Sports   (Talk about balls here.)

baker boy

I think you need to look at the number of kids teams playing in local leagues on a weekend. I think you will find there are as many playing rugby in both League and Union as what there are playing football.

Granted at open age level there are proberly more playing football as it is a easier game and less likelyhood of being off work with a serious injury.

Plus the fact that in the local towns like Wigan, most of the better kids are playing in the academies of the local professional club's scholorship and academy teams from sixteen upwards.