Not criticizing, just saying that from the outside looking in, with what we know about who is available and the sort of player we have been able to get in the past, it seems a little odd to seemingly dismiss him.
Why are you assuming that we haven't taken a good long look at him already? People have suspected for months that he would come off-contract at Blackburn so it's hardly a surprise.
Apart from anything else he's been in the same AWs camps with Durante, Sigmund, Moss, Boxall, Brockie and Bertos on at least 3 or 4 occasions. You don't think Ernie has discussed potential NZ recruits with those guys at length?