I'm quite sympathetic to your thoughts about numbering. For anyone with some football history inside you, it's quite abhorrent to have a striker with number 1 or a defender with number 9. However, it doesn't cost anything to change the numbers anymore. The problem is, sometimes the change number function is not working. It's happened to me twice, once just recently. I was unable to press the Confirm button after I chosen the new number for the player, could only press the red X. :-(
Andy