on 7 october 2011, it was reported that moltzen did not want to honour his contract with the dragons, with the wests tigers club stating that moltzen had never been formally released from his contact. humphreys said of the contract dispute, "tim is contracted to us for 2012. we have the only contract of his that is registered by the nrl." three days later, wests tigers appeared to do a backflip with ceo humphreys stating "the way that it is likely to play out is that he will be going to the dragons, we will have a conversation with them in the next few days about it, but we have been working on the assumption that he won't be here next season." another two days on, st george dragons referred the matter to the nrl after wests tigers announced moltzen would be staying at the club.