Quote: morrisseyisawire "Widnes? Fanbase? Hmm ok. '"
Had to check, but in their title-winning 1988-89 season that many would consider their peak their highest attendance was 17,323 vs. Wigan and their average home crowd was 8,483.
Not actually quite as much as I thought it would have been to be honest, but given that our average was 4,744 that season, it suggests Widnes have always been able to pull a crowd if they have a side worth watching.
I live out Chester way nowadays and the RL fans you meet out here are probably roughly half and half Wire/Widnes. Frodsham probably the same. Runcorn is definitely Widnes territory. Although that probably makes me biased because I'm much more likely to run into a Widnes fan than Leigh or Featherstone.