Voting has opened on the official Player of the Season award. You can go here to place your vote for both Player of the Season and Young Player of the Season. Voting closes on April 23rd. Obviously, anyone is eligible for the Player of the Season provided they’ve played this season! As for the Young Player, they have to have been under 21 on the … Continue reading Vote For The Wrexham FC Player of the Year 2013-14
This is the extended twelve inch remix of my column from last week’s Leader. It forms part of the paper’s comprehensive pre-match coverage every Friday, featuring interviews, an in-depth look at the opposition and lots of statistical analysis. All content in the column (c) http://www.leaderlive.co.uk. So I guess it’s time to get on with the rest of our lives. I can’t do it without regret … Continue reading Morrell’s critics failed to convince me
Here’s more Congy Red goodness! I’m writing this before we beat Barnet. That’s right BEFORE we beat Barnet. I have carefully analysed our current situation and ‘Nothing can go wrong now’. Fans of the DJ Danny Baker may recognise the phrase. He asked football fans to ring in and give him stories about their teams when they were cruising to victory, and were hit by … Continue reading Nothing can go wrong now!
Ŵell that was better, but it still encapsulated how we’re just falling short this season. The positives first. After the defeat at Luton we needed to respond, and we did. To be honest, it was pretty much impossible to not improve on what we did last Saturday, but still, we showed character on a stinking day in an exposed ground and ought to have won … Continue reading Welling United 1 Wrexham 1
Oh dear. Andy Morrell suggested this was our worst performance under his management, and I’m struggling to come up with an alternative. He also described it as “inept”: it was a day when his vocabulary was a good deal more sophisticated than his team. He did well to find the right word to describe the performance, as it was a tricky one to put into … Continue reading Lincoln City 2 Wrexham 0
5 Things We Learned From the Stoke Game: 1. Andy Morrell has something to work with in Theo Bailey-JonesI’ll be honest: I was underwhelmed by my first impression of the young lad. To be fair, he is a youngster finding his way at our level for the first time, but the contrast when he replaced Adrian Cieslewicz in the Blackburn game was marked. So I … Continue reading Wrexham 0 Stoke City 1
So what conclusions should we draw from that? None, if we’ve got any sense! A friendly kickabout on a hot Summer’s afternoon isn’t going to give you an indication of what we’ll be like on a wet midweek winter’s night in Gateshead (or whatever town Gateshead play in these days.) After all, if you look at our friendly results over the years you’d think we … Continue reading Wrexham 1 Blackburn 1
The defence stood up to scrutiny last season, but how did the engine room fare? Midfielders Dean Keates Once again, the skipper ran through the pain barrier for the club and he remains a totemic figure in the centre of the pitch. At the heart of everything, he sets the passing tempo and leads from the front, playing with a fire which complements Jay Harris’ … Continue reading End of Term Report Part Four
Ever since we dropped into the Conference this part of the year has seemed particularly fraught and crucial. Talk of a retained list seems irrelevant: the issue isn’t who we want to keep, but who we can manage to hang onto. Danny Wright has departed already, and the likes of Martin Riley and Dean Keates are surely crucial to the spine of next season’s side. … Continue reading Morrell’s Balancing Act Between Quality and Strength in Depth
Football folk don’t generally want to make excuses, so I’ll make them on our behalf this time. If the ref hadn’t controlled the game (and yes, thats a very poor choice of verb to describe his performance) then a genuinely encouraging performance would have had a tangible reward at the end of it. Oh and we’d have two centre backs for the play-offs. I have … Continue reading Mansfield Town 1 Wrexham 0
Here’s my column from last week’s Leader. It forms part of the paper’s comprehensive pre-match coverage every Friday, featuring interviews, an in-depth look at the opposition and lots of statistical analysis. All content in the column (c) http://www.leaderlive.co.uk. It’s strange how things pan out, isn’t it? A fortnight ago the likes of Rob Evans and Bradley Reid had barely any pitch time between them, naturally … Continue reading Youth Offers Some Hope
Thankfully it doesn’t happen very often, but there are some games where you just want to leave after ten minutes. This was one of them. In fact, scrub that: why didn’t the clubs just get together beforehand and agreed to call it a 1-1 draw? Nobody would have really minded, and the few of us who turned up would have promised to keep the lack … Continue reading Wrexham 1 Braintree Town 1
Hmmm, not sure how to feel after that. On the one hand, defeat is fairly inconsequential. I’m not convinced that who you play in the play-offs matters enormously, nor whether you get any advantage from playing the home leg second, unless it goes into extra time. I’d rather establish a first leg advantage, no matter how narrow, than chase a deficit in the second game: … Continue reading Wrexham 1 Kidderminster Harriers 2
