My wife the Latics season ticket holder has just seen this and cringed audibly.

Not a happy woman...Whelan you tight fisted f@#k, even your own fans think it looks bobbins.

You on about 12 year old chesney that the L@tics think will be the next superstar or the stadium rebranding?

IIRC... reading something in the wigan evening post, with an interview with the latics (Chief exec... i think) and he was saying that he'd been given the task of organising the re-branding of the stadium... By the looks of the effort put in... I would say we better make sure we have Mick Hogan on a good deal.. because he might be out of a job after that shambles!!!!

I do like the idea of having "Wigan" on the seats instead of the sponsor... but like everyone else has said... It looks a mess....

We all know Whelan will always go for the cheapest option look at the Spanish waiter he has put in charge of latics



Secondly who the F***K has made Latics kit another cheap option by Judas Whelan???? or the only deal they could get as most of the big names didn`t want to market a S**t club!!!

that looks embarrasing, thank god we got 20,000 people to cover it up this friday

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The DW looks better on that picture as black seats have been added and no sign of any maroon ones, just need to get the black seats added to the East now and quickly.

Springfield Stand

What would you rather them call theirs?

Just hum the Simpsons theme tune whenever an announcement regarding the stand is made.

The Graeme 'West' stand - I like that name.

Latics fans actually wanted it to be called 'The Springfield Park Stand' so are quite happy.

Why doesn't he just add an 'S' onto the DW so it's symmetrical? The logo is red/black/white and the blue paint is being topped up outside? Why? They've changed the signage to DW on my gym and painted the blue strip red, it looks pretty smart.

The lettering on the seats is nothing short of embarassing. It makes the stadium look awful!!

Funniest thread i have seen in a long time!

None of them are right. The N is closest but too skinny.

Oh, the shame.

the dean bell stand or end

The 'Boston Stand' is a great name as it has a double meaning.

In addition to being named after a Wigan RL legend, it also reminds the blue 'chip on their shoulder' s (well the very few that remember any of it's very insignificant history) that [size=200Boston[/size United finished top of the Northern Premier League and should have replaced Southport in the Football League Division 4 instead of the La***s.

Very Very Very Very Unfortunately, Boston were having stand roofs replaced at the time and, therefore, were marked down on the grade for their ground - the parasites (tics) were given a higher grade for Pneumonia Park (now don't laugh - especially if you have seen the video on YouTube of Sunderland fans diving down the mud banks (sorry, terraces!) in the 1980s) and were the NPL's team put forward for election that year - the rest, as they say, is history....in their case, perhaps, the biggest part of their insignificant history!

Yep, and some 27 years later we were playing top flight football



Wonder how many clubs can say that? Oh, and we also rose from the bottom tier to the top tier in 10 years ala Hull City, only we finished 10th and reached a cup final.




On a totally seperate note............from a Wigan RL point of view it could only ever be 'The Boston Stand'. From a Latics pov I guess at least all our 'fans' will have HEARD of Springfield Park (god rest her soul) even if they never went. (although the crowds of 1500 were obviously lies as all 13000 of our st holders were there week in week out)

Yeah, I know a lad who hasn't missed a La***s game since 1977 - he didn't go between 1985 and 1999, plus very rarely until the Prem League season, but in his mind he went every season throughout the 80s and 90s!





Oh, and to make things worse, he absolutely HATES Wigan RL - although he went to every Wigan RL Wembley Final between 1988 and 1995 (plus 1984 and 1985!) and to many other matches but now denies it - unfortunately though, we've got the photos to prove it (with a Wigan RL ski Hat and scarf on!) - there are others on this site who can confirm it and post the photos of this fraud from Scholes.

No doubt though, he's one of thousands of a similar Wigan RL hating tics fans who have put their Cherry N White colours away until our glory days return.

A little I would say definitely. Wigan RL weren't really winning trophies were we, so I doubt our prize money was that significant. Only one man will know that though I guess.

I refuse to remember the score of said final - although you only beat our reserves in fairness

Oh dear what a shocker.

I saw the new 'DW' bit on the outside when I went to the cinema on Wednesday and thought it looked absolutely she-ite, that pic has confirmed it.

As for the seats

I went past yesterday. The 'A' on the Billy Boston stand looks utterly ridiculous, I don't even know how you can balls something like that up, so badly.

Can't believe you still go to that cinema



As for the seats - they looked bloody awful on the bit of "extra time" I saw when I got home from the game. That "Wigan" is so unsymetrical its not even funny.

The DW didnt look as bad with the black seat outline.

The offset lettering in each of the stands seems to have been done for the benefit of the TV Studio. Makes sense in a way that they look right for that reason as it's on tv where you'll see inside the stadium when it's empty.

Still naff though isn't it.