WREXHAM THREAD

[amateur]

What does city status mean for Mad Friday, please

[PowerButchi]

Even more blood outside the Long Pull.

[BritishHobo]

Rob's back in town. Seems like he might be sticking around until the game, so I wonder if he has much planned in terms of local visits

[BritishHobo]

Football is fucking stressful. Why have I always written it off as boring?!

[buttgammon]

Fucking hell, this is nerve wracking!

[buttgammon]

Shit.

[BritishHobo]

Well there's your FX finale. Can't say it wasn't fucking hard fought-for though.

[Twonty Gostelow]

Well there's your FX finale.

Commissioning sad piano for the soundtrack as we speak.

Anyone read this yet? I'm guessing he'll turn up in the documentary from time to time, maybe even a good blubbing scene at the end too.

Karl Phillips is just one of the lads – roofer by day, pilsner drinker by night. But as Bootlegger, he's scored hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube with his hilarious matchday vlogs and keeps a huge number of followers on social media hooked with his humorous musings on life, work, the Flamethrower and his beloved Wrexham AFC. He even has a beer named after him – Wrexham Lager's iconic Bootlegger 1974 Pilsner, which has made its way onto the shelves of major supermarkets.

[BritishHobo]

Wrexham AFC are now partnered with and sponsored by Lucas Oil Products Inc, an oil corporation owned by a pro-Trump tycoon who uses his millions and political connections to push an anti-environmentalist and anti-animal-rights agenda. If this is the way season 2 is going then I'd prefer a cancellation.

[jobotic]

Charlotte Lucas, who founded Lucas Oil with her husband Forrest, hit the headlines in 2014 for a controversial Facebook post. She wrote: "I'm sick and tired of minorities running our country! As far as I'm concerned, I don't think that atheists (minority), muslims (minority) or any other minority group has the right to tell the majority of the people in the United States what they can and cannot do here. Is everyone so scared that they can't fight back for what is right or wrong with this country?"

Lovely

[bgmnts]

Price of success.

[BritishHobo]

Not a great couple of weeks for Wrexham. The only thing we got was the thing nobody actually wanted.

[PowerButchi]

Not a great couple of weeks for Wrexham. The only thing we got was the thing nobody actually wanted.

I got a lock in in the Vaults Ruabon.

[Twonty Gostelow]

Was Sparky in?

[PowerButchi]

Was Sparky in?

The last time he was in was last October for our mates funeral. He wasn't happy when I handed him a business card as I knew he was stuck for work

[Blue Jam]

[Dex Sawash]

Watching that, I'm a bit disappointed to learn that Wrexham is pronounced like it looks. Unless they all got it wrong.

[bgmnts]

Wrecsam people are the oddest sounding welsh people ever to me.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

Wrecsam people are the oddest sounding welsh people ever to me.

When I was a youngster visiting my dad's family in Bersham, I could never understand why all the family members seemed to have a different accent, despite all being from the Wrexham area. To my ears Aunty Meg sounded obviously Welsh but Uncle Johnny had a sort of mild scouse accent and neither of them sounded like my dad.

[Bennett Brauer]

When I was a youngster visiting my dad's family in Bersham, I could never understand why all the family members seemed to have a different accent, despite all being from the Wrexham area. To my ears Aunty Meg sounded obviously Welsh but Uncle Johnny had a sort of mild scouse accent and neither of them sounded like my dad.

Definite mix of North Wales/Gwynedd and Liverpool to some of the accents. Heard la' for lad used a lot, as in Liverpool, but in a local accent. The Newport Welsh accent has elements of Caaardiff to the west and Brizzle to the east, so I guess that's comparable.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

I actually quite like the accent(s) but I'm from Wolverhampton so anything sounds good to me.

[Blue Jam]

Do Wrexhamites still say a drawn-out "your" instead of you, ie "I'm not giving any to yooouuurr" or "I'm better than yooouuurrr"? People at school started doing that around 1990 and it drove me up the wall. I thought it was a Muffit of Tea situation but the last time I visited Wrexham was 2005 and I still heard people doing it.

[buttgammon]

When I was a youngster visiting my dad's family in Bersham, I could never understand why all the family members seemed to have a different accent, despite all being from the Wrexham area. To my ears Aunty Meg sounded obviously Welsh but Uncle Johnny had a sort of mild scouse accent and neither of them sounded like my dad.

This is similar with my family, some of whom are proper Wrexham (especially my nana, who has the more old-fashioned accent that's more identifiably Welsh to the uninitiated) but a lot of us get people saying we sound like we're from the Wirral, Manchester or in my case, Shropshire for some reason.

[PowerButchi]

I get accused of sounding South Walian or worse, like a Jacko.

[canadagoose]

I get accused of sounding South Walian or worse, like a Jacko.

What's a Jacko?

I wish more people would record clips of their Wrexham accents, because it seems like an interesting area with a lot of variation. Would be a great Linguistics PhD project.

[buttgammon]

What's a Jacko?

I wish more people would record clips of their Wrexham accents, because it seems like an interesting area with a lot of variation. Would be a great Linguistics PhD project.

Someone from the nearby village of Rhos, a place with its own distinctive features like a historically very weird Welsh dialect. The name comes from the locals' historical commitment to Jacobitism

[canadagoose]

Someone from the nearby village of Rhos, a place with its own distinctive features like a historically very weird Welsh dialect. The name comes from the locals' historical commitment to Jacobitism

Interesting, thanks.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Someone from the nearby village of Rhos, a place with its own distinctive features like a historically very weird Welsh dialect. The name comes from the locals' historical commitment to Jacobitism

Known for their high pitched hooting, and the lovely greeting

SHAMONE

[PowerButchi]

NENE ENE

[Blue Jam]

Heheheh:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-63643228