Jenny is essentially correct in what she says.
I don't know whether it actually got to drawing up a contract stage, but his manager had indicated at the end of a week to the Crows after a long period of negotiation that it looked like there was a deal acceptable to his client, and that he thought that his client would be signing up after the week-end. Of course that's when the 3rd concussion came into play, and Tippett went home for 10 days or so to recover with his family, and Sydney made their first approach up in Brisbane, which gave Tippett another viable alternative after Brisbane and the Gold Coast wouldn't/couldn't pay the type of money that Adelaide were prepared to pay.
Our problem of course was that he had us over a barrel and we were prepared to break rules - irrespective of who's idea it was to insert the clearance clause in a separate contract (rumoured to be initiated by Tippett senior).
The big lesson in all of this to any club is that while you should do everything in your power to re-sign key players, it just ain't worth it to break the rules, or if you are going to take the chance and do so (like Vic clubs have done in the past), you most certainly don't put it in print.
I don't know whether it actually got to drawing up a contract stage, but his manager had indicated at the end of a week to the Crows after a long period of negotiation that it looked like there was a deal acceptable to his client, and that he thought that his client would be signing up after the week-end. Of course that's when the 3rd concussion came into play, and Tippett went home for 10 days or so to recover with his family, and Sydney made their first approach up in Brisbane, which gave Tippett another viable alternative after Brisbane and the Gold Coast wouldn't/couldn't pay the type of money that Adelaide were prepared to pay.
Our problem of course was that he had us over a barrel and we were prepared to break rules - irrespective of who's idea it was to insert the clearance clause in a separate contract (rumoured to be initiated by Tippett senior).
The big lesson in all of this to any club is that while you should do everything in your power to re-sign key players, it just ain't worth it to break the rules, or if you are going to take the chance and do so (like Vic clubs have done in the past), you most certainly don't put it in print.
