{"id":505348,"date":"2026-02-26T12:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/505348\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:51:30","slug":"afl-news-2026-toby-greene-on-fight-with-drunk-dad-michael-in-new-documentary-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/505348\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL news 2026, Toby Greene on fight with drunk dad Michael in new documentary on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greater Western Sydney captain Toby Greene<\/a> reveals he once knocked his own father out in the Giants<\/a> changerooms, opening up on their strained relationship in the new AFL<\/a> documentary being released on Friday.<\/p>\n

The polarising small forward features on Amazon’s new series titled Final Siren: Inside the AFL.<\/p>\n

Filmmakers followed several teams throughout the 2025 season and all four episodes of the inaugural season will be made public on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Greene, 32, appears alongside his wife Georgia and is asked about his father Michael, who was jailed following the 2019 grand final for headbutting a female police officer.<\/p>\n

On that occasion, Michael had watched his son lose the AFL grand final to Richmond before falling asleep in a toilet cubicle and then getting in an altercation with police.<\/p>\n

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Toby Greene of the Giants.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“Ten, 15 years drinking alcohol and (taking) drugs (has) probably taken a fair toll on his body and brain,” Greene says in the documentary.<\/p>\n

The Giants star then revealed he had his own altercation with his father following a different AFL game.<\/p>\n

“I knocked him out in the changerooms because he was drunk and carrying on,” Greene said.<\/p>\n

“He’s pretty loud and boisterous and (he was) extremely drunk.<\/p>\n

“And I was just embarrassed and just told him to F-off and punched him.<\/p>\n

“So, yeah, it’s hard. The reason I love footy is because of him and (that is why I) got into it.<\/p>\n

“That’s what I’ll take with me and then you learn your lessons from some things that he’s done that you can’t do.”<\/p>\n

Greene is a superstar on the field but has courted plenty of his own controversy over the years for a number of on-field acts.<\/p>\n

In the documentary he and Georgia open up on the abuse and death threats they receive from punters on social media regularly.<\/p>\n

“I knew it was something I guess my mum had to deal with as well ,” Greene said.<\/p>\n

“But what you see is it does have ripple effects around you and it’s something I would like not to happen, but sometimes I make silly decisions.”<\/p>\n

The Giants begin their AFL season against the Hawks on March 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greater Western Sydney captain Toby Greene reveals he once knocked his own father out in the Giants changerooms,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-505348","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\/505348","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=505348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}