The former Australian Diamond was furious with the situation surrounding Blues star Tayla Harris and others in the AFLW. 

"I'm furious," she told RSN Breakfast Club on Wednesday morning. 

"I'm so proud of Tay and the way she stood up because there are not a lot of people who have the ovaries to be able to stand up and do something like that."

On Tuesday night, the Seven Network's AFL department deleted a photo of Harris, who was in full flight kicking a ball from the 50. The decision to remove the photo came after inappropriate and offensive comments were made by social media trolls. 

A number of comments on the photo were of a sexual nature and were disgusting to read but instead of monitoring and removing the comments which were of this nature or even blocking people, Seven decided to delete the whole post. 

What followed was a host of current or former athletes, fans from all sporting codes and media rallying behind Harris and spreading the photo far and wide. 

The 21-year-old was just doing her job, playing footy.

"Enough is enough of this trolling," Layton said. 

"At the start, I think I was a bit soft on it. I'm not okay with people jumping on and I don't care if it's a jetski, car, whatever their photo is, get a life.

"Who needs to stand up? Our Tay is standing up but we need Twitter to stand up, block these people, delete them off, Facebook, delete them off."

Later on Tuesday night Seven came out and apologised for deleting the photo. 

However, these types of comments aren't new to women's sport, in fact, it's, unfortunately, a regular occurrence.

It's not just AFLW either but trolls are across other women's sports including rugby union, rugby league and football (soccer), just to name a few, with comments ranging from the infamous "go make me a sandwich" to ones which are highly sexual, homophobic or even transphobic. 

Sadly, Harris photo wasn't the only one to receive unnecessary comments over the weekend with a photo of retiring Magpie Cecilia McIntosh on the AFL Facebook also getting attention from trolls.

The 39-year-old is also a Commonwealth Games silver medalist and a winter Olympian. 

Thankfully, most of the comments which were identified as inappropriate have since been deleted from the post. 

However, Layton has called on the AFL to do more to reprimand trolls including revoking club memberships.

"AFL I am asking you to stand up and not stand for this anymore," Layton said.

"If you find these people on Facebook, have a name and if they have a membership, revoke it.

"Standing up for something that is right is more important than the money coming into your business so I'm not standing for it anymore."

The 31-year-old, who is in her rookie year of the sport after retiring from netball at the end of the 2018 Super Netball season, said she had been shocked with the stories of ridicule she had seen and heard from fellow players. 

“I am 100 per cent am shocked about what I have seen so far. And I think that’s why I was probably a bit lighter on it when I came on here for the first time because I hadn’t been exposed to that yet and I was shocked,” Layton said.

“I hadn’t seen the ridicule that some of these female athletes had been getting but now that I’ve seen it with my own eyes and I’m more closer with the ladies and being able to share their stories with me, yeah I am [shocked]. 

"They're doing their job, they are doing what they're amazing at as Tay said when she posted that photo 'this is me at work' and it's pheromonal.

"Far out I wish I could kick like that."