Big towns with no major football clubs.

What sort of crowds does the rugby get in Leeds? Per capita their football crowds are quite small but I have no idea how much they lose to rugby.
 
r00fie1 said:
Coalville
Loughborough
Hinckley
Burton on Trent
Stafford
Kings Lynn
Great Yarmouth
Lowestoft
Richmond
Ashington
Worcester
Kidderminster
Nuneaton
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Kings Lynn Has a population of less than 50000. I wouldn't call that big.
And with 2 promotions in two years, if they keep that up we will have a EFL team.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
What sort of crowds does the rugby get in Leeds? Per capita their football crowds are quite small but I have no idea how much they lose to rugby.
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Around 15k.
I know that that doesn't fit with my claim that RL is bigger in Leeds than football. However, the RL crowd only comes from Leeds, the football crowd comes from much of Yorkshire where they have their own RL teams.

In addition to seeing more RL shirts than football, what struck me as unusual was, if you were passing a school at break time, the kids would be playing scratch games of RL rather than football.

Nothing against RL; it's a good sport and I prefer it to RU. It's just that I was far more aware of Leeds, the city's, love of RL than football when I lived there.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
What sort of crowds does the rugby get in Leeds? Per capita their football crowds are quite small but I have no idea how much they lose to rugby.
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Probably quite a bit. It's one of the few cities with a great league side and a decent union side. Plus there's Bradford just down the road who are also a big deal.
 
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