Adelaide alleged to have signed Betts 18 months before he left Blues

[manboob]

Uh Oh Crows could be in trouble again! One last Trigg bomb!

The AFL will investigate the explosive claims that Adelaide signed Eddie Betts 18 months before leaving Carlton for the Crows.

If Betts had signed with the Crows — as Mick Malthouse alleged this morning — then the Crows could be punished for breaching AFL rules.No player can sign with a rival club while in contract, but a player is allowed to talk to clubs.

Trigg, who was convicted of salary cap cheating over the Kurt Tippett affair, shifted from the Crows to the Blues in July last year.

Malthouse said on SEN radio this morning:“I’d still love to have a number of players here, Betts is the most classical one because he’s a goalkicker.“But Steven Trigg assured us when he arrived here, ‘Don’t take it too personally’. He said ‘we, being Adelaide, had him stitched up 18 months out’,” he said.“So it’s very, very difficult when you come to the football club and a bloke like that plays cautious football because his heart and soul, or certainly his mind, was everywhere else.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...h-adelaide-crows/story-fni5ezdm-1227369742828

 

[Port01]

'stitched up' is very different to 'signed'

 

[Borderline]

Lol Trigg, Christ knows why Carlton gave him a job

 

[Lensen]

"if you're going to sack me, I'm taking you down with me"
all about me me me me

 

[vide0n]

Lol
Trigg is the gift that just keeps giving

 

[manboob]

'stitched up' is very different to 'signed'

Exactly! That's what this article is claiming. Good takedown by Malthouse if true.

 

[The King!]

Triggy you old dog!

Crows like breaking player rules

 

[HFF]

Considering the reputation of Trigg and the former Crows key hierarchy, would anyone be surprised?

The fact that he has been allowed back into the fold in a CEO position is laughable.

 

[DaVillaBlues]

Sweet revenge for the Crows stealing Sauce and Betts from us.

#JusticeForCarlton !!

 

[Upgrayedd]

Hahahaha trigg wasnt content with ruining one clubs recruiting

 

[Donakebab]

Top shelf Trigg, starts his work destroying a club before he even walks through the doors and continues his path of destruction after leaving.

 

[moses]

Sack Trigg..oh wait....

 

[Jaeger]

Nothing will happen.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Wouldn't have "signed" him but of course they would have had an agreement.

Same with Buddy to Sydney.

Same with 90% of player moves.

 

[LFTWNG11]

Hahahaha trigg wasnt content with ruining one clubs recruiting

How does this ruin Carlton's recruiting??

 

[1990crow]

Where's the investigation into the Swans signing Buddy? Or Ablett and the suns. Or Dangerfield to Cats... Oh that's right. The AFL have no vested interest in the crows.

 

[NikkiNoo]

Triggy you old dog!

Crows like breaking player rules

You mean like your club did in meeting Tippett at his father's house during the season which is also against the rules? Tippett's manager was so pleased to finally tell this to the media in Melbourne. Funny how the AFL never investigated that at all...

Eddie's preference was us, yes, but he was a restricted free agent which allowed Carlton to match the contract if they wanted. They declined. He THEN signed the contract. You can talk to a player and a manger prior to this and agree to possible terms, which is what the Crows drafted up and presented as the offer.

Storm in a teacup and Mick has done a great job at deflecting away from the questions about his failed recruitment of Thomas at the expense of keeping Betts and others.

 

[clogged]

I hope Mick's flameout reveals some truths about what went on at the Eagles.

 

[living_in_syd]

looks like adelaide can't take a....
(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
trigg.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

 

[The King!]

You mean like your club did in meeting Tippett at his father's house during the season which is also against the rules? Tippett's manager was so pleased to finally tell this to the media in Melbourne. Funny how the AFL never investigated that at all...

Eddie's preference was us, yes, but he was a restricted free agent which allowed Carlton to match the contract if they wanted. They declined. He THEN signed the contract. You can talk to a player and a manger prior to this and agree to possible terms, which is what the Crows drafted up and presented as the offer.

Storm in a teacup and Mick has done a great job at deflecting away from the questions about his failed recruitment of Thomas at the expense of keeping Betts and others.

I meant more how you Paid Tippett outside the cap

 

[daniel_4tw]

Would be no different to Swans and Tippett... And Swans and Buddy. And every other trade.

It's almost like Malthouse wanted to deflect something today...

 

[Papa G]

 

[andypie]

I blame matt rendell. Trigg is untouchable.

 

[NikkiNoo]

I meant more how you Paid Tippett outside the cap

He received absolutely no pay outside the cap at all. Maybe get your facts right?

There was an agreement that contravened AFL rules, true, which was pushed by Tippett's manager as the only way to get him to sign. Once he agreed to sign, it was on the contract that was presented to the AFL and approved. The other 'agreement' was never signed off on. Tippett's manager was the one to jump up and down about it and tell people to try and get his player where he wanted him to go for big money, forgetting that it would cost him his job at a very prominent managing firm and a penalty/suspension from the AFL. Everyone forgets the managers role in that scenario completely when it is mostly down to him.

 

[Confuscius]

It's probably one of those things that the afl are happy to turn a blind eye to but now it's out in public they have no choice but to "investigate".

Every trade period it seems there's a host of players officially moving within the first day or two, some of them stars of the comp. There's no way they're only being approached at the end of their contract and making their minds up in such a short time frame.