Quote ="shinymcshine"Warrington has a population of around 200k and recent average attendances around 10k since the move to the HJ (albeit at Wilderspool it was usually around 6k) and a rich RL history.
Wrexham has a population of 40k, and no rugby league history.
Hence 10k from 200k ~ 5%, 2k from 40k ~ 5%.
Perhaps there's a question to be answered as to why we don't sell out the HJ for every game?'"
Don't know where you got your (selective) population stats from, but you seem to have picked the TOWN of Wrexham 42,576 against the Borough of Warrington, (including its 18 civil parishes) with a population of 193,000.
Alternatively you could have used Wrexham County borough with 130,000 against Warrington Town's population of 80,661.
This would make the 10K attendance approx 12.5% for Warrington which should give a wrexham attendance of 16,250.
Both sets of stats are a fallacy, although your point about being handicapped by having no rugby league history is very valid.
I can't say too much more after saint's 6K attendance last week (hangs head in shame).
