Adelaide Crows are keen for chief executive Steven Trigg to keep his job. Picture: Sarah Reed. Source: adelaidenow
ADELAIDE will fight for chief executive Steven Trigg to keep his job as it prepares to face the AFL Commission over alleged salary draft breaches and draft tampering involving Kurt Tippett's contract from 2009-2012.
There is widespread speculation in the football fraternity that both Trigg and football operations manager Phil Harper's positions will be in jeopardy once the commission hands down its findings from its hearing this Friday.
At the heart of the matter is Trigg's alleged involvement in setting up and maintaining third-party deals with Tippett - which goes against AFL player regulations.
There is also believed to have been an understanding between the club and the Tippett camp that he would be released to the club of his choice at the end of his contract, which contravenes draft rules.
The Sunday Mail understands Tippett's various commercial arrangements were signed off by the AFL and did not break the salary cap.
Crows chairman Rob Chapman, one of the country's leading bankers, yesterday told the Sunday Mail the club would fight for its chief executive rather than lop his head as another gesture of goodwill.
"The players, the sponsors and the chairman all want him to stay," Chapman said yesterday. "My task, or my focus over the next week, is to make sure the punishment fits the crime.
"The fact is that he (Trigg) is an excellent chief executive with a good track record."
In last week's national draft, the club voluntarily forfeited its first two selections as a gesture of goodwill - which can also be read as an admission of guilt, even though nobody is prepared to say it - and the move was praised by AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson.
But the club will not offer up Trigg as a sacrificial lamb, despite the obvious message that would be sent if the chief executive had to resign because of the Tippett crisis.
Deliberations between the Crows' accused - who have amassed 11 charges by the AFL Commission - and the league are continuing on a daily basis, with most of those involved working 12-hour days.
The Sunday Mail understands it has now become a negotiation between the Crows and their lawyers and Anderson's and the AFL's lawyers - trying to find a reasonable punishment for the Crows' transgressions of the AFL player rules.
It is believed the punishment will be a fine of about $500,000 and restricted access to the next two or three national drafts. It could be as bad as four years of restrictions, but the Crows are pushing to have their limitations on draft access reduced to two years.
From here, there will be continued negotiation between the Crows and their lawyers and Anderson's office and his lawyers.
Adelaide found support yesterday in Malcolm Blight, its dual premiership coach, who said the Crows had broken a rule rather than the law.
"They've almost got a perfect record," Blight said. "I mean no one's perfect, we all know that, but it's a blip. It's a mistake, no doubt about that."
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