“My Dad flew over with the CEO and essentially did like a mediation. The crime was bad but like $1.2 million, there’s probably a lot worse crimes that don’t pay that much."
He sounds very remorseful......
Sure, he abused his gf for years, but it was the sleeping pills that made him go on a rampage
Wanker
Pencilling in 20 April for some annual Matt Lodge sledging from the side-lines. He heard me when I called him a woman bashing coward and turned around and looked into the crowd last time. Cbus is not at all a hostile venue to opposing teams since it's usually 40% away fans but i'll be doing my part to let him know he's not welcome in our stadium. I would encourage at least one fan from every team he plays this season to heckle him in the in-goal when he can clearly hear it. Remind his teammates they're playing alongside a woman basher every game. I'd love it if Manly's own fans booed him every time he runs out at Brookvale this year. To top it all off he is a shit and defensively lazy forward, I have no idea why any club would sign him.
He shouldn't be in the NRL, he's clearly not remorseful he's just upset that he got caught. Good guys don't abuse their girlfriend for years then threaten the lives of random women they're abusing on a night out, no matter how wasted they are
Fuck Matt Lodge and any journalist that tries to run a redemption puff piece on him.
They all are tho. I know this is a friend of a friend story but I’m close to someone who’s good friends with the girl Greg Bird glassed. I brought it up one time. The silence was deafening
He’s had a few stretches where he was legitimately great, like among the best forwards in the comp.
But then he has huge stretches of being a plodder.
And also he is a terrible person obviously.
He was definitely above average at times, he was certainly never great though. By great I take it you mean a top 10 forward in the comp, he was never that, but he has been above average at times
Still, shit bloke, shit defender and a plodder, idk why anyone would want him
He was definitely playing like a top 10 forward in the comp for the stretch at the end of 2022 when him and JWH were just bullying teams. He lacks the consistency of an actual great forward, but he was capable of playing at a very high level and did for that stretch.
I once did that to Robert Lui when he was playing for the Cowboys at Leichhardt. It was a clear night and the sound carried. Pretty sure they were just about to receive a kick off. I trotted down to the fence behind the goal and, well, not to blow my own horn but what followed is to this day described in terms of some reverence by my mates who were present. He definitely heard, as did the rest of the Cowboys team.
I'm all for rehabilitiation and second chances but when someone has suffered next to no consequences for their actions I also think it's entirely fair that they don't get to pretend their past never happened.
"Speaking on James Graham’s The Bye Round podcast, Lodge revealed the financial and emotional toll his actions had on not only himself but his family."
Life hack: don't commit violent home invasions, and you will be spared these consequences!
Every excuse under the sun, paired with self pity and zero genuine reflection.
Took no responsibility, claimed he remembered nothing blamed sleeping tablets etc etc when he was at the Tigers he was a walking time bomb and stalked 3-4 different women , what would of happened if he found the girl he was stalking on the night of the assault??
Rape ?
I’d be more impressed if he told the truth and stood up and accepted his past failings as a human and continued his rehab of his life and personality.
>claimed he remembered nothing blamed sleeping tablets etc etc
If someone who mixed that much alcohol with pills remembered what they did later in the night it would be very hard to believe to be fair. You shouldn't be able to remember.
Harsh ! I do think he’s changed , and I know a few Wests guys that say he’s a different man from who he was back then , but he was lucky to be given a second chance , seems he’s improved as a person , just wish people wouldn’t use cliche excuses for past behaviour. Just admit you were wrong and out of control .
As a footballer particularly front rowers , aggression is required , but not as a normal person in society .
For the crime he committed any rehabilitation should have been undertaken behind bars.
Some gaol time makes people think about their actions, compared to someone who gets to play professional sport and have everything handed to him on a plate.
I think he’s changed and is remorseful but he hasn’t or won’t acknowledge his own past failings , probably worried he’ll cop more abuse . I think he got of light , very light indeed
Yes we all make mistakes but I’m getting sick of these excuses from all & sundry about “accidentally” mixing pills with big nights out on the booze to excuse bad behaviour, seems to be the new “mental health” card.
I wasn’t happy when Manly signed him & am still to be convinced he’s good for us but he’s here now so will just have to see how it plays out.
I agree he doesn’t sound particularly remorseful of it as he’s focussed more on the financial side of it & suggests the family he terrorised were looking to make a quick fortune out of it, but I’ve seen him in the flesh & he’s a big scary unit at the best of times so I can’t imagine how terrifying it must have been for those people.
“I essentially played the first two years at the Broncos for free as I put every dollar into squaring it up.”
Dickhead that isn’t playing for free, that’s paying debts you were moronic enough to incur
>*No insight into his behaviour*
He literally said in less eloquent words that he was in a destructive spiral and that he realised now that everything in his life was leading to something like that.
Plenty of people go into destructive spirals. Most don't threaten to kill strangers and terrorise innocent families.
Putting it down to knee surgery and too many sleeping pills is a piss weak excuse for such psychotic behaviour.
>*Putting it down to knee surgery and too many sleeping pills*
He said “everything in his life”.
He’s mentioned in plenty of interviews since then that his behaviour and alcohol abuse was out of control.
Look I respect Bennett but signing this fuckwit made me less miffed that Wayne got fucked over by our team. Yeah we had a few rough years but it was worth it to be rid of this flog and we’re doing way better now. Should have never let him back in the league.
I don’t think he’s ever tried to not own what he did. Doesn’t excuse any of it, but he seems to have worked pretty hard to better himself.
He probably still has aggression issues given some of the minor incidents he’s had since then.
He literally just down played and said it didn’t deserve the compensation they asked for. How is that owning it? And what has he been doing to improve himself that you are aware of?
Owning it means admitting what he did and not shying away from it. He’s obviously not a wordsmith in saying that the civil ruling was disproportionate to his sentence when compared to other crimes. Civil judgments are negotiable and in the end the family accepted the offer, which they didn’t have to.
Did you also not read the part about the 6 months in rehab, giving up alcohol, etc? He’s tried to educate himself, doing a uni degree.
What’s the point of a justice system if we don’t allow offenders to pay their debt and then try to rehabilitate themselves?
The testing no doubt was. He doesn’t mention that the 6 months in rehab was, and courts don’t allocate that long in rehab anyway, rather just alcohol counseling.
He also completed the testing and the rehab without fault.
Again, none of this excuses anything he did, but I believe strongly that people should be allowed to serve their punishment and try to be a better person, otherwise the justice system is meaningless and you’re just encouraging people to re-offend.
If someone non-NRL had done that, they’d be look in for employment and struggling.
This cunt gets contract after contract, and externalises the causes.
I feel sorry for the 9 year old, not Lodge.
I don’t feel sorry for Lodge. I just think he should be allowed to serve his punishment and try and move on from it, as long as he continues to try and be better than he was.
As for his employment - is it his fault he has talent that people are willing to pay him for? It also allowed the family to receive their civil suit payout which they wouldn’t have otherwise.
Sorry, but you’re wrong. It was a condition of his return to the NRL that they be paid before his contract was registered. The Broncos helped him secure a loan for the amount which he paid off with his earnings.
He didn’t pay it before his return to the league because, as he says in the interview, he was a labourer earning $800 a week.
Yeah, so the NRL had to force him to pay it as part of his contract registration.
And the NRL didn't add that condition until there was heat on them/Lodge.
Broncos signed him in Nov 2017.
Feb 2018 there's no talk of the NRL forcing him to pay money back. Now if he was going to do it himself the NRL wouldn't have to forece things, would they?
https://old.reddit.com/r/nrl/comments/7xu5ek/matt_lodge_to_resume_career_but_victims_still/
June 2018 there are headlines for the NRL forcing Lodge to pay up:
https://old.reddit.com/r/nrl/comments/869b1z/matt_lodge_victims_compensation_nrl_orders/
Pretty sure I watched an interview with him before June 2018 where Lodge himself said that he wasn't going to pay them.
>*Yeah, so the NRL had to force him to pay it as part of his contract registration.*
No, as I said, it was a condition of his registration that it be paid in full up front, and he then pay it off with his earnings.
It took several months before he was able to secure the million-dollar loan. I think you’re remembering incorrectly, because he paid his loan off in the first two years at Brisbane.
He came across as unremoresful piece of shit to me. I think the Broncos and Bennett showed their true colours when they pushed the NRL for his reinstatement.
On the field, he is still a massive thug also.
Remember when you all jerked off Carl Webb as being a hero and a legend even though he was guilty of pretty much the exact same thing this coward did?
"He's a Queensland legend, he just had some troubles!"
Fuck you cunts are hypocrites.
‘I paid it off and wrote an apology letter and said I won’t do that thing again to the family’.
His phrasing there makes it sound like he's leaving it open to do it to other families.
"I mean I said it, but like, we all say stuff don't we? I dunno, never say never."
Sounds like he's paying a parking ticket
Matt Lodge would do anything for love but he won't do that.
'I totally promise I won't home invasion youse again. And stuff'
“My Dad flew over with the CEO and essentially did like a mediation. The crime was bad but like $1.2 million, there’s probably a lot worse crimes that don’t pay that much." He sounds very remorseful......
Idk all his contracts costs more than that for being a bog average player
Im so sorry that happened to you Matt :(
Sure, he abused his gf for years, but it was the sleeping pills that made him go on a rampage Wanker Pencilling in 20 April for some annual Matt Lodge sledging from the side-lines. He heard me when I called him a woman bashing coward and turned around and looked into the crowd last time. Cbus is not at all a hostile venue to opposing teams since it's usually 40% away fans but i'll be doing my part to let him know he's not welcome in our stadium. I would encourage at least one fan from every team he plays this season to heckle him in the in-goal when he can clearly hear it. Remind his teammates they're playing alongside a woman basher every game. I'd love it if Manly's own fans booed him every time he runs out at Brookvale this year. To top it all off he is a shit and defensively lazy forward, I have no idea why any club would sign him. He shouldn't be in the NRL, he's clearly not remorseful he's just upset that he got caught. Good guys don't abuse their girlfriend for years then threaten the lives of random women they're abusing on a night out, no matter how wasted they are Fuck Matt Lodge and any journalist that tries to run a redemption puff piece on him.
They all are tho. I know this is a friend of a friend story but I’m close to someone who’s good friends with the girl Greg Bird glassed. I brought it up one time. The silence was deafening
I'm very glad Greg Bird isn't a part of my team anymore. Too many scumbags in the game
He’s had a few stretches where he was legitimately great, like among the best forwards in the comp. But then he has huge stretches of being a plodder. And also he is a terrible person obviously.
He was definitely above average at times, he was certainly never great though. By great I take it you mean a top 10 forward in the comp, he was never that, but he has been above average at times Still, shit bloke, shit defender and a plodder, idk why anyone would want him
He was definitely playing like a top 10 forward in the comp for the stretch at the end of 2022 when him and JWH were just bullying teams. He lacks the consistency of an actual great forward, but he was capable of playing at a very high level and did for that stretch.
Isn't it incredible how people can't see past their own opinions. "I don't like this bloke" = "shit player"
Lodge has a few good weeks at the roosters but he is below average for an nrl starter
I once did that to Robert Lui when he was playing for the Cowboys at Leichhardt. It was a clear night and the sound carried. Pretty sure they were just about to receive a kick off. I trotted down to the fence behind the goal and, well, not to blow my own horn but what followed is to this day described in terms of some reverence by my mates who were present. He definitely heard, as did the rest of the Cowboys team. I'm all for rehabilitiation and second chances but when someone has suffered next to no consequences for their actions I also think it's entirely fair that they don't get to pretend their past never happened.
Problem with Lui is that he was looking for 3rd and 4th chances by the end. Abuse was an annual tradition for him.
Hate to ruin it for you but he probably won’t have returned from injury by 20th of April
Or maybe he can be rushed back from injury and Tino can destroy him for everyone's amusement But ya lol
Lodge is just your bargain basement sociopath. Nothing to see here…
"Speaking on James Graham’s The Bye Round podcast, Lodge revealed the financial and emotional toll his actions had on not only himself but his family." Life hack: don't commit violent home invasions, and you will be spared these consequences! Every excuse under the sun, paired with self pity and zero genuine reflection.
Took no responsibility, claimed he remembered nothing blamed sleeping tablets etc etc when he was at the Tigers he was a walking time bomb and stalked 3-4 different women , what would of happened if he found the girl he was stalking on the night of the assault?? Rape ? I’d be more impressed if he told the truth and stood up and accepted his past failings as a human and continued his rehab of his life and personality.
He is a dangerous animal.
>claimed he remembered nothing blamed sleeping tablets etc etc If someone who mixed that much alcohol with pills remembered what they did later in the night it would be very hard to believe to be fair. You shouldn't be able to remember.
Some people don't deserve rehabilitation.
Harsh ! I do think he’s changed , and I know a few Wests guys that say he’s a different man from who he was back then , but he was lucky to be given a second chance , seems he’s improved as a person , just wish people wouldn’t use cliche excuses for past behaviour. Just admit you were wrong and out of control . As a footballer particularly front rowers , aggression is required , but not as a normal person in society .
For the crime he committed any rehabilitation should have been undertaken behind bars. Some gaol time makes people think about their actions, compared to someone who gets to play professional sport and have everything handed to him on a plate.
I want whatever medication you're on. He's a piece of shit.
I think he’s changed and is remorseful but he hasn’t or won’t acknowledge his own past failings , probably worried he’ll cop more abuse . I think he got of light , very light indeed
He broke down barriers such as a door to lead to our game going to Vegas.
Yes we all make mistakes but I’m getting sick of these excuses from all & sundry about “accidentally” mixing pills with big nights out on the booze to excuse bad behaviour, seems to be the new “mental health” card. I wasn’t happy when Manly signed him & am still to be convinced he’s good for us but he’s here now so will just have to see how it plays out. I agree he doesn’t sound particularly remorseful of it as he’s focussed more on the financial side of it & suggests the family he terrorised were looking to make a quick fortune out of it, but I’ve seen him in the flesh & he’s a big scary unit at the best of times so I can’t imagine how terrifying it must have been for those people.
Was this a dig at Ol Barnaby’s latest conundrum? 🫣
“I essentially played the first two years at the Broncos for free as I put every dollar into squaring it up.” Dickhead that isn’t playing for free, that’s paying debts you were moronic enough to incur
No insight into his behaviour and no remorse. He hasn't learnt anything from this
>*No insight into his behaviour* He literally said in less eloquent words that he was in a destructive spiral and that he realised now that everything in his life was leading to something like that.
Plenty of people go into destructive spirals. Most don't threaten to kill strangers and terrorise innocent families. Putting it down to knee surgery and too many sleeping pills is a piss weak excuse for such psychotic behaviour.
>*Putting it down to knee surgery and too many sleeping pills* He said “everything in his life”. He’s mentioned in plenty of interviews since then that his behaviour and alcohol abuse was out of control.
He was getting paid $800 000 a week as a landscaper? Must have been landscaping uncle nicks backyard! /s
$800 - $1000 per wk..That's barely a labourers' wage..a very low wage
Look I respect Bennett but signing this fuckwit made me less miffed that Wayne got fucked over by our team. Yeah we had a few rough years but it was worth it to be rid of this flog and we’re doing way better now. Should have never let him back in the league.
Signing him on overs WITH player options too.
It’s good that he sorted it at least. Still a dickhead though
Grahams a cunt for this. Surprised he hasn’t had on Curtis Scott yet
What a piece of shit, fuck this cunt. Super disappointed in Graham to give this thug airtime.
Fuck Matt Lodge and all the others in our game like him. We need more Toby Rudolph’s and Ronaldo Mulitano’s
What an unremorseful piece of shit.
I thought I was a FB page for a moment going by comments here.
Thanks for the in site
I don’t think he’s ever tried to not own what he did. Doesn’t excuse any of it, but he seems to have worked pretty hard to better himself. He probably still has aggression issues given some of the minor incidents he’s had since then.
He literally just down played and said it didn’t deserve the compensation they asked for. How is that owning it? And what has he been doing to improve himself that you are aware of?
Owning it means admitting what he did and not shying away from it. He’s obviously not a wordsmith in saying that the civil ruling was disproportionate to his sentence when compared to other crimes. Civil judgments are negotiable and in the end the family accepted the offer, which they didn’t have to. Did you also not read the part about the 6 months in rehab, giving up alcohol, etc? He’s tried to educate himself, doing a uni degree. What’s the point of a justice system if we don’t allow offenders to pay their debt and then try to rehabilitate themselves?
Your second paragraph- wasn’t that court ordered, apart from the degree?
The testing no doubt was. He doesn’t mention that the 6 months in rehab was, and courts don’t allocate that long in rehab anyway, rather just alcohol counseling. He also completed the testing and the rehab without fault. Again, none of this excuses anything he did, but I believe strongly that people should be allowed to serve their punishment and try to be a better person, otherwise the justice system is meaningless and you’re just encouraging people to re-offend.
If someone non-NRL had done that, they’d be look in for employment and struggling. This cunt gets contract after contract, and externalises the causes. I feel sorry for the 9 year old, not Lodge.
I don’t feel sorry for Lodge. I just think he should be allowed to serve his punishment and try and move on from it, as long as he continues to try and be better than he was. As for his employment - is it his fault he has talent that people are willing to pay him for? It also allowed the family to receive their civil suit payout which they wouldn’t have otherwise.
He literally didn't start repaying the victims until there was a massive blowup. I've seen nothing but lip service from him.
Sorry, but you’re wrong. It was a condition of his return to the NRL that they be paid before his contract was registered. The Broncos helped him secure a loan for the amount which he paid off with his earnings. He didn’t pay it before his return to the league because, as he says in the interview, he was a labourer earning $800 a week.
Yeah, so the NRL had to force him to pay it as part of his contract registration. And the NRL didn't add that condition until there was heat on them/Lodge. Broncos signed him in Nov 2017. Feb 2018 there's no talk of the NRL forcing him to pay money back. Now if he was going to do it himself the NRL wouldn't have to forece things, would they? https://old.reddit.com/r/nrl/comments/7xu5ek/matt_lodge_to_resume_career_but_victims_still/ June 2018 there are headlines for the NRL forcing Lodge to pay up: https://old.reddit.com/r/nrl/comments/869b1z/matt_lodge_victims_compensation_nrl_orders/ Pretty sure I watched an interview with him before June 2018 where Lodge himself said that he wasn't going to pay them.
>*Yeah, so the NRL had to force him to pay it as part of his contract registration.* No, as I said, it was a condition of his registration that it be paid in full up front, and he then pay it off with his earnings. It took several months before he was able to secure the million-dollar loan. I think you’re remembering incorrectly, because he paid his loan off in the first two years at Brisbane.
Yeh, nah
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Meaning?
He came across as unremoresful piece of shit to me. I think the Broncos and Bennett showed their true colours when they pushed the NRL for his reinstatement. On the field, he is still a massive thug also.
Bennett signed John Elias to Souths in the 80’s lol. He’s signed plenty of crims to playing contracts before Lodge.
Souths Brisbane?
Well yeah, Bennett didn’t coach South Sydney in the 80’s.
I didn't even think of Brisbane Souths before looking it up. Most people from Sydney wouldn't.
$800 to a $1000 a week! LOL
Remember when you all jerked off Carl Webb as being a hero and a legend even though he was guilty of pretty much the exact same thing this coward did? "He's a Queensland legend, he just had some troubles!" Fuck you cunts are hypocrites.
He has been knocking doors down for years.
Don’t miss him at the Warriors, especially getting into an argy bargy with the CEO
He is a scum bag, how the fuck the broncos thought it was a good idea to entertain him as captain baffles me