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Punchy Bassett
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Sam Kerr didn't like him would be my guess.
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Would love to know the actual ins and outs of this decision.
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De Vanna springs to mind.
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I can only hope, for the sake of the FFA and PFA and women's football in general, that this decision is justified and not them using "team culture" as a vague copout to cover for something like a player revolt
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Situation could have been as untenable as Sampson with the English team for all we know. I don't think the independent groups they got into do those surveys would have recommended such action without serious wrongdoing attached.
More likely a leak that made Gallop spring, too many parties involved, only needs one closet warrior to grind their axe to a journo.
IMHO the World Cup would be more important to the players & officials directly involved.
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By "last bloke" - do you mean Hesterine de Reus ?
Think there would probably a lot of strong player relationships between Stajcic and some of the players he coached at Young Matildas and to grand finals at Sydney FC - with a couple of players (Logarzo, Simon) putting comments out on twitter about the decision.
Not sure what to make of De Vanna's tweeted gif o f "Lies, Lies" - again she's not a starter for Sydney FC today after being dropped last week for what seems to be disciplinary reasons - the 2nd time this year - but just recently she retweeted about the bullying culture that caused the previous English coach to be sacked.
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There's been a bunch of players supporting him on twitter.
That doesn't necessarily mean that he wasn't forced out by players, but it wouldn't be my first guess.
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The coach before was Tom Sermanni who moved on to coach the USA Female team. A step up I would think.
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I'm somewhat surprised that there are still no details of what the actually was happening to create the "toxic culture"that lead to the sacking.
Some people (like Clint Bolton and Lucy Zelic) must have heard some pretty bad things given what they've tweeted today. Both have praised this article on Fox Sports but it seems very light on details to me.
And why does it seem like nobody else has been fired if it wasn't all his fault?
Some people (like Clint Bolton and Lucy Zelic) must have heard some pretty bad things given what they've tweeted today. Both have praised this article on Fox Sports but it seems very light on details to me.
And why does it seem like nobody else has been fired if it wasn't all his fault?
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Joey Peters pretty strong in her comments as well.
The leak went to Tracey Holmes & Stajcics predecessor went the same way, what a hopeless record to have.
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Good luck ever finding out what happened to cause him to be fired. The journalists covering the sport have no interest in pursuing this further.
It seems to me it was Tracey Holmes at the ABC that got the leak that caused the FFA to act so quickly, fire him over the phone (?).
Will we get to know the back story, if it was some of the players we will, his backers will see to that.
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And do we know if those players who came to his defence yesterday were telling the truth, part of the 'others' or just presenting a united front.
I was guilty of that mistake too.
I see Stajcic has been coaching women since 2002, Gallops claims dont pass the pub test !!
Litigation lawyers will be beating a path to his front door.
If I were a journo I'd be looking for a comment (on or off the record) from Gary Von Egmond or Roger Kerr, both of whom have coached professionally.
The assistant coach has pulled the pin: https://thewomensgame.com/news/stajcic-fallout-matildas-assistant-coach-quits-518122
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Is a good headline using the word "gagged", but then they don't follow it up with any substantial quotes in the story. Perhaps Kerr just didn't want to speak publicly when she would have been as surprised about the news as much as anyone. Anyway Sam Kerr is liking posts by teammates on twitter, so she's not exactly gagging herself - and there's quite a few of them now - including one of the captains Claire Polkinghorne (her and Kellond-Knight are kind of the brains of the team), that are supportive of Stajcic's time coaching the Matildas - but its easily to convolute that into it being a rallying cry against the decision.
Van Egmond is an assistant coach, so I'm guessing he would likely be asked to leave along with Stajcic. Its a bit complicated anyhow with his daughter being one of the stars of the team. Lost me with Roger Kerr though. May as well ask all the parents what they think.
