Carlton football administrator Shane O'Sullivan, right, with former coach Brett Ratten. Picture: Michael Klein. Source: Herald Sun
ADELAIDE'S punishment from the AFL Commission for salary cap breaches and draft tampering could sting for as long as a decade.
The club is in good shape right now, ready to challenge for the finals in the next few seasons.
But if it is sanctioned as heavily as Carlton was in 2002 for salary cap breaches - under-the-table payments to Craig Bradley, Stephen Silvagni, Stephen O'Reilly and Fraser Brown - it may take 10 years to recover, Carlton football administrator Shane O'Sullivan says.
The warning comes as Crows chairman Rob Chapman, who was praised by the AFL for conceding the club's first two selections in the national draft last week, said he would strongly go in to bat for chief executive Steven Trigg.
Chapman said he hoped Trigg would not lose his position over the mistakes and rule breaches the Crows committed in its contract with key forward Kurt Tippett in 2009.
O'Sullivan, speaking to the Sunday Mail from the US, said he felt for the Crows and estimated it had taken the Blues, traditionally a strong Victorian club, 10 years to recover from their loss of draft picks in 2002 and 2003 and a fine of close to $1 million.
"It's probably taken us about 10 years to sort of recover, really," O'Sullivan said.
"When you lose your draft picks and you're fined and all those sort of things.
"I guess it all depends on what they (the Crows) get, really.
"When you can't participate in the draft it really does (hurt). These days, at least everybody in the first round is going to get a good player.
"So it really does hurt you in the long run. I feel for them but that's the way things are going these days."
O'Sullivan said it took a few years for Carlton to realise the magnitude of the sentence the club had received for its indiscretions.
It also made former North Melbourne coach Denis Pagan's tenure at Princes Park a living nightmare.
"I suppose about two or three years in ... it really didn't take long," O'Sullivan said.
"We were sort of in that stage where we needed to rebuild anyway.
"All poor Denis Pagan had to do was get some players from other clubs and we were just picking in the 100s, which made selections really tough.
"I suppose the good thing (for Adelaide) is that they've been up and about for a while now so it's not too bad."
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