Adelaide Crows ready to fly solo

Crows chairman Rob Chapman says the Adelaide Football Club is ready to start the next phase of its history. Source: The Advertiser

CROWS chairman Rob Chapman has delivered the vision of a new Adelaide Football Club expecting independence from the SANFL this week.

The club's AFL licence is ready to be signed away by the SANFL club presidents, 22 years after the Crows were formed as SA's first entry to the expanding VFL.

SA Football Commission chairman John Olsen last night briefed the SANFL club presidents on negotiations with the AFL to release SA's two AFL licences that are badged Adelaide and Port Adelaide.

"We're not there yet, but I hope we are only days away from clearing away a range of approvals (to hand back the licences to the AFL)," said Olsen.

The Crows and Power would then answer to the AFL Commission rather than the SANFL.

Both club boards from November would be independently appointed by members or the current directors rather than need to be ratified by the SA Football Commission.

"We can then start the next phase of our history - and we do it very well prepared," Chapman said at the Crows' season launch at West Lakes.

Adelaide already has the frame of a new constitution that will for the first time give Crows members a greater say in the make-up of the club's board. This has been written in recent months by Chapman, deputy chairman Jim Hazel and former club chief executive and chairman Bill Sanders.

"Our members deserve that right," Chapman said last night.

"With independence, we need a new constitution to determine how that right looks."

The Crows and Power will pay the SANFL for their independence - Adelaide more so than Port.

The release of the licences will deliver an annual payback cheque worth a total of $15 million in the next 15 years from the AFL clubs to the SANFL.

As Chapman last night delivered the first vision of the new AFC with a home at Adelaide Oval in 2014, he also cleared away the stain from the Kurt Tippett saga. He announced:

ADELAIDE'S first audit-integrity committee, chaired by lawyer-accountant Garry Winter. He will be joined by the Lotteries Commission's June Roache and a senior police representative.

A NEW operating framework for the Adelaide board. It will work with five committees and new charters, all designed to ensure the Crows meet the compliance test "100 per cent".

"We are already 100 per cent adhering to all AFL rules and laws. Every file at our club has been checked by the AFL's forensic accountants," he said.

Adelaide's methods were brought into question last year with Tippett's secret 2009 deal that included a promise to deliver the key forward to the club of his choice.

The AFL fined Adelaide $300,000, docked the club draft picks and suspended chief executive Steven Trigg, operations chief Phil Harper and former football chief John Reid.

Adelaide last night recognised inaugural coach Graham Cornes and head trainer Vince Del Bono with life membership.

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