Scotland's top squash player has called for his sport's governing body to find ways of retaining input into the national squad's programme of the man he considers to be "the best coach in the world."

Alan Clyne, who has been the Scotland no.1 for several years, has worked closely with closely with Roger Flynn throughout his senior career and still remembers how Paul Frank, then Scottish Squash performance director, offered that description of Roger Flynn when he told players that he had managed to recruit the Australian to lead the Scottish set-up in 2006.

"What I didn't know at that time was that we were also getting one of the best people in the world to work with us," said Clyne.

The Australian, who had been running the squash programme at the Victorian Institute of Sport in Melbourne, is leaving his post as head coach of Scottish Squash this summer after eight years, during which the strength in depth has risen to the extent that from being outside the top 10 in European competition, Scotland's men have finished in the top four for the last four years.

The domestic set-up is currently undergoing something of an overhaul with John Dunlop, its chief executive having recently resigned, resulting in the interim appointment of Shonagh MacVicar, who was previously head of the legal team for Glasgow 2014 and Clyne admitted that since Flynn told them last month that he would be leaving in July the international squad members have been given no indication of how the programme will be run.

"I know what will be happening until the end of July and Roger has put in place a really good set-up with our strength and conditioning and our physio, so I know that's all there, but after that I'm not too sure," he said.

"Hopefully with the programme he's put in place with all the characters we've got here we'll be able to keep something going, but I don't know.

"You can't really just live on fitness. The squash input is very important too."

That being the case there are understood to be moves within the sport to ensure that Flynn remains involved in a consultancy capacity, something he has indicated that he would be happy to consider.

Given that much of his work has had to be done from afar, keeping in touch with players as they take part in different levels of competitions all over the world, while he would not have the hands on, day to day involvement when players are training at home, it would not necessarily mean a significant change in his capacity to offer an overview of their strategy and performance and, according to Clyne, the leading players are keen to see the opportunity taken to retain Flynn's input.

"Of course we'd like to see that," he said.

"We always want to have him around. I honestly don't know what the situation's going to be but Rog has been fantastic."

Clyne, who has consistently been in or around the world's top 30 in recent years but is beginning to come under pressure from fellow Invernessian Greg Lobban who has been steadily climbing the rankings in the past couple of seasons and is now on the cusp of breaking into the top 50, placed the head coach's input into the context of his own career.

"He has been really important. I was maybe 19 or 20 when he came and my game has improved immeasurably," he said.

"The enthusiasm he brings to everything and his knowledge is exceptional. There is so much that he knows about the game, so when I heard he was leaving it was a sad time."

In saying so he expressed his full understanding of Flynn's decision.

"It's obviously been tough for him being away from his family, so to that extent you feel like you're being selfish in having him here, but I would want to have him here the whole time for my whole career and he has been fantastic for the sport, bringing through the players," Clyne acknowledged.

Clearly there is concern that without the man who set it up there is a risk that the systems that have defied trends in a sport that has largely fallen out of fashion in Scotland in the past 20 years could fall into disarray as Clyne observed.

"The depth wasn't there before," he noted.

"Roger has brought that and you can see the conveyor belt. New players keep coming through. That's all due to him so I just hope it won't disappear."