Adelaide Crows chief executive Steven Trigg could lose his position at today's hearing. Picture: Sarah Reed. Source: The Advertiser
ADELAIDE today will turn up with a united front as it faces the league commission at AFL House in Melbourne for the hearing into salary cap breaches and draft tampering charges.
The club has been angered by speculation the key players seeking to explain their actions and minimise the sanctions - the club, chief executive Steven Trigg, football operations manager Phil Harper and his predecessor John Reid - will be represented by their own lawyers. It has painted a confusing picture: Is it every man for himself?
But sources have told The Advertiser the four parties, who will all plead guilty to their combined nine charges, have worked long hours together with their respective silks and travelled together to Melbourne yesterday.
They will be required at the AFL Commission hearing at 7.30am (Adelaide time) for what it expected to be a brief proceeding.
Questions will be asked from all of the parties, mitigating factors will be presented on behalf of the Crows and then it is understood there will be an adjournment for the AFL Commission to deliberate.
The player at the centre of Adelaide's greatest crisis, Kurt Tippett, is expected to plead not guilty to the charges levelled at him.
The Crows will argue:
THEY have not broken the salary cap, which cost Carlton so dearly in its penalties from the AFL in 2002, when they were restricted in two drafts and fined close to $1 million.
PLEADING guilty to all of the charges before the club does, is not an admission of wilfully breaking the rules or seeking personal gain.
THE charges were brought upon them by themselves, but not necessarily in a wilful or sinister fashion.
The Advertiser also understands Reid, who by right did not have to front the hearing - he no longer works in the game - will be happy to take the fall for the transgressions that have transpired.
Crows insiders have quashed speculation Harper may be the fall guy.
It was also Reid's field in which the alleged salary cap breaches and draft tampering happened when the original Tippett contract was drawn up in late 2009.
The careers of Trigg and Harper at West Lakes are set to be decided tomorrow.
If they get suspended for more than six months by the AFL, their positions with the Crows will most likely be seen as untenable.
Less than that, it becomes a judgment call for the board.
Chairman Rob Chapman yesterday sent an email to all of the club's members promising each member they would be contacted by a club director to explain what has transpired once the matter has been finalised.
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