Adelaide Crows ... winning games, not convincing everybody. Source: Simon Cross / News Limited
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Adelaide Crows' no-longer secret "exit clause" with forward Kurt Tippett may be the least of their problems as the AFL investigation turns to allegations of undisclosed third-party payments.
If proven, these claims - that relate to Tippett and his brother Joel who plays with SANFL club West Adelaide - could subject the Crows to heavy sanctions for salary cap breaches.
AFL salary cap investigator Ken Wood has taken to investigating how the Crows may have paid Joel Tippett to move from Gold Coast to Adelaide to ease Kurt's unease.
Adelaide chief executive Steven Trigg on Friday handed to the AFL a letter of agreement reached outside the Crows' contract dealings with Tippett in 2009.
That letter has at least three clauses - the exit demand to trade Tippett to any AFL club of his choice when he chose to leave Adelaide and two deals that could breach the AFL salary cap rules.
Adelaide face harsher penalties for the alleged third-party arrangements than the exit clause written in the 2009 letter between Crows football operations chief John Reid and Tippett's Brisbane-based manager Peter Blucher.
If Wood and AFL integrity officer Brett Clothier find the Crows should have detailed the third-party deals in Tippett's contract, Adelaide will be subject to penalties ranging from fines to losing draft picks.
Trigg's decision to hand the document to the AFL on Friday appears to have been triggered, in part, by rivals Gold Coast Suns becoming aware of Tippett's letter of arrangement with the Crows and seeking AFL scrutiny of the 2009 document.
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Also, Wood had taken interest - before Trigg's declaration - in an interview in The Advertiser earlier this month when Crows chairman Rob Chapman spoke of Joel's move to Adelaide.
Earlier, Crows chairman Rob Chapman insisted the club had nothing to hide after initiating an AFL probe into Tippett's out-of-contract terms at West Lakes.
Chapman also has opened the Adelaide player files to AFL investigator Ken Wood as the special letter between Tippett and the Crows from 2009 brings into question how the club has signed up their squad.
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"We have nothing to hide - and we have opened all the books to the AFL without condition," Chapman said.
"I can give a gold-plated commitment the AFL will find nothing."
Chapman defended his club's officials who allowed Tippett to have a letter detailing the terms by which he was to be traded from Adelaide if he chose to leave the Crows at the end of his three-year contract - as he has asked with a trade to Sydney Swans.
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"Our intent was never to break any rules," Chapman said.
"And we have a history of compliance, no record of any misdemeanours, but if we have now got this wrong, we need to know before the trade is done and we will have to abide by any penalty."
The AFL investigation now puts in question if Tippett can be traded before Friday's 2pm (EDT) deadline - and what happens to his football career if he is suspended for breaching league rules.
Adelaide are understood to have agreed after closing contract talks with Tippett in 2009 to release him at a "minimal cost", supposedly a second-round draft pick.
"Remember three years ago everyone in this state wanted our club to re-sign Kurt Tippett," said Chapman.
"At that time, our people negotiating the deal believed what they were doing was right."
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