Goalkeepers
Max Crocombe (0/0 – Oxford Utd, ENG)
Stefan Marinovic (0/0 - SpVgg Unterhaching, GER)
Defenders
Michael Boxall (11/0 – Wellington Phoenix, NZL)
Sam Brotherton (0/0 – Wanderers SC, NZL)
Thomas Doyle (1/0 – Wellington Phoenix, NZL)
Louis Fenton (1/0 – Wellington Phoenix, NZL)
Winston Reid (capt – 18/1 – West Ham Utd, ENG)
Storm Roux (6/0 – Central Coast Mariners, AUS)
Themistoklis Tzimopoulos (0/0 - PAS Giannina FC, GRE)
Deklan Wynne – (2/0 – Wanderers SC, NZL)
Midfielders
Sam Burfoot (0/0 – Auckland City FC, NZL)
Clayton Lewis (0/0 – Wanderers SC, NZL)
Michael McGlinchey (30/3 – Wellington Phoenix, NZL)
Ryan Thomas (4/0 – PEC Zwolle, HOL)
Bill Tuiloma (7/0 – Olympique Marseille, FRA)
Benjamin van den Broek (0/0 - FC Universitatea Cluj, ROM)
Forwards
Kosta Barbarouses (28/2 – Melbourne Victory, AUS)
Tyler Boyd (5/0 – Wellington Phoenix, NZL)
Ryan De Vries (0/0 – Auckland City FC, NZL)
Marco Rojas (20/1 – FC Thun, SWI)
Joel Stevens (2/0 – Wellington Phoenix, NZL)
Chris Wood (37/13 – Ipswich Town FC, NZL)
Hudsons got balls...I'll give him that
Green green defense....less than forty caps for eight players and Winston has got nearly half of those....ditto the midfield, Tuiloma is the second most experianced player
I can see Hudsons strategy....this squad has an Olympic look about it. He is in danger of a big thumping away in Korea with these players. Will questions start to be asked? Probably not but there will be rumblings if we get a heavy defeat.
Reminds me of John Adshead's selections before he settled on the 1982 All Whites squad.
He tried and discarded heaps of guys including many of the most experienced and highly-regarded players of the time.
It certainly worked out long term for him.
People forget now, but before they thrashed Mexico in August 1980, Adshead's All Whites had an absolutely disastrous 1980 Oceania Nations Cup in Noumea in February where they were thrashed by Fiji and Tahiti and had the one win against the Solomons (who were cannon fodder in those days - beaten 12-1 by Tahiti):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_OFC_Nations_Cup
http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZRepSoccer/id1563...
Of that Oceania Nations squad, only five of those who played made the All Whites World Cup squad 14 months later.
In the couple of years before the World Cup qualifiers, Adshead cast aside many of the biggest names in NZ football at the time such as Keith Nelson, Bill de Graaf, Chris Turner and Keith Hobbs.
Before the 1981-82 World Cup qualifiers, he tried lots of youngsters like Mike Groom, Johan Verweij and Mark Armstrong who didn't make it but others like Herbert, Simonson, Richard Wilson, van Hattum, Grant Turner and Duncan Cole who did.
The only experienced players who survived the cut from the disastrous 1980 Oceania Nations Cup were Steve Sumner and Bobby Almond (some younger players also survived like Richard Wilson who only had six caps before the Nations Cup).
Afterwards, Adshead brought back into the squad established All Whites like Brian Turner, Adrian Elrick, Clive Campell and Sam Malcolmson and selected many new caps who were already established names in the Rothmans National League like Steve Wooddin, Keith McKay, Glen Dods and John Hill.
I see it as a good thing that Hudson's prepared to look at young pros like Marinovic and Crocombe and u-20 players like Stevens, Brotherton, Wynn and Lewis.
But hopefully he'll see the value of bringing back several of the senior players later like Smeltz, Brockie, Smith and Moss.