Wrexham AFC is exploring exciting proposals for a major redevelopment of their stadium, aiming to transform it into a modern, world-class facility. The plans include expanding seating capacity, improving fan amenities, and enhancing the overall matchday experience.
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00:00And just on the stadium plans released, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have had a great
00:08impact on Wrexham as a place as well in terms of the boost to their community economy. New
00:16sort of stadium plans are looking quite incredible. The new Kop stand, the way it's been designed
00:23with the dragons and it sort of looks a bit like a castle in terms of that. And then the
00:27capacity upgrade and it also puts them at a sort of level to host European U19 games
00:35etc. Stuff like that. I mean, what will this sort of do for Wrexham as a club, as a future?
00:39I mean, it's all great getting there in terms of league position and these incredible promotion
00:44stories. But, you know, making sure you are staying there, making sure you make these
00:48type of developments are also so crucial.
00:51Yeah, this is what Rob and Ryan's legacy will be. It will be the stadium. It will be what
00:56state the club is in. Are they self-sustainable? Having a modern ground where you can host
01:00events, you can have concerts, you can have all that sort of stuff that makes you profit,
01:04that makes you a lot of money when you get to the championship. That makes, like I said,
01:08self-sustainability and it gives Wrexham just that feeling back really, because that was
01:15always the issue of Wrexham, you know, in the sort of however many years it will have
01:20been. Until the Kop's up, it will be, what, 10, 15 years since it was last sort of present
01:26and even before that, when was it back in its heyday? That's back when we were in the
01:29Football League last time, so it's almost like 20 years. And it was always, the sort
01:34of dilapidated state of the Kop was always basically the embodiment of the club's misfortunes.
01:39The fact that we played in a three-sided ground, we had this rotten, beautiful old stand that
01:45was just dying in front of us, unloved, untouched, uninvested in. And that sort of symbolised
01:51the town, it symbolised the football club. And now there's this rejuvenation and the
01:55football's been brilliant. But we do say this, and people who sit near me, we kind
02:00of say, look, if Wrexham are winning games every week on a Saturday afternoon, it kind
02:05of doesn't matter what league you're in, because at the moment we sell out every match.
02:10So whether we're playing Tamworth or Tottenham, you're going to have the same attendance
02:13at the racecourse. So whoever you're playing, it doesn't really matter too much in that
02:17regard, which sounds a bit blasé. Obviously, we want to be playing the highest level possible,
02:21but fundamentally that's not going to change. But what does matter is being part of that
02:28community and having that extra five and a half thousand capacity stand, the most symbolic
02:34stand in Wrexham history, the famous stand. That would mean so much more to Wrexham fans
02:40than the league position and the promotions, oddly enough, just because it felt for so
02:45long that would never, ever come to fruition. There's always been so many planning processes,
02:50rumours, false hope, false dawns, and to see the Kop finally permanently built,
02:57that would be the biggest testament of the takeover.