Quote: snowie "well the rules above come from the rfl and is clearly within whats in red, are you looking at Crowther being off side at the charge down or mason who was at the side of the play the ball?'"
I got my quotes above from your link to the RFL laws.
I'm sure they could make it more difficult to read if they tried.
He was technically
[iout of play[/i rather than offside which is defined in section 11 and the difference is referred to in the notes at the bottom of the section you quoted- which means it is not reset by our player touching the ball in front of him.
I'm still not sure I fully understand 'downtown' which is also there and Kirmo was pinged for a couple of years ago.