Controversial forward Matt Lodge looks poised to leave the Roosters after the club granted his request to go immediately.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports Lodge’s management submitted three requests to the eastern suburbs club in the last month, the first two of which were denied, but the third has now been granted.
The club is reportedly unhappy with the 28-year-old’s attitude since being told he wouldn’t be offered a new contract beyond this season.
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Lodge was dropped from the NRL team last week and has now played his last game for the Tricolours.
The Chooks opted to re-sign veteran prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves instead of Lodge, and the latter was squeezed out by the arrival of Spencer Leniu next year.
Last week it was reported Lodge had met with Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo.
Lodge arrived at the Chooks mid-season last year after a bizarre exit from the Warriors, who paid out his lucrative $700,000 contract.
His signing by the Roosters raised eyebrows, given the club’s history of employing relative cleanskin players and the controversial past of the man in question.
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Lodge was arrested in New York in October 2015 after following two women into an apartment complex, then assaulting a man who came to their aid, and punching a hole in a wall where a young boy was hiding.
He was initially charged with felony burglary causing injury, but later entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanour count of reckless assault.
He avoided jail, but was later sued by the victims in civil court. He returned to the NRL in 2018 with the Broncos, then went to the Warriors in 2021.
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