As best I understand, though, the Eels subsection on this site is the major Eels forum. Souths have at least 6 (that I can immediately think of) other forums that are not connected to this site. You might get 2 or 3 people in the Souths subsection on this site but there are more than 100 on at any given time across the multitude of Souths forums that are around. This site is way, way down the list for Souths fans.
Yeah, a lot of the guys that post on those sites can't handle the two sidedness that occurs in arguments on this site.
Most are nice and cosy with the fact that if you post something like - "John Sutton is the greatest Footballer in the universe", on a couple of those sites, you'll get nothing but agreement. Then they come here and post something like that and a fan of another team will tell them they are off their rocks. Then they get all fired up and fight for about 50 posts until they finally get sick of the conflict and go back to the Souths only sites where they can be all safe and happy that everyone will agree with them again.
Imo, LU keeps you grounded and gives you a more realistic 2 sided view of the world.
On the downside, you have to put up with the trolls here, but meh. Its worth it imo.
I agree with your point though. A couple of those Souths only sites average out to having between 50 - 70 people reading and posting at any one time, each. Put them together and add them to here and Souths would easily have the biggest single forum on these boards. Add the other 4, less popular Souths forums and we would be the biggest by some comfortable margin. There are plenty of Souths fans online at any one time, talking about Souths. Its just that only a small percentage of them visit here.
The Dragons and Eels ones here are pretty popular but from what I've seen, they don't average out to be anywhere near 100 - 120 people online at an average time on an average day.