Also, I don't think any player's feelings towards a manager are a particularly good proxy for how good they are at getting good results.
Have you ever played a team sport? If you have you will have known, when you have had a good coach, and when you have had a sharkhouse one.
Players shouldn’t yes be the sole judge of a coach, but they are a very important one. No one on this forum, whether they rate Hudson or despise him, would come close to having the knowledge of Hudson’s coaching abilities as the actual AWs players of the last 3-4 years.
All of these guys are in pro football environments - some very high level - and will all have been exposed to good and bad gaffers. They will know whether AH was fit for the job or not. Now that he is highly likely leaving they (Brockie, Durante, Roux, Falloon etc) don’t have crawl up his arse if they don’t want to.