The Great Ruck Debate.

[PaulP]

Voss has made one mistake this season.
He said the "ladder doesn't lie."
It does!
Does anyone seriously believe that Brisbane are the tenth best side in the competition, despite where they sit at the moment.
The only ladder that counts is the one at the end of the year...and even that can change after finals.
That's the one that tells you the true standing of a team.

And the fact is that Fremantle and Hawthorn were the 14th and 16th best sides in 2023, and Carlton were no 5 at the end of H&A and equal 3rd after the finals.

The ladder is a fairly neat encapsulation of the body of work a team has produced thus far, but not necessarily a fair representation of where a team is in the moment. The Lions play the Demons tomorrow, and despite the ladder saying the Demons are 9th and the Lions 10th, the form line suggests that these teams are miles apart and seemingly headed in different directions. I would not be at all surprised to see Brisbane win by 10 goals.