Wrexham 2 Weymouth 0
THE Dragons closed the season as they opened it – with a Racecourse victory – but little that happened during the intervening nine months was as straightforward or as simple.
Wrexham’s first foray into the world of non-league football proved as much the stuff of nightmares as of dreams, early optimism giving way to grim pragmatism even before the management change that then simply saw the same process repeated once more.
The re-run in fact proved even more depressing, coinciding as it did with the business end of the campaign when just three wins from the last 18 league games not only derailed what had until then looked an odds-on journey to the play-offs, but also matched the club’s all time worst-ever sequence of results in more than 100 years.
All in all the Blue Square Premier experience has been enough to test the most loyal of supporters and makes it even more remarkable that 2,756 of them turned out again on to witness Saturday’s final-match rites.
Even more curious was the fans’ reluctance to leave the stadium at the final whistle, apparently because they expected the players to conduct a lap of honour. Quite correctly the powers that be decided against that.
Relegated Weymouth were killed off by two strikes in three first-half minutes, the first of which came on the half-hour when Michael Proctor volleyed in Sam Aiston’s knockdown from a Jamie McCluskey’s corner. It was the striker’s first goal in 14 months and ended a Dragons goal-drought lasting nine hours.
The impressive Aiston then set-up Ryan Flynn to slide in number two and the final scoreline could have matched that of the 5-0 opening-day beating of Stevenage Borough had it not been for terrific Terras goalkeeper Adam Legzdins, who denied McCluskey, Andy Fleming and Proctor.
