Just a few ideas from playing so far:
- A smoother way of using academy players in the first team and vice versa. It's a bit annoying that you have to register them in one squad but they can't stay in the other as well. So you either don't use academy players to fill in your first team squad or you end up with a big first team squad who get annoyed at not playing.
There could do with a system, like in Football Manager, whereby you can easily swap players between the 2 squads and also a way of making the first teamers not picked for the next first team game to play in the academy that week. So they're at least getting a game.
On the same note, it would be helpful if the academy squad was picked (by the automated assistant) after you are asked to pick your 19 man squad for the next game. So that you know if you need any academy players. For instance I had Zak Hardaker injured so was trying to use Ashton Golding from the academy but he'd already been selected for the academy game so I couldn't use him that week.
- Interchanges. Could do with making them happen just when in attack, as when they take place in defence they often end up leaving a big hole in the defensive line.
Again on a similar note, it would be helpful if, during a game, the list of players at the side would be a list of who is playing what position (and alters according to your interchanges) rather than simply a list of players.
- Training. Maybe make the retraining of positions take longer. IIRC it only takes a couple of weeks for a player to retrain in a new position, whereas this really takes months if not a year or so to adequately change position.
- Mail. We don't need weekly emails telling us we've not breached any RFL rules. Just tell us if we have. Or even better have an assistant coach tell us we're about to and we have a last minute chance to avoid it.
- Looks. As others have said a general improvement of the look and feel of the interface would be helpful. Along with making some things like job offers, and club/rep/international team badges more easily recognised. Just to make things a bit clearer to see and understand.
Please don't take this as criticism or me having a go or anything, it's really not that and most of the things I've mentioned are pretty minor. As others have said the basis of the game is really really good and I'm really enjoying it so far!
