A LOT has been said about players leaving the game due to travel, and commitments in playing lower leagues rugby. Maybe, the RFU needs to cast adrift the Premiership and even the Championship (if PRL will take them!), and concentrate on creating an amateur system below this.
Level 3 (top amateur level) consisting of four divisions (North, Midlands, SW and SE) with two regionalised groups of eight in both (the top 16 teams in each old division, based on current league position and financial stability),
It could be a ten-game season (seven in group, two against teams from the other group...