[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

If you had "win a home opener for the first time since 2017 and then do the usual kamikaze divebomb out of the League Cup" on your bingo card for the first week of the season (and to be honest, I did), then it's job done on all counts so far, with a couple of new additions to round things off nicely. But this week it's lights, camera, action as the Baggies meet Wrexham for a first ever league encounter in circumstances which, a generation ago, would have seemed like some Richard Curtis fever dream.

There'll be cameras of more than one kind present at the Racecourse Ground to record the moment for posterity, as the club propelled ever-upward by (admittedly quite likeable) Hollywood royalty in aid of their docudrama series Welcome To Wrexham deliver that greeting to Albion for only the third time in history; the first since a Watney Cup tie in summer 1971, forty-one years after the Welshmen knocked the Baggies out of the FA Cup in 1930. Having lost a tough trip to Saints last weekend, Wrexham - bolstered by a £25 million spending spree on nine new recruits, including Nathan Broadhead - will undoubtedly be looking to find their feet in the division with a win, and it remains to be seen whether that combination of expensive new blood and enthusiastic home support will carry the day against the fragile but canny Albion side that clinched three points last week.

There is, of course, a feelgood factor around Wrexham that I don't begrudge their fans in the slightest, but however amiable and sincere their owners (and it must be said that football needs considerably more Ryan Reynoldses and Rob McElhenneys and fewer Vincent Tans, Jason Whittinghams and Dejphon Chansiris), the more cynical part of me can't help but feel that this is merely another sequel in 21st century football's most well-worn story: the big-spending nouveau riche butt heads against the shabby-genteel cash-poor old gentry.

Still, if any of our old gents should fancy playing the superhero in Wales tomorrow, there may just be a few casting agents and Marvel executives willing to take a punt on a whole new cinematic universe. The Blue Throstle? The Big Boing? Captain Smethwick? Stranger things have happened. Ask Wrexham.

[Baggie_One]

Oh how I’ve missed dingle dons commentary

Anyway, good performance so far !

[Salopbaggie]

So 1-1 at half time what was Philips thinking for their goal he left a player to go inside to mark a zone, rather than go with the player, rookie error.

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Second half what are we doing? Keep passing around the back 4 until we lose the ball at the other end our last three corners all to the back post so Philips can knock it to the keeper. I still think we have all the tools but the players need to believe they can do it as well

This game is screaming for a Toby Collyer type player

On come Johnstone and Wallace 29 seconds they combine 1-2

[talkSAFT]

Pretty impressed by our performance. Don't get to watch much these days, so I don't know how to evaluate Championship football, but certainly not disappointed at all.

[drewks]

Rats!
Didn't know t'was on the TV in time so only caught the last 15 minutes or so; in that time I was very impressed! Thought we looked purposeful, full of energy, and used the ball intelligently, this against a team who were themselves busting a gut to impress.
Early days for sure, but good signs, IMHO..... also a start that may encourage any potential new signings

[4evaabaggie]

Rats!
Didn't know t'was on the TV in time so only caught the last 15 minutes or so; in that time I was very impressed! Thought we looked purposeful, full of energy, and used the ball intelligently, this against a team who were themselves busting a gut to impress.
Early days for sure, but good signs, IMHO..... also a start that may encourage any potential new signings

Was my birthday yesterday (59 years young, still immature), I was out with my grandchildren, like me , you can always watch it on itv X, it should be there. I will try to grab a viewing later.
But so far impressed with the results, beat last season’s playoff chasing Blackburn and a £25 million spending team desperate to show they belong and to do well, and shock horror it was away from home.
Better start than last year, let’s hope Von Ryan’s express has the steam to get us to freedom and the land of milk n honey. Greed league.
One there for the oldies, honouring the hero’s 80 years on from VE and VJ days.
Ryan Mason’s blue and white (express) army.