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<\/p>\nGeelong star Bailey Smith has verbally abused a female photographer who was taking photos at the Cats\u2019 training session on Wednesday, adding a layer of drama to the build-up to next Friday night\u2019s preliminary final.<\/p>\n
The Brownlow Medal fancy had been photographed while receiving treatment on the bench before stepping on to the oval to train.<\/p>\n
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New boy: Bailey Smith is ready to make an impression with the Cats.Credit: AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n
As he walked around the boundary, he took exception to the photographer, who was standing in the stands and then doubled back to deliver a spray, asking her to delete the photos.<\/p>\n
The Geelong Advertiser photographer Alison Wynd told Smith she was just doing her job and he abused her further, allegedly telling her she was \u201cdoing a f—ing shit job\u201d.<\/p>\n
News Corp, which owns the Advertiser, published a photo taken by Wynd showing Smith flipping the bird towards the camera while he was receiving treatment on the bench.<\/p>\n
Media had been invited in to gain vision of the session as part of the Cats build-up and the incident occurred when players were training with cameras and journalists watching.<\/p>\n
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Cats coach Chris Scott had not yet emerged from the rooms.<\/p>\n
It is the latest incident involving Smith, who was involved in an altercation with a photographer earlier in the year and has occasionally let frustrations get the better of him.<\/p>\n
He has been fined for flipping the bird at fans this season, and been in the spotlight for his social media activity.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred before a pre-planned training session on Wednesday and his teammates were forced to defend his actions, although they had not seen what occurred.<\/p>\n
Key forward Shannon Neale was asked whether it was appropriate to have players having a crack at the media in an open session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong star Bailey Smith has verbally abused a female photographer who was taking photos at the Cats\u2019 training…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-131832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}