New name for the stadium ... or arena ...
- Thread starter moonay
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FrancosLoveChild
Vital Football Hero
New Springfield Park or Europa park, another I saw suggested was Europa Point Arena
wafc4ever30
Vital Youth Team
https://www.epic.gi/#wiganathletic
Interesting to see we have a clear presence on Epic's website. Not sure how much traffic the website gets but nice to see our increasing presence. Hopefully we pick a name that is a nod to our History.
Interesting to see we have a clear presence on Epic's website. Not sure how much traffic the website gets but nice to see our increasing presence. Hopefully we pick a name that is a nod to our History.
Martinez1986
Vital Squad Member
Fook the efl stadium
Like see Stelling say that on soccer Saturday
Like see Stelling say that on soccer Saturday
king_dezeeuw06
Vital Champions League
It's a bit strange some fans on Twitter are asking to not use the EPIC full name or acronym - it defeats the point of paying for the naming rights.
Personally I think EPIC Arena has a nice ring to it and i don't see any issue with it. It's no different to previous owners using JJB or DW and it sounds a lot better than the majority of other potential company names we could've had as it's not a long, akward or obvious the brand name.
Compare it to the majority of other stadium naming rights clubs currently have. University of Bolton, Coventry Building Society, Bet 365, Kirklees, MKM Stadium etc none of them really lend themselves to a stadium name, while EPIC isn't bad at all.
Assuming it ends up EPIC stadium/ Arena / Park or something along those lines it'll become second nature like DW became after a bit.
Personally I think EPIC Arena has a nice ring to it and i don't see any issue with it. It's no different to previous owners using JJB or DW and it sounds a lot better than the majority of other potential company names we could've had as it's not a long, akward or obvious the brand name.
Compare it to the majority of other stadium naming rights clubs currently have. University of Bolton, Coventry Building Society, Bet 365, Kirklees, MKM Stadium etc none of them really lend themselves to a stadium name, while EPIC isn't bad at all.
Assuming it ends up EPIC stadium/ Arena / Park or something along those lines it'll become second nature like DW became after a bit.
FrancosLoveChild
Vital Football Hero
EPIC Arena as a name can also be more suitable for non sport venues aswell, has a ring to it compared to Epic stadium
Thupthetics
Vital Youth Team
EPIC replacing all pink seats (where DW is currently) and around East and West borders would look great.
moonay
Vital Football Legend
I strongly suspect that votes can only be counted once per account Taff.I like Epic Arena. Perhaps Mooney or some other twitter can vote for me
If you had your own however ........
king_dezeeuw06
Vital Champions League
We probably made a decent loss last year on our wage bill and will likely make a bigger loss this year in the Championship as we bring in better players. So we've got to maximise every possible revenue stream and stadium naming rights is probably one of the bigger slices of extra cash we can bring in.
GlasgowLatic
Vital Reserves Team
The Epic 90 Stadium
Celebrate the 90 years of Wigan Athletic and enjoy the 90 mins entertainment the team serves up
Celebrate the 90 years of Wigan Athletic and enjoy the 90 mins entertainment the team serves up
Lazysid
Vital 1st Team Regular
The Stadium naming right has been awarded to the Company that is a subsidiary of the owners.
So no real money has been earned.
Might as well call it "UTFT stadium"
Made in Wigan
Vital Champions League
The word Epic is very good from a marketing perspective and so quite happy for its use in new stadium name. The ‘Epic Arena’ is fine by me.
I'm hoping something like that might happen, maybe New Springfield Park or even keep it as the DW in tribute to Whelan. Epic is nothing more than a shell company for Latics that the owners are using to put money into the club via sponsorship for FFP. They don't need their name on the stadium, not to mention we'll get laughed at.
I'm glad they haven't caved in on whatever their asking price is though. Clearly no one has been found willing to pay the amount wanted and as such this is the result. We're in a post Covid world and unfortunately, there aren't likely to be any businesses out there willing to pay £1m a year or how ever much they want to have their name on a half empty stadium.
BulldogGaz
Vital Newbie
It should be "This is the EPIC Arena"
jeffs right
Vital Football Hero
It was always going to be a corporate name belonging to the owners as it always has been. Apart from during the HK owned years.
