AFL coaching great Mick Malthouse has fired back at Moana Hope, who walked out of a lunch in Ballarat.

Hope stormed out of an event after what she described as “disgusting’ comments by Malthouse about the AFLW.

Malthouse’s degrading comments prompted Hope to drop her microphone and walk out of the lunch, after Malthouse suggested women should not play AFL.

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But Malthouse explained on Thursday night he believed Hope had taken his comments out of context.

“It was very, very unprofessional,” Malthouse told AFL.com.au of Hope’s actions.

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“If she cared to listen instead of looking at her phone for most of the event, she would understand.

“Apparently she’s had a crack at me in terms of what I said about netball.

“(I was saying) the new rules are similar to netball, in other words, positioning. Not one word about female football, females or anything else.

Mick Malthouse fired back at Mo Hope’s comments. Photo: Mark Dadswell. Source: News Corp Australia

“Unfortunately, she came with that attitude, she was very disappointing as far as I’m concerned on the panel.

“Had she listened, she would’ve been a little bit wiser.”

Hope, the former Collingwood now North Melbourne AFLW player, told the Herald Sun she was “disgusted” with Malthouse’s comments.

“He said that AFL was a man’s game and not a woman’s game and he’s said that on stage in front of 50 kids who had just played a boys and girls game of football,” she told the Herald Sun.

Mo Hope's partner took to Instagram to address the incident. Source: Supplied

The three-time premiership coach also made a comment about if the AFL decided to have an 18m goal square, all the players should “wear skirts”.

“I left after that I was so disgusted and drove back to Melbourne. He can have an opinion but then there’s just degrading and disrespectful comments,” she said.

“I will never be in the same room as him again.”

Hope’s partner Isabella Carlstrom posted a photo of Malthose on Instagram, with the caption “I cannot believe what this disgrace of a man just said while on stage in front of so many young kids and my partner.

“It’s sickening. How can you have a daughter and speak so poorly of woman and woman in sport.”

Hope also took to Instagram to address the issue, declaring she was “embarrassed, ashamed, humiliated, disgusted just to say the least” and that she wouldn’t “sit down and take that”