WellyDerby | Saturday 17th Jan | 5pm | Newtown Park

Team Wellington crowds have always been genuine*

*may contain some facts that are not facts.

You can only be as accurate as your counting

Or counter.

Or you calculate

x = y + 1

Where x = Team Wellington crowd and y = Another number acquired through browsing.

Or person sitting in the stand not counting the bar patrons and people standing out of sight in front of the stand.

The guy that did the crowd count on the ASB site for Waitakere home games ( a hard-bitten journo from the old school) always rounded up to x (where x = 100/200/300/400) + 13.

They borrow a formula from Treasury

Starts with "Who want's to know?"