I don’t know it is about Welsh clubs but when they only avoid relegation on the last day of the season, they automatically they think they will go up the next season. A section of Wrexham fans have been going around a lot of League 2 forums and said that the bare minimum they expect next season it 3^rd place.........gee, not putting the pressure on your manager to much are you?

Last season Wrexham were awful and despite a decent run at the end of the season they barely avoided relegation. It seems almost odd that they were the last side to beat Bristol Rovers, but that’s an odd trait regarding Wrexham’s results. If you put them up against a side challenge for promotion then they seem to win near enough every single time, put them up against a side fighting relegation and they struggle.

They are an incredibly inconsistent side in recent seasons, the biggest examples being the two times they faced Lincoln last season. They beat the Imps twice last season, both victories coming after they’d lost the previous two games. The game at the Racecourse was one of City’s worst performances of the season, but Wrexham only beat us because of two of the biggest deflections you’ve ever seen.

The game at Sincil Bank was the single worst performance that the Imps have put in for many years. Infact, I got so irate at our performance that day that I ended up researching the dictionary to find appropriate words to describe how incensed I was. The thing that most annoyed me was that Wrexham barely had to break a sweat to defeat the Imps. Wrexham could have had their fans playing that day and still won, it was just atrocious.

In the summer they have recruited heavily with the most notable addition being Eifion Williams from Hartlepool. Although his goals have relatively dried up in recent years, he still has the potential to do very well at this level, proven by his two goals in Hartlepool’s 3-0 win at Darlington. Whether he will score 15 or more goals is anyone’s guess though.

He is not being tipped to be Wrexham’s top scorer though as yet again, Wrexham fans seem to be pinning their hopes on Juan Ugarte. The Spanish striker scored for fun when Wrexham were in League One, but he’s hardly played since then and his comeback never seems to be coming around. One Wrexham fan was so confident that he would come back from injury with a bang, that he would score 20 of a total of 100 goals that he felt Wrexham would score this coming season. The same fan even predicted 5 of their players were score over 10 goals.

Now, I think most will share my opinion that Wrexham aren’t quite good enough to score 100 goals in a season, and although I think they will improve on last season’s final placing, I doubt that they will make the significant strides that a lot of their internet based fans are predicting.

Despite surviving relegation it’s hard to ignore that fact that they were still 35 minutes away from relegation last season. It says it all that even with that incredible late run of 4 wins in their last 5, they could still have got relegated. Any team that is that poor during the vast majority of the season can’t seriously think that they will challenge high up in the table the following season.

Following Torquay’s escape from relegation after an amazing late run, they all predicted a playoff chase and were relegated. Although I doubt that the same fate will happen to Wrexham due to their squad being considerably better than what Torquay’s was, I think 17^th place is a more realistic finish for them rather than the incredibly optimistic finish of automatic promotion that a lot of their fans seem to think they will get.

Do you agree with this or do you think Wrexham will do as well as their fans seem to think that they will do? Either way post your opinion below.

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