The FCA continues to offer Stajcic support after his sacking last month, barely five months from the World Cup.

“Under the circumstances, he’s doing quite well. He’s a strong guy and you don’t go into coaching with a thin skin,” Moss told FTBL today.

“But it’s a very, very difficult time for him and his family. They lived and breathed the Matildas. 

“The thing that struck me after getting to know Alen is just how much he cares about the game and his players.”

FCA is a platform that attempts to form a “collective coaches’ voice”, providing professional support in legal advocacy, high performance, leadership, development and well-being.

Members include former Socceroos Tony Vidmar and Kevin Muscat, ex Matildas star Heather Garriock and W-League coach Mel Andreatta, plus a host of other top coaches in the country. 

“One of the reasons we formed was to support coaches and fight for what’s right for coaches,” explained the former Central Coast Mariners boss.

“If you read between the lines, unless you’re given a definitive answer to why you’re no longer in a job, then that’s not what we at FCA call 'fair and reasonable'.

“We’re fighting in this case for due process, procedural fairness and clarity. We don’t believe we’ve received any of those three things on Alen’s behalf.”

Three weeks after the event, FCA is still no clearer on why Stajcic was sacked. 

“We're not and more to the point, neither is Alen. Neither are the football supporters and stakeholders,” added Moss.

An experienced former coach in the A-League and in the national team set ups, Moss says wellness surveys are not new.

“I’m used to these things as a head coach and assistant coach in the A-League," said Moss. "They are nothing new. And you expect it to be part of the process.

“But when they're used as these seem to have been - and again we don’t know exactly - two surveys were thrown up as part of the reason. It’s so ambiguous.

“It doesn’t give any clarity around what those surveys have allegedly uncovered. One of them, Alen was certainly across it and what it’d canvas. It was used, it seems, in a very different way to what he was expecting.

“We didn’t get a copy of the survey so it’s hard to comment on it. And Alen hasn’t been given a copy of the completed survey but if you don’t drive high standards, you don’t get high standards.

“If you don’t get high standards, inevitably you don’t get results and you don’t stay in a job. It’s stating the obvious to explain how far Alen took that team, to a high of fourth in the World Cup and a definite contender for the next World Cup.

"That comes about from driving those high standards, until we hear otherwise, you can only judge on what you see." 

Moss said the game in Australia needed genuine direction after the PR nightmare of the Stajcic sacking, the quarter-final exit in the Asian Cup and the A-League flatlining.

He added: “The Asian Cup highlighted we need serious investment in our youth development.

"Are there enough of them coming through to push us to what we want to achieve? I think the answer is 'no'.

“But overall, we need real leadership and clear strategic goals and we need strong people to get us to that point.”