FORMER Carlton boss John Elliott believes Adelaide should be handed a similar draft penalty to the sanctions that set the Blues back a decade.
Elliott has never weakened his position that he would have taken the AFL to the Supreme Court to prevent them penalising the Blues for salary cap cheating.
He was dumped as Blues president in the months before the AFL stripped two years of draft picks from the club and fined Carlton $930,000.
Yet he remains defiant, saying the extra payments were never handed to the players, some of whom confessed to the AFL.
Yesterday Elliott said the only mitigating circumstance for the Crows would be if they could prove they still had room in their salary cap for the third-party payments for Kurt Tippett.
He said that could help lessen the type of penalties that crushed Carlton, which was then in a much weaker position than the Crows.
"Sitting there as an observer you would expect them to get the same penalties Carlton got," Elliott said.
"It's about the same money. It is just inept management. But if they didn't go over the salary cap, that might lessen it.
"This effort looks very amateurish. They have emails of contracts and all sorts of things.
"We knew we were legal, but Collo (Ian Collins) thought we would get off light if we (admitted it). He wouldn't take them to the Supreme Court. Then he disclosed a few things about (Craig) Bradley and (Stephen) Silvagni to the AFL."
The Blues' salary cap breaches were described at the time as "a complex and deliberate scheme designed and implemented to hide payments and deceive the AFL".
The penalties were also heavy because it was the club's third salary cap breach in recent seasons.
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