While David Kidwell has a tainted record in this country it should not discount him from being part of a bid imo. Plenty hate Tony Iro at the Warriors, yet he remains there and has degrees in sports management and is seen as a Rugby League managerial expert by the NZRL.
I think the problem with NZ League is that people like Kidwell and Kearney who have Storm training, get dismissed out of hand for their foolish mumblings in the NZ media and mixed bag results as NZ coaches.
That is not the total sum of their worth.
Just because they were spectacular failures in specific roles does not garantee they have nothing to offer a coming from nowhere bid like Christchurch.
David Kidwell is one of, if not the greatest ever player out of Christchurch, so he has pedigree, and was an enforcer that should never have been given the national side without exceptional aides around hi, during the infamous Ki is the we campaign .
We need to chill out on these guys and wish them all well imo, if Bluey McClennans old man from the Mt Albert Lions could draw up an NRL bid over a table in the McClennam house that became the Warriors then shooting down any Kidwell involvement in Canterbury is premature.
It seems to me that a Canterbury bid needs all the intellectual property it can get with a strong leader overseeing people like Kidwell and being able to unite the various bids like Happy Franks and the other heads of the three headed monster.
They need a leader to bring all those names together and identify what each of them bring to the party, if they do that, they will be decades ahead of the Warriors first managerial structures.