Stephen Pulisic?
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Stephen Pulisic?
Not known well enough for you to remember his fecking name though.
We've really missed a trick not getting United to sponsor United.
He's lucky I got close.Not known well enough for you to remember his fecking name though.
I'm far more excited about Messi coming here.
I feel sorry for EEEEEEFOORRRR WILLIAMS trailers. They got binned off super quickly. And all it probably cost was the Rob and Ryan Ifor WIlliams advert they did.
give the lads credit...they are living up to their word about promoting Wrexham and pushing them to get back up the league pyramid
What’s the highest rung of the footie ladder has Wrexham ever been?
Google says 15th in the Championship.
getting a massive corporation like United Airlines to inject cash into the club will be huge for them to add some quality to that squad in a push for promotion a year or two down the road...most important for next season is to ensure they stay in League Two financially
The current squad should be good enough to get at least into the Play Offs
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They've played an absolute blinder getting these pre-season friendlies. Still amazed they pulled it off. Doubt anyone will be there to watch them, but it's money in the bank for them.
Had a feeling he would stay in. Makes a lot of sense commercially for them both.
Guarantee they will sell out the stadiums for every pre season match
Yes, but it will be Chelsea and United fans for those 2 matches surely? Hardly anyone is going to come to see Wrexham.
The interesting one is vs LA Galaxy's 2nd team. If they sell that out then fair play.
They’re mentioned in a Disney documentary. I think they’ll ecstatic.
They will sell every seat. Three times over if they wanted.
Was just thinking that.
Wonder did any potential discussion ever take place over the years.
Exactly as I predicted. I won't be reading any further replies...
Well done Ben
Exactly as I predicted. I won't be reading any further replies...
You're thinking of them as a League Two club, but that's not the attraction. Even people over here who only vaguely follow soccer know about Wrexham. People won't come for the football but just for the celebrity factor. Or that's what I expect, anyway.
Just to clarify, when I say nobody will be there to watch them I don't mean there will be empty stadiums. They're playing United and Chelsea who will sell out whoever they're playing in the US I would have thought. These teams actually could play any League Two club, any MLS team, or each other and it would be full.
Do you think there'll be a sizeable contingent going to cheer Wrexham on or who see them as the big attraction? If there is, fair enough.
The whole thing could be smart from the promoters point of view as well as (in my opinion) Wrexham doing well to get these friendlies. Wrexham would likely take a much smaller fee than some of the European giants would demand yet the games sell out anyway. More profit.
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That's interesting. I thought it was the complete opposite way round tbh.
I've flown from England to Australia and vice versa twelve times. On the way, I'd do Manchester > Singapore and stay over, then Singapore > Sydney. On the way back I'd do the whole trip in one go. I've never slept on a plane, I just can't do it, and I've never experienced jet lag after any of these journeys. I assumed this was due to not sleeping. Surely jet lag is caused by your body having already gone to sleep at a time that is out of it's normal sequence and the knock on effects of that.
Whereas if you don't go to sleep at all, you end up not having slept for some stupid amount of time and so there's no issue with a new sleeping pattern because your body is so tired it just wants sleep.
Maybe I'm just immune to jet lag
Of course, I have no way of actually gauging how many people in different places in the US might actually come and see Wrexham, and we will never know because, as you say, the big clubs will sell out these stadiums by themselves. I'm just trying to say that I think Wrexham are right now a much bigger draw than, say, Notts County or Bradford City.
Either way, absolutely, it's a great deal for them. They're milking their celebrity status very well. Must be a great experience for the players as well (assuming they won't get humiliated
).The human body actually has a built-in clock that regulates your sleep/wake cycle and activity levels. That's called the circadian rhythm. It is actually by itself not perfectly attuned to the 24h day (weirdly enough), but it uses daylight as a trigger to stay in sync with the Earth's day/night cycle. (Which is why lights in the evening, such as a phone's blue backlight, can cause sleep issues.)That's interesting. I thought it was the complete opposite way round tbh.
I've flown from England to Australia and vice versa twelve times. On the way, I'd do Manchester > Singapore and stay over, then Singapore > Sydney. On the way back I'd do the whole trip in one go. I've never slept on a plane, I just can't do it, and I've never experienced jet lag after any of these journeys. I assumed this was due to not sleeping. Surely jet lag is caused by your body having already gone to sleep at a time that is out of it's normal sequence and the knock on effects of that.
Whereas if you don't go to sleep at all, you end up not having slept for some stupid amount of time and so there's no issue with a new sleeping pattern because your body is so tired it just wants sleep.
Maybe I'm just immune to jet lag
So jetlag is really a natural phenomenon, you can't really not have it. Of course, you can do things about it, by taking in sunlight (to cause the circadian rhythm to adjust quicker) or taking melatonin (which is a hormone that controls the circadian rhythm), and obviously how you experience jetlag will vary from one person to another (like any condition), both depending on your body and what you are doing during the jetlag period (your sleep/wake rhythm, how busy you are, etc.). And how you experience your voyage will also affect things, cause e.g. if you skip a night's sleep, your rhythm is off anyway. How it actually feels and how disturbing it is also depends on which direction you're travelling in.
Anyway, all that to say that jetlag is real, but that it's not an one-size-fits-all thing.
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Of course, I have no way of actually gauging how many people in different places in the US might actually come and see Wrexham, and we will never know because, as you see, the big clubs will sell out these stadiums by themselves. I'm just trying to say that I think Wrexham are right now a much bigger draw than, say, Notts County or Bradford City.
Either way, absolutely, it's a great deal for them. They're milking their celebrity status very well. Must be a great experience for the players as well (assuming they won't get humiliated
Oh absolutely! Wrexham have more Twitter followers than Brentford and newly promoted Luton in the Premier League plus 15 of the 24 clubs in the Championship.
I doubt that would directly translate into more people being interested in watching them play football than they would Brentford, QPR, Cardiff City, Middlesbrough etc. as I'd guess that a higher proportion of their followers are in it for the banter, celebritydom or human interest side of things rather than actually being interested in the on-the-field action compared to other clubs.
Still, there's no doubt they'd have more pulling power than clubs like Bradford City and Notts County.
Not really, of the US major airlines they're one of the worst
We were sponsored by the worst American car company and have possibly the worst American owners we could have gotten, why break with tradition?
It was more just because they are called United rather than anything else.
Jet lag is weird, I used to get it on US > UK trips which is normal and UK > US I was fine, after about 10 years of that it switched to the other way round - no idea why!Of course, I have no way of actually gauging how many people in different places in the US might actually come and see Wrexham, and we will never know because, as you see, the big clubs will sell out these stadiums by themselves. I'm just trying to say that I think Wrexham are right now a much bigger draw than, say, Notts County or Bradford City.
Either way, absolutely, it's a great deal for them. They're milking their celebrity status very well. Must be a great experience for the players as well (assuming they won't get humiliated
The human body actually has a built-in clock that regulates your sleep/wake cycle and activity levels. That's called the circadian rhythm. It is actually by itself not perfectly attuned to the 24h day (weirdly enough), but it uses daylight as a trigger to stay in sync with the Earth's day/night cycle. (Which is why lights in the evening, such as a phone's blue backlight, can cause sleep issues.)
So jetlag is really a natural phenomenon, you can't really not have it. Of course, you can do things about it, by taking in sunlight (to cause the circadian rhythm to adjust quicker) or taking melatonin (which is a hormone that controls the circadian rhythm), and obviously how you experience jetlag will vary from one person to another (like any condition), both depending on your body and what you are doing during the jetlag period (your sleep/wake rhythm, how busy you are, etc.). And how you experience your voyage will also affect things, cause e.g. if you skip a night's sleep, your rhythm is off anyway. How it actually feels and how disturbing it is also depends on which direction you're travelling in.
Anyway, all that to say that jetlag is real, but that it's not an one-size-fits-all thing.
We use Delta when possible. United tries to overbook every flight, or did so pre covid.
I usually fly American but that was mainly because I had to use them for work trips and have 250K miles, United I always had some kind of problem, once I took off from Heathrow, spent 6 hours flying round the Isle of Wight and landed back at Heathrow because of a technical issue!
Look our owners are shit but you can’t put overbooking random flights on them.
They all do. Same with hotels. It's basic revenue management.
Airlines definitely do, not sure about hotels though
Wrexham currently being linked with ex United prospect Nick Powell who is currently plying his trade at Stoke in the Championship. Aged 29 now
How is Nick Powell still only 29?
I remember a match where he and Buttner scored and I thought we were on to something with both of them
Wigan at home, 4-0. Such a bizarre little game to look back on now due to those moments.