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IT was October last year when Josh Hoffman's relationship with the Brisbane Broncos <span channel="!Print">really</span> turned sour.
Away with the Kiwi Test side in Cairns, Hoffman made some comments in an interview with The Courier-Mail that enraged coach Anthony Griffin.
The Broncos had lost seven of their previous eight games to fade from top-four title contenders to a finals elimination in week one.
Hoffman, having returned for 2012 pre-season training several kilograms overweight at 99kg, would agree he did not have his best season subsequently.
He compounded that with some brutal honesty about the imminent arrival of Stephen Kearney as an assistant coach that ruffled feathers at Red Hill.
"We weren't really putting in (at the end of last season)," Hoffman said at the time. "We weren't looking each other in the eye and being honest about our efforts. I know myself, I wasn't digging in like I could have.
"I think he (Kearney) will really help bring the team closer."
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Talk at the time was that Griffin was so upset that Hoffman was almost sacked on the spot.
He already had one strike from Griffin in August when he was dropped to Redcliffe for arriving late to training.
Then a week before pre-season training started, Griffin signed Scott Prince from the Titans.
At the time it was seen as a broadside to existing halves Peter Wallace and Corey Norman, who both began canvassing options to leave Brisbane.
But Griffin had hinted at his motives at the time when he said it could allow Norman to move to fullback.
Hoffman was out of favour and had to wait until round 20 this year to wear the No.1 jersey again.
In that time, the Broncos almost signed Josh Dugan, until a social media rant from the sacked Canberra star ended negotiations, and Ben Barba's plans to move to Brisbane literally fell in the club's lap.
In the same week Barba's deal was finalised, Hoffman had told The Courier-Mail he was willing to fight for the No.1 jersey and remain a "one-club player".
He was man of the match days later but after the game it all exploded again when the club media manager pulled Hoffman away from Channel 7 cameras just as the topic of Barba was raised.
It was coincidental, but the images which went to air embarrassed him and the club. Hoffman stormed out of the sheds, and was overheard telling teammates he was furious the club had not shielded him from the media.
Since the season ended, Hoffman has asked for a release from his contract and is now provocatively parading himself with Canterbury players in the Kiwis camp at the World Cup.
He responded to yesterday's story in The Courier-Mail which quoted Facebook comments from his dad, by tweeting: "My father doesn't speak for me."
Privately, Broncos officials have not had a bad word to say about Hoffman but it is clear they have a major issue on their hands.
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