'Personal and vulgar': Rory Sloane defends Bailey Smith as details of fan incident revealed

Adelaide great Rory Sloane has condemned the AFL for fining Bailey Smith, after the Geelong star flipped the bird at a Crows fan who reportedly abused Patrick Dangerfield on Thursday night.

Smith was slapped with a $1000 fine for the behaviour, which he deemed to be an act of defending his skipper.

Sloane revealed he knows what the heckler said to Dangerfield, though deemed in "unrepeatable" on live television.

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"The AFL got this one wrong," Sloane told Nine's Sunday Footy Show.

"If I was Bailey Smith I'd be saying to the AFL 'I appreciate the fine but I'm going to politely decline this one'.

"We speak about setting examples and Bailey Smith admitted he should have done better, but what we need to stamp out is the fan's actions.

"What that fan spoke about was so pointed and personal and vulgar.

"You don't want to see that in our game and set that example for any of out fans anywhere across the country."

Later in the show, Tony Jones asked AFL boss Andrew Dillon about the incident.

"What I don't want is for it to be ruined by one idiot. We've got a record of looking into isolated behavioural incidents and dealing with them," Dillon said.

Smith apologised for his behaviour in the aftermath, but said he would stand up for his captain again.

"It's just a bad look - sorry for the kids if they look at that sort of stuff," he told 9News Adelaide.

"But it's all part of it ... you dish it out, you get it back. I cop so much more than just two birds to a Crows supporter.

"We're obviously in enemy territory, (but) there's only so much you can cop when they start saying personal slurs to Danger.

"If I had my time again ... it's not a good look for the game as well, so I understand that and I've got to be better in that regard.

"But we've got to stand up for Danger. He's got an image to uphold so he probably can't do that sort of stuff, whereas I'm not a dad and I don't have three kids to be a good role model for.

"It's all part of the game. You dish it out to us, (we'll) give it back at times. I love it. It's nothing too personal on my end."

Dangerfield, who started his career at the Crows before requesting a trade to the Cats in 2015, kicked four goals in the win and was consistently booed by the Adelaide faithful across the night.