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Which AFC deserter were/are you most salty towards?

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Crow-eater said:
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Thats why you're the judge and I'm the..uh..law talkin' guy.
 

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macca23 said:
How things can change so quickly!! :(


Rumours are starting to run rife in the press boxes, and we all say surely not to them, but with an ever sickening feeling in our guts.

These rumours don't go away. In fact they become more detailed. Adelaide did indeed have a gentlemen's agreement to trade Tippett for a 2nd round draft pick. WTF? Surely not.Nobody is that stupid ....... are they?? Still it's only verbal and nobody can ever prove that. Looks like we'd better grab the offer of pick 23 plus Jesse White and run.

Wait, it's not a verbal agreement. It's in print. What bloody idiot makes such an agreement and puts it in print? Ermmmm, Trigg and Reid apparently. Oh well, we'll get a rap over the knuckles and a small fine for a bit of draft tampering, but still let's concentrate on getting SOMETHING for Tippett.

What!! You're saying there's even more!! There's bloody emails outside the AFL's agreement detailing it all PLUS we have agreed to pay money outside the cap!! I must be going nuts - surely this can't be true. Not even an idiot would do this, would they?? Oh yeah, I forgot - it's Triggy and Reidy!! We are completely screwed and the AFL are going to investigate it:thumbsdown:

Yes, it's all confirmed.We have done all these things and we're facing sanctions. :(

There's talk of huge fines and a loss of draft picks once the AFL have finished their investigation andd Tippett has gone into the draft for nothing.

So now, it's no longer a question of how many top draft picks and players we will get this trading period - it's now a question of what will we lose!! Thanks a fkg million Trigg and Reid!!

650 plus pages, 16,000 plus posts and now thousands of shattered perceptions and dreams.

All in 23 days.
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where has it been confirmed?
 
jumboprince said:
I would suggest he was lied to by Trigg about the agreement as in that it was a verbal agreement with a handshake and nothing more. I can understand your position on this and the Lionel Hutz reference is pretty funny but the guy is black and white when it comes to this stuff. I mean his reputation he has built up over 20 years is on the line here, he wouldn't be making that comment lightly
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Agree
The Adelaide Board has some pretty high ranking business people on it
Peter Hurley (Hurley Group of Hotels),
Bob Foord (Chairman SA Tourism and many other board directorships),
Greg Moulton (MD Brock Harcourts Real Estate),
Deb Miller (Founder & CEO Marketing Consulting Company),
Jim Hazel (former CEO Adelaide Bank, now board director of Bendigo Bank),
Andrew Payze (Manager HSBC Bank),
John Sutton (senior partner PKF)
Rob Chapman (Chairman) ex CEO Bank SA,
Nigel Smart (Deputy Chairman) CEO Variety SA
Not to mention numerous other board directorships.
I'm sure most of these guys wouldn't ruin their business credentials on some dodgey deal - sure they would have indemnity insurance or the like but the association with it all would just be far too risky to all of them
 
macca23 said:
Keep up with it. :)

We've given copies of the emails to the AFL, as have the Tippett mob.
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but aren't the media just speculating about it is in the emails? and even if a money sum is mentioned in the email it does not mean we actually gave money to Tippett .... just that we intended to do it.

I thought the post was alluding to confirmation of what exactly we have done.
 
knobby said:
Agree
The Adelaide Board has some pretty high ranking business people on it
Peter Hurley (Hurley Group of Hotels),
Bob Foord (Chairman SA Tourism and many other board directorships),
Greg Moulton (MD Brock Harcourts Real Estate),
Deb Miller (Founder & CEO Marketing Consulting Company),
Jim Hazel (former CEO Adelaide Bank, now board director of Bendigo Bank),
Andrew Payze (Manager HSBC Bank),
John Sutton (senior partner PKF)
Rob Chapman (Chairman) ex CEO Bank SA,
Nigel Smart (Deputy Chairman) CEO Variety SA
Not to mention numerous other board directorships.
I'm sure most of these guys wouldn't ruin their business credentials on some dodgey deal - sure they would have indemnity insurance or the like but the association with it all would just be far too risky to all of them
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Actually no, he was CEO of St.George Bank.
 
Clicky said:
but aren't the media just speculating about it is in the emails? and even if a money sum is mentioned in the email it does not mean we actually gave money to Tippett .... just that we intended to do it.

I thought the post was alluding to confirmation of what exactly we have done.
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Documented intention=screwed.. To put it simply..
 

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So Polec anyone?

The Sydney board met early yesterday and is understood to be satisfied that no one at the Swans was aware of the deal, although the Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast certainly were more than aware of its existence. While several clubs have been advised that any trade involving Tippett before today's deadline is unlikely to be approved, Brisbane remains confident it can still secure his services.

How ironic it would be if the forward ended up with the Lions, the club which attempted to secure him in the trade period last year and the year before - and how much better it would have been for Adelaide and its long-serving chief executive.
 

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I hope this question isn't out of place, but...

Does Tippet have a strong mentality?
I.e. The sort of mentality that would allow him to perform (in 2013) even if he was being booed/sledged by opposition players and fans?

I would be wondering this if I were another club looking at him right now, because I think he is going to be on the receiving end next year and possibly beyond.
 
TheMelbourneCrow said:
caro article, we under wrote some third party deals.
Chapman has invited an audit of the entire club by the AFL to prove we have nothing else to hide

http://m.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/irony-and-disaster-in-tippett-affair-20121025-288b1.html
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Interesting but worrying article.

Good point that we could have just handed Kurt the extra $'s in his contract under the cap & none of this would be an issue - it's not like we were tight in the cap.

If Trigg has kept the board in the dark til it was unavoidable, then he must go. His position is untenable.

I can't believe that Sydney were not informed of the deal by Tippett's team, as otherwise why were they trying to screw us over with White & #23 deal.
 
Clicky said:
but aren't the media just speculating about it is in the emails? and even if a money sum is mentioned in the email it does not mean we actually gave money to Tippett .... just that we intended to do it.

I thought the post was alluding to confirmation of what exactly we have done.
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Caro has just put an article up at the Age....interesting reading..$200,000 is the sum allegedly..

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/irony-and-disaster-in-tippett-affair-20121025-288b1.html

As soon as Chapman learnt that the Crows had offered Tippett third-party inducements - inducements it has now been revealed the club reportedly promised to underwrite - not to mention trade Tippett to the club of his choice at the end of three years, the senior Westpac adviser insisted they contact AFL chief Andrew Demetriou.
''What are they doing,'' Demetriou is said to have demanded of the Crows in recent days. ''How can they have been so stupid?''
It has not been lost on anyone at either head office or AAMI Stadium that the Crows could simply have paid Tippett the extra $200,000 reportedly mentioned upfront. Staggeringly, they had the room in their salary cap.
It seems clear now the club will plead stupidity and ignorance. Trigg has not offered to resign, nor has his resignation been sought - yet.
Different versions of what took place have also emerged, with Tippett's management telling third parties that Trigg and his former football lieutenant John Reid flew to the Gold Coast at the end of 2009 to make the extra offer as a last-ditch attempt to prevent the forward joining the Suns. Reid, however, has long claimed that the letter had been instigated by manager Peter Blucher and Tippett's father, Tony.
Tony Tippett launched legal proceedings against Adelaide early this week in a bid to move his son to Sydney, while Blucher has received legal advice not to make any comment on the affair.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/irony-and-disaster-in-tippett-affair-20121025-288b1.html#ixzz2AJIhVA3o​
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It really goes to show the level of incompetence of Triggy. The extra payments to Tippett could have just been done above board as we had more than enough room in our cap. So we decide to hide it, therefore putting us in trouble of salary cap violations. Needless, inept and incompetant.
There is no way Triggy can stay on board. He must be sacked. He has shown poor judgement with both this and the Rendell issue, both of which have put our club in a poorer condition going forward.
 
This thread is worse than crack. I have a sinking feeling it won't be over tomorrow either. What if we can't get a trade and he has to wait until the PSD? Isn't that another month or two away...He won't be gone this thread will go for another month.........................

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