True, its not appealing, and appears to be a mess, and the owner doesnt help himself by keep going AWOL when there's a sh** storm going down in Wigan, then chucking a little tweet out thinking it will keep everyone happy.

the -23 is if they go into administration (and most likely be in that region because of the recent history). reading the EFL rules, its at least -10 points. The administration process appeared to be complete farce last time with the accountants dragging it out for all they could get, and then the Latics still get a cowboy of an owner. I'm sure someone should do a fit and proper check on the fit and proper owner check, cos it certainly doesnt work for many football clubs, as this is the 2nd owner since Whelan moved on to leave the Latics in a right mess

as you say from an investment perspective, they havent got many assets that they can sell in terms of players (without looking at what they have left) and the stadium needs money spending on it, so it could become a drawn out process again.

Its slowly returning. The women playing a fixture at the DW would never have happened under any of the previous owners. Pictures outside the front entrance went up pretty quickly. I would imagine as refurbs come round as part of the standard cycle, more joint sporting club wigan will become evident. The owner has had to dig deep just to save Latics from folding, so I understand that he probably doesnt see a complete makeover as the #1 priority right now.

It would be nice to have the flags hanging from the South stand again - they looked great.

Saw a post on twitter during the week showing a couple of chaps on abseils tinkering with the DW sign above reception at the stadium.

Obviously raising speculation that a stadium rebrand is imminent. Makes sense as a new sponsorship brings in revenue and its been years since Whelan actually owned the ground, so it's well past its due date (maybe the only thing delaying would be the seat changes to remove the DW logos from inside) - massive job in itself, may as well change all 25k seats.

Whoa whoa
Some other Mug is going to have to do it! My knees definitely won't take it anymore

Wonder if they can trade in that god awful statue for scrap metal too. A nice new one of IL, or better still Uncle Mo would be a suitable replacement.