Just one additional point, the West Cumbrian clubs are both around 100 miles to their nearest semiprofessional RL neighbours, have far fewer clubs playing armature RL in their immediate area than most, (perhaps even any), other Lancs or Yorks Champ or Champ 1 RL club, have greater travelling expenses than most, (if not all), other Champ or Champ1 clubs and have a greatly reduced capability for signing experienced players because of our isolation than say 90% of other clubs.
Yes, we have played RL in this area at a pro level for many years, but so what, that is not a major factor in our ability to survive as semi pro clubs, that's down to other more local factors, which I will not go into.
So again, because the RFL self serving idiots 'choose' to define 'development areas' as those areas where they, (the idiots that is), want to try out yet another experiment, and so help 'float' yet another new club, then we have to be classed as a 'heartland' area, with all of the disadvantages listed above.
A little more lateral thinking on the part of the 'self serving idiots' could have eased the problems our West Cumbrian clubs have rather than actually adding to them, which the 'development area' status, (as presently defined), does in reality, (if you think it through, which the self serving idiots' obviously never did).
(Para 1 above ...ignoring Barrow of course !!)
