Fridge, a former Chelsea and St Mirren goalkeeper, has been in Dunedin for the past three weeks catching up with brother Mike, the Otago United assistant and Dunedin Technical coach.
He finished as a player four years ago to manage Nairn County in the Highland League in Scotland, and he has ambitions to move up the managerial ranks as quickly as possible.
Fridge (39) has been to New Zealand in consecutive winters and has not had a chance to see United play in the Football Championship.
"I haven't seen Otago but I've watched some club football. It seems a decent standard of football but it's hard to compare it with our own."
Fridge was particularly impressed with the class of Otago and Dunedin Technical defender John Chisholm.
His semi-professional team does not have a Roman Abramovich-sized chequebook but he did not dismiss the idea of offering a New Zealand player the chance to play in Scotland.
"It's one of those things where you'd never say never. If there was an opportunity, you might look at someone."
Nairn finished eighth in the Highland League last season but is still basking in the glory of winning the North of Scotland Cup two years ago. It was the club's first trophy in 31 years.
Fridge's players are part-time, training two nights a week and playing on Saturday like most Dunedin clubs.
He is trying to develop as many young footballers as possible from Nairn, a town of just 8000 people near Inverness.
The Fridge brothers briefly worked together at County before Mike came to Dunedin to work with Terry Phelan at Otago United.
Les Fridge started his career with Inverness Thistle, which later joined Caledonian to become Scottish premier side Caledonian Thistle.
He signed for Chelsea at 16, made his first-team debut for the Stamford Bridge club on the last day of the 1985-86 season and was then signed by legendary Scottish manager Alex Smith at St Mirren.
"I made my debut against Rangers in front of 42,000 at Ibrox. We won the Scottish Cup and I was there six and a-half years."
Fridge played in Europe for St Mirren when the Scots were knocked out of the old Cup Winners' Cup by eventual winner Mechelen (Belgium) in 1987-88.
He later played for Clyde, Raith Rovers - where he played in the Uefa Cup - Dundalk, Caley Thistle and Ross County.
While he never earned a full cap for Scotland, he was part of the under-18 side that made the semifinals of the European Championship in 1986.
