There is so much that just doesn't make sense. Colvey looks scared of the ball playing against OFC teams - surely Roux is a better option. Durante is so slow in possession - he needs to get the ball moving even if it is a square pass which has got to be better than stopping, taking a few paces forward and humping it long. How on earth does anyone think We eMac, Marco & Thomas is a midfield?
Hudson has definitely been found out to be a complete fraud. We were blinded by the odd good performance in the last couple of years but if you compare what he says v what happens on the pitch it is now actually hilarious. As an example when Tuiloma came on v NI we looked much better yet he decides to stick with playing 3 of our best players out of position.Mexico now need 3 points against us so this will be embarrassing.
For all Rickis faults at least he created a formation to suit our players and their strengths.
It had become plain as day that the AW's are coached by somebody who doesn't have a clue during the build-up games before this tournament so for the first time in my life I'd not been looking forward to a NZ football side taking part in major tournament.
And the Russia game was just depressing.
Hudson's team selection and formation are just hopeless and what you'd expect from a guy who failed coaching in non-league football in England and has never coached at club level above that.
Zero qualifications to coach a national team in terms of earning the job by the hard graft of proving himself by coaching at club or national age group level as with most of our previous successful coaches like Adshead and Herbert.
It was evident from the Northern Ireland game and blindingly obvious after the Belarus shambles that the back three formation with wing-backs and some of the players chosen weren't up to it.
And yet Hudson persists with a dud like Colvey and fields the physically lightweight McGlinchey alone in central midfield when he could have included capable players like Tuiloma in midfield and Tzimopoulos in central defence.
This would have been a more effective line-up: 4 4 2:
Marinovic
Boxall Smith Tzimopoulos Wynne
Rojas McGlinchey Tuiloma Thomas
Wood Barbarouses
(Smeltz on as a sub late in games)
I hope Hudson gets the shove after the tournament and NZ football appoint the new technical director Andreas Heraf as interim coach with Ramon Tribulietx as his assistant.
Heraf is a much more competent coach - in charge of Austria's age group sides at every level since 2008, including in world cups and Euro tournaments, preceded by four years managing sides in the Austrian Bundesliga.