{"id":742939,"date":"2026-06-17T19:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742939\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:45:53","slug":"afl-news-2026-north-melbourne-star-jy-simpkin-warned-mro-tribunal-criticism-paul-curtis-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742939\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL News 2026: North Melbourne star Jy Simpkin warned MRO tribunal criticism Paul Curtis suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Melbourne<\/a> midfielder Jy Simpkin has been handed an official warning by the AFL<\/a>, after he called the league and the MRO \u201claughable\u201d on Instagram on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The former Roos skipper\u2019s criticism came following the tribunal\u2019s decision to uphold teammate Paul Curtis\u2019 three-game suspension<\/a> for a tackle that concussed West Coast\u2019s<\/a> Hamish Davis.<\/p>\n

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Jy Simpkin of North Melbourne.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The tribunal ultimately agreed with MRO Michael Christian\u2019s verdict, despite widespread criticism of the initial ban.<\/p>\n

Clearly frustrated by the situation, Simpkin took to Instagram to vent his frustration in posts that have since been deleted.<\/p>\n

Simpkin posted previous examples of a tackle resulting in a concussion, including Mabior Chol on Tom Stewart earlier in the season<\/a>, saying \u201cball carrier gets concussed, tackler gets off with no suspension\u201d.<\/p>\n

He then compared it to the Curtis decision, adding: \u201cBall carrier gets concussed, tackler gets a 3 week suspension.\u201d<\/p>\n

His final Instagram story added: \u201cThe AFL needs to get it together, the constant rule changes and the MRO is laughable. Players don\u2019t know what they can and can\u2019t do anymore. Just hope for the best each week\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Roos confirmed on Wednesday that they would not take the decision to the AFL\u2019s appeals board.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Curtis will miss the Roos\u2019 next three games against Richmond, Essendon and Port Adelaide.<\/p>\n

Former North Melbourne president James Brayshaw was vocal in his frustration with the verdict on Wednesday, calling it \u201cnot a suspendible offence\u201d, adding that continuing with these kinds of bans will \u201cstuff the game\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a busy day for the AFL on that front, handing Gold Coast<\/a> a $20,000 fine for a fifth instance of a player making careless contact with an umpire.<\/p>\n

Star defender Daniel Rioli ran into an umpire during his side\u2019s loss to Geelong<\/a> last Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Melbourne midfielder Jy Simpkin has been handed an official warning by the AFL, after he called the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-742939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}