Since you like to deal in facts, and are not in the business of spreading faux doom, you might want to explain why you overlooked the fact that Premier league attendances are up this season, and not 5% down as you seem to be suggesting?

2013: 35,921
2014: 36,490

That's a 1.5% increase, not a 5% decrease. Not to mention "massively outperforming other sports" is a bit rich when you consider the Premier league's lowest drawing club still outdraws the highest attended SL club.

away figures at huddersfield this season ( last year's in brackets)

bradford 716 (1230) down by 514
castleford 1713 (774) up by 939


catalans -0 officially
hull fc 819(719) up by 100
hullkr 770 (552) up by 218
leeds 2147 (1775) up by 372
london -0 officially
st helens 1378 (780) up by 598
salford 250 (70) up by 180
wakefield 351 (402) down by 51
warrington 958 (1183) down by 225
widnes 296 (44icon_cool.gif down by 152
wigan 1051 (1985) down by 934

The Wigan away attendance there will have been massively affected by Sky, last year they went to Huddersfield on a Saturday, this year was a Thursday. Thursday games are shocking for away attendances.

Out of interest, how can they acutally work that figure out when both sets of fans were in the same stand and most of the Salford fans I went with paid on the gate?

Edit - and indeed, the year before most I know bought through Hudds to get a £10 ticket offer.

exactly! that is the difference, had it been on a sunday those missing 900+ wouldn't have been missing.
we have had some shocking turnouts on thursdays this year.

as for the salford figures, those are estimated based on ticket sales and walk ups. this year salford sold just over 200 pre sold tickets and the club estimate that another 50 paid on the gate and how many seats they took up ( most of you were sat together in the one area), as for last year, then that is an estimation too, 48 pre sold tickets plus extra's on the day/groupon vouchers. obviously they aren't exact figures, just as with london and catalan, it's just guesswork

by my reckoning there was probably a good 20 or so catalan fans and i saw only 5/6 london fans.

Quote ="William Eve"Source for Hull KR attendances = www.hullkr.co.uk/on-the-pitch/fi ... sults/2014 v Leeds 11,526 v Castleford 7,022 v Bradford 7,008 v Wakefield 6,983 v Hull 10,197 v Widnes 7,007 v London 7,439 v Warrington 6,850 v Huddersfield 8,953 v St Helens 7,611 v Salford 8,213 v Wigan 6,801 v Catalans 6,412 Add them all up = 102,022 Divide 102,022 by 13 = 7,848 average Are you paying attention Moschops81? Good So what do Hull KR have to say about those attendances above as published on their very own website? [i"Sunday’s match against Catalan Dragons was the club’s last on home soil in 2014"[/i Correct so far... well done Hull KR. [i"and took the total number of supporters passing through the turnstiles through the 106,000 barrier"[/i Regular season figure was 102,022 as confirmed by their very own official website. Oh, I see... they want to include the attendance of 4,911 against Warrington in the Challenge Cup? Ok... that takes the total attendance to 106,933 so yes... the number of supporters (if you decide to include the CC fixture) has passed through the 106,000 barrier. But how many passed through the turnstiles last year? Hmmmm..... [i"Increasing last year’s average crowd from 7,319 to 7,572"[/i 102,022 + 4,911 = 106,933 Divide 106,933 by 14 = 7,638 average Can't even work out an accurate average from the figures published on their own website. What about last season? If they included CC fixtures last year, didn't the total number of supporters passing through the turnstiles in 2013 also pass through the 106,000 barrier? Let's take a look shall we? 2013 Regular Season attendance at Hull KR = 97,430 2013 Challenge Cup attendances at Hull KR = 8,734 Total number of supporters passing through turnstiles at Hull KR in 2013 = 106,164 [i"With a big reduction in the number of complimentary tickets issued in 2014, we have actually seen the numbers of paying fans increase by 17 per cent!"[/i Bwahahahahahahaha [url=http://www.hullkr.co.uk/club/news/article/red-army-challenge-ends-today-at-5pmAnd how many cheap tickets have the club offered this season?[/url [url=http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/events/gl-hull-kingston-rovers/39938629How much?[/url'" to be fair i kinda lost interest when i noticed the ad for Beaver Water World on the second link

Quote ="William Eve"Source for Hull KR attendances = www.hullkr.co.uk/on-the-pitch/fi ... sults/2014 v Leeds 11,526 v Castleford 7,022 v Bradford 7,008 v Wakefield 6,983 v Hull 10,197 v Widnes 7,007 v London 7,439 v Warrington 6,850 v Huddersfield 8,953 v St Helens 7,611 v Salford 8,213 v Wigan 6,801 v Catalans 6,412 Add them all up = 102,022 Divide 102,022 by 13 = 7,848 average Are you paying attention Moschops81? Good So what do Hull KR have to say about those attendances above as published on their very own website? [i"Sunday’s match against Catalan Dragons was the club’s last on home soil in 2014"[/i Correct so far... well done Hull KR. [i"and took the total number of supporters passing through the turnstiles through the 106,000 barrier"[/i Regular season figure was 102,022 as confirmed by their very own official website. Oh, I see... they want to include the attendance of 4,911 against Warrington in the Challenge Cup? Ok... that takes the total attendance to 106,933 so yes... the number of supporters (if you decide to include the CC fixture) has passed through the 106,000 barrier. But how many passed through the turnstiles last year? Hmmmm..... [i"Increasing last year’s average crowd from 7,319 to 7,572"[/i 102,022 + 4,911 = 106,933 Divide 106,933 by 14 = 7,638 average Can't even work out an accurate average from the figures published on their own website. What about last season? If they included CC fixtures last year, didn't the total number of supporters passing through the turnstiles in 2013 also pass through the 106,000 barrier? Let's take a look shall we? 2013 Regular Season attendance at Hull KR = 97,430 2013 Challenge Cup attendances at Hull KR = 8,734 Total number of supporters passing through turnstiles at Hull KR in 2013 = 106,164 [i"With a big reduction in the number of complimentary tickets issued in 2014, we have actually seen the numbers of paying fans increase by 17 per cent!"[/i Bwahahahahahahaha [url=http://www.hullkr.co.uk/club/news/article/red-army-challenge-ends-today-at-5pmAnd how many cheap tickets have the club offered this season?[/url [url=http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/events/gl-hull-kingston-rovers/39938629How much?[/url'" to be fair i kinda lost interest when i noticed the ad for Beaver Water World on the second link