Wanderers seek soccer sweep in Saint John

Jordan Gill · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 11, 2025 4:36 PM EDT | Last Updated: July 11

The Halifax Wanderers are looking to interruption retired the brooms arsenic they purpose to expanse Wrexham A.F.C. successful the 3rd crippled of their bid successful Saint John connected Saturday.

The 2 under-21 shot squads person been touring the Maritimes this period playing games successful Halifax and Charlottetown.

While the Wanderers are known to section shot fans, being the lone Canadian Premier League squad eastbound of Ottawa, Wrexham is arguably amended known for astatine slightest 2 reasons.

The archetypal is the team's Canadian owner, histrion Ryan Reynolds. The 2nd is the team's documentary bid Welcome to Wrexham. 

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Luka Robichaud Allah, a Moncton autochthonal who plays for the Wanderers, said the hype astir Wrexham's sojourn has had a large interaction connected the consciousness of the games.

"The crippled astatine the [Wanderers Grounds] was really insane," said Allah.

"It was actually, like, truthful chill to spot due to the fact that it's my archetypal clip playing successful a large assemblage similar that, and I consciousness similar it conscionable gave maine truthful overmuch motivation."

Home distant from home

While the Wanderers are undoubtedly the hometown team, U21 manager Nick Chadwick said there's been beardown enactment successful the stands for the Welsh broadside arsenic well.

"There's been truthful many, truthful galore jerseys, truthful galore radical who privation to privation america good and promote the players, which is truly important," Chadwick said.

"They're young players and immoderate of them were lone successful precocious schoolhouse a period oregon truthful ago. So for them to beryllium retired present and beryllium supported, and plentifulness of Wrexham jerseys knocking around, that's been a truly invited show for us."

In the clip the squad has spent successful the Maritimes, Chadwick said, players person embraced the accidental to play successful a antithetic portion and person adjacent been capable to try some genuinely Canadian cuisine.

"We stopped astatine Tim Hortons, for example, and they had coffees and immoderate doughnuts and bits similar that," Chadwick said.

Game 3

But the travel to the Maritimes hasn't precisely been fruitful for Wrexham, astatine slightest not successful presumption of results.

Halifax bushed Wrexham 2-0 successful Halifax, and past 1-0 successful Charlottetown.

Chadwick said it's not win-loss records that volition find if the travel is simply a success.

"I deliberation our show is what volition find whether we deliberation it's been a palmy travel oregon not," Chadwick said. 

"The show successful the past crippled was a batch better."

Still Allah believes Wrexham has a bully squad and isn't taking Saturday's crippled for granted.

"Just due to the fact that we won two, it doesn't mean that we're going to laic disconnected and conscionable instrumentality it casual for the 3rd one," Allah said. 

"We're going to springiness it our each again retired of respect for the different squad and for us."

Kickoff for Saturday's crippled is astatine 1 p.m astatine the Canada Games Stadium connected the University disconnected New Brunswick successful Saint John campus.