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First 2 eps up of the documentary following Ryan Reynold & Rob McElhenney as they purchase Wrexham footy club.

 

Only watched the first but it's a breezy 30m setting the scene at the club and with the purchasers. Couple of teaching you to suck eggs explainer bits about promotion & relegation being explained for the US audience who can never fathom a team/franchise losing a place in a league but other than that quite enjoyable.

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42 minutes ago, Gotters said:

First 2 eps up of the documentary following Ryan Reynold & Rob McElhenney as they purchase Wrexham footy club.

 

Only watched the first but it's a breezy 30m setting the scene at the club and with the purchasers. Couple of teaching you to suck eggs explainer bits about promotion & relegation being explained for the US audience who can never fathom a team/franchise losing a place in a league but other than that quite enjoyable.

 

Should be called 'Wrexham: All Or Nothing'.

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On 26/08/2022 at 13:01, Gotters said:

First 2 eps up of the documentary following Ryan Reynold & Rob McElhenney as they purchase Wrexham footy club.

 

Only watched the first but it's a breezy 30m setting the scene at the club and with the purchasers. Couple of teaching you to suck eggs explainer bits about promotion & relegation being explained for the US audience who can never fathom a team/franchise losing a place in a league but other than that quite enjoyable.

 

I spent half an hour searching for that yesterday on Amazon Prime :mellow:

 

I ended up watching a film called ToryBoy by a documentary maker who stood as an MP in Middlesborough and thoroughly enjoyed it. 

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On 26/08/2022 at 13:01, Gotters said:

First 2 eps up of the documentary following Ryan Reynold & Rob McElhenney as they purchase Wrexham footy club.

 

Only watched the first but it's a breezy 30m setting the scene at the club and with the purchasers. Couple of teaching you to suck eggs explainer bits about promotion & relegation being explained for the US audience who can never fathom a team/franchise losing a place in a league but other than that quite enjoyable.

 

Was McElheney joking when he said he was meeting Ryan Reynolds for the first time in the first episode? I imagined the two of them were lifelong pals given, y'know, them buying a football club together and all.

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1 minute ago, ckny said:

 

Was McElheney joking when he said he was meeting Ryan Reynolds for the first time in the first episode? I imagined the two of them were lifelong pals given, y'know, them buying a football club together and all.

 

I don't know and did wonder that too, not really a fan of either and had to look up who McElherney was.

 

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Yeah the title card on Disney+ is absolutely dire, it's a terrible Photoshop!

 

I keep thinking Rob McElhenney will hit the big time any year now, he deserves a shot at writing, directing and/or staring in a big film release. I mean he's hardly unknown, look at his house ffs, but he's a long way from a household name. Weird seeing snippets of his wife in real life not being Dee.

 

Enjoyed the first two episodes anyway. 

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10 hours ago, PeteJ said:

Yeah the title card on Disney+ is absolutely dire, it's a terrible Photoshop!

 

I keep thinking Rob McElhenney will hit the big time any year now, he deserves a shot at writing, directing and/or staring in a big film release. I mean he's hardly unknown, look at his house ffs, but he's a long way from a household name. Weird seeing snippets of his wife in real life not being Dee.

 

Enjoyed the first two episodes anyway. 

 

I think he's doing all right.

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4 hours ago, neoELITE said:

Is Humphrey some kind of freeloader? That was a bit odd with him just going to Wrexham to oversee things he obviously doesn't understand.

 

 

Freeloader yes, but also instigator of the whole thing.

 

He's said his dream if he won the lottery was to buy a football club, but Humphrey Ker found himself in a position where he could sort of do it anyway without  buying a ticket. McElhenney latched onto his enthusiasm for football, made it his own dream, and Ker ended up Executive Director of Wrexham.

 

An Eton education and all that goes with it actually used for good.

 

And to be fair, he's met fan groups, writes a weekly column, speaks to Wrexham podcasts, and is liked by fans. He's quite open and functions as a nice link between the people who run the club and supporters. He's turned out to be a bit of an asset.

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33 minutes ago, ZOK said:

I must admit, the whole premise of this show irks me - on the surface it just smacks of ‘rich twats play with community for fun’. Which is all too common in football.

 

Presumably it transcends this?

 

I think they address that in ep 1 with the Philadelphia Eagles.

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McElhenney has talked about his working class roots since day one, and that being a motivation for wanting to help turn Wrexham's fortunes around, so it was interesting to see the house he grew up in. Probably the most interesting bit of them so far.

 

And unchanged too. Like he's secretly bought it and turned it into a personal childhood museum like the national trust did with Lennon and McCartney's homes.

 

I'm in a crowd shot in one of the latest episodes. It's a blink and you miss it moment, but I'm there.

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Watched episode 1 of Welcome to Wrexham, as a follower of one of their rivals (Notts County), you get the feeling that Rob especially wants to do his absolute best for the club and its community.

 

Though they should have called the documentary "It's Always Raining In Wrexham"

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The subtitles is an American thing, they are utterly useless at understanding anybody speaking English in anything other than an american accent, you see them sub all sorts of stuff on Discovery and I used to work with a lot of them and unless they've spent a lot of time in europe or elsewhere their ears just aren't tuned to it - I blame it on their exclusive diet of US only made media over there. 

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