Adelaide Crows chief executive Steven Trigg says he offered his resignation to the club but they declined it.
Adelaide Crows chief executive Steven Trigg will be banned from attending AFL matches, training and functions for six months from January 1. Picture: Sarah Reed. Source: adelaidenow
ADELAIDE chief executive Steven Trigg has conceded it could take years for him to regain the trust of the public after the Crows' board yesterday unanimously decided he was they wanted him to return after he's served his suspension.
There is also ground to make up with his employer, the club's board.
Trigg, exhausted after six weeks of the Kurt Tippett salary cap breach and draft tampering scandal, said he understood why people called the club hypocritical by keeping him after summarily sacking senior recruiter Matthew Rendell for his controversial comments earlier this year.
He has spent weeks debating with himself whether his position remained tenable with the club
"I can understand people being somewhat polarised by these things," Trigg said. "I think it will be on performance.
"Unfortunately, it's going to take a little while for me in the new year to get back to that."
Trigg's immediate fire from the public aside, it will take time to win back trust from the board members. Many of them -- including chairman Rob Chapman -- were kept in the dark for years over the handling of the Kurt Tippett 2009 contract and side deals that plunged the Crows into trouble with the AFL.
"It has to be that there has to be a little chip in that level of trust," Trigg said. "And I need to earn that back.
"So look, their actions in supporting me and Phil (Harper, football operations manager) tell a story.
"But there's certainly some accountability and a bit of trust that needs to be rebuilt, no question."
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Trigg has accepted his reputation has taken a hit, along with that of the club.
But said his decision to be talked into staying was not for individual reasons.
"It'd be trite to suggest that you're not thinking about yourself at some stage through the exercise, but I've genuinely tried to take the position at all time that if it is best for the club at any stage for me to back away then that's what'll happen.
"And that's happened with the full board and with (chairman) Rob (Chapman) separately.
"If it was best for the brand of the club, the operation of the club, the future of the club ... I'd have no hesitation."
Trigg was aware of the obvious attacks that will follow the announcement.
Matt (Rendell) had lost the support (of the board). Fortunately for me in this situation I've got support.
Would he have kept his job if he had made the same blues in the corporate world, be it in banking, mining of finance?
"I think it depends on what sector you're in," Trigg said. "This hasn't broken a corporation law; it hasn't broken a civil law.
"It's been a breach of the rules and I take full and complete responsibility for it.
"It is different to the corporate world. But no corporation's law broken, no common law broken doesn't mean I feel any better about it. But it's different."
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Trigg understands the obvious comparison to the Rendell case, in which the senior recruiter was sacked over sensitive comments regarding the recruiting of indigenous kids even though he immediately sought to explain he had never meant to be insensitive or in any way racist.
The similarity between Rendell's mistake and Trigg's was that Trigg had maintained the confidence of the board.
"I do -- I understand completely," Trigg said. "If I was sitting out there, I would ask the same question.
"But I think there is a perception that it was a me-decision and a knee-jerk decision (to sack Rendell).
"What I want people to understand that when you're talking about senior recruiting positions and CEO roles, they're board appointments. They're not my appointments.
"So in that one, it was a board decision and unfortunately Matt had lost the support. Fortunately for me in this situation I've got support.
"That's the essence of it."
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