{"id":131858,"date":"2025-09-10T03:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131858\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:54:06","slug":"bailey-smith-flips-the-bird-at-photographer-at-geelong-cats-training-confrontation-verbal-abuse-fines-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131858\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailey Smith flips the bird at photographer at Geelong Cats training, confrontation, verbal abuse, fines, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geelong star Bailey Smith has verbally abused a photographer at the club\u2019s training session on Wednesday and accused her of \u201cbaiting\u201d him, according to reports. <\/p>\n

The incident occurred during the open-to-media session, as the Cats prepare for a home preliminary final at the MCG in two weekends\u2019 time. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood to be the second time this season that Smith has lashed out at a photographer at Kardinia Park, after an incident in early August<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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The 24-year-old, according to the Herald Sun, said: \u201cStop trying to bait me\u201d, as well as claiming the female News Corp photographer was \u201cdoing a f—ing s–t job\u201d. <\/p>\n

Smith received back treatment during the session and was none too pleased about being photographed throughout, flipping the bird in the direction of the photographer. <\/p>\n

Bailey Smith, getting his lower back worked on at Geelong training, flips the bird. Picture: Alison WyndSource: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n

He\u2019s said to have declared that his back treatment was \u201ca private moment\u201d, requesting that the photos be deleted. <\/p>\n

Reports from the Herald Sun and The Age state Smith, who was treading the boundary line, circled back to deliver a second rant to the photographer, who said she was simply doing her job. <\/p>\n

The All-Australian midfielder has been fined twice this season for flipping the bird, as well as drawn criticism for questionable social media commentary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong star Bailey Smith has verbally abused a photographer at the club\u2019s training session on Wednesday and accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,91431,64,63,55,639,91425,19530,51248,13659,83940,91429,3231,91427,26504,91430,85,91428,53149,91426],"class_list":["post-131858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-alison-wynd","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-back-treatment","tag-boundary-line","tag-contract-players","tag-geelong-cats","tag-home-preliminary-final","tag-ing-shit-job","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-mid-training-tirade","tag-news-corporation","tag-social-media-commentary","tag-sports","tag-stop-trying","tag-training-session","tag-verbal-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131858","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=131858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}