{"id":472419,"date":"2026-02-11T08:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472419\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:07:19","slug":"afl-state-of-origin-bailey-smith-lands-in-perth-after-catching-a-lift-with-patrick-dangerfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472419\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL State of Origin: Bailey Smith lands in Perth after catching a lift with Patrick Dangerfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Geelong captain Patrick Dangerfield has adopted Bailey Smith for the week as the Victorian superstars arrived in Perth ahead of AFL Origin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Cats duo landed late last night and were greeted by Western Australia captain Patrick Cripps, who also flew over on Tuesday, with Dangerfield\u2019s 8-year-old son George already splitting state allegiances to grab a pic with the WA star.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53d555360f19afd245cb1f6c795d624e0c110950.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Cripps greets Victoria's arrivals.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconPatrick Cripps greets Victoria&#8217;s arrivals. Credit: Patrick Dangerfield<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Smith will have plenty of eyes on him throughout his time in the west, being one of the AFL\u2019s biggest and most controversial figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He will be keen to remind everyone of his on-field prowess, coming off a career-best season in his first season at Geelong, where he finished third in Brownlow voting, only to spend the off-season in the headlines for the wrong reasons after his Mad Monday antics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Having lost his licence last week, Smith has fortunately found a lift in joining the clan Dangerfield for his trip out west, with the Cats captain spotted in Osborne Park organising his transport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Smith also lost out on wearing his favoured No.3 at the weekend, with Fremantle\u2019s Caleb Serong to take his number due to having played one more AFL match in his career, demoting Smith to wear No.33<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0c9522e526d86be141bcfc0dffd288b8a15726a0.jpg\" alt=\"Smith with the Dangerfield's\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconSmith with the Dangerfield&#8217;s Credit: Patrick Dangerfield<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The bulk of Victoria\u2019s squad, as well as the rest of WA\u2019s Melbourne\u2019s based contigent, are expected to arrive later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Former Eagle turned Hawk Tom Barrass was one of the earlier arrivals and did not waste the opportunity to spend some extended time back in WA, helping to promote the state ahead of the clash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong captain Patrick Dangerfield has adopted Bailey Smith for the week as the Victorian superstars arrived in Perth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,49082,64,63,55,639,13659,588,85],"class_list":["post-472419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-afl-state-of-origin","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-geelong-cats","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472419","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=472419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}