- Matt Lodge thought he was signing with Rabbitohs
- Coach Wayne Bennett has a different version of the events
- Lodge, 29, has played for five NRL clubs in his career
South Sydney coach Wayne Bennett, has rejected speculation speculation, Matt Lodge, was a certainty in Redpher in 2025.
It comes after Lodge, who has played for five different NRL clubs in his colorful race, recently said the contract was an agreement made.
“I thought it was 99 percent on the line, and they told me to tell my family,” he said.
“Then I had a quick call saying:” It's not happening, “and he (Bennett) hung.”
But the super coach, who previously trained Lodge in Los Broncos in 2018, offered a different version of the events.
“Look, I never guaranteed that Matt would be here,” he said NOTS CORP. 'Unless signing the contract, the agreement is not made.
South Sydney coach Wayne Bennett, has rejected speculation speculation Matt Lodge was a certainty in Redpher in 2025
It comes after Lodge, who has played for five different NRL clubs in his colorful career, recently said that the contract was an agreement made
'Certainly, he was interested in him and at one stage we were close to approaching him with an agreement or offering an agreement. But we never talked money or in person, it was by phone. We never get to that place.
Bennett also pointed out the pressures of salary layers, and admitted the stagnant contract conversations when a “type of types we were trying to continue, did not move.”
Earlier this month, Lodge signed an agreement with the SEA Eagles as part of his extended game team.
Lodge will begin the season in the NSW Cup in order to force its path to the NRL team of Anthony Seibold.
“I know I will return to where I want to be and support my ability,” said four -year -old father in an interview on the club's website.
'I had an opportunity elsewhere, that at that time I thought it was the right thing for us (the family), but things change, and you adapt.
'I will continue working three days a week in a construction site where I have been during the last six months … and I will also prepare for my second professional fight in early March.
Lodge made his NRL debut in 2014 with the Wests Tigers, and then had a period in the Warriors (in the photo, in 2022)
'We are really established on the beaches of the North (of Sydney). Family time and lifestyle are very important to us.
In 2015, Lodge forced an apartment in the Upper Westside in Manhattan and assaulted a man, while his small partner and son hid in the bathroom fearing for their lives.
He told the man in front of his family, all who did not know, 'This is the night you will die' before spending two weeks in an American prison for the attack.
Lodge was ordered to pay $ 1.6 million to his victims and then declared that he was “out of his head” in sleeping pills and alcohol at the time of the terrifying incident.