Its Time For Trigg To Resign.

[Punchy Bassett]

Where we would be right now without his recruiting? That's a scary thought, with no decent draft picks for the next two years and playing almost $1 million under the salary cap this year.

Rendell's retrospective contribution to our club has saved a lot of red faces (the most obvious being Trigg) up to and including the present time and beyond.

The irony is incredible.

No forgetting Rendell wanted to trade Tippett a year earlier.

 

[1970crow]

Don't forget the AFC is still answering to SANFL. I think that is where a lot of the 'hamstringing' is originating. Please lets be our own club with our own pokies(or whatever) and our own seconds side.

And it will be interesting to see the longer term crowds at AO. My gut feel is that it will be great for Power and SACA and the corporate dwellers, but will be a disappointment for most people, particularly those exposed to the weather on the NE side.

Reckon one of the ao benefits will be an increase in interstaters. I've done the fly-bus-game-bus fly and wouldn't do it again. Fly-game-fly is much more attractive.

 

[King Elvis]

He resigned when it happened, and has done so many times since, with Chapman insisting he stay on. Don't dare call him dishonourable because someone else wouldn't accept it.

If he thinks he should resign, then he should.

This "They refuse to accept my resignation," stuff is complete crap.

 

[jenny61_99]

If he thinks he should resign, then he should.

This "They refuse to accept my resignation," stuff is complete crap.

Maybe. Maybe he doesn't want to resign though? Anyways, I've said enough. I told myself not to come in here and I have. Apologies to all - on with your love-in or hate-fest. I won't bother you again.

 

[King Elvis]

I don't hate him, he did what he did with the right intentions for the Crows, but it changes nothing, he should've resigned at threat of termination.

 

[Southerntakeover]

Maybe. Maybe he doesn't want to resign though? Anyways, I've said enough. I told myself not to come in here and I have. Apologies to all - on with your love-in or hate-fest. I won't bother you again.

Actually that would be a rather novel approach.

'You should resign!'

'I don't want to'.

'Uh..... cool I guess, we'll just buy our season tickets and go sit in the corner'.

 

[SugarShane]

If he thinks he should resign, then he should.

This "They refuse to accept my resignation," stuff is complete crap.

Right on. There's no rule that says a resignation needs to be accepted. It's a resignation. You tell them you're outtie, and you pack your shit. That's how resignations work.

 

[Sanders]

You are aware this wasn't a criminal trial?

Yes, he wasn't afforded the presumption of innocence as they had already investigated and found that he was guilty. It was a sentencing hearing

So he is the not the accused, he is the convicted with a fanciful conspiracy story explaining his innocence

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

In a way I DO feel for Trigg.

When he found out the parting gift Reid had given the club, what were his options?

Blow the whistle? Umm... excuse me Mr AFL, I wasn't aware of it but it seems we have used illegal inducements to re-sign a key player.

This was between the 2009 and 2010 AFL seasons. What would the AFL have done? Couldn't sack Reid - he'd retired. Could have suspended Tippett. Could have stripped premiership points. Could have penalised the club in other ways.

I've said this a million times but the reason Trigg didn't want to go down the honesty path was 2010 was the culmination (punches air... "Culmination") of Neil's grand plan and this was our premiership season. This was the empire Neil had built and the 2010 season was the product of everything Neil had created. Like many on here, Trigg was a True Craig Believer. Who would want to gum up the works?

So his two options were:
1) Blow the whistle and potentially ruin Neil's finest hour
Or 2) sit on it and hope that it would go away

He chose 2) but it didn't.

 

[Southerntakeover]

Which doesn't really explain why we'd baulk at quite decent trade offers over the '11 offseason.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Which doesn't really explain why we'd baulk at quite decent trade offers over the '11 offseason.

It does though.

If another club had to pick up the final year of Tippett's AFC contract then the side deals would have become known. Blucher wouldn't have just foregone what 'rightfully' belonged to Tippett. The fewer people who knew about it the better (from Trigg's point of view).

 

[Slippery Pete]

So his two options were:
1) Blow the whistle and potentially ruin Neil's finest hour
Or 2) sit on it and hope that it would go away

He chose 2) but it didn't.

Or 3 - hope like hell Tippett would a new contract and stay.

 

[King Elvis]

Disagree with that Carl, if he was traded, the rest of it would've disappeared. He would've been on more money, and he would've gone home.

Brisbane were willing to trade with us - their offer was a little on the low side, IMO, but not when you take the stupid agreement into account.

 

[Slippery Pete]

It does though.

If another club had to pick up the final year of Tippett's AFC contract then the side deals would have become known. Blucher wouldn't have just foregone what 'rightfully' belonged to Tippett. The fewer people who knew about it the better (from Trigg's point of view).

Wouldn't it have been a case of Brisbane writing a new contract and Tippett's old one at Adelaide being torn up?

Also - the Tippett contract was signed at the end of 2009 as you rightly point out. Are you saying Trigg didn't find out about the details until Reid was gone?

 

[Elite Crow]

Weren't the third party deals a side agreement that Adelaides sponsors would pick up for work performed? So they can't have expected Brisbane to pick this up. It's a price he would have had to pay to get out of Adelaide. The fact that he was even considering it made the decision to keep him ludicrous and full of ego.

 

[MRB37]

Weren't the third party deals a side agreement that Adelaides sponsors would pick up for work performed? So they can't have expected Brisbane to pick this up. It's a price he would have had to pay to get out of Adelaide. The fact that he was even considering it made the decision to keep him ludicrous and full of ego.

Tippett and Blucher seem like the type of cluey people who'd ask about it with Brisbane.

 

[weekend at bernies]

No forgetting Rendell wanted to trade Tippett a year earlier.

Hindsight smart move

 

[Southerntakeover]

It does though.

If another club had to pick up the final year of Tippett's AFC contract then the side deals would have become known. Blucher wouldn't have just foregone what 'rightfully' belonged to Tippett. The fewer people who knew about it the better (from Trigg's point of view).

I think there are some flaws with this analysis.

a) Arguably (without having seen the clause) we would have already fulfilled the condition by trading him to a club of his choice and
b) I would suspect that any trade would have been conditional on a new contract being achieved between Tippett and Brisbane. All indications were that Tippett was keen to be traded if I remember correctly?

In some senses though we may be lucky that this trade didn't go through, if it had come out later shit would have hit the fan in an even worse manner when you consider Reid's subsequent employment at Brisbane.

 

[cmndstab]

I think Carl's got it right, to be honest. My feeling is Trigg saw the details of Reid's deals, went "oh shit", tried to rescind the deal without doing anything official, then hoped like hell that it wouldn't be an issue. Either Tippett would stay, or he would request a trade to a club that would have a strong second-round pick and we could play it off as "well we had to accept it because otherwise the PSD, etc". Agreeing to trade him to Brisbane when he hadn't demanded to leave would have looked odd, and then people might have done some digging. So that option was out.

The instant that Tippett demanded a trade to Sydney, it must have been clear to him that shit was going to hit the fan. I don't understand why he took off overseas.

 

[BigLefty]

In a way I DO feel for Trigg.

i feel for Trigg because he copped a $50,000 fine. How many people could survive that? and presumably he's not paid while suspended? what would he be on $300k ish?? So if he's not paid that a $200k fine effectively. The dudes still got bills to pay!

Even if you scale it back for an above average salary of say $100k. Thats still probably the equivalent of a $30k fine. No way could people absorb that without significant pain.

 

[BigLefty]

I think Carl's got it right, to be honest. My feeling is Trigg saw the details of Reid's deals, went "oh shit", tried to rescind the deal without doing anything official, then hoped like hell that it wouldn't be an issue. Either Tippett would stay, or he would request a trade to a club that would have a strong second-round pick and we could play it off as "well we had to accept it because otherwise the PSD, etc". Agreeing to trade him to Brisbane when he hadn't demanded to leave would have looked odd, and then people might have done some digging. So that option was out.

The instant that Tippett demanded a trade to Sydney, it must have been clear to him that shit was going to hit the fan. I don't understand why he took off overseas.

because it......

must have been clear to him that shit was going to hit the fan.

 

[Elder van Berlo]

I don't understand why he took off overseas.

The single biggest act of cowardice in our club's history. Luke Jericho can only dream of such a squib.

 

[Mark Dreher]

Hindsight smart move

Remembering that he also secured Jenkins to cover Tippett when he left

 

[ltdamn]

I don't understand why he took off overseas.

The single biggest act of cowardice in our club's history. Luke Jericho can only dream of such a squib.

Yooooo gaaaiiiiiiizzzzzz, he was overworked! Didn't you hear Chapman say that? And in his defense, he came back as soon as he realised he'd been rumbled!

 

[OzSparrow]

i feel for Trigg because he copped a $50,000 fine. How many people could survive that? and presumably he's not paid while suspended? what would he be on $300k ish?? So if he's not paid that a $200k fine effectively. The dudes still got bills to pay!

Even if you scale it back for an above average salary of say $100k. Thats still probably the equivalent of a $30k fine. No way could people absorb that without significant pain.

I will simply agree to disagree with you on this. You do the crime you do the time.

The man is teflon and has got away with blue murder for the damage he has caused our brand and goodwill.

Worse still, the stain of his actions continues to linger over the AFC every time he opens his mouth or is associated with the club in any way.

Why do you think Melbourne Storm sacked Waldron after his contract "indiscretions"?

Trigg continuing in his role with the AFC is a PR disaster for the brand!