Are we the next Salford/Forest Green/Fleetwood?

[andy buckley]

Originally Posted by petered

Ive certainly been one of those thinkers as I'm a dinasaur and look back with rose tinted glassesI guess. Trouble is,in the real present world,its investment that pushes clubs to success. Just look at any league. Where were City,Chelsea eg 20 years ago.

Ha ha Chelsea finished 6th in the premiership 20 years ago time flies by 😂😂

[billybersham]

Originally Posted by moynkeepthefaith

I completely agree - when we were in what is now the championship we had incredible crowds.

Incredible is the word I can remember when we played the mighty Chelsea late on in our last season in 81-82 less than 4000 paying customers,I bet we did not average 6000 fans that season.

[Ddraigoch]

But our near extinction galvanised the fan base and credit to the WST members, we all contributed to keeping our club alive. That togetherness shaped the fan base plus we are in a different era of football now to the late 80’s when 1200 watched Wrexham playing Southend (or Hereford) on a cold December night.

Money is required to enable us to compete at the highest level in this league and those above. I have every confidence, that given a positive decision on exploring possibilities, the fan base have come too far, to allow anyone to undermine our efforts.

[moynkeepthefaith]

Originally Posted by billybersham

Incredible is the word I can remember when we played the mighty Chelsea late on in our last season in 81-82 less than 4000 paying customers,I bet we did not average 6000 fans that season.

that was the season we went down but the previous 3 seasons we averaged over 10,000

[dragonspark]

to be fair everyone contributed to saving Wrexham not just wst members, i know many people who put substantial amounts in and have never been members including myself,
from the season John Neal took over and throughout the seventies we had some excellant attendances, for big games, it was from 76/77 onwards that attendances were substantial,
in the eighties, if memory serves we got relegated three seasons on the run and our attendances plummeted in line with that.
Since the seventies the population of the Wrexham district has increased as has Flintshire and Denbighshire, there are still fans in most north Wales towns and many mid Wales towns, we have a unique situation which could be tapped, however it will mean success on the pitch, Wrexham can attract far more fans than any given town/city of a similar size and that is why we need to thanks the Wst for their efforts and welcome in new owners

[andy buckley]

Originally Posted by dragonspark

in the eighties, if memory serves we got relegated three seasons on the run and our attendances plummeted in line with that.

Your memories playing tricks with you we went from division 2 to division 4 in Old money so 2 relegations in succession.

[Back of the Kop]

Originally Posted by billybersham

Incredible is the word I can remember when we played the mighty Chelsea late on in our last season in 81-82 less than 4000 paying customers,I bet we did not average 6000 fans that season.

Mitigating circumstances :

We had sold almost everyone as we were going bust

We were getting relegated

Everyone's crowds were poor due to high unemployment and thousands stayed away due to regular violence on the terraces.

[krux]

Originally Posted by rob_1072

I think the criticism of those clubs come from the fact that a few years ago they had no fan base, no setup and it appears to be a vanity project for the owners. Lincoln got investors and I don’t recall anyone moaning about that at the time? Because they were already an established club with history.

Spot on. We are a proper football club, they are tinpot no marks.

[Percy Sugden]

Originally Posted by krux

Spot on. We are a proper football club, they are tinpot no marks.

How would a tinpot football club go about becoming a “proper” club? Is it even allowed? I’m assuming all proper clubs were determined many years ago....