While Barry Hall was rightfully reprimanded for his vile comments on a Triple M radio program on Friday, many are wondering how the men who appeared on the show alongside him – particularly Leigh Montagna – managed to escape unscathed.
The former football star was fired immediately from the radio station after Montagna brought up a conversation about a common medical procedure his wife, Erinn, had while in labour.
More commonly known as a “sweep”, Montagna, another former football player, was all too happy to discuss his wife’s intimate procedure with his all-male co-hosts, Hall, Mark Howard, former AFL star Nathan Brown and journalist Damien Barrett.
“The obstetrician just has a little feel and makes sure that she’s starting to dilate, and puts a couple of fingers up and checks…” Montagna, 34, said on Triple M on Friday, as his co-hosts laughed.
The fact Montagna was willing to openly discuss his wife’s “sweep” was shocking enough, but then Hall, 41, took it a step further.
Mamamia has chosen not to publish Hall’s grotesque comments.
Despite their crudeness – and the fact they glamourised sexual abuse – Hall’s comments prompted more laughter from the guys on the program.
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My understanding is that Barry Hall was a fill in presenter , so very easy to sack.
AFL is in my oxygen and I love every game. I watch the little guys play at my club and I watch the big guys and also eagerly support all the girls and women who play. I have long despaired over the inclusion of violent thugs like Barry Hall in the game I love. He can't open his mouth without shit flowing out and his on field violence has led me to shout loudly for years that this guy is a shocking misrepresentation of the game and it's players. I have been calling for this guy to be ignored by selectors and the media for a long time now. In the QAFL grand final last year he was again showing what an overpaid thug he is, striking other players on the field. He is the one player who stands out to me as a shining example of who to tell your kids not to aspire to be on and off the field. As far as these comments are concerned, well they just show what a brain dead dipshit he is and seriously I am not surprised that it is him embroiled in this controversy.