8 minutes ago, Call Me What You Will said:

Lewis 3, Trengove 3, Hogan 2....... Lamb carried off unconscious.... Houli 2. Wow! AFL at its mind numbing best. Tribunal bringing the game into disrepute perhaps?

Numb is a great way to put it! 

Maybe we should have challenged Hogan's ban.

Edited June 27, 20178 yr by Demon77

The AFL tribunal have now made the MRP pointless. Based on this decision Houli should of pled guilty and he would if walked away with only 1 week!

Absolutely outrageous!

Any players who get offered 2 down to 1 from the MRP have to appeal from now on and use Houli's decision as the precedent.

Just now, CanberraDemon said:

The AFL tribunal have now made the MRP pointless. Based on this decision Houli should of pled guilty and he would if walked away with only 1 week!

Absolutely outrageous!

Any players who get offered 2 down to 1 from the MRP have to appeal from now on and use Houli's decision as the precedent.

 he didn't have the option of pleeing guilty

21 minutes ago, Biffen said:

Well done by Houli to present himself as the victim .

Excellent  tokenism by the panel.

 

Houli was the victim of Carlton push and shove mania, the same mania that drove our Jesse over the edge. There is a limit, Biff, to what a mensch can take.

2 minutes ago, CanberraDemon said:

The AFL tribunal have now made the MRP pointless. Based on this decision Houli should of pled guilty and he would if walked away with only 1 week!

Absolutely outrageous!

Any players who get offered 2 down to 1 from the MRP have to appeal from now on and use Houli's decision as the precedent.

would have to change religion first though

In this day and age, it's very bad publicity for the AFL to be harsh on a Muslim...so they decided to be ridiculously lenient instead.

Wtf does character have to do with anything?

You're on a footy field and you pretty much coward punched a bloke unconscious. At the start of a game too, so it's now an unfair playing field as well as a kid being KO'd violently. Your character should have [censored] all to do with it. Just the action at the time. 

Just ridiculous. 

Bans on offer for anyone considering making this about religion.

Just now, Nasher said:

Bans on offer for anyone considering making this about religion.

Ok then. Let's not talk about a defining issue of our times.

Just now, Chook said:

Ok then. Let's not talk about a defining issue of our times.

Thanks, appreciate it.  Let's talk about football instead.

2 minutes ago, Chook said:

Ok then. Let's not talk about a defining issue of our times.

Considering race and religion were used to get a more lenient penalty for Houli, I don't see why it can't be discussed. 

Edited June 27, 20178 yr by Ethan Tremblay

10 minutes ago, dieter said:

Houli was the victim of Carlton push and shove mania, the same mania that drove our Jesse over the edge. There is a limit, Biff, to what a mensch can take.

Jesse had some  victim cards to pull but he chose not to.

Cant remember him K O ing anyone either.

But racism is to blame in this case.

Thats the important message .

Yeah!!

The Afl stopped racism!!!

Hooray!!

Edit- end rant. read Nashers post- my point is more what constitutes as bona fide evidence at the MRP.

 

Edited June 27, 20178 yr by Biffen

1 minute ago, Nasher said:

Thanks, appreciate it.  Let's talk about football instead.

and people bashing other people just because its a fun game?

 

Just now, Ethan Tremblay said:

Considering race and religion were used to get a more lenient penalty for Houli, I don't see what it can't be discussed.

Because it invites racist garbage like what Petraccattack posted.  It's not relevant.  

See Deestroy All's post as an example of how to discuss what occurred without making it about religion.

3 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Thanks, appreciate it.  Let's talk about football instead.

Striking isn't football.

Just now, Chook said:

Striking isn't football.

That's a weird response to a request not to make it about religion.  Clearly the result at the tribunal is relevant to the topic at hand.

Look, you can all continue to argue with me and I can close the thread, or we can steer the topic away from the religious aspects of the player in question and continue to discuss the topic of MRP outcomes.  I have nothing else to say on the topic.

No matter what defence was used or what the character witnesses had to say, two weeks is an absolute disgrace. 

A person's off-field good character shouldn't give them any more lenience than a person's gang ties or tattoos or anything else should give that person an extra penalty. It's an absolute farce, and underlines the fact that there should be an extra loading for "non-football acts" in future.

Edited June 27, 20178 yr by Chook

4 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

No matter what defence was used or what the character witnesses had to say, two weeks is an absolute disgrace. 

That's the bottom line. 

Lewis 3. 

Houli 2. 

How?

19 minutes ago, deanox said:

 he didn't have the option of pleeing guilty

Umm yes he did. He was never offered an opportunity to plead guilty by the MRP and so could have done so at the commencement of the hearing and then thrown himself at the mercy of the jury as they did at sentencing.

6 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

No matter what defence was used or what the character witnesses had to say, two weeks is an absolute disgrace. 

definitely doesn't pass the sniff test, ethan........it's just not the right vibe....mabo...the constitution....

WTF

TurnBull, suddenly Swanning around in a Sydney scarf -- how many games of footy has he been to other than when there are votes in it -- as a character witness FCS!!

At the moment of impact his character was very poor which is all that is relevant.

Maybe we should have wheeled out a character publicity seeking referee for Jesse, who was going through desperately hard times, when he got the same sentence for a 'soft' hits a player who ran out the game and played unimpaired the following week.

Astounding and really makes the AFL and their MRP and tribunal an absolute farce.  Still, it is being run by Gil so what more can we expect.  Maybe TurnBull will reward him with an OA?

 

Riewoldt: "I'd love for him to get NO weeks."

 

Poor from Riewoldt there. He's a team-mate but you can't put your football hopes above justice. Pathetic.

Just now, monoccular said:

WTF

TurnBull, suddenly Swanning around in a Sydney scarf -- how many games of footy has he been to other than when there are votes in it -- as a character witness FCS!!

At the moment of impact his character was very poor which is all that is relevant.

Maybe we should have wheeled out a character publicity seeking referee for Jesse, who was going through desperately hard times, when he got the same sentence for a 'soft' hits a player who ran out the game and played unimpaired the following week.

Astounding and really makes the AFL and their MRP and tribunal an absolute farce.  Still, it is being run by Gil so what more can we expect.  Maybe TurnBull will reward him with an OA?

 

mitchell on 3aw this morning asked him who they were playing this weekend and he didn't know