Should offside rule be changed and how should that happen.

As title, should the current offside rule be changed and how would you change it.

 

1) Penalty box - Offside if opposition player inside penalty box including semi-circle between goalkeeper and 1st defender.
2) Not offside if outside penalty box but between defending goal line and 12yd line.
3) Offside if opposition player is, outside penalty box, between defending goalkeeper plus 1 defending player and the 3rd defending player.
4) Hatched marking halfway between penalty box semi circle and halfway line and same in other half - between both hatched markings NO OFFSIDE possible.
May be others but can’t think of any at moment.

EDIT:
No offside from throw in.
No offside from free kick.

 

The original, from what I remember, where any player was in an offside position when the ball was kicked caused an offiside was the clearest way of it. It can be a bit confusing, I feel football as a whole has become so, when you have to decide if a player is in play, blocking the view of a keeper, putting pressue on a defender or various *. I sound like an old git but I feel football used to be a very simple game and that was the joy of it but it isn't anymore.

 

Yes. It should be if any part of the players onside then the goals onside. Any part at all. A fingertip even.

 

I actually think it’s bang on as it is.

I like that a player can be ‘offside’ but not in play and therefore onside. It’s the type of thing that allows intelligence to come into the game, which is a differentiator and differentiators are what makes a game/sport good.

It invites unique tactics and makes mental fatigue more of a factor.

Likewise it makes defending even harder and allows talented defenders that can handle it rise to the top. Defences that are in sync with each other will handle it better too.

The only real issue I see with offside is how it’s used with VAR. I think improvements in the technology will speed up most decisions though.

I’m not totally against it but I think it would just force more teams to drop deeper. Playing a high line makes for better, if riskier, football, but with this rule change it would be suicidal no?

 

Wouldn’t make much difference to the high line I think, don’t really see why, it’s not too much different from just now. Just gives you a reason to get more goals rather than searching for reasons they should be discounted. A clear yes or no.


And this being a toe offside and *, it just ruins the spirit of the game.

 

One thing I hate about it is a player being called offside when they’re returning to an onside position. To the point that when they actually touch the ball, they’re onside.

 

This for me. Unless there is clear daylight between the attacker and the last defender then it's onside.

 

100% agree.

Clear daylight, otherwise onside. It used to just be that you looked at it in slow mo and judged whether they were in line - nothing wrong with that either.

I * hate the offside rule as it is, so much.

 

An offside for the attacker should be if his planted foot is in front of the defender, not this, its ball hair offside, because the player is leaning too much into his sprint. Attackers shouldn't be penalised for anticipating the ball quicker than the defender. Calling offside for a shoulder is ridiculous.

 

As I understand it the off side rule is intended to stop atackers just hanging about the oposition penalty area hoping for a long punt up field.

So let's reflect the spirit of the law in the letter of the law. Unless it's an OBVIOUS off side ie clear daylight, then it's onside.