{"id":134956,"date":"2025-09-11T10:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134956\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:13:13","slug":"geelong-coach-chris-scott-star-bailey-smith-apologise-for-verbally-abusing-women-in-separate-incidents-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134956\/","title":{"rendered":"Geelong coach Chris Scott, star Bailey Smith apologise for verbally abusing women in separate incidents, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geelong coach Chris Scott and star midfielder Bailey Smith have both apologised to women who they aimed verbal outbursts at.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported on Thursday evening Scott had brought an AFL staff member to tears after questioning the presence of accredited media person at a press conference following the Cats\u2019 qualifying final win over Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Scott called the staffer on Wednesday to apologise after Geelong CEO Steve Hocking spoke with league officials, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/afl\/chris-scott-apologises-to-female-afl-staffer-after-she-was-brought-to-tears-by-an-aggressive-outburst-from-the-premiership-coach\/news-story\/242528eaafbeaa3a47a209c788649b34?using_ew=false&amp;using_ew_noesi=false\" title=\"www.codesports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to Code Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every match of the 2025 Toyota AFL Finals Series before the Grand Final, LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=afl&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkafl-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" title=\"kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT&#8217;S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a deposit limit. For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n<p>He has not been sanctioned and his apology has been accepted.<\/p>\n<p>It came just hours before Smith apologised, via text message, to the News Corp photographer who he swore at and gave the middle finger to at a Geelong training session on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was angered by being photographed receiving treatment at an open media session.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey Smith and his coach Chris Scott. Picture: Michael KleinSource: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn more than two decades of covering the Cats, I\u2019ve never been spoken to like that by a player,\u201d Alison Wynd, the photographer involved, told News Corp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate Bailey acknowledging that his behaviour was unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just hope I can have a positive working relationship with him moving forward, especially as the Cats head towards, hopefully, the grand final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had amazing messages of support from all around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to going back to covering the news, not being part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong coach Chris Scott and star midfielder Bailey Smith have both apologised to women who they aimed verbal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-134956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134956","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=134956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}