Anthony Hudson (FAT Technical Director | Thailand)

Don't want the 'next' mourinho, i want the real one

Welcome aboard Hudders!

Looking forward to see your development plan towards 2018.

The Special Junior?

Comes across very well. Very happy with this appointment, time will tell whether he can get results though.

Young too....interesting....

Married?

Not sure how I feel about this, time will tell I guess. His biggest achievement so far is getting Bahrain to the Asian Cup - but you would expect any given AWs side to qualify for that if they were in Asia. Frankly if you're an Asia country who misses out then you're shite. I'm on the fence. But I think the biggest thing is his age - there are plenty older coaches out there with more experience who could do far worse Im sure. We'll see. Prove me wrong Mr. Hudson.

I have a feeling he doesn't know what he's got himself in for.

Talks a big talk.. just wait until fred de jong tells him his players need to pay there own way...

Not according to Wiki.  Although....let's not go there.

Jason Pine said on the radio that apparently Emblen was going to be coaching the Phoenix reserves as part of his assistants gig?

Interesting that he said he wants to visit each player in their own environment. Is that in the budget?

Of course he 'wants' to. Being 'allowed' to is a different story.

Comes across as a bit of a knob in his press conference.

"I am an incredibly ambitious person...and I think myself and the All Whites' ambitions complement each other."

Hmmm. 

Full press conference here: http://www.3news.co.nz/Full-press-conference-Antho...

Ambition is not a crime, much like passion.

Yeah but he's a down to earth, he told us this so it must be true.

Talks a big game, lets hope he can match it. Gonna be exciting.

There is a bit of bullshit in there 

"I've been following the AWs since South Africa"  

"I've always been interested in the All Whites"

That's the bullshit he has to give. 

Whether or not we like Hudson he probably was the best person to apply for the job. If he's shit it's probably because we are shit and can't get anyone better. I just hope he is given good support and is able to utilise our young talent coming through.

No I get that he has to, trust me but at least make some of it a little believable. For all the loads of hours of DVDs loaded on his computer that he has watched, I doubt he would be able to name anyone outside of Winston Reid...

I've been an endorser from the first time his name got dropped but just be straight. In one part he did say that it was the return to the WC that was appealing. Great. Awesome, now we know what you are about. Its great to have ambition and be ambitious and he certainly has that but never bullshit along the way cause then you just get labelled as a pork pie floater.

The assembled press corps are pretty weak too. 

"I've been following the All Whites since the World Cup."

There are a half dozen good potential follow up questions to that statement. None of them got asked.

"I'm excited about the players." Which ones, and why?

Good on Gourdie for trying to get a straight answer on the "who approached who" question. He wasn't successful but at least he tried.

Bahrain haven't scored a goal in their last four games.

What do you mean we couldn't get any one better!?! We had frank the tank and gary van 'I still look like a startled 13yr old' egmont waiting in the wings and I mean they are both fine coaches in there own right. between them they must have won 10 games!

*hint of sarcasm

Well yeah... a young Jose Mourinho 

Win or gin, that is the real question.

I've been following England in WC for 40 years--- has not helped.

However, he has to be given a chance to prove himself and bagging him now is just not çricket'

Give the guy a fair chance..

We gave a semi crook like Terry a fair crack for a while...

Most of those were in the West Asia Championship. Looks like they used a few fringe players for that.

I hope he does really well and the proof is in the results and not on press conferences. A mate has just texted me and mentioned that he has certainly had a hell of a lot of media coaching. The problem is that the NZ public are very much used to that with every rugby game that gets telecast and the cliche bingo played.

Impressive levels of angst in here already. I feel he would of at least wiki'd the last team list by now and done some prelim research. I am sure he could name some players... I read someone he applied for the nix job a while back too.

Average appointment, average managerial CV. That's about it.

The quotes are all the same lines that get used in English football when a new manager is hired. It's like hearing the same lines on Fifa after playing it a bit too much. But if we learned anything from Ricki, what's said in the media is viewed as feeding the vulchers. Just give them a quote or two for their story - in the end none of it matters that much as long as you're getting the right kind of message to the fans. Insert cliche here.

So Merrick is to blame for Brockie's shit season ?

looks good, can't expect much more with the amount of money we've got to deal with.