Matildas coach Alen Stajcic sacked, five months before World Cup

If it’s Ross Aloisi I’ll cancel my trip to France

is that all he has done just been a bully and intimidating to a bunch a precious little ladies who only a few know how to play the game and have any skills wow has woman's football got a long way to go

JB in answer to your question I have coached womens football and have coached against Stajcic. The feedback I get from the majority of players I've spoken to is that he bullies, intimidates and treats players with contempt. I've seen him in action and the FFA have done the right thing. I'm just surprised it's taken this long.

Chris - Your article poses the question ,have you ever coached a team of any age or genre? Add to this the total difference between managing an international team and a club team and you have added more explosives to the mix. In a club side a manager has 30???? individuals ,to consider,not solely as players but as individual human beings ,with an individual human being's totally different culture,philosophy or ,to put it simply, an idea on how the game should be played. The international manager has a different environment as he has almost unlimited individuals to consider when building a successful side. Once he has done that and reduced his squad to 23 then he is faced with 23 individuals ,some playing with successful club teams ,some not, and it is here the root of the trouble begins. Women's football as an international sport is still in it's comparative infancy ,and so these individuals chosen to participate in a totally different environment from their normal enclave ,have to change their thinking accordingly. I revert back to your original statement when you accuse a person of "Bullying","intimidation" or "shaming" and to me I could think of less obnoxious terms to describe how a manager goes about bringing 30 or so "cultures" into line. Not an easy job let me say. It is something the elite girl players are going to have to live with if they are to achieve the ultimate success. Cheers jb.

Nick your comments are getting worse and worse

Nem you hit the nail on the head with the comment "do coaches need to change the way they manage women footballers". Stajcic for too long has held the keys to whether a player progressed or not. (In NSW at least). He knew this and used it to act in a way not appropriate for a man in his position. He was rude and demeaning and abused his power. Good riddance.

Waz - everything you are hearing about Stajcic is true. He bullies, intimidates and shames players. He has been a problem in womens football for years. Live by the sword you die by the sword.

Harry Kewell was just mentioned by commentators on FOX for the role.

I glanced at Marco's article in todays Courier Mail about the Roar in crisis now with RA gone. The article goes back to Craig Moore's departure and his shot at the Bakries, leaving a strong hint that its all their fault. That just seems crazy to me, as JA had pretty much all he had asked for as far as we know, and it's not as if the owners organised numbers for players shirts that gave rise to the debacle that saw Craig Moore to the door. But Marco persists.

Our games v France and England were poor, but that was a development squad for young players, not full Matildas. But interesting Waz, there's a few players tweeting support for Staj. Team's got to move on now, like Roar. No time to loiter.

Almost impossible to outdo Clyne..

Recall with the England and France games that it was very much a development squad. Several senior players including Kerr, were left at home to rest and junior platers, like young Amy Sayer, Princess Ibini and Mary Fowler were given starts or time. Of the senior players that travelled, several played out of position to build versatility in the squad for the World Cup. One should not always judge a team on training runs, which those two games were.

Do we really have to call them the "Westfield" matildas? I know they expect something in return for sponsorship money but it makes me cringe when we have to commercialise the names of our national teams.

"Just what calibre gun are FFA using to shoot themselves in the foot." - Pfeifer-Zeliska .600 Nitro Express revolver It weighs 6 kilos and fires an elephant gun cartridge. As one person said, "It's probably safer to just light a stick of dynamite and throw it at whatever you're trying to kill."

K, the hard thing is how to change the situation. * Expansion too late and far too little is part of the problem – partly but not adequately addressed. *FFA control of the A League part of the problem – partly but not adequately addressed * clubs playing out of wildly inappropriate stadiums with no control over events or scheduling – not dealt with at all * salary cap preventing any kind of football excellence – not dealt with at all * a ridiculously unbalanced fixture list – not dealt with at all * too many fixtures with unsuitable times to suit tv, and with no thought to spectators or players, or the standard of football – not dealt with at all * climate change – yep, we need to talk about this. Summers are getting hotter and less football friendly and will become more so – not even being discussed * competition perceived as fourth rate at best – salary cap still there so not being dealt with at all. I wish I could say the competition is better than this, but this season I’m afraid it isn’t. * ratings mean that there will be no tv deal when this one expires – a bigger comp, independent A League, the end of the salary cap could change this. Happening but much, much too slowly. There will be glaciers that disappear before all this happens, if it does. And the competition may very well go with them, because no tv money means no A League. * attendances are going into free fall as we move into the second half of the season. We are in for another season below the last, no matter what the deniers like Fadida say. I love the game. I’ve played, watched and coached it all my life. But the A League is in deep, deep trouble. It cannot continue without TV money, and hardly anyone is watching, and those still watching are leaving, if the stats are accurate, at an alarming rate. If Foxtel does renew, which I doubt on current figures, then commercial logic suggests an offer no more than half the value of the current deal. Which leaves only one hope, quite literally one hope – that Optus packages the A League with the EPL. But the problem here is that Optus aren’t a broadcaster. They buy the EPL already packaged. They can’t do that with the A League, so how does that work?

My thoughts too. One player revolt in Australian sport is highly unusual. Two, with the same group of players??

fair enough, he has had success with the matildas thats why I was wondering whether u as a fan would consider him

It’s hard to argue with anything you have said . But the true believers tell me everything is rosy in Australian football.

Very successfully coached a national senior side but lacks experience to coach in the A-league? I'm not saying you're wrong BTW Waz. It's an interesting one.

Comprehensively outplayed by England the world rank number 4 nation.. you think the English had never played football the way you describe it .