I admit that Cas did well to get 11% ?? Of their population but regardless we still have an average of 14k. So what about population percentages, the only figures that count are the attendence (obviously score and that but for this thread attendences). I posted on Cas' page, well done on the win, I want you to do well but you can't really make an argument about attendence because so far we double yours :/

A poor crowd I agree, but it's not embarrassing. No-one outside RL gives a toss.The headline is Cas top of SL, not the attendance.

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With a game in hand, well done "The headline is Cas top of SL.'"

And well done Cas, but this Turin guy is being stupid bringing all this population stuff into it.

Now you just gotta beat Wigan in that game in hand

That I agree with

It's probably true so proves there's no room for a small village team in Superleague give Cas the boot then.

100% gone next weekend mate

2009 Average Attendance Population Attendance as % of population
Bradford 9700 293717 3.30
Castleford 7500 37525 19.99
Catalans 9200 118221 7.78
Crusaders 3700 39429 9.38
Harlequins 3400 180100 1.89
Huddersfield 7900 146234 5.40
Hull KR 8500 258700 3.29
Hull FC 13000 258700 5.03
Leeds 15800 770800 2.05
Salford 4500 221300 2.03
Saints 11500 102629 11.21
Wakefield 6000 76886 7.80
Warrington 9100 196200 4.64
Wigan 14100 81203 17.36

Populations are for the town or city concerned other than Quins where I used the population of the borough of Richmond to get a proper comparison. As I've used 2009 attendances, the population for Bridgend is given.

Obviously though if you were to think that only population determined crowd size, you'd be a bit daft.

and to dismiss the fact that a bigger population would be an advantage would also be daft

Are you implying I did that?

well what else would you be implying,please enlighten me?

These are the important columns.

Bradford 9700 293717 3.30
Castleford 7500 37525 19.99

I'd just like to say, that I can p*ss further up the wall than all of you lot!

I'd be implying that population may or may not be significant in determining crowd size. I can go on and explain what statistical significance is but I'm sure you don't really want to know.

Ethnic composition of the area would be a key factor too - as, in all honesty, RL is largely a white persons pastime.

Income would also be a factor - whether it be someone's ability to purchase a season ticket or attend games regularly. Perhaps the effect works the opposite way though as RL is seen as a working-man's game.

Even factors such as car ownership, ease of public transport access to stadium, how many schools in the area play RL, number of amateur clubs in the area, quality of food in the ground, quality of facilities in the ground.

You wouldn't know which factors are significant or not until you've performed some econometrics on the data (you can look that up too at the same time as statistical significance). May turn out that, in reality, population doesn't have that much of an effect.

Enlightened?