I have an important message: go to the SToK Cae Ras on Sunday and watch the women’s team. You won’t regret it.
We’re free-scoring, fun to watch, have won seven in an unbeaten nine match run and are playing a side against whom a genuine, spiky rivalry has developed.
If that’s not enough, then how about this: watching them might just reawaken the dreamer in you.
Remember how you felt when Rob and Ryan took over? That rush of excitement and optimism? It was a new sensation for us Wrexham fans!
Three and a half years of seeing our dreams come true has, perhaps, led to a slight sense of jadedness amongst the fanbase. Success has become the norm, and we perhaps need to stop fretting about maintaining our progress and reset our attitudes. We should remind ourselves how amazing this all is.
The women’s team are a reminder of how crazy our journey is. They keep doing astounding things, in the most dramatic manner possible.

Want an example? Overturning a seven-point deficit with three games left to a team we’d never beaten in the league, the final blow coming when we scored a last minute winner at their ground. That’s not a bad place to start.
They make us see that anything is possible, and there’s something to learn from them as we tilt at The Championship.
As we enter the run-in, talk has naturally turned to our prospects in The Championship should we be able to achieve back-to-back-to-back promotions.
The consensus seems to be that we would find life very difficult in the second tier.
Remarkably, I often hear people suggest that promotion would be premature and dangerous. After decades of Wrexham fans complaining that the club has no ambition and doesn’t want to get promoted, suddenly it’s the supporters who caution against swift progress. The irony hasn’t escaped me.
I don’t share those reservations. We’ve lived the dream under Rob and Ryan, and you don’t execute a plan that well without having a very clear picture of the challenges you’ll face, both in the present and the future.
A national journalist suggested to me after the Stockport game that we wouldn’t be able to survive in The Championship playing like that, which misses the point. Successful teams don’t play swashbuckling football week-in week-out, apart from Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool. They get results. Seems to me that a side with a dogged resolution which can defend well under extreme pressure has the tools to succeed.

Rob and Ryan are fully aware of the financial leap involved in competing in The Championship. They’ve spoken from the start of attracting further backing if they reach this point and have done exactly that.
Significant investment from serious players has transformed us off the pitch, and our starting point was remarkably healthy anyway. We’re ready.
The budgets required at the highest levels are becoming ludicrous. We’ve seen the Premier League’s financial growth mean that individuals are rarely able to afford to buy and run one of its clubs on their own. A consortium of the wealthy is required to make a realistic go of it. Rob and Ryan have quietly pulled together exactly that.
Unexpected, spectacular success isn’t something to be scared of. It’s the essence of being a fan: a rare state we all aspire to.
If you still harbour doubts about the wisdom of tilting at The Championship so soon, you should consider what the women’s side are achieving.
They dared to dream. They’ve broken through barriers, just as Phil Parkinson’s players have. Don’t worry about it; embrace it.
When it comes to playing without fear, our Sunday team have cracked it. When it comes to playing with trust they’re experts too.
They started the season with a strategy which brought performances but not results. The natural thing to do in that situation is to panic, rip it all up and start again.
Instead, they stuck to their guns and were spectacularly rewarded.
We should embrace such positivity to address the edginess around promotion. Lose the sense of uncertainty, the fear of what might go wrong. Glory’s no fun if you suffer all the way through it.
There’s an argument to be made for not overthinking things sometimes. Instead of fretting about what might go wrong, live in the moment and enjoy the ride.
The noise we made at Wycombe and against Stockport was joyous. When a full-throated chant of “Back-to-back-to-back” regularly broke out, it set the tone for all of us.
Never mind the anxieties of future challenges; taking them on is what makes it all worthwhile. Enjoy the glory, enjoy the success, and enjoy where it takes you.

The side that will walk out at The SToK Cae Ras on Sunday, proudly wearing the red shirts of a club that has dared to dream since 1864, have mastered living in the moment and grasping hold of opportunity, no matter how difficult it might be.
Get down there, cheer them on and remind yourself of the pure joy of enjoying a side doing you proud. Then, keep that feeling for the rest of the season.






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