Bailey Smith deletes social media posts on Mark Robinson and Caroline Wilson in fresh drama

It’s been little more than a week since his last social media controversy and Geelong midfielder Bailey Smith is once again at the centre of another one.

The enigmatic Cats superstar has deleted two Instagram stories in the past 24 hours, one indirectly centred around co-host of The Agenda Setters, Caroline Wilson, and the other directly addressing former Herald Sun chief footy writer, Mark Robinson.

Two days after the AFL grand final, Smith posted a series of photos from the Cats’ Mad Monday celebrations, including one of him with teammate Max Holmes, who had come dressed up as respected journalist Wilson.

Smith said Wilson “never looked better” in the caption and added the dripping water emoji.

He was also in hot water for a separate post with captain Patrick Dangerfield, referencing the movie Brokeback Mountain, which depicts a complex romantic relationship between two cowboys. Smith had tagged wantaway Carlton forward Charlie Curnow in another post, but later deleted it.

Geelong were forced to apologise for the offence caused and conceded the iconic celebration will not continue in the future, at least in its current form.

On Thursday night, the social media-happy Cats star posted a since-deleted image of a controversial YouTube video from nine years ago.

In the clip, former AFL personality Sam Newman abused Wilson on the now discontinued Footy Show.

The very next morning, Smith issued his not-so-subtle response to Robinson, who slammed the Geelong midfielder for his Mad Monday stunt in an interview with Trade Radio which itself has been deleted from AFL.com.au platforms.

In the since-deleted interview, Robinson said: “Some of the players are really starting to s*** me. I want to talk about Bailey Smith and everyone is going to call me a woke, silly old fool, but for Bailey Smith to abuse the photographer is one thing, that’s really poor.

“For Bailey Smith to be a part of an Instagram photo with (Holmes dressed as) Caroline Wilson and put a semen (water) emoji up there is one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen a player do.

“If it was my mother, or my sister, or my wife, I can guarantee you myself and my three brothers would be going around to say hello to Bailey Smith.

“Who does he think he is to put a semen (water) emoji on a photo of (Holmes dressed as) Caroline Wilson?

“It’s not woke to call it out. It’s decency.

“Be a decent person. And for the AFL to allow that to go unpunished is one of the most disgusting inactions by the AFL in my time in football.

“We can all laugh at Bailey Smith and say he’s just a young man, you can have fun without being a pig.”

Smith posted another since-deleted photo on Instagram on Friday morning, this one of Robinson, with the caption: “Slobbo you are on naughty boy”.

Channel 7 AFL expert Kane Cornes says Smith needs to pull himself into line.

“He’s posted a screenshot of a YouTube clip where Sam Newman, nine years ago, blasted Caroline Wilson, which was controversial at the time from memory,” he told SEN.

“It has since been deleted, but we know Caro has been critical of Bailey Smith and his actions off the field in recent times and throughout the year.

“Her column last Saturday was one of the better things I’ve read, she wrote about the personal impact of the Mad Monday situation.

“It’s another one Geelong will have to answer today and it’s another distraction for the footy club.

“I think it is time for Bailey, who brings so much good to the game, there’s no doubt about that. There is lot of good to him and at the core he has a good heart, but right now, he is becoming a distraction that his club does not need.

“It resolves around his use of social media and some other things.”

In last Saturday’s column headlined “Bailey Smith’s social media post about me was insulting and sexist. How dare he?”, the award-winning Wilson did not hold back.

Wilson also called out Geelong chief Steve Hocking, saying he had “remained silent since the Mad Monday disaster”.

Hocking addressed the situation on Thursday morning.

“If you’re referring to Mad Monday, it’s on all of us. There is a range of people that were part of that. There’s certain individuals that dressed up inappropriately,” he said on SEN.

“We have apologised for that, particularly to Caro (Caroline Wilson), it was unacceptable how that was rolled out and treated.”

Hocking went on to say that they will likely need to have a chat with Smith over the off-season.

“When you come off-field, the interest in him is just unbelievable. He has a very different relationship with social media to ... our age profile,” Hocking said on Thursday in a wide-ranging SEN interview.

“I don’t understand it at all.

“He works that exceptionally well. There will be a time, in my view, and this will involve all of us over the off-season, where we just need to have some reflection.

“It’s not about tiptoeing around someone like Bailey but more about tailoring it accordingly.

“We’re really, really early in the relationship.”