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As comedy writer and club executive director Humphrey Ker succinctly explains, promotion promises more money in both prizes and TV deals, increased exposure and game attendance, and a reasonable shot at recouping some of Rob and Ryan’s investments. They need to win many, many times so that they can finish the season at the top of the National League standings and get promoted to the next league up, League Two. There’s a certain, barely held-in-check giddiness in the air.Īll of that’s well and good, but there’s no getting around that what this team needs to do is win. Since the debut of Rob and Ryan’s ownership and of Welcome to Wrexham, the team’s official merch shop sold over 24,000 jerseys, and one fan describes the experience as “the ride of a lifetime.” Lifelong Wrexham supporter and the co-host of a podcast about the team’s fortunes, Shaun Winter, notes that he’s been asked to sign shirts for fans of the show who’ve made pilgrimages to Wrexham from such far-flung locales as Brazil, Thailand, the U.S., Australia, and Portugal. The mood is a combination of cautious optimism and the bone-deep awareness that the window for this entire project’s success is narrow. The Red Dragons’ 2021–2022 season ended in a heartbreaker of a loss in the National League playoff semifinal, so Welcome to Wrexham’s second season covers the team’s 2022–2023 playing season. Unfortunately, their prior investments didn’t quite yield the ardently hoped-for result of getting promoted to League Two. On top of the fafillion pounds invested in roster improvements, Rob and Ryan have also spent £200,000 on replacing and then rereplacing all of the grass on the team pitch.

Much more on the other new guys later, I’m sure. There’s a little montage of a whole passel of new players, but the only one we spend time with in this episode is new goalkeeper Mark Howard. Okay, okay, Palmer is also an excellent player, having scored 33 goals over his first two seasons with Wrexham. Palmer has invested so much time and care in developing. Ryan and Rob point out that Palmer has a bunch of female fans, likely due to his never keeping his shirt on, which is accompanied by a lingering shot of the abs Mr. Within the context of the show, Parkinson is most notable for his enthusiastic and frequent deployment of F-bombs Mullin for being a localish lad and scoring machine (low whistle of appreciation for his 79 goals for Wrexham to date) Palmer for, well, hotness. Last season, the most notable additions were new manager Phil Parkinson, forward Paul Mullin, and striker Ollie Palmer. Significant and repeated injections of cash by Hollywood big shots Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have yielded some strong results, thanks largely to the team’s renewed ability to attract talent from the higher tiers of football. The premiere refocuses on Wrexham AFC, a storied football club that has languished for the last 14 years in the fifth tier of English football, but they’ve got tons of potential and a deeply invested fan base.

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If you haven’t watched the first season of this fun little sports docuseries, no worries here’s an explainer I wrote last year, and the series premiere will give you a nice little recap and a bunch of stakes-establishing moments throughout to bring you up to speed. Welcome to Welcome to Wrexham season two! It’s a treat to be back here talking about Wrexham AFC, the historically significant football team that just might make it after all.