Seems to me that Saturday's result has elevated Hudson, in some people's eyes, to the position of supercoach. Yes, he set the team up well to do a job in the 1st leg, and they did it and achieved a great result. For me, one game doesn't excuse the fact that selections and performances had not particularly inspired a huge amount of confidence up to that point. I am obviously the only person who thinks, for example, that the performance against Japan, in the last game he had before Peru, wasn't particularly impressive and the Nations Cup stuff, and the off field stuff, has already been covered here earlier.
I'm fairly ambivalent about him, and his future. I don't hold him in the high regard that some seem to, but I don't think he's a complete dud either. The nature of NZ Football is that he is about as good as we can reasonably expect to get so while I believe we could get better than Hudson, I'm also not sure who that might be or where they'll come from. I'm also not convinced any obvious replacement would be any better. If we qualify, and for me that is a HUGE if, then I suspect we may well be stuck with him for the foreseeable future unless he chooses to jump ship. I can probably live with that either way, but it might be in his own interest that he attends some PR classes, as getting the doubters on his side may well make his life a lot easier in the future.