Kurt Tippett nominates for the pre-season draft before facing AFL hearing into salary cap breaches and draft tampering charges.
Kurt Tippett is in the December pre-season draft and hopes to join the Swans. Picture: Sarah Ree. Source: adelaidenow
KURT Tippett is officially off Adelaide's books.
The vilified former Crow yesterday nominated for the AFL's pre-season draft, where he hopes to join Sydney.
This opens the door for Adelaide to re-draft Nick Joyce - the fall guy in the Tippett salary cap scandal - at the December 11 draft.
With the AFL Commission hearing into the controversial Tippett case to be held in Melbourne tomorrow, the league has given the 104-game key forward an extra five days to put a price on his head. He is now required to nominate his financial terms by Monday.
The Swans already are understood to have offered Tippett a massive four-year deal worth $3.5 million to join them, meaning Tippett and his management will place a figure on his head which they hope Greater Western Sydney will refuse to match.
The Giants have the first pick in the pre-season draft but coach Kevin Sheedy was yesterday coy about whether Tippett was worth the investment.
"We've got plenty of money, it's whether we want to spend it (on Tippett)," he said, armed with extra cash after Israel Folau's shock decision to return to rugby league.
"We're going to be very keen to get him obviously. If the money is right, we'll be going there.
"He may or may not get through to us in regards to what he's going to put on himself in (terms) of payments to play."
Tippett, who faces possible deregistration by the AFL tomorrow, nominated for next month's pre-season draft after the AFL ruled he did not qualify for free agency, which would have cleared his path to join the Swans. Tippett's playing future, however, remains unclear.
The 25-year-old will front the commission tomorrow to face two charges of "engaging in conduct prejudicial to the draft" and salary cap breaches stemming from the contract he signed with Adelaide in 2009, which made him the Crows' highest-paid player.
Sheedy said Tippett would suit the Giants' needs.
"We want to get a player like that, we need a ruck-forward, that's the way I'm looking at it," he said. "That will complement the height and the structure of the team."
The veteran coach said if the Giants don't draft Tippett he hopes he ends up at the Swans.
"If we don't get him, then I hope Sydney do," he said.
"It would be great for AFL in Sydney."
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