DURING 2016-17 season the average attendance at an FA Premier League game was 35,822. The same figure for an Aviva Premiership game was 15,065.
Thus, Aviva Premiership attendances were only 42 per cent of that for the round ball equivalent.
Not seen as a problem by me or anyone involved. Maybe this, however, is an indicator of a problem.
In the same season Football League Championship games were watched by an average crowd of 20,125 whereas second tier Rugby Union was watched by an average of 1,777.
Second tier soccer in England is, by crowd figures, 56 per cent as popular as the tier above...