It’s going to be one thrilling ride as Wrexham AFC conclude the campaign

FASTEN your seatbelts and hold onto your hats and keys: it’s the sharp end of the season! Everything before now has been mere jostling for position. Having got ourselves into a position to make history with a third promotion in a row, it’s now time to knuckle down and get over the line. 2025 has been characterised by a knack for getting wins from tight matches, rather than playing with elan.

That’s fine by me. Phil Parkinson knows how to earn promotion – you might just have noticed that! – and if he can steer us over the line with sheer grit to the forefront, that’s just fine by me! We’ve already set a club record for most 1-0 wins in a season, and the clean sheets are accumulating at a fantastic rate. Believe it or not, the last time we conceded on a Saturday was at Crawley on February 1.



Our ability to dig in and get results when things aren’t going according to plan is a fantastic attribute to have at this stage of the season: Let’s hope we can continue to produce if those circumstances arise. Our run-in isn’t too bad on paper, although that doesn’t guarantee anything. Bristol Rovers are currently on a six-game losing streak, and dropped into the bottom four last weekend.

Our next opponents, Blackpool, have been in good form since Christmas but if results don’t go their way on Friday, a play-off spot could essentially be out of their reach when we face them on Easter Monday. Charlton at home will be a real test in the penultimate round of matches, and on the final day we travel to Lincoln. That’s never an easy trip, but they will definitely have nothing to play for either way: a mid-table finish is already established as their destiny.

Before we get too carried away, we should not forget one important factor which stands between us and rolling over sides with nothing to play for: the Wrexham tax. The glee of the Wigan players and fans when they closed out that goalless draw last Saturday was obvious. I don’t wish to be judgmental, but it was very exuberant for a 0-0! Post-match a member of Wigan’s media team explained their joy by noting it was as well as they’ve played all season.

Fair enough, but I’m getting tired of people from our opponents saying that post-match. I never fully bought into the idea that we were the big match of the season by every other club when we were in the National League, who raised their games accordingly. I’m sure there was an element of truth in it, but as the nature of that division changed, visits by previously well-established EFL clubs surely became the norm? We have a target on our backs now though.

We consistently attract the biggest attendance of the season for our hosts when we’re on the road, and the atmosphere and vim shown by them suggests that, to paraphrase the advertising slogan, when Wrexham are in town “This means more”! The Wrexham tax applies to the women’s team too, as recent celebrations by Briton Ferry and TNS showed! Regardless of their own ambitions or circumstances, our four remaining opponents will be highly motivated and keen to take our scalp. None of them beat us in our first encounters of the campaign, so there’s perhaps a little bit more riding on these games for them. Even allowing for the desire not to tempt fate, it’s clear that Wycombe’s remaining fixtures are challenging.

They travel to Bolton on Friday, with The Trotters three points adrift of the play-offs and needing a win after losing their last two matches. Then, three days later they entertain Charlton, who are in fifth place and, if results go their way on Friday, might be able to force themselves into the scrap for second place. Then they travel to Leyton Orient, who currently are in the place below the play-offs and seem to be running into some form, before they round their season off with another match against a side hoping to capitalise on any slips by us and the Chairboys: Stockport County are currently in fourth place and have won their last four.

That’s not to say that Wycombe can’t win all those matches. They’ve shown real grit to dig deep recently and claim wins from unpromising positions. In the last week, following the loss to Reading which gave us the upper hand in the promotion race, they’ve survived a lot of pressure at Rotherham before coming up with the goods, and then scored an injury time winner against Stevenage.

If they are good enough to win their tough quartet of remaining fixtures, I don’t think we can do anything but tip our hats and wish them good luck. They will have earned promotion fair and square to emerge from a testing six-match run-in with 18 points. Oh no, actually there is something else we could do in that circumstance: win all four of our matches and finish a point ahead of them! C’mon Town, let’s do this!.