Crows CEO refutes reports St Kilda is targeting him for its vacant role
ADELAIDE CEO Steven Trigg won't consider leaving the club to fill the same position at St Kilda.
The Saints are yet to find a replacement for interim CEO Terry Dillon and are reportedly looking at candidates from within the football industry.
Speculation that Trigg is a target for St Kilda has emerged, but after the Crows insistently backed him throughout 2012's Kurt Tippett salary cap scandal, he denied he would abandon them.
"This club's shown me enormous loyalty and support and I'm not going to nick off within five minutes of that," Trigg said.
"To coin a phrase, there's a fair bit of unfinished business here and that is, in particular, on-field.
"I think we're in fantastic shape and the capacity for us to do some really special things over the next couple of years is something I definitely want to see through.
"Let the jungle drums bang away, but I'll be here."
Key to the club's on-field success in the near future will be the recovery and form of star forward Taylor Walker.
Walker trained with a small group on Friday morning, moving and kicking well as he closes in on his return from a knee reconstruction.
While he will ultimately decide when he's ready to play, Trigg said it was a boost for the organisation to see the popular figure fit again.
"It's a great boost for everyone that he's just about ready," he said.
"The old adage with those knee reconstructions is once they are ready, you give them some time and I think Brenton (Sanderson) articulated that really well the other day by saying he'll be the key determinant [in his return].
"Gee he looks good, he looks really, really good."
Trigg spoke on Friday to announce a three-year sponsorship with Bendigo Bank – the company that will appear on the back of Adelaide's SANFL jumper this season.
It was the first time the Crows have revealed the jumper, which features the same 'V' design as the club's controversially rejected state-themed guernsey proposed for its round two clash against Port Adelaide.
While the reserves strip looks different to South Australia's football jumper, Trigg said it maintained a traditional look in line with the club's SANFL origins.
"The state league competition is over 100 years old, as we tried to make the point recently, we're derived from the state league competition and so we wanted to be traditional with what we presented," he said.
"I think it's fair to say that this one got a resounding tick from almost everyone internally and externally we tested.
"I think it's smart, stylised, but has a traditional element to it as well – hopefully everyone agrees."