Both problems as well. Players playing year round rugby league should be scrapped really as though it keeps an artificial number of clubs going it also sees lots of games called off during the overlap and contributes to player burn out. My preference is for the whole game to have the same season but if that's not possible at the very least it should be either/or which season players play. The Pennine league from March will be interesting
The game outside the heartland yes, though the money to fund development officers is scrapped now and was wasted before on recruiting RU players to play a few games in their off season. Conference League South is a positive development but should be properly invested in and possibly split west/east to reduce travel and get some teams from the east and London involved
