Townsville Bulletin

REGULATOR CLEARS CROWS OVER CAMP

- MARC MCGOWAN

THE South Australian government’s independen­t workplace safety regulator has cleared the Crows of any wrongdoing from their infamous pre-season training camp in 2018.

Safework SA spent more than a year investigat­ing the specifics of the camp and found neither the club nor any other person or organisati­on – referring to Collective Mind – breached any work health and safety laws.

An Adelaide statement said that club officials fully cooperated with the investigat­ion, including providing all informatio­n and documentat­ion that Safework SA requested.

The Crows offered no further comment on the findings.

The camp followed Adelaide’s grand final loss to Richmond in 2017 and the Crows haven’t made the finals since.

The footballer­s involved in the confrontin­g camp have mostly been scathing of what took place, with Curtly Hampton retiring months afterwards, saying he had lost the desire to play at the highest level.

Fellow Indigenous players Eddie Betts and Cam EllisYolme­n, who left to play for Carlton and Brisbane, respective­ly, were among those critical of what happened at the camp.

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