Are we playing better football under Hudson than Herbert - I'd argue yes...
Are our international players happier - yes
Is there more planning and action behind the scenes - yes
I'm not happy with the way we have played against the Island teams, but I think we have moved, forward, not as much as was promised, but forward. Things cant be too bad in an environment when a player (Moss) pays for himself to fly up and plead to be brought back into the system, or when a guy like Smith has to suck it up and admit to been an idiot.
Hudson's selections are no worse than Ricki's (I give you Christie and Butler).
A good question to ask, is who had the better team, and would RH be doing better with our current crop, NO!
RH had Elliott, McG and Vicelich in the Middle with Nelsen and Smith at the back and Smeltz in his prime. Comparatively, our back line is similar, our attack perhaps a little better, but our midfield significantly less.
The Moss and definitely the Smith sudden show of force does not wash with me.
Smith is injured and prior to that was not making his English team. He thought fudge, it's not looking rosy, I had better look after number one. Hey my old team have qualified for this tournament where I will be in the shop window for three games, better have a piece of that.
I like Moss and would be prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt but everyone making a big deal of him flying up to Auckland needs their head read. Maybe he was coming to Auckland anyway for a party and while I'm up here why not have a coffee with Hudson? Once again we have a nice tournament coming up and if he is ever going to pick up a contract again in Europe this is probably his last opportunity.
Agree with you on Smith, think you are being rather harsh on Moss though. It's obvious that he isn't high up in Hudson's plans and had Gleeson not had his incident I doubt Moss would have been called up
I agree, I do think there is more with going on with Glen and maybe even Andrew then we know in public. Others such as Rory and Winston may have asked them back.
For me with Jake in the bad books right now, Glen is definitely NZ's No1 keeper, his performance on Sunday showed that, just as two average displays for NZ by Marinovic confirmed for me that he's still our 3rd best keeper.