But the Championship (SL2) crowds will improve next season - won't they?

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.