Toby Greene admits to knocking out his estranged father in changerooms after AFL game

GWS captain Toby Greene has revealed he “knocked out” his drunk father in the changerooms after an AFL game several years ago.

The 32-year-old has a troubled relationship with his estranged dad, Michael Greene, who spent time behind bars for headbutting a police officer after the Giants’ 2019 grand final defeat to Richmond.

Speaking on Final Siren: Inside the AFL — Prime Video’s new docu-series set to air this week — Greene recalled a time in the years before that grand final when he punched his own father in the head out of embarrassment at his state of drunkenness.

“I knocked him out in the change rooms because he was drunk and carrying on,’’ Greene said in the first episode, which premiered at the MCG on Wednesday night.

“He’s pretty loud and boisterous and he’s extremely drunk. And I was just embarrassed and just told him to f*** off and punched him.

“So, yeah, it’s hard. Like, the reason I love footy is because of him and got into it.

“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.”

During the episode, Greene spoke in depth about his lengthy rap sheet of suspensions and fines.

He admitted he has overstepped the line far too many times in his otherwise decorated career, but vowed never to be banned again for the rest of his career — which was met with a laugh inside the MCG’s Olympic Room on Wednesday.

Greene said he is aware of the backlash and criticism he cops from fans in the wake of his constant indiscretions and insisted it doesn’t affect him, but admitted he knows it hurts those close to him.

His wife, childhood sweetheart Georgia Stirton, played a major role in the first episode, and revealed a series of horrific threats and messages of abuse their family has endured as a result of Greene’s white-line fever.

“People are saying ‘I hope family members die’ or ‘you should kill yourself’’,’’ she said.

“Or I have a DM saying, ‘you know, I saw him cheating with girls’ and ‘has he bashed you up?’

“It probably affects me more than Toby.’’

Stirton readily admits her husband is “no angel”, but was at pains to insist that at home, Greene is nothing like the antagonist that takes the field each week of the footy season.

“Sometimes I just wish people could see that there is a lot more to Toby,’’ she said.

She shares the side of the Giants captain that the footy world doesn’t see, which has become even more unrecognisable from his on-field persona since becoming a dad to daughter Isla two years ago.

“It’s amazing what little girls can do to big, tough men,” Stirton said.

The series also documents Greene’s close relationship with his mother who, like Stirton, rides the emotional bumps of his career much harder than he does.