Ramon and neil duo was best idea. Ramon basically has same philosophy of hudson with prob more pedigree
Ramon definitely has much more senior club coaching experience than Hudson whose CV reads "coached one struggling minor league club in the US for two seasons; coached a Conference Premier side for five months until sacked after gaining eight points from 12 games."
Seems to me NZF are falling for the hype surrounding a basically quite unproven young manager. He was coach of Bahrain u-23 for one year and has been in charge of the senior team for eleven months.
Still, he seems to have done well with the Bahrain sides. He's a very inexperienced young manager though so it seems a risky appointment to me. I give him a lot of credit for moral integrity though for quitting the Bahrain gig (I'm assuming due to being unhappy at the oppressive political regime who have even jailed some members of the u-23 national side Hudson coached) .He's giving up a much bigger pay packet than NZF would be offering. Things are really bad in Bahrain for many people, including sports people.
It's fourteen months until October next year when he has to guide the AW's through World Cup qualifying / doubling as OFC Nations Cup (Confederations Cup) qualifying.
Seems to me he'll be a young guy with a lot of time on his hands the next 14 months before the AW's have a competitive international with probably very few friendlies lined up. I don't know if this is good coaching gig for a young beginner. There'll be some months in between a few days actually coaching the team here and there.