{"id":750862,"date":"2026-06-21T13:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750862\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:05:18","slug":"afl-news-2026-st-kilda-star-nasiah-wanganeen-milera-caught-flipping-bird-towards-fans-vs-western-bulldogs-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750862\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL news 2026: St Kilda star Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera caught flipping bird towards fans vs Western Bulldogs, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

St Kilda<\/a> superstar Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera<\/a> could find himself in hot water with the AFL<\/a> after flipping the bird towards heckling fans on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The league\u2019s first $2 million man<\/a> had a solid night but it wasn\u2019t enough for the Saints, who went down 12.11(83) to 8.13(61) against the Western Bulldogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera leaves the field before giving the middle finger to fans.\u00a0Fox Footy<\/p>\n

The defeat saw St Kilda lose touch with the top eight and frustration clearly took over Wanganeen-Milera when he left the field late in the match.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old seemed to be copping some words from the Marvel Stadium crowd when he ran off and gave them the middle finger as a response.<\/p>\n

Saints coach Ross Lyon<\/a> had little issue with it but admitted the AFL could see it differently and didn\u2019t rule out Wanganeen-Milera being sanctioned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t even know it happened,\u201d he said post-game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they were giving it to Nas and Nas was frustrated. I don\u2019t know, we like a bit of theatre. Do we like the bird? We\u2019re about to find out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The loss came at a price for the Saints as well, with three players \u2013 Tom De Koning<\/a>, Jack Sinclair and Rowan Marshall \u2013 leaving the field with injuries.<\/p>\n

Lyon remained upbeat in regards to De Koning and Marshall but was less certain about Sinclair.<\/p>\n

\u201cTDK and Rowan precautionary … I haven\u2019t had an update [on Sinclair],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s speculation that it\u2019s an Achilles, but I\u2019m not in a position to comment any further … Rowan should be fine and TDK is precautionary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marcus Bontempelli<\/a> had 34 disposals and seven tackles for the Bulldogs, who cemented their spot in the finals picture with the gritty win. <\/p>\n

St Kilda will take on Essendon next Sunday, while the Dogs travel to face the Sydney Swans on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Kilda superstar Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera could find himself in hot water with the AFL after flipping the bird…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-750862","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\/750862","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=750862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}