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The Debate - ARC review system | The Means Test with Adam Simpson! (20.04.26)

20 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What frustrations are being discussed regarding the ARC review system?

0.098 - 20.178 Gerard Whateley

The debate, do you want to join my debating crew around the arc? Oh, I do. Yeah, you've convinced me on some things. The point post one. Yeah. That is, that happened again in the port game. When the ball goes 20 meters above the point post and you've got to go to the arc. Knowing the arc's going to say, listen, I don't know. We'll back in what you guys think. That is a waste of 20 seconds.

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20.979 - 24.142 Gerard Whateley

Around the grounds, I've got an answer for that. Jared, I know you've got some thought on it.

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24.162 - 25.363 Adam Simpson

You just should stop doing that.

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25.343 - 31.712 Gerard Whateley

Yeah. But the, the, the, the point post one, I mean, I always sort of getting, we're picking eyes a little bit, but it's just, it's accumulating.

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Chapter 2: How do the hosts feel about the time wasted during ARC reviews?

32.033 - 37.801 Gerard Whateley

I don't know how long the game's going for at the moment. It feels like we're wasting a good two minutes a game on that stuff. Yeah.

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37.821 - 56.749 Adam Simpson

And we're going to waste more time on it. There just should be, as of Thursday night, we don't go to the arc on the point post, but we don't have anything that's going to help unless you bloke, unless you blokes ran into each other and neither of you saw what happened. Yeah. There's just nothing here to help. Don't call for it.

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56.909 - 75.539 Gerard Whateley

Yeah. It's important. I mean, those games are closely decided games, but you just don't know. You don't know. So if you don't know, the arc's not going to know either if it's 30 metres above the point post. If it's going to hit the point post, that's worth looking at. So, I mean, there's some right decisions made across the weekend, but those two were just unnecessary.

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Chapter 3: What specific examples highlight the issues with the ARC system?

75.999 - 76.42 Gerard Whateley

So I'm with you.

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77.141 - 91.142 Adam Simpson

And that we're tying ourselves in knots over the last disposal out of bounds. Just call it as you see it. Yeah. But the stopping of the game and the waiting for the arc and we're actually... Inching towards something bad there.

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91.162 - 93.846 Gerard Whateley

Yeah. I think Swan will make a decision on that surely next week or two.

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Chapter 4: How do recent rule changes affect game outcomes?

93.946 - 106.502 Gerard Whateley

Just get some, get some evidence now. It's six rounds in. They'll be reflecting now on all the rules. Okay. What's the result of that? And that's the one rule I think that we're not unhappy with, but just needs tidying up. The rest of them are pretty good.

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Chapter 5: What improvements do the hosts suggest for the ARC review process?

106.522 - 121.93 Gerard Whateley

I mean, some of the goals, some of the games on the weekend were decided by the centre bounce ruck rule. Like the Collingwood last quarter. With Steen, what he was doing, he couldn't have done that last year. So that to get over the top of pit net, to hit Dacos three times in a row, this time last year, that wouldn't have happened.

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122.111 - 125.479 Gerard Whateley

It would have been cross the line, take his body and he would have been, it wouldn't have been playing.

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Chapter 6: What conclusions do the hosts draw about the future of the ARC system?

126.1 - 131.693 Gerard Whateley

So that's a big tick. Not if you're Carlton though, he probably should have kept the rule for one more year.

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