Disgraced Adelaide Crows chief executive Steven Trigg will ask for a chance to redeem himself when he returns from a six-month AFL ban on Monday.
Trigg returns to Adelaide’s West Lakes headquarters on Monday after being suspended for Kurt Tippett’s shady 2009 contract with the Crows.
Trigg will briefly speak to media, then enter Adelaide’s offices for the first time since last December to be briefed by chairman Rob Chapman, who acted as chief executive in his absence.
Trigg was banned 12 months, with half suspended, and fined $50,000 for his role in Tippett’s 2009 contract which broke AFL salary cap laws.
The Crows were also fined $300,000 and lost draft picks, and Adelaide’s football operations manager Phil Harper was banned for two months – he returned to work in March.
Tippett returned a fortnight ago from an 11-match ban for his new club, Sydney, after a bitter split with Crows when the salary cap scandal became known last October.