It's a bit rich to piss and moan we are disadvantaged because we lose our All Whites for a weekend when, for the other 26 games of the season, we're the only team that has the advantage of Kiwis not being imports.
True, but we then build a squad based around this then get disadvantaged. But then we are hardly blindsided by the draw, we already know that the A league plays through FIFA windows, so we should be building a squad around that too - which I think Ernie has done.