WHILE not taking sides in any discussion about the respective merits of York City and York City Knights, as I like to see both teams doing well, I note in your readers' letters on February 4 that correspondent David Barker trots out the well-worn and incorrect theory that York Wasps used to be the best supported club.
If you look through your records I think you will find that in only one of the last 40 years have the Wasps drawn bigger average crowds than York City and yet from time to time over the years I have watched both clubs you get people saying that York "was always really a rugby league city". Where is the evidence?
With regard to Dave Flett's article on City playing only six Saturday afternoon home games in the first six months of the season, can the club explain why they are, to quote, "committed to playing two Sunday home games as 'family' days".
They seem to be surprised that other Conference clubs won't come to York on a Sunday. I wonder why? I suspect it is for the same reason none of the 92 Premiership and Football League teams or the remaining 21 Conference teams want to play on Sundays (other than Sky games for the Premiership of course).
Martin Durham,
Cherrywood Crescent,
Fulford Road, York.
Updated: 09:43 Saturday, February 11, 2006
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