{"id":132779,"date":"2025-09-10T12:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132779\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:49:12","slug":"bailey-smith-given-wake-up-call-after-photographer-tirade-what-did-he-say-video-geelong-cats-preliminary-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132779\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailey Smith given wake-up call after photographer tirade, what did he say, video, Geelong Cats preliminary final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne great Garry Lyon has called on Bailey Smith to \u201cbe better\u201d after the Cats superstar was captured in an expletive-laden tirade towards a photographer<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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The incident took place in an open-to-media session ahead of Geelong\u2019s preliminary final in a fortnight\u2019s time, with the 24-year-old reportedly accusing the photographer \u2014 News Corp\u2019s Alison Wynd \u2014 of trying to bait him and telling her she was \u201cdoing a f***ing s*** job\u201d.<\/p>\n

Smith was receiving treatment to his back and hip at the time and is said to have thought it was a \u201cprivate moment\u201d, asking Wynd to delete the photos.<\/p>\n

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Wynd said she was taking photos of Mitch Duncan on the same massage table before Smith appeared for treatment and took issue with her actions. <\/p>\n

But instead it is Smith who has come under scrutiny, with The Herald Sun\u2019s Lauren Wood reporting on Midweek Tackle that Cats CEO Steve Hocking called Wynd on Wednesday night to apologise. <\/p>\n

Smith, however, is not believed to have apologised for his actions yet. <\/p>\n

Speaking on AFL 360, Lyon labelled Smith\u2019s tirade \u201creally disappointing\u201d and \u201cunacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not good enough and it shouldn\u2019t be indulged,\u201d he said, before delivering a pointed message to the Cats superstar.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t have it both ways Bailey… you ask for understanding, you bravely bare your soul and then you undo all your good work by belittling a photographer who is just trying to do her job. Just be better. Be a better man than that. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think the footy world has tried to understand and accept that no-one is perfect and you\u2019ve got your shortcomings, as we all have. But there\u2019s been way better players than you mate that have had to put up with more than that and been able to do it with a degree of class. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe respect you, pay it back. That\u2019s just not on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wood, who was in attendance at the Geelong session, said Wynd later told her she had \u201cnever quite been as rattled\u201d as he was on Wednesday in her 25 years working as a photographer.<\/p>\n

Smith also took aim at the media when walking off the ground at a Geelong training session last month.<\/p>\n

Gerard Whateley pointed out on AFL 360 that Smith\u2019s frustration towards photographers in particular may be a product of having his private life often made public, as was the case when a paparazzi snapped pictures of him with influencer Tammy Hembrow on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

Although Herald Sun journalist Jon Ralph reported on Midweek Tackle that in reference to this specific incident, Smith\u2019s view was he was \u201cin a vulnerable place\u201d and that he \u201casked quite politely\u201d for the photos to be deleted.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t believe he has anything to apologise for,\u201d Ralph added.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeelong asked the media down. It was not a private place. He was sitting on the bench in plain view.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While the nature of the incident in itself is concerning, both Ralph and Fox Footy commentator Corbin Middlemas believe it should also have alarm bells ringing for the Cats ahead of their preliminary final.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem for Bailey is that he needs to pull his head in,\u201d Ralph said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Geelong is fully aware of it. I\u2019m not sure whether they\u2019re prepared to enforce it. Is it the right thing for him leading into a final game next week? No, it\u2019s ridiculous. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s dragged himself into a situation that is just so needless again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a worry if he\u2019s on that much of a hair trigger that if something goes the way that he doesn\u2019t want it to that that\u2019s the kind of reaction that we get from him, so I would be concerned if I asked the Cats on the back of that,\u201d added Middlemas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne great Garry Lyon has called on Bailey Smith to \u201cbe better\u201d after the Cats superstar was captured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-132779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132779","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=132779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}