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Simmo Says - The AFL has a clarity problem | The Means Test with Adam Simpson! (27.04.26)
27 Apr 2026
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Chapter 1: What clarity problem is currently affecting the AFL?
Clearly there's a clarity problem at the AFL at the moment. This is Simo says? Yeah. Well, you know, obviously there's the holding the ball, the stand rule, the arc, all those type of things. My gut feel is that it doesn't need more rules. It just needs a bit more common sense. And it's hard to bring up problems when you don't have any answers.
It's always frustrating in the box that Dacos has had 10. Yeah. And what can we do about it?
Chapter 2: How can common sense improve AFL rule interpretations?
And these issues here that it feels like there's a bit – is it not a lack of common sense, but maybe, maybe they can be a bit more of that. Cause it, the rules are the rules at the moment. I don't know if we want to change anymore. Uh, but the common sense piece seems to be for me, um, it was what's maybe missing with some of these things throughout the weekend.
Cause some of them, there's only two or three. I know the answers might be from the AFL. There was only three stand rule breakdowns for the whole weekend. And that's actually, that falls within our realm of positivity, but yeah, Yeah, having someone to explain it a little bit.
We're missing someone on your show or any of the shows to come in and actually go through some, you know, we got that wrong. We're human type of action.
So the Stan ones really matter. Was the Jamara Wits one right or wrong and who was at fault? And is the Miller one right or wrong? So if it's wrong, that's fine. Don't pin everything on a mistake. We'll coach it. We'll be better. If it's right, then we have a major issue. So it matters absolutely.
How are we to judge this? Yeah, common sense is for me. I think we can all see it. When you sift through the rules and the detail, should that have been a 50? No. And we got that wrong. And there's the number one umpire in the competition, the best, and there's number 40. So we're just going to understand too, sometimes the scale is pretty stark.
You've got an inexperienced 10-game umpire to the 350-game multiple grand final umpire. So if the inexperienced or the experienced get it wrong, I think just saying we've got that wrong. And we're going to work on the consistency of these decisions, just like holding the ball. The stand's obviously one you could be more consistent on.
And then the technology piece too, is there someone in the arc that just has the common sense clause? So that's too close. Don't worry about it. We'll live with that one. You know, that's, that's where I'm coming from, but I'm not quite sure if that's the right way.
So you had the one we showed during the COVID years too on 360 where one, it was in the Bulldogs game, Heartstopper, Bontempelli was involved one way or the other.
Yeah.
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