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Kurt Tippett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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(born 8 May 1987) is a Gun For Hire in the Australian Football League. He currently plays for the Adelaide Crows and wears the number $ on the back of his jumper. He has represented his state at under 18 level in basketball before converting to Australian rules football and playing for Southport. Kurt attended All Saints Anglican College during his high school years and was probably widely disliked, even then. He was picked up by Adelaide at number 32 in the 2006 AFL Draft.

Personal Life


Tippett was now apparently born in Sydney, New South Wales to parents from country New South Wales but moved to the Gold Coast, Queensland after roughly 5 minutes. His first love was himself, followed by Basketball and at the age of 11 made his representative debut for the Gold Coast. In 2004 he represented Queensland in the u18 Championships and was given a spot on the Brisbane Bullets development squad. While competing in the u18 Championships Tippett competed against the likes of Patrick Mills, Joe Ingles and future AFL player Scott Pendlebury. He also toured the United States with the Queensland Academy of Sport team. Upon returning from the United States he accepted an offer from the Gold Coast Stingrays to try out for their Australian Rules Football representative team. His brother Joel played in the AFL for the Brisbane Lions and the Gold Coast Suns purely based on Kurt’s ability as a footballer, while his sister Gretel played professional Basketball for the Logan Thunder in the WNBL. During Kurt’s two years with the Southport Sharks he studied underachieving at Griffith University on the Gold Coast.

Junior Football


Tippett began playing Australian Rules Football for the first time in an inter-school sports tournament for All Saints Anglican College. It was not until he returned from a Basketball tour of the United States that he began to take making money from playing football seriously. Trying out for the Gold Coast Stingrays, he made the team and they went on to be crowned state champions, causing him to become concussed. Following the victory he joined the Southport Sharks for their 2005 season and after a few games in the reserves he made his seniors debut at the Gabba against the Brisbane Lions reserves team and matched up on AFL premiership player Jamie Charman, who accidentally concussed Tippett while shaking his hand pre-game. Kurt would end 2005 with the Sharks reserves best and fairest award while playing in 10 seniors matches for the season, kicking 12.47. He then went on to represent Queensland in the 2006 AFL National Under 18 Championships where they would go undefeated through the tournament to win the second division title. He would also be the second highest goal kicker during the Sharks 2006 premiership winning season. In November he was drafted to the Adelaide Crows with the 32nd pick in the 2006 AFL Draft, and was immediately concussed by his friends patting him on the back in the act of congratulations.

AFL Career


Adelaide Crows


Tippett made his debut in 2008. Playing as a key forward and ruckman, he became a regular in the side, but was often criticized for his inaccurate kicking at goal and lack of effort at the contest. At the Crows Club Champion evening, he received a 2008 Rising Star Nominee and a concussion from a slight breeze which blew a stray leaf into his head.By the next season, Tippett had begun to develop into a potent tall forward. A bag of seven goals and a high mark against Essendon in Round 11 showed his potential to become the high-potential inconsistent and self-interested key forward that Adelaide had lacked since the departure of Ian Downsborough, and with successive bags of five against Richmond and Fremantle he showed he could perform on a regular basis when he wanted to and was not concussed. He finished the home-and-away season with 47 goals, second behind only Jason Porplyzia (52) in the club’s goalkicking. He kicked 8 more goals in the finals to finish with 55 for the year. His dramatic 60m goal from the boundary line gave Adelaide a 1 point lead against Collingwood in the last minute of the 2009 semi final; however, this went in vain as opposing forward Jack Anthony restored Collingwood’s lead seconds later, resulting in a heartbreaking loss, and a concussion for Tippett after he threw his head back too hard when staging for a free kick in the dying seconds, which was not paid.In 2009 he signed a three year deal with the Crows, preventing the soon-to-be Gold Coast club from recruiting him as one of their uncontracted player signings, and confirming that hindsight is indeed a wonderful thing.

Sydney Swans


On October 6, 2012 it was announced Tippett would request a trade to the Miami Heat. Criticism was later heard from many people, two of which were Crows legend Mark Ricciuto, who said that Tippett was a money driver and former Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett who angrily said the Swans should be stripped of money on trying to get him. Both publicly stated their belief that the extra money from their cost of living allowance which Sydney were able to throw at Tippett may have hit him in the head and concussed him as a result.

Personal Life


Tippett currently lives with his surfboard which he bought in September of 2012. He has a cardboard cutout of himself in his bedroom, and a dog named Rover.He reportedly has a fear of spiders, people asking how his head is feeling, and fast-moving objects travelling at or around head height. Tippett was also recently revealed to suffer from nanosophobia.
 
Hodgy said:
Just like Boak and Cloke were no chance to stay at their clubs either. Maybe we should have traded Danger this year as well as there is obviously no chance that he will sign again next time. Just love you guys who can play a situation perfectly a year after it has happened.

I bet you would be great at telling us who will be good in last years draft as well.
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Well smart arse, if I could find the thread from last year I believe you will find I wanted him traded last year if the agreement existed.

And there is a big difference between those players you mentioned and Kurt, none of them made their clubs enter into an agreement on what the compensation would be when he left. I also don't believe any of them made a video they would return home at some stage.

And it's amazing that a little bit of positive vibe has allowed some of you to dismiss the mess we have got ourselves into. We lost Kurt for nothing, zilch, sweet **** all with perhaps more pain to come. So yeh deciding not to trade him was a great move.
 
Elite Crow said:
Well smart arse, if I could find the thread from last year I believe you will find I wanted him traded last year if the agreement existed.
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If what agreement existed? We don't actually know what the agreement was OR what it referred to. We can make a guess (as we all have) - but trading him last year might not have made one bit of difference to our current position.

Elite Crow said:
And it's amazing that a little bit of positive vibe has allowed some of you to dismiss the mess we have got ourselves into. We lost Kurt for nothing, zilch, sweet **** all with perhaps more pain to come. So yeh deciding not to trade him was a great move.
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It's more than "a little bit of positive vibe" that has got the supporters up out of the doom and gloom. Chapman has come out with an attitude that suggests we are no-way in as deep as the worst rumours were suggesting ... in fact it feels like we may have been smarter than some are giving us credit. The club has shown that it is willing to back our administrators, again gives us the feeling that they have a reason for this confidence.

These guys are not nuff-nuffs - they are more experienced at all of this than we are giving them credit for. I know that being on a board doesn't mean you are above making mistakes - but we appear to have been smart enough to take calculated risks that we can show are within reason.

I say "appear" because I, like you, don't know anything more than what has been allowed out. Which is 3/10's of bugger all.
 
Elite Crow said:
Well smart arse, if I could find the thread from last year I believe you will find I wanted him traded last year if the agreement existed.

And there is a big difference between those players you mentioned and Kurt, none of them made their clubs enter into an agreement on what the compensation would be when he left. I also don't believe any of them made a video they would return home at some stage.

And it's amazing that a little bit of positive vibe has allowed some of you to dismiss the mess we have got ourselves into. We lost Kurt for nothing, zilch, sweet **** all with perhaps more pain to come. So yeh deciding not to trade him was a great move.
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Ahh the old "I did say it last year but I just can't find it" line.

BTW I never said that it was a great move not trading him last year I was just pointing out that anyone can bag the decision in hindsight but that the guys who run the club have to make those calls at the time not a year later, and that there was a genuine feeling that we could convince Tippett to stay then. As to the other players not making their clubs enter into agreements, are you kidding, did you not see all the crap that Cloke and his dad put Collingwood through. If the agreement we made was to put a minimum of a second round draft pick as compensation for losing Tippett then I would have thought that this was incredably minor, much like putting a reserve price on your house when you sell. And I'm not dismissing any mess because of any "positive Vibe" mate, I have said this from the start, this is just an incredible storm in a tea cup caused by having 700 full time reporters trying to justify a pay check in the off season.
 

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Okay question.

On the draft nomination form (http://www.nabafldraftnom.com.au/images/AFL Draft Booklet 2012.pdf) under the PSD section, nominations for Out of contract Primary listed players is the 28th of November, List lodgement is on the 29th and delisted players nomination is the 4th of December.

Which title does KT fall under? Are we allowed to delist him before the hearing? Is he allowed to nominate for the PSD before the hearing?

So confusing.
 
OutofTownCrow said:
If what agreement existed? We don't actually know what the agreement was OR what it referred to. We can make a guess (as we all have) - but trading him last year might not have made one bit of difference to our current position.



It's more than "a little bit of positive vibe" that has got the supporters up out of the doom and gloom. Chapman has come out with an attitude that suggests we are no-way in as deep as the worst rumours were suggesting ... in fact it feels like we may have been smarter than some are giving us credit. The club has shown that it is willing to back our administrators, again gives us the feeling that they have a reason for this confidence.

These guys are not nuff-nuffs - they are more experienced at all of this than we are giving them credit for. I know that being on a board doesn't mean you are above making mistakes - but we appear to have been smart enough to take calculated risks that we can show are within reason.

I say "appear" because I, like you, don't know anything more than what has been allowed out. Which is 3/10's of bugger all.
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What agreement did we fess up to the AFL that saw us not be able to trade him?
 
The post that will be the first to reveal the actual outcome of the commission:

25,073 - Nick85 (boobs)
26,251 - Schulzycrow (followed by duck)
26,942 - OutofTownCrow
27,916 - Vigawla
28,333 - Malem
29,335 - DonkeyMagoo
 
jt_mcleod said:
well i hope we dont lose draft picks so i can laugh at eveyones face at work most of them are port supporters
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Well, if we only get fined plus lose Tippett for zero (ie lose draft picks we would have got for him), then in your situation a simple positive spin on the outcome would be along the lines of:

Trade period 2012:
- Crows lost their 2006 pick 32 (Tippett) for zero return (other than about 100 games)
- Port lost their 2010 pick 16 (Jacobs) for zero return (other than about 25 charity games)
 

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moses said:
This appeared on Wikipedia for a short period of time. It has been replaced but someone took a copy of it before it was changed back.
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Yeah, I did that. It's still there in the edit history if you can be bothered viewing it. I haven't gone back to update it again yet but I probably will once this whole thing is over.

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