Adelaide Crows Salary cap rorts

[Striker]

A manager knows the details of the deal and the player doesn't. Managers stink to high heaven.

[Xman]

A manager knows the details of the deal and the player doesn't. Managers stink to high heaven.

details yes, but every player knows the bottom line, and for these players there were 2

[Striker]

You don't know that for sure, X!

[eelofwest]

Slapped with a 6 day old dry lettuce.

The AFL Commission took longer to conclude the Kurt Tippett affair than to decide on Carlton’s serious punishment for systematic salary cap rorting in 2002. It must have been all the back slapping that absorbed their time.

Steven Trigg, a major instigator of the affair, was given several glowing character references at Friday’s hearing. His response – bristling and insincerely apologetic – to his subsequent mild punishment proves he didn’t deserve such tributes.

Many people connected to the club, including former champion Andrew Jarman, have called for Trigg’s sacking however the chief executive, clearly upset that he has been targeted, had the gall to describe his six month ban as “unprecedented” rather than paltry, which is what it is.

It was unprecedented because usually it’s the club that is punished, and not the individuals. However seeing that he helped orchestrate the deal without the knowledge of the Crows board, it’s appropriate he was the one sanctioned.

The club was still fined $300,000.

This is a man who lied to his own chairman Rob Chapman when allegations of illicit dealings were raised last year.

This a man who forced Matt Rendell to resign in March over his comments about the recruitment of indigenous players, denying Rendell an opportunity to give his version of events at a press conference because “the mud would stick”. Rendell would later state that he was pushing for the establishment of an indigenous scholarship during the conversation with AFL community engagement manager Jason Mifsud in which the thoughtless comments were made. What a fucken merkin, hypocrite of the highest regard, Don't worry the mud will stick to the AFL thats for sure.....

When quizzed over the matter by Andrew Demetriou, Trigg allegedly told the AFL boss that he gave Rendell an opportunity to retract his comments but Rendell refused. Rendell has denied this ever occurred.
AFL a bunch of dirty snakes.

The thought that Trigg may be a liar has obviously not occured to Demetriou or AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick. Revealing a dreadfully low level of objectivity, they sang his praises while dispensing their meek justice.

“It’s fundamentally the one transaction … in other ways, Steven Trigg has been an exemplary chief executive”, chirped Demetriou. Well it was three “mistakes”, actually: the Tippett offers, the authorisation of a second secret letter removing the reference to illicit third party deals, and “misleading” (ie lying to) the club’s board. =D>

It was also noted that Trigg is a CEO of “immense ability” as if that has anything to do with character and integrity. Perhaps the AFL shares the philosophy of those clubs who give star players numerous second chances for off field indiscretions but sanctimoniously announce the sacking of a fringe player after a single incident.

The statement: “He [Trigg] will learn from this and will be welcomed back into he industry”, from the competition’s CEO is unbelievable. What, a middle-aged man with ten years experience as a club chief executive has to be taught not to tamper with the draft or attempt to breach the salary cap? Integrity Gggggoooooooonnnnnneeeeee, lettuce leaf inc..

And what is it with the suspended sentence for an “exemplary record”? Firstly, which current club bosses don’t have an exemplary record and what have they done? Secondly, if Trigg is later found rorting the salary cap or placing illegal bets does he get to serve the suspended six months instead of being banished from the AFL forever?

There is the possibility, of course, that the club did know more than the almost overly apologetic Chapman is letting on. This would explain Trigg expressing a fall guy’s lack of contrition.

Or Trigg may just be peeved that no other club has been caught arranging the many “underground third party deals” that disgraced former agent Ricky Nixon alleges are taking place.

There were no apologies from Kurt Tippett either who, after complaining of a few sleepless nights, disappeared out the AFL headquarters’ back door with his father and QC, and later issued an ALPA authored statement blaming Adelaide for his current predicament.

His agent Peter Blucher who brokered the deals appears to have escaped sanction.

And less than twenty four hours after stating that the penalties handed down to his club and personnel were important for the integrity of the game Rob Chapman has announced he will be retaining Trigg as chief executive because “good chief executives don’t grow on trees”.

Goodbye integrity.

[Xman]

Yet more severe than the warriors punishment despite them exceeding their cap by 5 times the amount!

NRL, integrity non existent. NRL fans ignorant

[Xman]

Our NRL fans seem to think the AFL have acted leniently on the crows 200k breach by fining them 300k, and banning the CEO and player for 6 months, and fining them each 50k.

Well lets have a look at how the NRL have acted on similar indiscretions before:

Knights, 2000

$369,108 over the cap. Fully disclosed. Third party agreements reclassified by salary cap auditor.

Penalty $73,800

Bulldogs, 2000

$167,445 over the cap. Undisclosed (but not hidden) payment of $25,000. Third party agreement reclassified by salary cap auditor. Hidden undisclosed payments also now admitted.

Penalty $50,000

oh my!

Panthers, 2000

$404,489 over the cap. Fully disclosed.

$80,900

WTF!

Warriors, 2005

Breaches relating to seasons 2004 and 2005 subsequently disclosed by new management.

$430,000 plus 4 competition points in the following year

wow, just wow!

Storm, 2004

Breaches relating to undisclosed TPA's from 2001 - 2004 Subsequently disclosed by new management

$120,000

[Stewie]

Oh wow. What a disgrace this poor man's rugby is. No integrity whatsoever

[eelofwest]

Oh wow. What a disgrace this poor man's rugby is. No integrity whatsoever

Crackers' Call - Crows off lightly
2/12/2012 5:18 PM
Peter 'Crackers' Keenan
Sportal

After hearing Adelaide's penalties for salary cap breaches and draft tampering, Carlton supporters are howling.

In 2002 the Blues were hit for six with the AFL heavily fining them and taking draft picks off them.

It was almost a sentence of football death.

Of course having John Elliott as president didn't help their cause, and everybody was out to fix up the big boys who cheated on the salary cap.

Carlton went down like a lead hang glider, down to the bottom of the league table.

Now a lot of Blues fans are screaming what about the Crows?

Well Adelaide were smart, they knew they were gone so they went cap in hand to the AFL and grovelled.

Even Kurt Tippett grovelled.

He also turned on the Crows afterwards though, blaming them for everything.

He'd have us believe that he had no part in the wrongdoing. =D>

The fact that he agreed to the terms meant he was a guilty party also, so don't lump it all on the club Kurt!

Adelaide gave up two draft picks this year and will sit out the first two rounds next year while they also copped a $300,000 fine.

CEO Steven Trigg was whacked as well and is heading overseas for six months to study other codes and learn some new tricks that he can use when he gets back. Weak

The Crows' penalty wasn't big and there's probably a good reason for that.

In 2014 the renovated Adelaide Oval comes online as AAMI Stadium disappears into housing blocks.

If there are two crippled sides in Adelaide, even though Adelaide Oval is central, there might not be many turn up at the Victor Richardson gates to watch.

Port are a basket case at the moment and after just posting a $2 million loss this year I cannot see them improving in the next two years with their list while sponsorship is killing them.

But the league needs at least one good strong side in Adelaide and the Crows are it.

They've got money and are on the verge of having a crack at winning a premiership so it'd be a great win-win for the league and the new Adelaide Oval if the Crows are a force in football.

They'll pack the stadium every second week.

The only problem is that they did cheat and break every rule but the league let them off.

I'm not a Carlton supporter but in my mind it does seem to be very unfair compared to what happened to the Blues. Credibility of the AFL competition Ggggggggoooooooooooooooooonnnnnneeeee..


Amen brother you Blues got whacked with a anvil and these Birds got the lettuce leaf.....