Actually I think he is right - the point of playing football is to win. We won. That most people want to overlook this and complain about the style of play suggests that all these people are missing the point.
Yes the football was boring. I had recorded the final as I was traveling and could only watch the first 50 minutes before turning it off and checking the result online. But we won. Hudson has kept up his part of the bargain for NZF, now hopefully NZF will do their bit and give the coach and the team some meaningful games in the next few international windows.
a) We didn't win. We went to penalties against PNG. We scored one goal in 210 minutes of semi-final, and final football, and that was from the world's gentlest free kick that the goal keeper biffed into the net. We barely looked like scoring a goal.
b) The style of play is being criticised especially because it wasn't even done well!