That might be why I put right at the beginning that there are other factor, for heavens sake

Some interesting stats there, although there are many mitigating factors. Warrington s population is shooting up each year, mainly by people moving into the town from elsewhere. Many don't even know we have a team and would probably not even attend a game if they did. Others continue to watch games but follow their original teams, or may have lived in Warrington all their lives but glory hunt and go to Wigan or saints instead. I doubt there are many in those towns that make the journey to Warrington for the wire.

Some good work but populations are misleading. For example, the population of Wigan is much greater than the 103,608 quoted on Wiki which includes the town centre and omits many of its suburbs. Suspect the same for St Helens. The population of Wigan Borough is 326,000. At least two thirds of that figure includes Wigan and its suburbs. I thought the population of Hull was much higher than that as well.

The population of Hull is around 260,000. That is just the city though. When including all the suburbs which are officially under the East Yorkshire council the urban population is just above 500,000.