CHEWING THE FAT ANDO AND ELIZA ELIZA SEWELL: You've been in the caper for a while, Ando. How is women's sport travelling?
JON ANDERSON: For exposure in the media, it's never been healthier, particularly with women's cricket. You're closer to the action. Who wins the T20 final tonight?
ES: Australia should romp it in, but you never know what happens on the big stage and we've shown we can collapse, which is a worry. 
JA: Does it all come down to Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry?
ES: Not really. Perry, to be honest, is due. I think she's only taken three wickets for the tournament and had one good knock of 42. Lanning's made stacks of runs and a hit a match-winning 55 in the semi-final, but the bowlers have been important defending modest totals.
JA: Have you noticed an increase in women's sport in recent times? ES: Definitely. Just pitching a story on women's sport is not how it used to be. There's a bigger appetite for stories on women's sport.
JA: What about public interest, though?
ES: With the Women's Big Bash League TV ratings alone, that just blew everyone out of the water. Now I think it's just about normalising it. The more it's in the paper or on TV, the more people think, 'This is the way it should be'. And it IS the way it should be.
JA: Football is clearly the fasting growing sport for women, though. Girls I speak to love the tackling side of it, which surprised me.
ES: I played footy at school and we loved it. We thought it was the best thing ever. But once school finished, you didn't think there was any avenue to continue playing, so it's good that's changing now.
JA: Just on football, and I know you have a passion for black and white vertical stripes, did you honestly think you had any chance of winning that game on Friday night when there was only five minutes to go?
ES: No. I'd given up. I had. I'd lost hope.
JA: Like everyone else, I loved the first round of football but then I became really worried in the first half, because it was so ugly to see only six goals scored on a fine night at the MCG.
ES: But it turned into the most enthralling game.
JA: I wonder what it does to the Tigers for their top four aspirations. ES: Just mentally, taking that hit, the next couple of weeks how you bounce back from that?
JA: It'll be fascinating to see their mindset next week against Adelaide. Back to women's sport, what do you like watching most.
ES: I enjoyed the basketball when it was on TV and I watch a bit of the netball. Cricket, of course, when it's on. And you?
JA: Any female jockey riding a winner that I've backed, Meg Lanning hitting a cover drive for four with the grace of anyone in the game, Serena Williams hitting a typical forehand or Sally Pearson going over the hurdles for more glory.
ES: I saw Cathy Freeman in a cafe last week and that was the most excited I'd been to see any Australian athlete. I was like a child.
JA: Have you ever met her?
ES: No, I was just smiling at her. She kindly smiled back, probably thinking, 'Who are you?'.
JA: I knew Cathy well enough in the '90s what always came through was modesty, which covered an incredible self-belief and competitiveness. I remember she once said if she took up tennis, she was sure she could become a champion. Who's your favourite Australian sports woman at the moment.ES: I was really moved by Lauren Jackson retiring. She was one of the best basketballers - male or female. What she achieved on the world stage was just amazing.