Trigg steps in to play hardball

Adelaide Crows chief executive Steven Trigg is pushing for the best possible deal with Sydney for Kurt Tippett. Picture: Sarah Reed. Source: adelaidenow

ADELAIDE cannot stop key forward Kurt Tippett from playing with AFL premier Sydney next season.

It is either trade the Queenslander by Friday's deadline with "compensation" from the Swans - or lose Tippett for nothing in the draft pool.

From such a weak bargaining positioning, Adelaide's best-case deal is to hit the Swans on the three areas of AFL list management. They are:

SCORE a draft pick - preferably a first-rounder in a draft pool that is considered to run deep. Taking Sydney's No. 23 hurts the Swans and helps Adelaide develop its player list.

GRAB a player - and without Tippett the corridor-running, long-kicking Crows cannot allow defences to double-team Adelaide's new No. 1 forward, Taylor Walker. Out-of-favour Swans forward Jesse White is worth pursuing for a multi-dimensional Adelaide attack.

SQUEEZE the salary cap - and make it difficult for Sydney to strengthen its list beyond adding Tippett.

Adelaide had the first two boxes ticked on Friday afternoon when White was said to have agreed to a two-year deal with the Crows and list manager David Noble was preparing the paper work at AFL House.

Then Adelaide chief executive Steven Trigg returned from Europe - and appears to have hit on the need to make Sydney pay more for Tippett than the $1 million-a-year it has promised the ruckman-forward in the next four seasons.

Asked by adelaidenow yesterday of the mysterious pause to the White deal, Trigg said: "It needed chief executive to chief executive talks to resolve it. And that is (still) happening. We've not killed (the White deal)."

Read that as Trigg putting Sydney chief executive Andrew Ireland under salary-cap pressure to prove the Swans' determination to take Tippett at any cost.

White is on contract to the Swans for next year. It makes good sense for Trigg to demand Sydney keep paying him to that contract while he plays for Adelaide next year.

Some of the pain of losing Tippett is transferred to the Swans' books.

Trigg has done this sort of deal before - in 2003 when then Crows coach Gary Ayres demanded Adelaide bring contracted but out-of-favour Geelong forward Ronnie Burns to West Lakes.

Adelaide - unlike Port Adelaide with Nick Stevens in 2003 when he sought a trade to Collingwood and finished at Carlton - will not stop Tippett being a Swan, but Trigg is making sure Sydney pays on three fronts.

Every Crows fan should feel satisfied that the Adelaide Football Club is passing the test of negotiating in what is the increasingly tough AFL market.

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