It wasn't Howieson
Apologies to Howieson if not him. I definitely dished him, so guilty as charged.
Still plenty others on here guilty of making false assumptions. The barrage of criticism towards Welnix, when those wrong media stories were coming out of Oz recently is a classic case in point. Perhaps they should apologise to Rob Morrison.
As someone else said once, be good if Nix could let out little statements noting who had turned down opportunities to trial. Just a short one line, stating that as fact - along with confirming who is trialling. Rudan at his first(?) press conference, invited folks down to see who is trialling, so they are hardly trying to disguise who is.
They have been criticised for not giving more Kiwi players a chance - but if some locals of quality are turning them down, obviously makes it harder for them to do that.