Wrexham will be the Denial Derby. The fans of both teams are in denial. Our fans all over Bobs had given up on the team before Saturday ......... and you can hardly find one who accepts where we are and realises we just need to get on with it. Mostly they seem concerned to slag off the opposition / the referee / the facilities / the league even though every team we play demonstrates on the field that we are down at the correct level.
In my entire lifetime we have never been higher than what is effectively the third division and so now we are in what is effectively the fifth division. How much of a shock can that be? Blimey I saw it was on the cards before we sacked Danny Wilson ..... because we clearly weren't investing heavily in the team, which didn't look as though it would change, and we weren't showing any signs that we were uncovering the good, cheap players hidden lower down the pyramid.
Wrexham have taken ten years plus to begin to accept where they are and to realise they have to fight for an entire season to get out of it. Perhaps the shock of our winless run, which has now now ended, might be enough to make us work out what we have to do and how difficult it will be. As Harrogate's manager points out there are fine margins at this level ...... and he is under no illusion how difficult maintaining their current slight superiority will be. Fylde have been scoring goals and not conceding at home, yet we won 3-1. The cup is an important source of income and publicity to smaller clubs; Fylde did not want to lose, so that is a good result, which I'm sure will have Wrexham worrying more than they would two weeks ago.
There seems to be epidemic of false memory syndrome about. I know that under Paul Cook we played some football that was both successful and good to watch BUT in Division One and Two substance and results vastly outweighed style. Even when we were doing well, how often were fans complaining that the opposition was poor and content to use any tactic to stop Chesterfield? How often was the ref' pants in the eyes of the fans? How often were the fans dissatisfied with their surroundings etc? How often did the fans want Paul Cook to do something different to what he was actually doing? There plenty of thorns in the bed of roses even then ......... Which fans suspected Eoin Doyle might be able to score goals every week when he was cast as lone front man?
The truth is some of our fans carry a memory with them of a time that never was. Paul Cook would have been well-satisfied with a 3-1 away win at Fylde in the FA Cup when we were in the EFL.
In my entire lifetime we have never been higher than what is effectively the third division and so now we are in what is effectively the fifth division. How much of a shock can that be? Blimey I saw it was on the cards before we sacked Danny Wilson ..... because we clearly weren't investing heavily in the team, which didn't look as though it would change, and we weren't showing any signs that we were uncovering the good, cheap players hidden lower down the pyramid.
Wrexham have taken ten years plus to begin to accept where they are and to realise they have to fight for an entire season to get out of it. Perhaps the shock of our winless run, which has now now ended, might be enough to make us work out what we have to do and how difficult it will be. As Harrogate's manager points out there are fine margins at this level ...... and he is under no illusion how difficult maintaining their current slight superiority will be. Fylde have been scoring goals and not conceding at home, yet we won 3-1. The cup is an important source of income and publicity to smaller clubs; Fylde did not want to lose, so that is a good result, which I'm sure will have Wrexham worrying more than they would two weeks ago.
There seems to be epidemic of false memory syndrome about. I know that under Paul Cook we played some football that was both successful and good to watch BUT in Division One and Two substance and results vastly outweighed style. Even when we were doing well, how often were fans complaining that the opposition was poor and content to use any tactic to stop Chesterfield? How often was the ref' pants in the eyes of the fans? How often were the fans dissatisfied with their surroundings etc? How often did the fans want Paul Cook to do something different to what he was actually doing? There plenty of thorns in the bed of roses even then ......... Which fans suspected Eoin Doyle might be able to score goals every week when he was cast as lone front man?
The truth is some of our fans carry a memory with them of a time that never was. Paul Cook would have been well-satisfied with a 3-1 away win at Fylde in the FA Cup when we were in the EFL.