The Great Ruck Debate.

[Thryleon]

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.

No he was right.  The ladder doesn't lie, it's a measure of the past and how teams have travelled to now.

Not what a side is capable of nor where a side should be ranked in the comp.