Kurt Tippett'. Picture: Tait Schmaal. Source: adelaidenow
ADELAIDE has closed the trade period with one target found, another put out of reach and the Kurt Tippett nightmare to carry to the draft next month.
Crows list manager David Noble returned to Adelaide last night grateful the Tippett scandal had not left him empty handed from the game's longest trade period. He did find a ruckman, Richmond's Angus Graham, to remove the risk posed to Adelaide's premiership dreams should lead ruckman Sam Jacobs be sidelined next season.
"But in reality, we would have liked to have filled one of our other needs - a defender or an outside running player," said Noble. "We would have liked to have covered one more need. Each, a defender or an outside runner, carried equal weight in our needs."
The Tippett saga first cost Adelaide - as the Crows waited for the ruckman-forward to declare if he would stay or go from West Lakes - the chance to chase Port Adelaide free agent Danyle Pearce to meet the need for an outside midfielder. Fremantle moved first on Pearce.
Then the scandal with Tippett's out-of-contract agreement with Adelaide blocked the Crows chance to trade the Queenslander - and then fill the need for a defender.
"In between, we got Angus Graham - and we're pleased we did," said Noble last night. "We're more pleased when we hear Angus say he wanted to come to our football club."
Graham came to Adelaide with Richmond's third-round draft pick (No. 54) while the Crows traded out their second-round draft pick (No. 43).
It was the only trade Adelaide secured while the AFL blocked Tippett's controversial move to Sydney. That prospective deal was to have delivered a first-round draft pick and out-of-favour forward Jesse White to the Crows.
Adelaide's player list transformation will have small forward Ian Callinan upgraded from the rookie list.
But how the Crows restock their list in the AFL national draft on November 22 and the pre-season draft on December 11 is clouded by the potential sanctions from the league from the Tippett investigation.
Adelaide is to have three picks across the drafts. But the Tippett scandal leaves uncertainty whether Crows recruiting manager Hamish Ogilvie will call in the first and third rounds.
Adelaide currently has draft picks No. 20, 54 and 64 in the first three rounds. If these are wiped out by the AFL, Adelaide's draft calls then fall at Nos. 83, 101, 119 and 137.
"However that plays out," said Noble, "Hamish will be prepared. He is a good planner. He is already getting on top of how the draft could pan out for us. He will plan for all the variables."
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