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RETIRING AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou is making no apologies for acting tough against the Adelaide Football Club in the Kurt Tippett saga, despite the club and its fans maintaining the league was heavy-handed.
Standing firm to his "no regret" stance, Demetriou on Tuesday arrived in Adelaide deflecting the responsibility for the controversies at the Adelaide, Melbourne and Essendon football clubs that seriously tainted the AFL's image in the past two years.
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Demetriou firmly shifted the blame game in the Tippett saga to the Crows for in 2009 crafting a two-year contract loaded with secret clauses that contradicted the AFL's salary cap and draft policies.
"I don't know why (Crows fans take issue with me) because I was not responsible for what happened with (Tippett's illegal contract)," Demetriou said.
"It is interesting commentary that if you want the AFL to protect the integrity of the game then people have to stop blaming the AFL for what happened to Adelaide ... and to Melbourne (with tanking) and Essendon (with the supplements saga).
"If you don't want the AFL to protect the integrity of the game, then the concept of turning a blind eye to those things will be abhorrent."
Adelaide's executive continues to question the penalties the AFL Commission handed to its club and staff with uneasy comparisons to the crimes and sanctions applied to Melbourne and Essendon.
The Crows in late November 2012 were hit with the loss of draft picks last year, fined $300,000 and the suspension of chief executive Steven Trigg (six months and $50,000 fine), football operations chief Phil Harper (two months) and former football chief John Reid (12 months).
Tippett, who moved to Sydney during the AFL hearings, was banned for 11 games.
The final chapter of the Crows-Tippett saga is still to play out on the field with the first opportunity at Adelaide Oval on Saturday, April 5 — the Crows' first home game at the new Oval against Sydney.
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Melbourne's "tanking" saga — dating back to 2009 — ended in February last year with former coach Dean Bailey banned for 16 weeks while working with the Crows last season, football chief Chris Connolly banned from all football for a year and the club fined $500,000.
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"I don't know why (they take issue with me) because I was not responsible for what happened with (Tippett's illegal contract)," Demetriou said in Adelaide today.
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The Essendon supplements saga remains still open to sanctions from the recently concluded ASADA investigation.
But the AFL Commission last year stripped the Bombers of their place in the final series, suspended coach James Hird for 12 months, fined the Bombers $2m, banned the club from the first two rounds of last year's and this season's national draft and fined and suspended other key officials.
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