Newstalk: Off The Ball

That last line is bonkers stuff. Of course seeing women play sport matters to girls.

Nobody is saying you need to give a flying sh1t about women's sport but let women watch and enjoy it.

The amount of coverage to women's sport is miniscule compared to men's. I don't understand why you'd get annoyed at 10 minutes coverage of women's soccer per week

Anyone have any links to this? Would like to have a listen.

My respect for Shane Hannon has gone way up after that.

She shat the bed when asked a simple question. No ambush

There isn't a shred of truth in anything you said there.

For this particular interview, Kellie was appearing as Brand Ambassador for the Spar Community Fund, a charitable effort to support local community enhancement, like sports clubs, volunteer medical transport and older age support work.

And so, it is entirely legitimate that she be asked to reconcile her support of this fund against social media posts of hers that promote misinformation and dog whistle politics around issues that divide communities, not enhance them. Shane Hannon was questioning the clear suggestion of hypocrisy here.

Now, I'm prepared to give Kellie the benefit of the doubt to a certain point and say that she has been naive.

She's a young gay woman, from a deprived area, not particularly bright, not particularly worldly, but clearly talented at her sport. A sport in which she gets hit in the head day in, day out.

Somebody in her circle of management or advisors clearly saw this issue coming, because they took the unusual step of putting some sort of PR or media handler on the call with OTB. Now its a pity they didn't opt for someone who actually knew what they were doing, because they ended up making Kellie look churlish and precious and cowardly, none of which I actually think she is.

The right thing to have done would have been to put her hand up to being a bit naive, apologised for any offence caused and moved on. Instead, the shite PR operator has turned this into an absolute disaster for Kellie and blown it up into a far bigger problem than it might otherwise have been.