All Whites vs Myanmar | Thuwanna Stadium, Yangon | 11.30pm | Mon 7 September

At what point do we just have to say thanks Brockie, you clearly can be a good goal scorer, but for whatever reason when playing for the All Whites it's not your thing.

Brockie is a good footballer but he needs to play in a certain system. Unfortunately for him, that didn't happen under Ernie and his previous 50 odd appearances for the AWs have been all over the field. He has played RWB and RW more than striker.

Your point is relevant though and I guess now he is getting deployed there, he needs to deliver and it did not happen tonight.

we looked most fluent with more under-20s on IMO.

Brockie at RWB and Kosta up front might have worked out better

We are talking about different time frames here. You are just stating the obvious. Read the quotes.

With Barbarouses and Rojas in the side you would think the strikers would be having a lot of ball. FAIL.

I'm not blaming Barbarouses or Rojas for the poor service to the strikers - Im just saying we had these two wonderful skilled players and only managed to score once.  Hudson's tactics where just wrong.

Great call, Nostradamus.


Have you got this week's Lotto numbers, please? :-)

I've been against him from day one.... 

Anyway one of my colleagues here at British Airways just saw the result on my iPad and asked me who the hell Myanmar is.  When I told him Anthony Hudson is our manager he just laughed and said "you lot have to be shark to hire that failure from Newport".

Bring back Ricki.

I always thought Hudson was capable of making the All Whites stop playing with long balls but he has not proven anything. Tribulietx can make Auckland City, a punch of part timers, play some nice football, and even get to beat better teams, but Hudson can't make the better players of an entire country, or at least the players he thinks are the better, play some decent football. We are on time yet, sack Hudson.

Liam Higgins has trialled overseas a few times with no luck, plays for stop out a mid table CL club but can play for the all whites. I know certain players are unavailable but players who play local amateur leagues should not be getting picked the standard is completely different. If you are in a professional environment all the time it is easier to adapt to international football as opposed to coming from amateur football. Don't know what is worse, Hudson picking people who should never get a cap for their country or Ricki starting two unattached players against Mexico!

All joking aside, that was a useful hit-out against quality Asian opposition and an away result not to be scoffed at. It's an important step in preparing us to play the 5th placed Asian team come World Cup playoff time in 2017.

Well played sir.

Reid, Wood, Smith, McGlinchey, etc. All need to be putting pressure on NZ Football to fix this situation, Hudson just isn't cutting it. 

Unfortunately NZ Football are going to be in survival mode with every man for themselves so I doubt getting rid of Hudson is a high priority.

As a long time NZ football supporter I've known some down times.....but honestly this is the worse I can remember.

Mynamar ar not even in FIFA's top 150 countries.....they have just come off a 0-9 drubbing and we made them look OK. Yet on paper we fielded a powerful team. All pro's..including 4 players who are with Div1 clubs in Europe, We had two of our most experianced strikers and two of our best creative players in Rojas and McClinchey..........and we were crap.

I have been a Hudson supporter but enoughs enough. The Thailand game shown he's out of his depth and this game just confirmed it. He talks a good talk but the results are there for everyone to see. Someone should tell him that international football is too big a gulf for amateur regional NZ footballers. But thats not the real problem...we are directionless.....apart from Wood, Moss and Thomas this was close to our first 11. We should have blown Mynamar off the park.

NZ football is in a complete mess

... worse than losing to New Caledonia? That was a craptacular game but let's not all go slitting our throats just yet.

Hudson has now used 34 different players in his 5 games in charge

don't know why but I seem to keep thinking about Joe McGrath the Irish guy who was in charge of the All Whites in the mid 90's - he didn't have a clue what he was doing either!

Joe McGrath knew exactly what he was doing, he was having a laugh. Hudson however simply hasnt got a clue.

I think these recent string of results have shown that maybe for a country our size there was some sense in having the national coach also be the coach of our only professional side.

While Ricki's tactics got a bit boring, having the ability to put out combinations week after week, try things in games where there was decent opposition, and then look to fill a few holes with quality overseas players, seemed to pay a lot more dividends than what we have now.

We can't afford to get the team together regularly, and yes while they're professionals, we sorely lack game time together. NZF should be looking to use the Phoenix as a 'New Zealand A' to get a core of player consistently playing together, with the same coach as the national team, or at least have the national team coach having some involvement in the coaching staff.

It seemed to work well for Mexico, who had a core of players all from the same team, and then patched holes with players from overseas who had the quality to add strength.

It doesn't mean abandoning developing depth through youth, it means being smarter with the resources at our disposal, and acknowledging that we as a nation have several different challenged that we need to overcome, and using our initiative to get the best out of what we've got.

Merick said when the job was up last time round that he didn't want it.

Myanmahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Would possibly be good for the AWs but horrible for the Nix. Especially when the FFA don't recognise international windows. Can't see Wellnix going for this at all.

Can't get any worse.

Well that worked well...

Gareth Morgan suggested Ernie for the role when Ricki left, remember Welnix are doing this as a way to give back to the community, they aren't expecting to make a fortune out of the nix.

Good point. I forgot about that.

I do wonder whether they will have changed their tune now though after a few more years running the club.

Best. GIF. Evah.

Yes. We were bad, in a meaningless friendly. That's not in the same zone as losing in the semifinals of the OFC.

(And nothing that comes after "due respect" should be said. It's like "I'm not racist, but...".)

I don't think so, they are increasing the budget not decreasing it. They aren't trying to squeeze money out of the club to turn a profit or anything. They are trying to build the foundations to create a sustainable franchise.

These guys also own and invest in horses that go to the Melbourne Cup, they travel the world on motorcycles, they collect cars, etc. Not everything they do is to turn a profit, some things they do because they enjoy doing that thing, and some things they do to be good Wellingtonians.