Tippett saga not my fault: Demetriou

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Kurt Tippett during a training session with the Swans. Source: Getty Images

RETIRING AFL chief Andrew Demetriou wants Crows fans to look at their own Adelaide Football Club for blame rather than his office as the fall-out of the Kurt Tippett saga lingers.

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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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"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."

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Adelaide was fined and removed from last year's draft and had key officials including chief executive Steven Trigg banned for offering key forward Tippett in 2009 an illegal contract with secret clauses that challenged the AFL's salary cap and draft system.

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