GIANT DAZ wrote:Fulham/London/Quins formed - 1980,london population = (2007 est) 7,556,900
Celtic Crusaders formed - 2005,Bridgend population = (2007 est) 39,205
hmmm............not really a fair comparison
So you've used an entire region for the population targeted by Harlequins, and a town for the population targeted by Celtic Crusaders?
Yeah, fair comparison.
Population of Twickenham (Quins) vs Population of Bridgend:
39,750 vs 39,429
Or...
Population of London Borough of Richmond (Quins) vs Population of the County Borough of Bridgend (Celtic):
180,000 vs 133,900.
Or...
Population of West London (Quins) vs Population of South Wales (Celtic):
1.6m vs 2.1m
The differences between South Wales and London is that London has a much denser population vs area. The original club may have been formed in 1980, but the fact is they have moved continuously throughout this time and such have pretty much had to start again each time. Quins were pretty much started at the same time as Celtic.