Wrexham AFC’s promotion hopes remain strong, but they face a crucial test with tough fixtures ahead.
Maintaining consistency will be key, especially against promotion rivals, as defensive solidity and squad depth will be tested. If Wrexham can grind out results in difficult matches, their Football League ambitions remain firmly within reach.
Maintaining consistency will be key, especially against promotion rivals, as defensive solidity and squad depth will be tested. If Wrexham can grind out results in difficult matches, their Football League ambitions remain firmly within reach.
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00:00It's unknown to what division they're going to be in. In terms of promotion hopes, the
00:07race for promotion, it seems like they're getting a little bit of a gap in terms of
00:11the top three and the rest. Where do you stand in terms of this running? If you go onto any
00:17sort of football app at the moment, it's sort of one scroll and you are at the very bottom
00:20of the season already. It's going very fast and Rexham are making sure they are there
00:26or thereabouts. What can you see from the remainder of this season? It's going to be
00:30a really interesting one because a lot of the big teams still have to play each other
00:34again. Rexham have got to go away to Wickham. They've now played Birmingham home and away.
00:39They've got Huddersfield away coming up as well. That's the concern I think from a Rexham
00:44point of view is that of the top four, they are one of themselves, they've got to play
00:49two of them away from home. They've got Bolton at home at the start of March, which again
00:53is going to be a very difficult test, very interesting one. Rexham are notoriously not
00:56as good on the road either. You'd expect Rexham to win most of their home games the remainder
01:01of the season, so that's got to put them in a good position. But I think right now, Rexham,
01:08you would say would probably be your strong favourites to finish third. I still don't
01:13think they've maybe got quite enough to overhaul both Huddersfield and Wickham and sort of
01:18see out second place, but you never know. You really don't know because Rexham's home
01:22form is so good and if they just improve a little bit away from home, that should be
01:25enough. But it also relies on that freakish home form that is kind of unsustainable, even
01:30though they do sustain it. So I'd still say Rexham are best of the sort of the playoff
01:36teams at the moment. I personally would say I expect Rexham to finish third or fourth,
01:40go into the playoffs and then, I mean, there is no calling that when that happens. So I
01:46think that's the situation Rexham are in. I think they're quite comfortable with that.
01:49Again, it's very difficult to be rational as a Rexham fan because at the start of the
01:54season, we would all have taken mid-table. Lots of people were just taking survival in
01:57League One, first time back in 20 years. You're not going to get too greedy. And now we're
02:02on course for a potential promotion to the championship and that means that next season
02:06you could finish in your highest ever league position as a football club. So it's very
02:13difficult to stay grounded. But I think at the moment, playoffs are basically a certainty
02:18I think for Rexham this season and anything else is a bonus. And I think everyone's quite
02:22content with that, even if the sort of pressure from the outside world is if they don't get
02:26promoted, it'd be a failure. It won't be regarded as that whatsoever. I think that will come
02:30in the summer once the owners know what league they're in. Because again, if Rexham go to
02:35the championship, you've got to give it your best shot of staying up. And that might be
02:40by just throwing all that short-term experience again. Or if you stay in League One, then
02:44maybe you can say, look, we've been so close to promotion already. Now we can take our
02:48time. Now we can build. Now we know what we need to get up. So I think it's a change
02:51that will happen eventually. I just don't think it will happen until we know what division
02:56Rexham are in next season.