Dean Bailey, right, at Adelaide Crows training with Patrick Dangerfield. Picture: Sarah Reed. Source: The Advertiser
DEAN Bailey was back working for the Adelaide Football Club yesterday - and on Monday will learn how he is to contribute to the Crows' premiership campaign while suspended.
Bailey is to have his work schedule, as Adelaide's strategy and innovations coach, redefined in the wake of his 16-week ban from match-day and training duties in the fallout of the Melbourne tanking scandal from 2009.
After Bailey meets on Monday with Adelaide list manager David Noble, Crows chairman Rob Chapman will detail to the AFL the refit to ensure his club is league-compliant.
"We want to be seen to be above board," said Chapman. "So we will be sending it all to the AFL to ensure we are compliant."
Bailey's match-day coaching and player mentoring will be spread between Noble, football operations chief Phil Harper, development coach Heath Younie and analyst and scout Rob Harding.
Bailey will spend more time away from Adelaide, taking on Harding's role of scouting the Crows' future opponents and possible recruiting targets.
There will be greater emphasis on Bailey's title, in particular developing strategies.
"And how we execute them," said Chapman.
And there is no guarantee Bailey will return to the Adelaide coach's box after his ban.
"There may be an argument not to change what is working with five games to go," said Chapman.
Bailey's presence in the Adelaide coach's box was regarded as paramount last season as support for rookie coach Brenton Sanderson. A year later, Sanderson is far from raw and in less need of a crutch on match days.
Adelaide remains adamant it wants Bailey at West Lakes - and will maximise his talents beyond the coach's box or the training track where he cannot enter until July 13.
"He is still going to have a fair influence on this football club," said Chapman.
"He is not keeping his job out of our loyalty to him.
"Dean will earn his keep and he will contribute to the success of this football club."
Sanderson says in his exclusive two-part interview with The Advertiser and Sunday Mail that Bailey's absence from match-day roles is a "big loss for us - it really is".
But as Adelaide prepares to change more than Bailey's roles as it reflects on the fallout of the Kurt Tippett scandal, Sanderson maintains all the off-field turmoil at West Lakes this summer - with the loss of draft picks, a $300,000 fine and the bans on Harper and chief executive Steven Trigg - will not derail the team's on-field mission.
Asked if the Adelaide Football Club's image was tarnished, Sanderson said: "I can't answer that. I know it has not affected the footy department at all.
"I can't see any difference from round one last year to round one this year - that is any difference in the attitude or the excitement that is inside our footy department.
"I'm sure they look at us differently from the outside. But that is not just our footy club.
"The Tippett stuff potentially could have hurt the brand, but it is not going to change how we play this year."
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