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?

Saturday night on Sky the attendance will always be slightly lower than normal. We'd have probably hit 6,500 if the game was on tomorrow afternoon.

There we go turin... another factor. The likes of Leeds and Saints have more games on TV, this could affect crowd size.

So Bradford is the only place where ethnic minorities dwell,and castleford has no other sporting pastimes (or people who dont follow RL or watch LUFC)

Its all so clear to me now ,thank you

In what world is that a summary of what I said?

I'm sure if we offered £60.00 ST for our fans, we'd regularly be getting 7,000+.

Stop whinging and concentrate on your own side.

Bigger population will allways produce more fans....

Saints ...one of the most consistant teams ever ,their crowds should be double figures every week....so please enlighten me why their not ? compared to say your selves or Leeds ..

I rest my case

Really?

Club Crowd Population
Salford 4500 221300
Saints 11500 102629

Warrington 9100 196200
Wigan 14100 8120

Your case is far from rested my friend.

You can throw figures and blind me with your economical data chum, but you really are blind if you think that the size and population of bradford isnt a factor over the population and crowd size over cas my friend

Didnt no saints averaged over 10000k by the way

Have you been on the ale?

Re-read my posts and you'll see that, at no point, did I say population wasn't a factor. I said to base an idea that this was the only/most-important factor would be daft.

Could you also post the population of Cas and Bradford while your at it chum

But a considerable advantage would you not say?