Confrontation led to Lodge’s Warriors exit

cap for the rest of this season and next season as well and said the club was comfortable with that.

‘‘We will not confirm a number, a settlement has been agreed upon.

‘‘The conditions and terms of any settlement contract negotiations for staff or players will remain confidential. That’s only fair on both the organisation and the person that we’re dealing with and obviously their family.’’

Robinson told the Daily Telegraph he and Lodge exchanged words at the Belvedere Hotel near Redcliffe, late last year. He says Lodge never got over it.

‘‘We had an argument in a hotel, two alpha males in a pub last December,’’ Robinson said.

‘‘Two days later we shook hands and moved on but it never came right.

‘‘Plus, he didn’t want to come back to New Zealand next year.’’