I could be wrong (hard to believe I know) but IMO there are two distinct versions of 'Russ-ball'...
First there's the more turgid ideological / purist version and then there's the more entertaining pragmatic/ hybrid version.
Today we saw the latter (as we did versus Leeds, for example) but more often than not we see the former...
More of the latter please Russ me ol' mucker
(As I say, there's every chance I'm talking bollocks here, so take with a pinch of salt, obviously)