Very good decision when the camera is focused on KING BILLY STAND and the other new stand will hardly get seen.

I shall be revising the fan categories now that there are loyalties to individual stands to be taken into account.

The Springfield Park Stand, how hilarious! I have never even heard of him! haha!

looks like west stand will be empty next season

Darn, that would be me then





But I always said, they would have to carry me out dead and cold before I gave up my half way line seat



Springfield Park stand my a*se.

you could always show your respect by breaking wind on the seat

We'll be changing our season tickets next year. Defo.

you got to laugh at you lot.

dont you understand, wigan athletic get more home fans than wigan warriors.

you are just our meer tennants, the sooner you go the better

Are meer tennants anything like meerkats?????

Had to check on my old tickets to see what stand I sit in, thankfully East stand so no moving for me.

Very pleased the East stand is to be named after Billy Boston and it's extra sweet as I sit in that stand

must be a wind up

Been past the Stadium today, the DW signs are awful. Black background with red DW looks like a villain's logo. Truely awful and has just been plonked over the top of the JJB signs Cheap and nasty just like the man himself.

like wise m8

Its only the name of a stand. Can't see how it would affect my decision about where to sit one way or the other. Does it really matter? I mean really?





Well does it?

Just think ... whenever the TV cameras are at New Central Park from now on, they'll be focussed for almost the entire game on THE BILLY BOSTON STAND.

It'll be on your season tickets as well. Whether you like it or not, you and your Skem mates' seats will be in THE BILLY BOSTON STAND.

Everytime it's referenced over the tannoy for any reason, it'll be "a message to the Latics fans in THE BILLY BOSTON STAND".

Imagine what that means. Nearly half of 'your' ground will be named after yet another great player who NEVER played for you.

How cool is that?

[i"Will the Wigan athletic fans in the BILLY BOSTON STAND please refrain from throwing coins at the Liverpool, United & Everton fans in the BILLY BOSTON STAND"[/i

Laugh at us, I pity you.

More home fans, maybe, but true supporters? And how many come just to watch top flight football. I have also heard the gate numbers get inflated.

Tennants, yes, but would you be able to afford it on your own when you get relegated?

Also let it be your stadium, in my opinion it's been fecked up and made to look cheap. The rest of the premiership will laugh at you.


And in my opinion, the town could do without cocks like you, it's about time all the bitterness e was dropped. We are in a fortunate postion to have a top flight RL and football team.

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.