A year after returning from an AFL suspension, Steven Trigg is quitting the Adelaide Crows to join Carlton as their new chief executive.
Trigg on Tuesday confirmed the end of his 13-year stint as Adelaide’s chief executive.
He will move to Carlton to replace Greg Swann, who resigned as the Blues’ chief in May this year.
Trigg said he had been thinking about his future when the Carlton opportunity arose about a a month ago.
“The pure logic is joining a great club like Carlton, I couldn’t get out of my head,” he told reporters in Adelaide on Tuesday.
Adelaide’s dual premiership Nigel Smart, currently the club’s chief operating officer, is among touted candidates to replace Trigg as chief executive.
Trigg will leave the Crows in four weeks, saying the South Australian club was in “really great shape”.
“Over the last 12 months we have made enormous amount of ground as a club,” he said.
“No CEO wants to leave a place that is not … humming along really well.”
Trigg returned to work with the Crows in July last year after being suspended by the AFL for six months for his role in the Kurt Tippett contract controversy.
Trigg, in 2012, pleaded guilty to three draft and salary cap breaches and was fined $50,000 and banned for breaking league rules when Tippett was re-signed by Adelaide in 2009.
The Crows were also fined $300,000 and barred from the opening two rounds of the 2012 draft for the breaches.
Tippett, who moved to Sydney at the end of 2012, was also fined $50,000 and banned for 11 games, with all suspensions ending in the middle of last year.
Insult
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Blues Premiers 2016.
Insult
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Blind man Freddie could be CEO of Carlton. They average 60k attendances even when struggling. When winning, there is not a stadium large enough to shoe horn 'em all in.
Mic
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Get a grip Max.
MAX
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Malthouse was lunacy. Trigg is a death sentence. Simply put, Carlton needs players who can play and a coach who can coach. Trigg as CEO is unforgivable. He will be a monumental disaster. The AFL and its standards are in freefall. Goodbye Carlton... Goodbye forever.
Doc Disnick
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lol The funny thing is all of this is true...
Cat
Roar Guru
Considering the very very poor returns on the deal the clubs signed to play at AO, I can see why someone would be against it. I know there is a review about to begin to see if they can get better returns but the stadium management is under not obligation to change anything, both Port and Adelaide may be stuck making no money for the next 20+ years.
Franko
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This guy was dead against moving to Adelaide Oval as well. The Crows were a mighty force off-field a few years ago, much of the squandering has gone on during Trigg’s time. Triggs incompetence will only be shadowed should they appoint Nigel Smart as his successor. The only thing he has really done of note thus far is the State Jumper fiasco. As a Port fan, I hoped that Trigg would stay on now I hope Smart is appointed, it’s like a 50m being awarded to us, from a Crows perspective, they’d do well to appoint from outside, that club has the potential to be much much bigger than it is.
John
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AFL is a funny game, seems you get rewarded for stuffing up. Jimmy Hird is on a fully funded sabbatical in gay Paris (on full wages) for his part in the drugs saga. Trigg rorts the salary cap and gets a plum job back in old Melbourne town. Tippet was in on the same rort and looks like picking up a flag (if he can stay on the ground). It's a good thing the AFL isn't a judiciary, we'd have mass murderers sunning themselves in Acapulco and drug lords running Child Care centres and other 'legitimate' businesses.
KenAgain
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With a convicted salary cap cheater as CEO, new President no one knows and Malthouse as the face of the Club it is getting harder and harder to support this mob.
Radelaide
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I struggle to understand the fuss over him, other than the cheating scandal he has taken the Crows backwards in most ways. They hardly turn a profit each year (they should be on par with the Eagles), he doesn't hide his contempt for his own clubs fans. Oh who am I kidding I know why, it's because he's a 'YES' man to the SANFL and the AFL and I would not be surprised if this is a way to get into AFL headquarters in the long term by cozying up with the Melbourne elite.
David
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That's why he qualifies Gene.
Cat
Roar Guru
So the guy most recently suspended for salary cap breaches is going to the club best known for breaching the salary cap ... strange way to go Carlton.
Franko
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The Crows are the big winner in this one. This bloke is an absolute dud. Of all the clubs in the league, who’d have thought it would be Carlton that was appoint someone fresh off a ban for salary cap cheating.