All Whites v Mexico | Sun 9 Oct | 11:30am | Four Kings

Ok maybe Im feeling overly enthusiastic but despite the scoreline this feels a pretty even game to me.

Boxall's throws are not worth bringing him up from LCB for

Interesting to see WeeMac play so deep, will probably see more of that throughout the season for the Phoenix? 

Omg moses dyer is now on

I think this is the best i've seen the all whites play in years. Hudson has actually impressed today.

Rojas was pretty quiet after scoring 

5 min left, can we get the equaliser?

Rory Fallon in!!!

We deserve it.

2-1 Loss, great game from the All Whites though, plenty of positives, it doesn't even feel like a loss. 

wow great game    good effort!!!

Shark well done lads, I did not expect a result like that, some good football played.

Great game from the kiwis despite the loss. A lot of improvement from hudson and i think New Zealand will have a chance against the US.

Very happy with that.  If we keep playing in this style a lot of the criticism should diminish.

Yep. Do your talking on the field and not on Veitchy on sport. 

I recall before the game, the betting company say Mexico will have 5 goals win against the All Whites, no way, we give them a good game.

Kosta looks like he will be a very good player for us this year.

Also Wynne and Graham were very encouraging.

Liam Graham was really good and Declan whynne was decent.

Cracker of a game, some moments of awesome there from the AWs. 

USA game should be interesting. 

inb4 "hudson did nothing, winston reid coached the team"

We are going to demolish New Caledonia next month.

I've been as critical as anyone about Hudson but that was a great performance by AWs standards if we can keep that up I will happily munch on some nice fresh humble pie. 

Chuffed with that result. Couldn't get a stream to work, but am keen to see extended/any highlights. Suggestions?   

Much better performance then I was expecting. Graham looks the real deal. 

Hudson deserves some credit for this performance. 

Fantastic that we have another game to look forward to in 3 days game

Mexico B 2 All Whites 1  Fine effort.

So are we playing USA A or B?

Two recent friendlies....Solomon Islands 0 New Caledonia 3...Solomon Islands 0 New Caledonia 1

I was impressed by the back 3 particularly and thought they worked well... would Smith get in as a starter?

Graham looked good, maybe a little light on attack and it was nice to see Wynne play a decent game.

Some of the passing in the top 3rd was really good with movement and looking to open into space, Wood to Wynn for the goals etc. Lewis worked hard and should be applauded for this, but didn't value possession enough.

Pleased to see some football played and a bit more depth coming into the team. But we need Patterson and Ridenton to start getting more game time at a pro level otherwise we will struggle come crunch time to match the step up. Lewis and Dyer need to get into a contract somewhere, Hudson is obviously going to keep picking them, so we need them to be training and playing full time.

Happy!

Just watched highlights, WTF was with that penalty terrible ref, Marco has gone from crap to his best in an amazingly short amount of time (thank you melbourne). Hudson hater, but if more performances are like this i can easily get on board.

Highlights here:

Amazing how some people really don't believe Nelsen took over in SA.

Match Report:

We could get to the final in a world cup which Wellington is hosting, beat Brazil 10-0 (with a Brokie hat trick) in a match where the sponsors provided free beer and ice cream, and people will still find ways to belittle it.

It wasn't Mexico B, they aren't playing us to do us a favor, this match is part of their preparation for world cup qualification as well, every player on that pitch is in serious contention for a starting spot in a world cup qualifications match.

I thought so to originally, but there is a still shot floating around somewhere clearly showing Wynne (I think) stepping on the guys foot, apparently hard enough to cause the boot to come off.  That is a definite penalty.

Except for the Paraguay game right?  Not attacking enough in that game was definitely Herbert?

definite penalty, watch it again. His foot got stood on and his boot ripped off. Pretty hard to run or stand up when that happens.

All Whites should be proud of themselves, playing away with 40,000 meixcan fans against the 14th best team in the world to only lose by one goal and one of the goals they scored was a penalty. 

Just emphasising we weren't playing them in a World Cup play-off, like last time we met. And just being cautious about what might happen if the US were to put their A team against us on Wed. 

And it was a fine effort.