It’s almost as if this a question that has existed for as long as the game itself and yet people think the RFL made it up on the hop just to annoy folk.
And the clamour for numbered lines is one I will never understand. If you’re a seasoned fan, chances are you’ll have delivered the sense where you can just tell automatically whereabouts on the field you are. If you’re at the ground, or even more so watching on TV, then surely you’d prefer the line being marked differently in your eye line (broken lines, red line etc) rather than having to look across to the touchline. And yet that’s a stick that certain posters have been using recently towards clubs and the RFL.
How about the NRL try and look outside of their own bubble and think “hang on, they might have an idea here” rather than the current vogue of SL = bad, NRL = good. Let’s be honest, the Aussies only do it differently to us just to be awkward. Time to question why we still let them be a country, really.