The Adelaide Football Club believes the compensation for losing Nathan Bock is “grossly inadequate”.

Crows football operations general manager Phil Harper said the Club was disappointed with the AFL’s decision to rank Bock as a Band Three player, giving Adelaide a compensation pick at the end of the first round at any of the next five national drafts.

 “We believe that if Nathan was available on the open market he would certainly attract much more than a first round draft pick from another club,” Harper said. “He was an All Australian two years ago when he also won our club champion award , is only 27 and if he was still on our list right now he would be rated right near the top. We believe that compensation for a player of Nathan’s ilk would a minimum of band two, which equates to the same in 2010 and 2011 but would be after our first round pick in any of the next three drafts.

“Because of all this, the Club owes it to our members and supporters to strongly appeal this decision to the AFL.”