I dont understand why that has anything to do with it? :S

Why is Townsville a town?

I'm not totally convinced that averaging the attendance at two of the least attractive fixtures is "the best way".

Hull 13,000
Rovers 9,000

22,000 out of a population of around 250,000 so somewhere around the 8/9% mark. For a reasonably big city and a sport competing with premier league football that is very good imo.

What competition do they play in ? Alber , I mean Alice

no slant on your club , or your avatar





just that Alice has his fishing rod out again trying to produce some mathematical calculation to try to back up his one eyed view on franchise awards whilst turning his one eye blind to the fact that if percentage was the issue then a team like Quinn's would be bu@@erd .

have cas had a sudden influx of immigrants or just a baby boom ?

talk about over crowding



fwiw cas have a lower population

37,525 according to the 2001 Census



will be around 45k now with the influx of new houses that have gone up

Of course the only measure of RL participation and interest is the number of people attending SL matches



The only surprising thing about Albert's statistics is that he hasn't fudged them enough to have London or Toulouse at no1

Bill I'm still waiting for Alicibert to tell me what competition the Perpignon club play in



You dont think he is reffering to the Catalan Dragons do you ?



If so then they have a population of just over 7 million according to [iWiki[/i

So an ave of around 7,000 would give a ratio of .1 %

You may be waiting for some time Starbug



This thread will go the way many of the others started by Alicibert (

) and he will simply stop posting on it. To be fair he does know when he's flogging a dead horse unlike Smokey, who has been very quiet lately

Smokey had a nervous breakdown after Leeds got thumped by the Mighty Quins.

He will recover though.

I am referring to the towns where clubs play. Townsville is the name of the town, North Queensland is the team. Perpignan is the town, Les Catalans Dragons is the team.

Perpignan is not in the RL heartland.

What rubbish. Perpignan is a French rugby league heartland. Has been for decades!

But the Catalan Dragons team is representative of a whole region , therefore they have 7 million people to draw fans from , so basically a crowd of 7/8,000 is pish poor

You cant have it both ways Alicibert

There is no heartland of RL in France.
The fact that it is pretty much the only place that knows about RL doesn't make it a heartland.

In the words of Chubby, "Who the f***s Alice?"

You do not know the history of this region. They have been playing rugby league in southwestern France for 75 years. Towns like Carcassone and Perpignan are rugby league heartlands.

Lille on the other hand, has not been playing rugby league for 75 years. It is not a heartland, but rather a potential area for rugby league expansion after Toulouse, Paris, Lyon, Mille, Bordeaux and perhaps Avignon enter Super League.

My girlfriend.

Why? Do you have a problem with that?

Wooooaahh. It's the newest incarnation. Rambo Rosenfeld!!!

Bloody hell, it's either gonna have to be a 20-team SL or many current English SL clubs are gonna bite the dust if you get your way!









Paris?! Could have sworn they've been tried before.