AFL calls urgent meetings on Crows

The AFL is due to hold a meeting before the December 11 pre-season draft to ensure Kurt Tippett finds a new home. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: adelaidenow

THE AFL looks certain to call an extraordinary Commission meeting before the December 11 pre-season draft, which will allow Kurt Tippett to find a new home.

Adelaide legal representatives on Friday forced the AFL to postpone tomorrow's scheduled meeting, at which the Crows were set to be hit with severe penalties.

The next scheduled meeting is in mid to late December, but it is understood the AFL is working behind the scenes to find time for a Commission meeting before the pre-season draft.

Adelaide is not expected to take part in the pre-season draft, but critically it will allow Tippett to enter that draft if he is not indefinitely banned from football.

The most likely course of action is that the AFL will suspend him for a chunk of 2013 yet still allow him to move to either Greater Western Sydney or original target Sydney.

For the league not to allow him to find a new home might be a restraint of trade, and result in legal action.

Tippett's lawyer, David Galbally, has confirmed Tippett has issued legal papers to Adelaide declaring his intent to sue it for coercing him into an illegal contract.

He is still determined to get to Sydney refusing to meet the Giants but GWS says it will call his name even if he has been suspended by the AFL.

Former Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett yesterday described the decision to delay Monday's Commission meeting as "a disgrace", and "absolutely unacceptable".

But the league delayed the hearing to "ensure that natural justice is provided".

It means Adelaide will take picks 20, 54 and 64 in Thursday's national draft on the Gold Coast, although the club is expected to re-draft Nick Joyce.

Adelaide angrily denies any wrongdoing with players Patrick Dangerfield and Nathan van Berlo over a deal with former board member Alan Sheppard.

Initially, a deal had been drawn up for the players to have work placements and build "for show" but once it was realised the $20,000 a year they were paid didn't match their building expertise, it was redrawn.

Alan Sheppard Constructions signed them on in promotional roles instead - believed to be on the advice of league administrators. The deal was signed off by the AFL.

Former Crows chairman Bill Sanders urged fans not to jump to conclusions. "People need to take a step back until such time all of the information is available, and then arrive at their own conclusions," Sanders said.

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