it's a soccer ground. Like the JJB, KC etc RL is 2nd fiddle and therefore doffs its cap to the soccer lords and does what they say!

i thought jjb was owned by the league.

No.

That's why Wigan have to play their play-off games at Widnes.

So your complaining that the pitch wasn't marked out like an American Football pitch?

Because its not the nfl
He's pretending to be an australian.

They need as much help as they can get, numbers on the pitch, beer and tabs adverts everywhere, pretty colours to break up all that green - that sort of stuff.

It doesn't look more professional at all. It looks like little demented marketing folk have stolen the keys to the ground and run riot all over the pitch.

It might get you more money, but it definitely doesn't look more professional.

And in England we can count, so we just think "hmmm he's 5 lines away from the try line so that must be halfway!"

Was it just me or did Jonathon Davies say on the BBC coverage today "I don't know why more players don't go for 40/20s on these short pitches" ???

I know he is Welsh, but still...

yeah but that's not as scientific!

Yeah that was a bit daft. almost as daft as my mate in the pub after saying "oh that's a big pint" no mate, a pints a pint. I think he goes to the bar and asks for a small pint for a half or something. Muppet.

Not as daft as it seems, unless all pitches are 100 metres long, which they ain't.

The 20 and 40 metre lines are measured from the goal lines. So a kick from the 40 metre line, that ends up crossing the opposite 20 metre line, could well be shorter.

Saying that, I doubt the field of play at Old Trafford is shorter than 100 metres, goal line to goal line

It probably will be to fit the in-goals in. You could see the footy goal line behind the try line and THAT is probably 100m

Football pitches are 100 yrds arent they? Is that not 95 mtrs-ish?