Would be brilliant.

The last few years as a young amateur team with very few facilities we've gone ok until late November and then had a maddening time, playing 3-4 games over 2-3 months as pitches are waterlogged, frozen, etc, etc... From late January games are mostly completed on but some have still been switched.

We have some excellent players who choose football over RL in the winter, but want to train and play RL out of the football season. Plus it's a lot harder motivating players to train in a dim floodlit quagmire rather on summer evening grass. Training in mud up to your ankles, in dim ambient light from the 5-a-side pitches next to you, or in the evening light on a grass surface?? No brainer.

Summer RL, please!!

There's some very ambitious growth targets for player numbers in that article, I would be very happy to see those achieved.

Indeed. If the RFL manage to meet those targets, Richard Lewis deserves a knighthood. Particularly with bucking the long-term trend of declining adult player numbers across all other outdoor team sports.

Is there a worry about competing with cricket for players & facilities?

Better to compete with cricket than head on with football and RU. The main problem would be at clubs that have a pitch overlapping with a cricket field and where the cricket club play on both days and use all the changing rooms.

We play in summer and last year reached the semi finals in the under 12s on August 8th and the open age merit league final on August 16th. We had no players missing for the U12s game and only 4 on holiday out of a squad of 26 for the final.

If we went to double summer time you could train for the bulk of a March-October season without lights. Even when it rains in the summer its not freezing cold.