What do you reckon Wire Quin ?
For me, they are the outright winners.

No, it was Workingtonhttps://www.seriousaboutrl.com/super-leagues-all-time-average-attendance-table-1996-2021-37378/rl

Workington - one in ten of the population followed their SL side

Bradford only one in 35 followed Bulls when they were winning everything

Its not fair basing ours on the population of Bradford when all Bulls fans are from Halifax!

Interesting comparing to population are there stats for all clubs based on % of population against average attendance.

So skew the figures to suit whatever point is trying to be made ?

In that case Saints don't come out particularly well as a % attendance against 1.4m population for Merseyside....... whereas London Broncos seem pretty good as a % of the population of 300k in Richmond (from their data at The Stoop).

(Do the maths and you'll sort of see the point)

I know thats tongue-in-cheek but it's probably not far from the truth. I'm not sure Bradford has ever or will ever be what you would call a Rugby City. Those bumper gates were swelled by many people from all the villages between us and Halifax (we released "Battleground Shelf" on the Ps2), and probably a lot from Fax itself. Similarly a lot from Huddersfield etc.

Anyway to answer the question, you can't compare London's gate with the population of Greater London, anymore than you can compare Salford's with greater Manchester. It has no meaning.

Was it free entry ?

London built up a decent side & following for while in the late 90s when Richard Branson was onboard - with a decent league finish (runners up 1997) and CC Finalist (1999).

Shame it went awry once he sold out to David Hughes around 2002.

Seemed a damn shame a couple of years ago when they got relegated from SL with 20 pts, 10 wins, but a worse 'goal difference' than HKR.

Looked like they were at least putting out a competitive side, only to slide back into the Championship, only now to be subject to yet another nomadic ground move this season.

If you are going on population / attendance to calculate best and worst supported teams in SL then surely London are worst followed by Leeds. Best supported been Cas Tigers followed by Leigh.

I wouldn't go on "population" unless all towns and cities contained only born and bred locals, everyone walked to the matches and watching RL was the only sporting choice.............

So called "support" is also affected by success and private investment fuels that..... We can hail the great support of locals in a small town where their team is succesfull and condemn support levels where a club don't have two pennies to rub together.

Maybe if Jack Fulton had ended up at Featherstone not Cas................

Featherstone are actually a good example of where the figures don't tell the true story. Featherstone's sole source of support is not the village of Featherstone, it's a lot of the former mining areas around it, and the decent sized town of Pontefract. It's only by having that wider demographic pull that they can be an aspirant SL side.