GET to The SToK Cae Ras on Sunday. That’s an order!

The women’s team are hosting Swansea City in the Adran Premier. After last weekend’s result, it has taken on a greater significance. This is no longer just a chance to show the progress we’ve made: it is a game which we need to get something out of to avoid conceding a dangerous-looking gap to the top two already.

This isn’t how it was supposed to be. I can’t express how excited I was after the opening game of the season. We might have lost to Cardiff City, but it was an excellent performance against the champions. I’d go so far as to say it was our best performance since promotion to the Ardal Premier.

As I packed up my equipment in the press box, I just couldn’t wait for Sunday’s game at The Racecourse.

However, there was one concern in the back of my mind: in the meantime we had to play at Briton Ferry.

It was always going to be a tough trip, and we underperformed. Having suggested the Cardiff game was a landmark performance, it’s not unreasonable to suggest we went from our best performance in the Adran Premier to the worst in seven days.

You never get anything less than 100 per cent commitment from this Wrexham side though, and they battled away to the final whistle, but for a second week in a row couldn’t find the cutting edge.

So why am I urging you to get to the SToK Cae Ras and get behind this team?

Firstly, Sunday’s defeat was one isolated poor performance. The direction of travel is extremely promising.

We’ve shown a consistent improvement since turning semi-professional, and the opening day of the season merely continued the pattern.

Our last game of last season was our first Welsh Cup final, another cruel 2-0 loss to Cardiff in a game we dominated. We’ve gone very swiftly from digging deep against them and looking to stay in the game to taking them on and slugging it out toe-to-toe, which offers hope we can beat Swansea for the first time on Sunday.

Also, we really owe Swansea one! We were much more competitive against The Swans last season. On the opening day of the campaign we looked to have the game won, but they grabbed an equaliser in the fourth minute of added time despite being down to 10 players.

We were leading at their ground in the return fixture, but ended up losing 2-1, and kicked off phase two with another good away performance, only to lose 3-2.

The cruellest blow came when we welcomed them to The SToK Cae Ras with four games of the season left. We controlled the game, but Swansea’s pesky habit of scoring against the run of play resurfaced.

We ran the game for half an hour but only had Lili Jones’ screamer to show for it. Carra Jones and Rosie Hughes combined brilliantly for the latter to equalise with 10 minutes left, and there looked likely to be only one winner.

But it wasn’t to be as the Swans hit back to win.

Don’t miss out on players making memories like Wrexham fanatic Jones scoring that astonishing goal against Swansea last season.

The added jeopardy of having no points and no goals is obviously a concern, but supporting a team is all about sticking with them so you have earned the good times.

That’s why you won’t regret going on Sunday, if only because you’ve discovered a second Wrexham side to follow.

Leyton Orient are another side the men’s team are renewing acquaintances with, while hoping to end a miserable run of results against them.

We haven’t won in seven matches against them, losing the last four, and have lost our last two games at Brisbane Road. All those sequences are the best Orient have managed against us.

The last season we came up against them, 2018-19, was a very happy one for The O’s as they ended their two-year sojourn in the National League by winning the title.

In the course of doing so, they did the double over us for the first time, and knocked us out of the FA Trophy for good measure.

We haven’t even scored past them in 379 minutes, since Chris Holroyd (pictured above) scored in a 2-2 draw at the SToK Cae Ras in October 2017.

Our last win at Leyton Orient came at the end of the 2002-03 promotion season.

Lee Trundle earned a 25th minute penalty and Andy Morrell scored the only goal of the game from the spot.