mate hes talking 5hyte as usual for a L@tics fan!! The only reason l@tics get bigger gates is the away element...dont beleive the lies.....As far as im concerned we will have the Billy Boston Stand and the GRAEME West Stand....I urge all true wiganers to do the same.....then it will unofficially become the Graeme West stand in the town.....only scousers, skem heads, leythers and mancs will EVER call it the Springfield Park Stand

Don't you understand you used to support United 10 years ago?

Don't you understand there are 5,000 away fans at half of your home games and about 8,000 when you play United/Liverpool/Everton?

Don't you understand you got 2,000 gates 10 years ago?

Did you ever even go to Springfield Park? Do you know where it was?

I'm rethinking the whole thing about going to see a home game.
Honestly, the DW Stadium, and The Springfield Park Stand?

FFS.

Like 80% of latics fans ever went to Springfield Park

Sit in the Billy Boston Stand, it'll cleanse ya!

Its not actually the Springfield park stand.....its the Springfield Stand which for me just happens to be named after a district in wigan.....it doesnt offend me the same as the Ince Stand wouldnt offend me







As I said before...for us wiganers we just have the Boston Stand and the Graeme West Stand.....let the l@tics call em what they want we dont care!!

Think its great the east stand is named as the Boston Stand.....next season we should all get in there and aim to get the season tickets in that stand up to the 7k mark so its always full like the south stand at leeds.....would make for a great atmosphere and so much better when our games are on TV (as can be seen on the l@tics TV games...they obviously encourage them to all go in there for that reason when you see an average l@tics game with only approx 2 k in the south and 2-3 k in the west just so the stand facing the TV looks reasonably full ) makes perfect sense for me

I also have no doubt that Whelan will make the name signs for the stands on MS Word and use a piece of A4 paper, laminated, blu-tacked to the wall.

Quote ="random_dav"I also have no doubt that Whelan will make the name signs for the stands on MS Word and use a piece of A4 paper, laminated, blu-tacked to the wall.'" www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/ClubN ... 94,00.html he actually looks like hes done a decent job on the signs tbh.....whos the guy on the right though.....is he some past Shatics player called 'Springfield'? Shows what a 5hyte club with no history they really are doesnt it!!

Quote ="random_dav"I also have no doubt that Whelan will make the name signs for the stands on MS Word and use a piece of A4 paper, laminated, blu-tacked to the wall.'" www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/ClubN ... 94,00.html he actually looks like hes done a decent job on the signs tbh.....whos the guy on the right though.....is he some past Shatics player called 'Springfield'? Shows what a 5hyte club with no history they really are doesnt it!!

So one stand is named after a rugby league legend and the other is named after a small boozer with the best pool table in Wigan. Excellent!

I was about to say something similar.

To most of today's Latics fans, Springfield means that pub they all gather behind late on Friday nights to try out their new Burberry baseball caps.

PMSL PMSL PMSL they couldn't even find a legend to hold their sign its a fans representitive please somebody help me i cant move for laughter.

Just wait until Whelan sells your insignificant club and the new owners relocate you to another town!

As a Man Utd fan, I laugh at you

I know some people wanted to call it the De Zeewuw or whatever his name is stand. Seriously.

I could actually see that happenin tbh like they did with wimbledon to move them to somewhere where theyd get support...... You could see some arab coming in to get them on the cheap and deciding to move them to an area currently without a team but with potential for support that l@tcis dont have......would be funny as f00k if it happened

He chumpster when you are in the championship next season Judas whelan will be thanking warriors fans giving money to his beloved stadium as most of the latics so called fan will go back to watching Man utd or Liverpool

Remember Latics a small team in a big league managed by a Spanish Waiter

Before anyone tears up their ticket for the West Stand there is a point to consider. It is named after Springfield Park but this is the ground that Wigan RLFC played at during the 1901/02 season. A season when we won the Lancashire Senior Competition - our first piece of silverware I believe (all long before Latics even existed). So for any rugby fan it can be viewed as a nod to the start of our climb to be the most succesful club ever. So even when trying to placate the Latics bandwagon jumpers DW has still been left with something that is part of Wigan RLFCs history.

This is mentioned in the previous grounds section on the official Wigan Warriors site if you want to check for yourself.

Honouring their old ground, that 90% of their plastic fans never went to. How small-time is that haha!!



x 1 million.

i reckon we get best of both worlds here.

we call the Boston stand the Boston stand, and carry on calling the WEST stand the WEST stand, after another wigan legend.

whelans shot himself in the foot with this one i reckon.





have we ever had a NORTH and SOUTH playing for wigan??????

Very good point,

we played ast Springfield Park before Latics did. Therefore the East Stand is named after one of our legends, and the West Stand after one of our formere homes!

should have called it the Pagefield stand

As I said in the rebranding thread, could always just hum the Simpsons theme tune loudly whenever the stand is mentioned.

It could be worse I suppose, he could have called it the Viz-Wear stand.

Why don't we have a Central Park stand?

ársehole.

Because that would mean associating the greatest ground ever with the plain dull place we play at now.