Adelaide may appeal Dean Bailey's ban because of assurances from Andrew Demetriou that Melbourne never tanked. Picture: Gary Ramage Source: Herald Sun
ADELAIDE is still contemplating an appeal of Dean Bailey's ban, based on the argument they took AFL boss Andrew Demetriou at his word that tanking had never taken place in the AFL when hiring the former Melbourne coach.
Crows chairman Rob Chapman said his club had no hesitation in hiring Bailey as an assistant in late 2011 - despite the cloud hovering around him because of the tanking issue - because Demetriou had assured them the game was clean.
"Andrew Demetriou (and) the AFL have insistently denied that tanking was taking place," Chapman said.
"We took that into account when we hired Dean Bailey. It's not a bad endorsement ... we didn't expect there was ever going to be any investigation and certainly not a conviction."
Chapman discussed the possibility of an appeal at a board meeting that went until 11pm on Wednesday night.He plans to take up the issue with the AFL.
"I will make a phone call," he said.
"Is it a formal appeal? Undecided yet, I'm still contemplating what that looks like.
"I regularly talk to the AFL, my best approach is in one of those phone calls to raise it and have that discussion. That's the form the appeal will take.
"But I have little expectation that anything would be lessened. The commission have met, the commission have signed it off and the commission don't meet again for another month. It's unlikely."
The Crows remain confused by the ban handed down to Bailey, which will prevent him from having any contact with players or matchday involvement for the first 16 rounds of the season.
"The AFL and Andrew Demetriou himself have consistently denied that tanking took place and are still denying that it's taken place," Chapman said.
"And that was what supposedly Dean Bailey did."
The Crows hired Bailey in October, 2011, just months after one of Demetriou's annual denials that tanking took place in the AFL.
"I just don't believe it," Demetriou said in August that year.
"People are entitled to have their views but we don't share the view that there is tanking."
The AFL reiterated the view when handing down Bailey's punishment - and the $500,000 fine to the Melbourne Football Club and year-long suspension given to former football operations manager Chris Connolly - on Tuesday.
"There had not been a directive from the Melbourne FC board or executive management that the team should deliberately lose matches in any game during the 2009 premiership season," an AFL statement read.
"The Melbourne FC, its coach and team did not set out to deliberately lose in any matches during the 2009 premiership season."
Bailey and Connolly were instead penalised for acting in a manner prejudicial to the interests of the AFL and Melbourne was fined because it had to bear ultimate responsibility for the actions of the pair.
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