Well was it not last year they [ Cas ] signed 11 Hull lads?

The thing I like it now gives the lads 50 to 60 places to play at a good standard of rugby.
Due to no Sports mail or Humberside Amateur media pages, I have no idea how many schools still ply the game.
I know there is no works league don't know of any clubs or pubs run teams, it now looks like any not very good clubs have gone to the wall but these often throw up a good player a natural leader.

i think he's just pointing out that sometimes people percieve wigan as a small town and wonder how they knock out all the young players, and he's saying wigan has more population to draw on than some people think. nothing more than that

Correct.

Hull and East Riding have a combined population in excess of 800,000...

… nearer 600k, over an area of 930 square miles, wigan borough is 77 square miles.

add another 50 sq miles on. Hull is half the size of Wigan.

As many of us say, stats count for little.