Former Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett slams Steven Trigg's return to Crows Crows chief executive Steven Trigg has returned to work after being suspended over the Kurt Tippett saga. FORMER Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett has slammed both the AFL and Crows for allowing Adelaide chief executive Steven Trigg to return to work on Monday. Kennett has described the Crows' decision to keep Trigg - after his six-month ban from the Kurt Tippett dodgy contract saga - as "unforgivable," a threat to "good standards" and "runs the risk of destroying the industry." Kennett says Trigg should be banned for life from AFL football. Trigg was banned for six months and fined $50,000 while the Crows were hit with the loss of draft picks and fined $300,000 after the AFL found their 2009 contract with Tippett violated the league's salary cap and draft rules. Speaking on TripleM in Adelaide, Kennett said of Trigg's return: "That is unforgivable. It also is an indication of where the AFL has breached good standards. Forget it is Adelaide ... here is an organisation operating under a set of rules that they deliberately breached and broke and then they tried to disguise it and hide it. And when they were found out, instead of the AFL - as the NRL did with Melbourne Storm when they found they were breaching the laws and took away premiership points and sacked people and took away premierships - the AFL gave them a fine, a suspended Steven for six months. I'd never let him back into the competition. It beggars belief in terms of good standards. "The AFL is deafening in its silence in upholding good standards, absolutely deafening," added Kennett while speaking both of the Crows and the drug crisis at Essendon. Everyone has tried to find a way of not doing anything (at Essendon). It is like your guys there at the Adelaide Football Club. Let's just give (Trigg) a pat on the hand and move on. What you do then is run the risk of destroying the industry. Kennett's outburst came as leading lawyer Garry Winter resigned as chairman of the Crows' integrity and compliance committee because of misconduct at a court hearing Winter was appointed by the Crows to ensure there was not a repeat of the Tippett contract scandal. Crows chairman Rob Chapman broke from a board meeting at the Adelaide Football Club's West Lakes offices this evening to tell The Advertiser of Winter's resignation and to support Trigg. "A lot of people - including us - are surprised by Garry's circumstances but we also recognise he made a great contribution to setting up the professional standard guidelines at our club," said Chapman. That charter is still to be finalised and we will continue that task without Garry. We hope to appoint his successor in the next few weeks. Of Kennett's attack on Adelaide's decision to keep Trigg, Chapman said: "We considered this at length months ago - and, with the club's best interests at heart, the board decided we should bring Steven back. As (AFL chief executive) Andrew Demetriou said at the time of imposing the severe sanctions on Steven and the club, Steven is an exceptional chief executive and should not be lost from the AFL.