Dragons News (from Wrexham Football Club)

Cllr Phillip Wynn

Born and bred Wrexham and very proud of it, I have had the fortune to have supported Wrexham AFC since the mid Seventies, with my first memory of watching our team was against Southampton FC at the Dell in the FA Cup Quarter Final, on a coach trip from the Gate Hangs High.

I am forty-three years of age and live in Wrexham with my partner Sue.

I work as a finance assistant for a radiotherapy company and anyone who knows the nature of accounting work, it leaves you yearning to express your creativity through some other avenue, luckily for me it is Wrexham AFC.

Since the formation of the WST I have assisted the cause through creating the “Save the Racecourse for Wrexham AFC” banner which was nearly as long as the Chinese Wall, played a big part in assisting Cornishred in collecting all 92 Football League autographed shirts, which raised over £13k, persuaded Rick Parry to allow the WST to do a bucket collection at Anfield, when Liverpool played Portsmouth, negotiated the premium rate phone line “Ring for Wrexham” as a way of raising funds and have also helped the club out through signing up many of the names on their “names on shirt campaign”.

I am privileged to be serving as a co-opted member of Offa Community Council and hope to see the ties between the WST and Wrexham County Borough Council strengthened so as to ensure the Racecourse is protected as a truly international sporting venue, fit to serve the needs of North Wales.

I am currently working with others on the campaign to save the Turf pub from possible demolition and hope to convince Marston’s brewery to retain ownership of this iconic building.
If I am fortunate to be elected to the WST Board then I will be investing my energies into ensuring a swift and satisfactory settlement is achieved between the WST and the club owners, which ensures the clubs recent past is never again repeated. From talking to many fans and members of the WST it is important we keep our membership well informed of events and acknowledge it is the members wishes that we serve.

Having avoided the drop to the Conference League our club deserves a better future and the WST as the biggest Wrexham AFC fans group needs to be pivotal in delivering the better times we deserve, I along with the other nominees Cllr Colin Bithell, Lindsay Jones, Wayne Price and Len Willett support the current WST strategy of building a local consortium to bid for and run our club.However we feel that this strategy needs to be widened to include other stakeholders such as the local authority and other organisations. We believe that the key to the clubs future prosperity is the provision of a new stand on the Kop and that the WST must work in partnership with all stakeholders to bring this about. We believe we can bring new energy and ideas to assist the existing WST board members in their negotiationswith the club owners and other parties, to ensure the club and the Racecourse is protected for the benefit of current and future generations of Wrexham AFC fans.

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