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Andrew Slevison • May 15th, 2025 10:45 am
There is a former Adelaide Crow who never paid his Showdown debt.
His name is Scott Thompson and he once lost a bet with Port Adelaide great Kane Cornes. A bet that he didn’t fulfil.
It occurred in the lead-up to the Crows v Power clash in Round 21, 2006.
The bet: The loser would rock up to opposition training in opposition jumper and ask opposition players for autographs.
The result: Port by 14 points at Football Park.
Cornes explained how it all went down, how Thompson never paid his debt and how it lived on in the Adelaide footy media long after.
“I had a bet with Scotty Thompson once. I was doing a segment on Channel 10 at the time when I was still playing,” SEN’s Fireball.
“I was the Port player, he was the Crows player. Before the Showdown we came together and had a bet on the game.
“The loser of the Showdown - so Scotty Thompson on this occasion because we beat Adelaide - had to go to Port Adelaide training in a Port guernsey, line up and ask for autographs from the Port players as they entered the training ground.
“He didn’t do it. He did not do it.
“Michelangelo Rucci, who was sort of the Mark Robinson of the Adelaide Advertiser at the time, did not let him live that down. He had a counter in his paper and called it ‘Scotty’s Counter’ and the days that had passed since Scott Thompson had refused to do the bet. It was hilarious.”
For the record, Thompson had just 16 disposals while Cornes had 20 touches in his side’s victory as brother Chad won the Showdown Medal.
The Crows would exact some sort of revenge by claiming the next three Showdowns.
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