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moonarchia
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Ryan Reynolds can do no wrong. Seriously, I subscribe to his youtube channel just to watch all the ads he makes.
Xarpolis
Life's a Dream
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The entire season has finished airing so I finally decided to give it a shot. I like it for what it is. A "real" tale of local boy made good, so to speak. Before watching this, I thought it was a Ryan Reynolds / Hugh Jackman thing, just dicking around with each other. Turns out Hugh isn't in it. It's the dude from Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Mythic Quest. And this whole thing of owning a team was his idea, but he knew he didn't have the finances to keep it afloat if they climbed the rankings into higher tiered organizations, so he needed Ryan's cash to make it work. They became instagram friends or something and that's how they started talking, having never met each other in real life. It's a documentary style series. I like it so far.
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Can you tell me how a pair of Hollywood actors are local to a shitty town in Wales
Xarpolis
Life's a Dream
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They aren't local to them. But the team and all of its players and leadership are locals. But with Always Sunny guy, they pulled out his Philly background. Born and raised out there, and he made good of himself, so they're trying to tell the story that if this guy can make good, the team should also be able to make good.
However, life comes at you fast, and 2nd episode was rough. That said, I'm still enjoying the show.
However, life comes at you fast, and 2nd episode was rough. That said, I'm still enjoying the show.
j00t
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yeah i liked it a lot more than i thought i would. i started watching because of ryan, but he and rob aren't in it very much. it's much more about the people of wrexham trying to rise above their current station. if i knew ryan and rob were only in it as much as they are i probably wouldn't have watched it, since i don't really care about soccer, but i'm glad i watched it
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This started up again for the 2024-2025 season. They've progressed a league for the past two years, and this year...
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moonarchia
was right 3 years ago. Ryan can do no wrong. They got second place this year which earned them another promotion. They're now in the Championship league (not to be confused with the international Champions league), which is crazy. Just one more for Premier. First team in English football history to ever win 3 consecutive league promotions. "Value" of team gone from 2.5m, which is what Ryan and Rob bought the club for, to an estimated 100+ million.
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moonarchia
was right 3 years ago. Ryan can do no wrong. They got second place this year which earned them another promotion. They're now in the Championship league (not to be confused with the international Champions league), which is crazy. Just one more for Premier. First team in English football history to ever win 3 consecutive league promotions. "Value" of team gone from 2.5m, which is what Ryan and Rob bought the club for, to an estimated 100+ million.- 1
faille
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It's going to be a big step up next season. I really hope the don't drop back down. being in that yoyo situation is the worst.
Of course that's what they expected to happen this season, so who knows!
Anyway, got tickets to see them play in my city in July, so I might be in the next season of the show!
Of course that's what they expected to happen this season, so who knows!
Anyway, got tickets to see them play in my city in July, so I might be in the next season of the show!
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I don't really know anything about soccer but Ted Lasso learned me about the whole promotion/demotion thing, so at least I understand that part.
is this just real life reverse moneyball? Rich people buy a poor team, backup a dumptruck full of money into it without care for revenue in the hopes that, while not necessarily a simple "flip" once the teams value increases exponentially to recoup their costs, but to actually use their own fame and TV to increase the popularity of the team brand until revenue starts to catch up with that over inflated value?
I mean, ultimately it's still a poor team from a poor town, the local fans can only shoulder so much, it's not like they can just raise the prices of tickets and beer to that of a 100+mil plus team. They've gotta meme this team into enough popularity that international fans are buying overpriced tshirts online for this team to retain any value at all once they run out of dump truck money.
I mean yeah its a cool story, they came in with Yankee's money so yeah they going to start winning. but what happens when they are forced to spend only what they actually earn?
is this just real life reverse moneyball? Rich people buy a poor team, backup a dumptruck full of money into it without care for revenue in the hopes that, while not necessarily a simple "flip" once the teams value increases exponentially to recoup their costs, but to actually use their own fame and TV to increase the popularity of the team brand until revenue starts to catch up with that over inflated value?
I mean, ultimately it's still a poor team from a poor town, the local fans can only shoulder so much, it's not like they can just raise the prices of tickets and beer to that of a 100+mil plus team. They've gotta meme this team into enough popularity that international fans are buying overpriced tshirts online for this team to retain any value at all once they run out of dump truck money.
I mean yeah its a cool story, they came in with Yankee's money so yeah they going to start winning. but what happens when they are forced to spend only what they actually earn?