Mike Hosking’s interview this morning with reinstated Silver Ferns coach Dame Noeline Taurua could only have gone one of two ways.

She could have spilled the beans. Or she could have danced around the legalities of a gagging order.

She could have spilled the beans and made Netball NZ look like a bunch of incompetents. Or she could have played it safe.

Funny thing is, she didn’t spill the beans - but still managed to make Netball NZ look like a bunch of incompetents, when she said she was never informed why she was stood down and that there was no investigation into the claims made about her.

That was the point where the interview was getting really curious and then, bang, she was being ushered away to a TV interview and had to end the call - promising to call back later.

It was probably the point too where text messages full of exclamation marks started flying between the honchos at Netball NZ.

Prior to that, Dame Noeline had said to Mike that she felt somewhat vindicated being reinstated.

She said she was elated to be back but described the last few months as being “very horriffic”.

Dame Noeline also confired to Mike that she was constrained in terms of what she could say. She said she could have taken legal action to get her job back - because she believes most of the players support her - but she didn’t want Netball NZ money and taxpayer money being blown on lawyers.

If I was a suspicious person, I would say that Dame Noeline and her PR minder realised she might have crossed the line talking about the lack of an explanation and the lack of an investigation, and that’s why she ended the call.

But I did check the TV and she was on-screen a short time after she spoke with Mike.

Either way, I think Netball NZ is looking worse today than it has during this whole saga.

To stand down its head coach without telling her why and without conducting any sort of investigation screams “Mickey Mouse” to me.

And shows why chief executive Jennie Wyllie couldn’t explain last week why Dame Noeline was back.

This has turned out to be more of a cluster than we thought.

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