Answers remain up in air

THE fallout from the sacking of Matildas boss Alen Stajcic is set to continue unabated, with a director of Football Federation Australia promising that the roles of senior staff up to chief executive David Gallop will also be reviewed.

FFA’s board will meet on Monday, desperate to try to contain the damage to the sport and its governing body, but fresh questions are being asked about the process that led to Stajcic being axed five months before the World Cup.

Even as candidates to replace Stajcic are being interviewed, the Bulletin has seen correspondence in which an FFA director promises that the positions of Gallop and national teams head Luke Casserly will come into focus as more reports come in from gender equality group Our Watch, whose initial survey has been a major part of this firestorm.

It can also be revealed that recipients of the Our Watch survey were asked for their observations “at work, across our sport … and day to day”, with no specific mention of the Matildas – or any other part of FFA.

Stajcic has kept silent since he was sacked, and declined to speak to the media, though it’s believed he has been collating information with lawyers as a precursor to legal action.

Several sources with knowledge of his situation have told this newspaper that his contract was renegotiated to include World Cup bonuses barely a month before he was sacked, having allegedly overseen an “unsatisfactory” team environment.

The furore over his sacking is raging three weeks later, with board members expected to raise a series of questions about it on Monday night.