Personally, I think the debate is dead already, has been for most of this season.
Pretty much everything Voss has done this season is working perfectly. When we needed two rucks he picked two and we dominated the stoppages and midfield, when we could go with one he went with one and it's worked equally as well.
The irrelevance of the tap and the HtA, and the importance of Ruck 2nd efforts has never been clearer, again obvious. Not weird statistical correlations or complicated assertions of causality needed. Just the basics, see ball get ball, don't stand and watch. We don't need to blame a depleted backline or misfiring forwards on the Ruck setup, all have their own responsibilities.
It is and always was obvious there is no one solution that fits all circumstances, it will always be that way.
The season is long, just like we can't run Cripps into the ground and expect him to drag us over the line, it was obvious he needed help, we need to share the ruck load as well and we need to do so in a way that is actually competitive as opposed to being placeholders.
The only risk now is that a few little successes see the coach and MC get sucked into thinking they have a systematic forever solution, but that's what opposition is for, to disassemble your systematic predictability.
Pretty much everything Voss has done this season is working perfectly. When we needed two rucks he picked two and we dominated the stoppages and midfield, when we could go with one he went with one and it's worked equally as well.
The irrelevance of the tap and the HtA, and the importance of Ruck 2nd efforts has never been clearer, again obvious. Not weird statistical correlations or complicated assertions of causality needed. Just the basics, see ball get ball, don't stand and watch. We don't need to blame a depleted backline or misfiring forwards on the Ruck setup, all have their own responsibilities.
It is and always was obvious there is no one solution that fits all circumstances, it will always be that way.
The season is long, just like we can't run Cripps into the ground and expect him to drag us over the line, it was obvious he needed help, we need to share the ruck load as well and we need to do so in a way that is actually competitive as opposed to being placeholders.
The only risk now is that a few little successes see the coach and MC get sucked into thinking they have a systematic forever solution, but that's what opposition is for, to disassemble your systematic predictability.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"