Not the point pal. Perfectly understand the laws of the game; rather am suggesting that they are illogical. In many cases, the lino will raise his the flag as soon as the ball is played, especially if it is in direction of the active player. As such, the game is blown dead and the defending player is not in a position to touch the ball ot impact play.
The result is an arbitrary situation where in some cases, the game will stop because the lino puts his flag up immediately; and in other cases where the game will continue because the lino has been to slow to raise his flag for whatever reason and the ball proceeds to touch the defender, making the attacker onside.