Wrexham enjoyed a historic 2024/25 season with a number of players impressing en route to League One promotion.
Ollie Rathbone was Wrexham’s Player of the Season, picking up the award at the end-of-season ceremony over the weekend.
Max Cleworth was praised heavily as well and picked up two trophies of his own over the weekend.
Phil Parkinson called Paul Mullin ‘brilliant’ after the number nine won the Wrexham Goal of the Season accolade for his strike against Blackpool.
Now, one journalist has been discussing who his unsung hero of the 2024/25 campaign has been.
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Steven Fletcher named as Wrexham’s ‘unsung’ hero
There are a number of players who did not win awards but still proved key to the club winning yet another promotion.
Dan Scarr was excellent in the final few weeks of the season when filling in for Eoghan O’Connell.
Sam Smith has earned plaudits from Ryan Reynolds after his dazzling effort in the promotion-winning game against Charlton Athletic.
Now, speaking on the Rob.Ryan.Red podcast this week, journalist Rich Fay has named Steven Fletcher as his unsung hero while admitting he had suggested the Scotsman should be released earlier in the season.
He said: “One of them doesn’t feel like an unsung hero at all because we speak about him every week, but it’s Steven Fletcher.
“Because for the first half of the season, I said we should release him, what’s the point of him being around, genuinely thought that. I thought he wasn’t getting game time, he was injured, he’s not going to have an influence on matches, and then he did what Steven Fletcher does, and the argument now is actually give him another year. There’s a lot of fans who would agree with that.
“And again you’ve got to hold your hands up and say I thought that Wrexham should have released him, maybe gone and bought a different striker. Without Steven Fletcher’s goals, we don’t get promoted this season. He was so clutch in so many moments, and his goals so often decided the result.
“Some people score when you’re already 2-0 up, whatever, and it’s nice to score the goal, but he was doing it so often in the key moments that mattered most and getting us through games that we didn’t deserve to win. So Steven Fletcher, he’s probably my unsung hero despite being very much sung about, because again, you’ve got to realise for the first few months of the season, he wasn’t even really relevant in the Wrexham discussion at that point. You kind of just wrote him off as, well, he’s not going to play again, he’s not really going to get back into the fold.
“And the other one for me is again, probably Wrexham’s most talked about player, and it’s James McClean.”
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Steven Fletcher Wrexham contract
Fletcher ended the season with eight goals and one assist in 40 League One appearances, the majority of which came off the bench.
No player scored more than the 38-year-old in the third tier for Wrexham, but he’s set to leave when his deal expires at the end of June 2025.
Fletcher dropped a contract hint last month, but no further update on the situation has been given.
Should he stay, the Red Dragons will be taking seven senior strikers into the Championship and are thought to be in the market for more reinforcements in that area.
Callum Robinson has been linked to Wrexham, and there is renewed interest in Ryan Hardie of Plymouth Argyle.