Understand, I seem to recall that he put a lot of shit on KM, Dymock and the Club at the time to play NRL or he wanted to leave so he signed up mid year 2011 then moved to start the 2012 season.
If I am wrong then please let me know,
You got to remember he was biding his time behind kimmorley and ben roberts was starting 5/8
He done his acl mid 2011 he still thought he would get re signed as he was a hardcore bulldogs supporter i can tell you he loved the club one of my brothers bumped into him in 2011 and asked about his acl rehab and contract issues and he said they don't want me (they as in bulldogs coaching staff KM)
He then got offered a gig at the titans and if it was true he left for fg he would have started the year at the titans in fg his debut was around 8-10 weeks into the year
The dogs signed hodkinson for ridiculous money at the time and then signed keating (because not many people know this but keating and hodkinson played junior footy together) we had reynolds coming through and ben roberts was still at the club so he didnt have much of a choice
But where did ben roberts career go
Keating??
Hodkinson??
I guess you can say it was bad management by both coaching staff
KM for signing hodko and keating
And des for not allowing him to come back