Bachar Houli - بشار حولي,

[tigermouseau]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

A corrupt a decision as you would ever see. Completely bogus and the whole thing has been a witch hunt and trial by media. I will always love Richmond but I detest the AFL and I'm struggling to maintain my enthusiasm for this bogus and contrived sporting organisation and it's product.

I have felt the same this season. I am completely over the AFL stuffing around with our game and it's rules. I actually tried to give it up after our three close losses because some of the ridiculous decisions the umpires paid during those three games could've and did, have a direct bearing on the results. But I do love the club and can't but help be interested in the results. This Bachar decision is just another decision of a useless governing body that has reacted to media opinions. They have appealed to their own Tribunal, effectively appealing against themselves, and wow surprise surprise have come up with a magical number of four weeks. They are not fooling anyone. And I'm not complaining about him getting four weeks, that was about right but I am just sooo p!ssed off at the corruption that is the AFL.

 

[evo]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

geez, watching 360, makes me want to chuck. These bloke are dumb as fenceposts, or just AFL yes men.

they're not mutually exclusive.

 

[easy_tiger]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

Yeah, sounds like Toovs is killing 'me

Love the 'there was no objection to the tendered references on Monday night' line

But The AFL will just do what they want

The only thing good about The AFL is they are predictable

I feel extremely disEmpowered. Didn't even get a reply of RFC to my letter supporting Bachar and pledging cash for a silk.

I'd like to say this inconsequential little guy is gonna shift my focus to the local footy, except the AFL has totally

*smile* that up too

 

[TOT70]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

...... and Richmond still has Houli in it's team against Port, StKilda, GCS and GWS

Looking at weeks 3 and 4 certainly gives some badly-needed clarity.

Sonavagun!

 

[Tigerdangerous]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

The RFC has been the most obvious of AFL lackeys; evident over many years by the continual capitulation of the club in every player report, game day umpiring decisions and the clubs preparedness to always submit to the hypocritical will of the AFL.

Fyfe was reported on three separate occasions in 2015 and got off each time undeservedly and went on to win the Brownlow. Enough has been said about Hall and now the AFL has overruled its own tribunal to ignore a superior argument put forward by Michael Tovey with the farcical response of AFL legal counsel Andrew Woods who says: "It should be four weeks or more". After which we have the theatre of the Appeals Board deciding and guess what - Houli is banned for four weeks!!!

The club has been shafted yet again by the AFL who has shown itself to be prejudicial towards the RFC; it is an organisation too easily influenced by media hysteria of which it contributes and censors according to whatever agenda its pushing on any given week and is too easily influenced by gambling money within the AFL industry with little to no transparency or accountability in any of its decision making.

I believe Houli would be within his right to appeal this decision in the Supreme Court and take the decision making process away from the AFL which has proven itself incapable of remaining impartial and without prejudice.

 

[23.21.159]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

The AFL has to decide whether it's running a genuine competition or some sort of theatre production or pantomime

That ship sailed long ago ....

 

[Midsy]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

So if the tribunal had done their job properly in the first place he'd have gone 4 down to 3. Because they *smile* up, he now serves 4?

*smile*.

 

[jb03]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

I can't agree with this on the grounds that when we're talking about "behind play" we're usually talking about a player being sniped from behind completely outside of play.

In Houli's case, he's trying to get into play, and being held from doing so, thus affecting "play". In fact, the reality is that if his opponent wasn't at full stretch trying to hold on, his head wouldn't have been as low as it was and he wouldn't have been knocked out.

I again go back to the umpire who witnessed the incident and said "it didn't look intentional" and ask "if you're watching what's going on, how could you not blow the whistle in which case none of us are even having this conversation. The 85kg of useless dead weight that Houli is expected to cart around a footy field and still get a kick, doesn't get knocked out, and Richmond still has Houli in it's team against Port, StKilda, GCS and GWS.

Interesting that the AFL can rule that Hall's hit on McGuire was "in play" when play was over 50m away, thus allowing him to line up in a GF, but in Houli's case, being held from joining play, isn't in play. Interesting that this is so abhorrent to them, that they do something that hasn't been done in 112 years, but in the case of a Swans player 50m off the ball it's "Nothing to see here, move on please"! Same team that gets to play us off a bye, Essendon off a bye and then Melbourne off 3 consecutive 6 days breaks, the last of which is off a trip to WA.

I'm guessing Essendon's record off the bye is about as good as ours.

While I'm ranting...........

How many jumper punches have been thrown in the last 12 months? How many media circuses is there.... just Cotchin's!

Media urges AFL to review Rance for diving when he's hit in the chest neck area quite forcibly by a player who's around 110kg in weight, yet all I hear from the media in Clayton Oliver's case is how even the slightest contact to the chin can shock you enough to fall over!!!!

And now the media circus over Houli, but nothing on Jordan Lewis putting more fractures in a jaw than the Libs have debating gay marriage, and that was an intentional act, aimed to do as much damage as he could get away with.
Just look at the decision last week when it apparently can't be proved as intentional when Joel Selwood drives someone's face into the ground by dropping his elbow and full body weight onto the back of Mitchell's neck! You want the potential of serious injury. then look at that for an example! Watch that incident and tell me that wasn't intended to hurt a player as much as possible, with time to consider one's actions before performing the act.

Where was the media circus last week?

The AFL has to decide whether it's running a genuine competition or some sort of theatre production or pantomime

Good post. I used to think the conspiracy stuff against Richmond was fabricated in the minds of Richmond supporters but after Cotchin, Rance and Houli there is definitely somthing amiss with the constant attack on RFC related incidents and issues.

 

[AngryAnt]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

Tovey wiped the floor with their arguments and yet he still got four. Told you the fix was in - all that legal argument was just for show.

 

[TOT70]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

Houli says he accepts the decision and that his only concern was the welfare of Jed Lamb. Class act is Bachar.

The mark of a man is how he responds in adversity.

 

[Al Bundy]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

geez, watching 360, makes me want to chuck. These bloke are dumb as fenceposts, or just AFL yes men.

yes men, as that's were their bread is buttered

 

[23.21.159]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

Not lost on me that we play (AFL love child) GWS in that fourth week of suspension - at the G.
We should have beaten them up there and will be a serious chance in Melbourne.

 

[BrisTiger24]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

They may as well do.away with the MRP, tribunal etc. Just have Gil and Lethlean make the decisions

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

Tired. Tired of fighting just for a level playing field so we can fight some more. We played by the rules, we played a good game, we appealed to the AFL's leftist dogma, we got the result and we still lose because they changed the rules after the result. They past-posted.

If your pony breaks a leg and sends you arse over tit, Gil, my religion says you deserved it because you run a crooked shop.

 

[ToraToraTora]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

74 all over again! Us v them! Me against the world! Must must must win this week!

 

[Al Bundy]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

can someone clear this point. A person good record, in effect because of what the AFL did today, no longer count? That would mean a bad record no longer count too? I assume you cant have it both ways.

 

[tigersnake]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

Good post. I used to think the conspiracy stuff against Richmond was fabricated in the minds of Richmond supporters but after Cotchin, Rance and Houli there is definitely somthing amiss with the constant attack on RFC related incidents and issues.

its real. You could go on all night citing examples of opposition golden boys getting off light and our players getting hung. I still remember how outraged we all were when Ty got 2 weeks when henderson or jamieson from Carlton ran into him, lit up PRE, nobody else said boo. King got a row every time. The AFL saying 'we need a strong Essendon' apparently a crap Richmond is all fine. I'll stop now, so pissed off.

 

[Harry]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

Yeah kingy used to get crucified

 

[TigerForce]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

4 weeks. Bunch of corrupt pricks

You said it. I wanna see a Drug Bummer go through this and I'll bet my life he wouldn't cop the same.

 

[Willo]

Re: Bachar "The Nice Guy" Houli

can someone clear this point. A person good record, in effect because of what the AFL did today, no longer count? That would mean a bad record no longer count too? I assume you cant have it both ways.

Will that force them to re-write the MRP handbook on prescribed penalties?