Hudson did well. Two shark house goals decided it. Did well in Wellington, reacted well in Peru.
He's stepped on some toes in his time, but to be honest I think he has delivered some hard truths to numerous players.
A lot has been learnt in the last four years. Now we need serious games regularly, and that's on New Zealand Football.
Like he picked 18 year old Ingham who is not up to A league and 35 year old Fallon who has only played a few games this year.
Then to add insult to everything else he does not start Wood but has three other strikers on the bench, knowing that we have to score to stand any chance. Please.
Yes - Wood is constrained to 60 minutes a match given injuries. And it worked perfectly well in Wellington.
You can't look back at hindsight you need to consider what actually happened. Peru, a much better team, scored two very average goals. One I reckon would've been saved if not for a deflection, the other from a scrapy corner.
New Zealand missed three prime opportunities and probably had a penalty shout 20 seconds in. (We'll never know because the broadcast was such a crock of shark)
Would we have been in a better position given a different manager; considering the potential managers that would've signed for us absolutely not.
To be fair it would have been a very brave ref to give us a pen after 20 secs.
They knew that and took the corner wrestling to another level. On that note there was a definite penalty on Reid from at least one of the corners.
