May well be called Ryan Reynolds FC. Nobody would blink an eye at Wrexham otherwise.
I'm not so sure about that? We've won the welsh cup 23 times, football league trophy in 2005, the FA trophy in 2013. We've beaten Arsenal, Coventry,Newcastle United, West Ham, Ipswitch. We beat Porto in the European cup winners cup and got to the quarter finals. We were often headlines without Ryan and Rob.
@@WrexhamAFCfanzone And Rod was first, and had already set up to do the doco before Ryan came on board. However, with just Rod, likely it would have been slower going. I can see the National League promotion on the same timetable, but this last season might have been fighting for the playoff spots with a bit of a more constrained player budget in last summer's transfer window.
We definitely needed Ryan as well as Rob. Ryan is the money face really.
@WrexhamAFCfanzone good one.
Thank you.
Welcome! And thanks!🙏
With a proven background in all aspects of business you should really allow the owners to continue on their path. They have earned that, I think.
I know Ryan in particular is no stranger to business and we have the new CEO but if we do go up again we need more money than Ryan could provide.
@@WrexhamAFCfanzone assuming facts without cause. Do you really think the owners haven't planned ahead? Come on !
Not really. Ryan is rich but not championship league rich. He will be amongst owners and investors with far more wealth than him. Plus most of the money is in the form of a loan to Wrexham and we don't see a penny of the Welcome to Wrexham revenue. We do obviously benefit from it in terms of our merch sales, visitors, etc... I don't know if they have planned ahead or not to be honest. Wrexham fans are kept in the dark about lots of things, such as the Kop, the training ground. I am hoping the new CEO, Michael Williamson will start knocking the down the walls and get us moving with the expansion.
As an American, which already means I don’t know a damn thing about football, I think they should work this year at concentrating on regrouping, getting facilities taken care of, and new players used to playing together over a run for promotion. When things are in place, then you can dedicate everything for the run with less distractions. Too many loose ends to be promoted again.
We definitely need a new training ground and there’s something going on behind the scenes with the Kop. Don’t get me wrong I’d love promotion than not but we have to be ready.
How good does Wrexham have to be this year to not have fickle fans calling for Parkinson’s job and let him consolidate at league one? Just curious if anyone has a guess. Having been a fan for only a few years and being in the states curious what fans there have to say. Up the town!
Better than they'll be ... whenever you attract a bunch of new fans by winning at a lower level, there are some who will be spoiled and unrealistic and spit the dummy when things are harder going at a higher level. It goes with the territory.
While i'm not sure we can get another promotion this coming season, I think we need it. I'm not sure if we actually getting any type of payments from the documentary, this is not really clear, but what we do get is influence and merch sells across the world. i also don't think the show can carry on for too much longer, and I would like us to still have the show when we get to the championship league.
money wise, I would really hate seeing outside investors coming in, cause you never know what would happen to the club if they do come in.
money wise going up to championship, I think we could very well within one season in Championship get the funding from sells and parachute payments and sponserships to be a force in it. prob with staying in league 1, is getting the proper players with skill and proper young age. being league 1 would make players at the level we want think twice before wanting to join us, when they can go play at a higher level.
so... making it all a short version.
we need to get promoted and than stay in Championship league for 1-2 seasons to build ourself/turf/training grounds etc. up to standarts.
All the money from the doc goes to RR Reynolds holdings or whatever it’s called. I just think Ryan and Rob would have to sort a lot out and quick if we went up again I’d hate to go up and come straight down. I know we have the parachute payments but I’d rather get up and stay up.
@@WrexhamAFCfanzone i'm not so sure about that. movie and tv show businesses are funny, I'm not sure the money go to RR, also even if it does, it goes to RR and not to Wrexham itself.
Anyway, I don't think we be able to get prom this season, but if we do, I don't think we would get relegated back season after.
if we do win League 1, my prediction would be that we get stuck in Championship around the lower or middle for the first year, than top half second season, than I think we going to have a change in Manager, than maybe a year more and than go up
Apparently the club see nothing of the money but are allowed to use Ryan and Rob's image or something, I don't know! I am not sure of promotion either because we will be up against 3 clubs that just came down and some that just missed out on being promoted. But saying that, we seem to be on a roll and we could do a Luton and go all the way!
@@WrexhamAFCfanzone Luton didn't do it all back to back.
I'm pretty sure if we win this season, we would be the first ones in history. i don't think anyone have done 3 back to back at these levels yet.
Also as I said before, I'm really not sure how the payments go from the show. every time I seen someone ask about it, interviews etc.. it was always kind of backpaddeling without giving a actual answer.
@@WrexhamAFCfanzone Yes, it would be unsustainable to build the documentary revenues into the club's financial report, when any year could bring the news that the following series is the last ... but in effect the money that R&R have put into the club to date have far exceeded anything that they could have earned from the doco. But the doco generates the bulk of the sponsorship, and the next financial report is when we'll see how substantial that actually is. And it's the upcoming season when the merch is likely to move to a company that can keep up with demand, and fully tap that income source. But the cost to be a mid-table Championship club and the cost to be a top six Championship club are two different levels of outlay. To be sure, being a mid-table club brings with it the real risk of relegation, but there is a difference between a real risk of relegation and more likely to be relegated than not.
Not yet, they need to replace the players not re-signed first. But as far as "consolidation", in Wrexham's peculiar situation, the Championship is a better place to aim for consolidation before making the push for the highest reaches than League One is, since in the Championship, Wrexham can be seen in the US on general streaming site ESPN+, so that US fans are not at the big ticket iFollow or nothing, making it easier to maintain US interest after Welcome to Wrexham itself closes up shop. Further, the loss in the second year of the National league is likely to be larger than the loss last year ... I am guessing that when the next round of financial reports comes out, people are going to be less panicky about the prospect of being unable to sustain a Championship consolidation campaign, mid-table or better, than they may be at present. Plus the live prospect of relegation at the start of a series of Welcome to Wrexham, and it's own particular edge of the seat suspence, is just the ticket to getting season six approved as season five is going to air.
I think they had one or two games on ESPN+ but I agree a move away from iFollow would be a huge thing for American fans. The price is not too bad though if you go for a season ticket. I know a few friends who can't get hold of season tickets who used ifollow last season. I am hoping the next set of financial reports show us doing well, as you said its just jitters and worrying about the club really.
@@WrexhamAFCfanzone It's not so much a move away from iFollow to having a "taste test" option that is independent of the documentary. Any subscription service at the monthly cost of iFollow needs some kind of a sampler service to get new people in the door, and the documentary won't be around forever to serve that role.
They could always have the first game of the season for free.
@@WrexhamAFCfanzone The thing is, I expect the club finances will support a payroll in the 7m pound range this coming year, and from that point, a mid-level Championship payroll (#12/#13 in the payroll lists) is somewhere around 15m pound. The difference between the two is close to the difference between League 1 and Championship TV money and solidarity payments. As far as the infrastructure investment, that looks to be going ahead as fast as practicable either way, so whether the club wins promotion or not doesn't substantially change that. The discussion of the big stadium capacities is likely to be like a lot of US college sports stadiums at the lower levels, where the stand actual HAS "X" seats, but "it's expandable to Y", normally by building it so a second deck can be added later.
We will do the kop first then move on to the other stands. Interesting though that it seems to be the club that is delaying the kop as the council is ready to sign it off, the gateway project. Maybe its a redesign or maybe funding for the rest of the money is not in place yet.
The English have such bad attitudes. Go for Gold. Make the next promotion. Finances will work out just fine.
Who is English? I am sure the team will do their hardest to get promoted and we will all go crazy if we do. The infrastructure and finances do need sorting though.
@WrexhamAFCfanzone what makes you think the infrastructure and finances are not already determined. The owners appear to be multi millionaires. They think in the future and plan for all scenarios, which I am pretty sure you and I are not privey to. Support with "can do" attitude and watch the good results. I'm looking forward to hard work and going up.
I know the Kop stand is not ready to go yet because I spoke to Humphrey Ker about what was going on and he mentioned a redesign but since then there are rumours that the council are waiting to finish the deal and sign it off but nothing is forthcoming from Wrexham. No funding as yet and Ryan and Rob are not going to dip into their own pockets for it.
Wrexham has been... frustrating. As good an achievement as promotion was and as much as they've scored some great goals, their defense was atrocious if you look at goals conceded. Tbh, I understand that Tozer is a favourite, but his pace is lacking for higher leagues, he gets burned for speed 9 times out of 10 allowing attacking teams free shots. So, unless they get their defense sorted, they might end up all the way at the bottom, or relegated again.
To be fair to Ben, he did have some good games for us at times but was left out due to better players in the end. We definitely need to sort out our defence and our consistency. We lost to some teams that on paper we should have won. It is a step up and the team is really going to have to push this season.
Ben Tozer was one of the players released. In the 2023-34 season, Wrexham conceded 52 goals which was 4th best in the league. The teams giving up fewer goals were Mansfield Town (47), Stockport County (48) and AFC Wimbledon (51). From August to December 2023, Wrexham allowed 35 goals in 24 matches, 1.46 goals per match. From January to April 2024, the team greatly improved defensively, only letting in 17 goals in the final 22 matches, which translates to 0.77 goals per match.
The americans will be gone once the disney show ends with a bag wad of cash and sweet goodbye . wrexham rocked the boat by getting promoted it was supposed to be a one season show now they need u to lose so they can get out. none of the yanks will be fans then either. harsh but true i hope wrexham become a proper club again not a circus.
Wow! You don't like the two co-owners much do you? Hasn't anything they've accomplished for the club meant anything?
I sense a hatred of Americans. Being one, and having lived in England for 4 years during the 60's, and going to english secondary school, being called a yank is not an endearing term. Those two are going nowhere. They love Wrexham. The good they have done for the town is just getting started. Stay tuned young man, you'll be eating your words sooner than later. PS I grew up in Bromley.
Yeah, haters think it’s a circus. They don’t appreciate what these 2 blokes are doing. Improving the lives of everyone in the town, bringing business into the area and making it so much more than just a little mining town.
Normally jealous fans from other clubs although there is a probably a very small percent of fans in Wrexham who did not vote for the takeover.
First off, Ryan is, by true terms, not a 'Yank'; he is Canadian. Second, the only reason the team is where it is now,, is bc of those 'Yanks'. It's funny how I don't see you calling out all the British owners that have pillaged their team's coffers and decimated them, leaving them in debt only to fold or be bought out by other foreign investors. Police your own, first, sport