The Kurt Tippett scandal has Adelaide facing questions from its SANFL owners.
Source: Herald Sun
SuperFooty's Matt Windley and Sam Edmund review the furious final days of the AFL trade period.
ADELAIDE will have to answer to its SANFL owners if the Kurt Tippett scandal leads to significant AFL sanctions this week.
For the first time in its 22-year history - in which the Crows have stood as the only AFL expansion franchise never needing to be underwritten by the AFL or a state league - Adelaide is at risk of being in violation of its sub-licence with the SANFL.
That document, handed to the Crows in November 1990, states Adelaide loses its right to represent the SANFL in the national league if there is a breach of AFL rules.
Reality dictates it is not in the SANFL's interest to shut down its most profitable asset - and re-auction the state's first AFL licence.
The SA Football Commission, however, would be forced to demand its own answers on how the commission-appointed board met its obligations of diligence towards the Tippett contract.
Crows chairman Rob Chapman yesterday maintained his board would pass the diligence and governance tests. He also declared his unease with hypothetical questions before the verdict from the AFL investigation into the Tippett contract and associated side deal.
"I'm over all the speculation - and would rather wait for the AFL to tell us if we have breached their rules and what we may have done wrong," he said.
"I am keeping our owner (the SANFL) in the loop. But where we stand (with the sub-licence agreement), I have no idea - because we are still to find out from the AFL if we are in the wrong.
"Am I convinced we, as a board, did the due diligence in questioning Kurt's contract? Yes, I am."
Adelaide is facing two serious charges on which the AFL is expected to rule on Thursday or Friday.
The side deal with Tippett signed in 2009 is said to involve:
- DRAFT TAMPERING by secretly setting a price (second-round draft pick) for Kurt's trade at the end of his three-year deal and,
- SALARY CAP RORTING by underwriting third-party deals valued at more than six figures.
The expectation remains Adelaide will be hit with a heavy fine and be banned from the first three rounds of this year's AFL national draft.
"If we are found by the AFL to have deliberately acted against their rules and the values of this clubs, we will suffer the consequences," Chapman said. "And I will make it my job to rebuild the integrity of this club."
The AFL accountants who on Friday claimed records at the Crows' offices at West Lakes are - at Adelaide's call - looking beyond the Tippett contract to review every player deal.
But the Tippett side deal - declared in an emailed letter between former Crows football operations chief John Reid and Tippett's manager Peter Blucher - is the core of the investigation.
There are significant questions on how chief executive Steven Trigg and the board met their governance duties, particularly in the past 18 months when the Tippett deal commanded repeated media scrutiny.
The Advertiser understands the Crows have told the AFL:
- TRIGG told Blucher three weeks after the side deal was signed his club would no longer honour the out-of-contract agreement. Adelaide's demand for more than a second-round draft pick from Sydney in this month's trade period supports this.
- BOARD members were told of the side deal more than a year ago - as recorded in the club minutes - and assured the written agreement had been replaced by a "gentleman's agreement" to support Tippett in any "go-home" trade to a Queensland-based club.
- ADELAIDE accepts "top-up" payments on Tippett's third-party deals should have been declared in the club's salary cap.
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