Former NRL player Curtis Scott has been nominated for The Frownlow Medal Hall of Fame after being arrested and charged with historic alleged domestic violence offences.
The Frownlow Medal is awarded to the player whose off-field demeanour epitomises the values of the modern-day footballer and draws attention to the status of footballers as role models to young Australians. It covers Australia’s four major football codes; the National Rugby League (NRL), Australian Football League (AFL), the A-League (Football) and Rugby Union’s Super Rugby competition. NRL player Shaun Kenny-Dowall won the inaugural medal in 2015, while NRL star Jarryd Hayne is the most recent recipient.
The Frownlow Medal Hall of Fame honours former players and players who received media attention in previous seasons, for similarly scandalous behaviour, and its inductees include Ben Cousins and Julian O’Neill.
Scott was charged with two counts of intentionally choke person with recklessness, two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, stalk/intimidate intend fear physical etc harm (domestic), and three counts of common assault (DV), for incidents which are alleged to have occurred in 2018. He has been granted conditional bail and will appear in court soon.
The former premiership winner has now earned nominations for The Fronwlow Medal Hall of Fame and The Frownlow Medal. He first came to the attention of Frownlow judges in 2020, when he was arrested in thrown into jail on Australia Day. He reportedly resisted arrest and allegedly kicked and punched a police officer in the face before being tasered. This happened before he had even played a game for his new club Canberra.
Scott was later awarded $100,000 after it was found that police had wrongly tasered him
In 2021, he did not play in the NRL from Round 12, 2021, after an incident at a Canberra nightclub saw him charged with assault. He was later sanctioned with a $15,000 fine and three-game ban, and eventually the Raiders terminated his contract. He then declared in late 2021 that he had been attending Alcoholics Anonymous and had been seeing a psychologist for treatment.
Scott must now wait for the courts to determine his guilt or innocence on the latest charges, and must wait until the end of the year to find out if he has been inducted into The Frownlow Medal Hall of Fame.
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