Na. Were a football town. Compare the pubs and general atmosphere in the town on Saturday just gone to how they were in the Rugby world cup or for a big six nations game. No comparison. The Rugby team has been brilliantly run since turning professional, hence their success and big crowds. The Cobblers have never been well run (hence the rent deal). I'd expect any team's fans to fill their half of the national stadium when they were playing for the English title, same goes for the parade (similar numbers turned up for us when we won the division three play offs by the way).
A football team in this town that was run in the same way in the equivalent position (top half of the premier league, winning trophies, playing in europe etc) would be getting bigger crowds than 14,000. It shows when we get any small modicum of success, all the Liverpool/United fans in town remember who their home town team is and get on board which is fair enough I suppose. What would be interesting is if Coventry got one of the big teams in a home cup game at sixfields, although I know when my brother in law tried to get a ticket for the Wolves game last season in the Coventry end (he's a wolves fan living in Northampton) they wouldn't sell it to them as he wasn't on their data base and had a Northampton postcode.