Are RUFC a bigger club than Shrewsbury?

[Beaufighter]

Talking to some Shrews fans after the game- great fellas- and I put forward my view that Tony Stewart should sack Evans and pinch Gareth Ainworth from them.

All of them were incredulous. They all said Ainsworth would only leave to manage a bigger club, an.idea naturally started a debate.

So are we bigger than Shrewsbury or not?

No. A traditionally league one club with spells above and below that is a description that fits both. The notion of clubs like that arguing over which is bigger is nonsense.

For context I?d say the only smaller clubs than us are the ones who came up from the conference for the first time after promotion started in 1987, the likes of Cheltenham, Burton, Harrogate etc. Bigger clubs than us at this level would be traditionally higher and always able to rely on five figure attendances, ie Charlton, Brum etc, in between those two levels there is nothing to choose in terms of any meaningful size difference.