Not sure if this belongs in here or the entertainment forum but it looks really well done:
Welcome to Wrexham (TV Series)
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Looks really good, I am looking forward to watching it.
What channel is it on in the UK?
Looks like Disney+ for folks in the UK.
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It’s out now on Disney +. Pretty good first two episodes, looking forward to the rest!
More focus on McElhenny as the owner who seems to be more personally invested.
More focus on McElhenny as the owner who seems to be more personally invested.
First 2 episodes were good. Looking forward to getting to know the squad for the new season. It looks potentially more raw with less propaganda than the All or Nothing series. I'm hoping it will be closer to Sunderland Til I Die.
I enjoyed the first two episodes. I’m with you it reminded me of Sunderland Till I Die. It seemed to be way more about the local fans and how the team impacts them and the community rather then the football and what’s going on inside the locker room.
I also didn’t know Wrexham plays in the oldest stadium in the world.
I think that's the aim as I remember McElhenny said in an interview the idea to buy Wrexham came to him after he watched Sunderland Til I Die
So I headed over to Wrexhams forums since I got curious how they felt, and it appears the fanbase is pretty happy with their owners. I unearthed a bunch of articles of both Rob and Ryan doing a lot of good in the local community as well, so thats nice to know. Looking forward to watching this
I didn’t realise that the new owners had never met until they bought the club.
As well as the obvious (buying the club and putting more money in for better players), they’ve bought back the freehold and started plans to redevelop/open The Kop - for decades, it was the main end of the ground.
But they’ve done a few charitable things too, nothing too ostentatious. Donated to SANDS after a player had a baby born stillborn, donation to a local girls go fundme page (to get £60k for new specialist tumour treatment).. that type of thing.
Relatively early days but I haven’t heard anyone say negative stuff about them and the club has a buzz again.
I find Rob more interesting than Deadpool. The people of Wrexham are the star of the show.
Still a bit mad to me.... given I have a lot of close ties to Wrexham and well worked there for 10 years, not been to a game since they've taken over though, but almost everyone from there on socials was looking for themselves in the first 2 episodes. And I see the shirts relentlessly now.
Always had a great core fanbase, now they've essentially converted a massive percentage who's main team was Utd or Liverpool to Wrexham being their main team instead of being their secondary local lower team.
The madness is helped by the fact I feel like I've watch Mac grow into a reasonable star from a crappy looking shot sitcom 15 years ago and now he's on my doorstep occasionally
Can't wait for the episode dedicated to Bootlegger... you know it's coming.
Always had a great core fanbase, now they've essentially converted a massive percentage who's main team was Utd or Liverpool to Wrexham being their main team instead of being their secondary local lower team.
The madness is helped by the fact I feel like I've watch Mac grow into a reasonable star from a crappy looking shot sitcom 15 years ago and now he's on my doorstep occasionally
Can't wait for the episode dedicated to Bootlegger... you know it's coming.
On episode 2 and this looks to be great. Was thrilled that the true supporters of the club were on board with the purchase.
Anyone know how much they paid? What’s a national league club go for?
I was wondering this too. I thought for sure they would mention the price, but they did not.
Really like this so far
£2 million.
That's a lot less than I thought. The price of a subpar vacation property for those two.
First two episodes were good. Certainly hooked me to watch the rest. Humphrey was in it lot!
Wow, assuming that included the stadium, that seems like a bargain.
Where can I watch it?
Is Mac rich? Obviously Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld made megabucks by retaining the rights to Seinfeld but... that was Seinfeld. IASIP is utterly brilliant but it's not ubiquitous or overly mainstream. I can't imagine he's that wealthy.
His net worth is somewhere around £40m, but that of course does not mean he has that in cash. Ryans value is probably significantly higher, considering him and his wife donate millions to charities every year, and he already has several extremely successful ventures with Mint Mobile and the award winning Maximum Effort marketing company. For a club like Wrexham, they might as well be saudi billionaires.
Wrexham is the luckiest small club on the Island, having obtained owners that appears to be universally well liked, who seem to be willing to invest in the club and its community. Its a proper, genuine feelgood story and Im here for the ride.
Go Wrexham!
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I thought Charlie Day when I first heard Rob was buying it, considering they're best mates since school days.
In a nutshell, yes, he is as he started off in 05 getting 75 grand per episode now he is on 450 grand per episode.
Really enjoying this and especially loving the fan stories. Those are some true fans at Wrexham. As an American unfamiliar with these things, would those fans also have PL clubs they support? Or is that unheard of? I see Wrexham isn't that far from Manchester/Liverpool on the map.
Wonder when Rob and Ryan actually make a visit. Seems to be building up to this. Btw, that cnut Alex Hamilton makes the Glazers look like Mother Teresa.
Wonder when Rob and Ryan actually make a visit. Seems to be building up to this. Btw, that cnut Alex Hamilton makes the Glazers look like Mother Teresa.
I mean Ryan sold Aviation Gin for £610m and still remained on their board and as main spokesperson - he’s got plenty of money to get them where they need to be.
The biggest factor in this is that he’s also a commercial powerhouse - the guy can literally just pull up Instagram or TikTok and make an advert for anything in seconds. Companies will be desperate to sponsor Wrexham for figures closer to premier league than national league just based on his global reach.
The biggest factor in this is that he’s also a commercial powerhouse - the guy can literally just pull up Instagram or TikTok and make an advert for anything in seconds. Companies will be desperate to sponsor Wrexham for figures closer to premier league than national league just based on his global reach.
Yes it’s close to Liverpool with a lot of links. I know Ian Rush finished there and Alan Kennedy was there and there was definitely more players I’m not thinking of. It really is a good show especially the red tape the new owners had to go through to rebuild the Kop.
Yeah, most football fans in the area support either United or Liverpool first and foremost (I think a good half or so of Wrexham fans probably have one of those two as their 'second team' as well).
Of course most of the generation who grew up in the 70s and 80s will tend to be Liverpool fans and those who grew up in the 90s or 00s are more likely to be United fans.
Who cares if Ryan can bag a Tiktok sponsorship when Rob can bring Fight Milk to Wrexham?
This show is great. Really enjoying it. Reminds me of the Sunderland one. Infinitely more enjoyable than the arse kissing ones about PL clubs.
I'm on the 6th episode there not on long but it's a good watch , the club was in a right mess but now it looks like going in right direction, now the Ground is back with the club. It's funny it's sad it's got real people in it and well made . Not a gimmick but real . I'm welsh but from the west and have kept a eye on Wrexham for a while plus its all over the news in Wales anyway. Good luck and all the best. Getting an average of over 9000 crowd I think. Great watch
I have to say, I'm dissapointed with this. Without wishing to be harsh, I really don't care to see an endless parade of Wrexham fans each episode, I had hoped for the actual running of the club to have been the focus of the show. And the very specific type of fan being highlighted feels borderline exploitative. Additionally, I find it difficult to believe anything Rob and Ryan say.
Yeah, I'm with you. By all accounts it appears the club are heading in the right direction, but you don't really see much of that process. And the bits you do see (like the stadium purchase zoom calls) seem so condensed and scripted.
There's definitely a place for the fans but they're way too much of the focus. I get why they want to do it, and it can work well (the Sunderland documentary got the balance right), but for this they seem to have neglected the real story - two Hollywood actors buying a non League club.
I don’t get what you mean by the real story. 90% of the show is about the owners who seem geniune enough. I think Todd Boehly should do himself a favor and watch them operate since they’re fellow Americans in the same business. Difference is they know they haven’t a clue but admit it in a self deprecating way which is refreshing. They aren’t making stupid suggestions about the club or the sport but are hiring people on advice of some very smart people and at the least will leave the club in better shape than what they found it in. On top of that they are funny as feck. If I wanted to know more about the football aspect the I could go watch an All or Nothing show. Right now episode 8 is when they go to an away match and they look terrified which is funny in itself. A very entertaining show and not too serious.
Its a pretty good show.....I think Rob cares more than Ryan.
How much potential for growth do Wrexham have? I gather it's a reasonable catchment area for population as far as Wales goes, but I'm guessing that's still probably not that many people?
Wrexham have a population of 135k while Manchester has around 530k, with more top level clubs too.
My guess is that Wrexham will get more followers simply due to having the owners that they have, will they be as popular as Manchester United? Not for another 100 years, but they don't need that much growth as they're still in the 5th tier of English football.
If Wrexham manage to make it to the Premier League (longshot) then they'll have pretty much the majority of Wales backing them, as it is with most things, Welsh people like seeing Welsh things do well, unless you're a Cardiff/Swansea fan seeing their counterparts doing well.
These guys are smart business men though, they're not doing this out of love, if they manage to get Wrexham anywhere near the Premier League they'll have made a very good profit and likely sell it for a lot more than they bought it for, they've likely made their money back just by the documentary already.