Re: A few questions for London fans : Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:56 pm
markrammond wrote:
I don't think there is any Rugby League club in our nation that enjoys support from the burgeoning middle classes who have a predisposition to another code of Rugby.
I'd disagree. Rugby league always had a decent middle class following in its heartlands. The club owners tended to be industrialists. The game would never have got off the ground without investment from mine / factory / mill owners.
Whilst there is an overlap between league and soccer in terms of origins and supporters social class, I don't think it has any meaning in terms of likelihood to follow both games. Rugby league is equally alien to middle class and working class folk outside the heartlands, few people are brought up with the game.
There is no reason to think that Dagenham folk are more open to league than Twickhenham people.