Blogs from the 2011-2 season.
As I’ve gone through the last few days after the Wrexham vs Luton match, I have found myself trying to put the whole story of the season into context. I dug out the newspapers that for some reason I had been accumulating through the last 12 months and tried to do something constructive with them alongside photo’s I have seen or taken through the year. … Continue reading Wrexham FC’s Journey 2011 – 2012
Wrexham’s record breaking season ended cruelly on Bank Holiday Monday, and the main focus has understandably been on the terrific heart shown by the players. However, the match also answered a tactical key question I’ve posed recently: whether Andy Morrell and Billy Barr have a Plan B when things go wrong. The evidence of the Luton game is that they most certainly do, and it’s pretty … Continue reading Tactical Report: 7th May 2012 Wrexham 2 Luton Town 1 (Agg: 2-3) Blue Square Premier Play Off Semi-final 2nd
Wrexham go into the second leg of the play-offs faced with a quite simple task: to get to Wembley for the first time, they’ll have to do something they’ve never done before. They’ve never overturned a two goal deficit in the second leg of a two-legged tie. Not that there are many examples of them facing that situation; it has only happened twice, bizarrely both … Continue reading Into The Unknown
Let’s not kid ourselves: Wrexham have a mountain to climb today. But mountains do get climbed: ask Chris Bonnington. The thing is not to panic on the way up. Wrexham have never come back from two goals down in a two-legged tie, and statistics across the years in all competitions tell us it’s a tricky feat to pull off. But that’s not to say it … Continue reading Don’t Panic!!
Here we go again: Luton in the play-offs. Let’s hope it goes rather better than last time! We’ve enjoyed some notable successes over the last fifteen years or so at Luton, but overall our record at Kenilworth Road isn’t great. We’ve won four games, drawn four and lost eleven there, including last season’s 1-0 reverse. However, despite the fact that we haven’t kept a clean … Continue reading Luton Town Preview
An odd end to the season like this encourages flights of fancy. When we were interviewing Mark Creighton today Geraint Parry very astutely compared it to a pre-season, as the games are essentially of no consequence and the manager has taken advantage of that to give his whole squad a run out. But now reality kicks in, and after the Braintree match it’s time to … Continue reading Cold Hard Reality
The drive from my house to the Racecourse takes about 45 minutes. By train, allowing for the change at Chester, it’s basically the same length of the time. This journey, by car or rail, has started to develop its own ‘pre match ritual’ so to speak, in the form of my Wrexham FC Playlist. The tracks have been added based on their relevance one way or another … Continue reading The Sound of (Wrexham FC) Music
Joslain Mayebi has come in for a lot of a lot of stick since last night, and it’s out of order. Okay, he’s divided opinions all season, the debate raging about whether he or Chris Maxwell should be first choice keeper. I’ve had plenty to say on the subject, advocating Maxwell’s case (here, here and here) before accepting Mayebi’s qualities as his run in the … Continue reading Lay Off Mayebi
Joslain Mayebi’s howler might have stolen the headlines, but it was an irrelevance. There were much more fundamental reasons why this was a harrowing evening for Wrexham. Their lack of shape, depth and creativity when they had the ball was a huge issue, lending a great deal of weight to a rather worrying conclusion: that they are almost wholly reliant for cohesion in possession on … Continue reading Tactical Report: 20th April 2012 Mansfield Town 2 Wrexham0 Blue Square Premier
The fact that Barry Fry acted with no respect for us over Nat Knight-Percival’s transfer sadly wasn’t surprising. Fry announced that Nat Knight-Percival will be joining Peterborough United next season. It was a deal many had already suspected would go through in the Summer, but perhaps Fry might have considered the fact that we are at the sharp end of an incredibly intense title battle … Continue reading Disrespected
There’ll be an interesting contrast between the occupants of the two dug-outs when Alfreton make their first visit to The Racecourse. While Billy Barr tends to maintain a certain upright dignity on the touchline, we can expect the Yale Paddock to enjoy a particularly feisty relationship with the visiting gaffer. Nicky Law is nothing if not fiery! Our visit to Alfreton at the start of … Continue reading Above The Law
The post match comments from Andy Morrell and Stephen Wright summed this performance up. Wrexham underperformed massively, looking like they had little in the tank for the match, and should have been very happy with the point. It was a match where too many small factors weighed against them, tipping the balance in Cambridge’s favour. The first key factor was the suspensions Wrexham suffered. In recent weeks, … Continue reading Tactical Report: 31st March 2012 Cambridge United 1 Wrexham1 Blue Square Premier
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