Geelong coach Chris Scott says Bailey Smith's recruitment has been an "outrageous success" and denies the Cats are struggling to handle the star midfielder's off-field behaviour.

Cats chief executive Steve Hocking received a letter from the AFL's legal counsel after another of Smith's social media posts drew controversy.

The 24-year-old has consistently found himself in the headlines for the wrong reasons since verbally abusing a photographer at a training session the week after Geelong's qualifying final win in September.

Brown hits out at Cats players over 'homophobic' post at Mad Monday

Mitch Brown, the first AFL player to reveal he is bisexual, hits out at Bailey Smith and Patrick Dangerfield over a social media post from Mad Monday.

But in Smith's first year at Geelong, the forme

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