Here’s a tip(pett)

It’s not gilding the lily to observe that no-one comes out of the Tippett affair smelling of roses.

 

In no particular order:

Kurt Tippett: Reportedly expressing ‘“bitter disappointment” with the club that drafted him in 2006’, Tippett needs to look closer to home for someone to sheet the blame home to. Try your management team first up, Kurt. They simply could not have been ignorant of the extent to which the contract arrangements you entered into were outside of the AFL rules. In the end, you come out of this affair looking like a spoilt brat who’s been caught with his hand in the lolly jar.

 

Adelaide Crows: At what point did someone think keeping an allegedly champion player — remember Tippett has more kicking problems than Lance Franklin AND Matthew Richardson — at the club, more or less against his will, by filling his pockets with dollars was a good idea? What of the other players who give their blood sweat and tears and want to be with the Crows? Surely this is Lesson #1: Breeding Discontent and Division?

 

AFL: You guys caused this with your sanctioning of the Judd deal. You created a precedent and then pulled the rug out from under everyone’s feet when it suited you.

 

Tippett’s management: Asleep at the wheel or partners to the hubris?

 

Adelaide Crows: Guys, there’s no such thing as a deleted email. Once you’ve hit the Send button, it’s in the wild and you can’t control it. Who knows where it’s been sent on to, or how many internal copies there are? Putting it in writing — in any form — is dumb! D! U! M! B! Dumb!

 

AFL: Are you guys for real? The ONLY difference between the Tippett arrangements and Judd is that you knew about Judd.

 

Tippett: Having been seduced by dollars to do a deal to go to another club at the end of your contract, allegedly a Queensland club, you essentially tear that deal up when you’re seduced by even more dollars to join the reigning Premier. Greedy.

 

Sydney Swans: You guys know this guy can’t kick straight, right?