Dragons can handle the demands of player travel

WREXHAM boss Phil Parkinson is confident of handling the extra strain that international breaks are putting on the Sky Bet Championship newcomers.

- By PHIL BLANCHE

Parkinson has been challenged in the second tier so far by trying to gel together almost an entirely new team, with Wrexham co-owners Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds having invested heavily to compete at this level.

With that extra quality comes national representation, and six Wrexham players were selected for international duty in the September break, some travelling thousands of miles to play for their country.

Striker Kieffer Moore made a 7,000-mile round trip to Kazakhstan to score the winner for Wales, while Burkina Faso's Issa Kabore played against Djibouti and Egypt in African World Cup qualifiers.