The amount of butt hurt people following Hudson's career and dancing on his grave speaks loudly to how he made people feel. It seems he was very triggering, frequently turning fans into crazy ex-girlfriends.
Personally I've never understood it myself, he never bothered me, just struck me as an ambitious guy trying to be successful. It seems he isn't up to it, and won't be successful, but that doesn't make me hate him and want to disparage him at every turn.
Looks like he's just another guy out there who thinks he's better at his job than he really is, like so many other football managers.
Basically, this.
Though I think that the reason people are annoyed is because they believe he has faked his credentials in order to get jobs; which seems to be the case (edited wiki and all)
The fact is; it would've been good for NZ football if Hudson succeeded at Colorado, and if Wynne/Smith/Colvey did well. Too bad it hasn't worked out.
Think between the two of you have sort of summed it up. He did some rather foolish things (esp the wiki stuff if true), but he was definitely respected by the AWs group, and that includes the more hard bitten pros like Reid, Smith, Wood, M Boxall who have all been round the traps.
He also handed out a few cheap caps - which upset some - but he hugely improved the depth of the AWs, by giving younger players exposure to international football (Emblem started that process for sure). That was a bad failing of Herbert at the end, not giving younger players international game time earlier. Suddenly having to start total novices (Roux, Tuiloma) against Mexico and plucking J Christie out of obscurity.
He may yet be at the Rapids next MLS season, though don't think Colvey will be.
Still query how this has become confirmed knowledge. As a lot of people have said, sure the environment was better and the team was better prepared, but that was at least in part because the budget got massively upgraded under his (and Andy Martin's) watch.