Source: The Courier-Mail

Are Queensland fans supposed to just open up their arms and lovingly embrace him if or when he walks back into Camp Maroon next year?

Inglis has now walked out on both Melbourne and Brisbane in the space of a few whirlwind months.

He left the Storm, who have raised him since he was 16, when the club needed him most.

That is a shattered empire that will take resolve to repair for several seasons to come.

Melbourne was desperate to emerge from this year's crippling salary cap scandal with their "Fab Four" of Inglis, Cameron Smith, Billy Slater and Cooper Cronk intact.

They wanted Inglis, but he decided to "follow his heart" to Brisbane, to settle with fiance Sally Robinson.

And that's fair enough.

Love supposedly conquers all.

But this was the condition of the Storm's decision to release him to Brisbane - and only Brisbane.

And it was then, in July, that Inglis gave the Broncos his word he would pen a two-year deal with the glamour club.

The legal dispute he is still embroiled in with Melbourne has nothing to do with them.

And yet Inglis, who was due to begin pre-season training last Monday and had the Storm's blessing to do so, has reneged on Brisbane.

His desire to play alongside champion Test skipper Darren Lockyer and close friends Justin Hodges and Sam Thaiday appears to have been trumped.

That's where the South Sydney Rabbitohs come into the picture.

Let's just hope there's more to Inglis's side of the story to emerge than Sonny Bill Williams was able to stitch together in France in 2008 to justify the nature of his mid-season exit from the Bulldogs.

Because, as it stands today, many Broncos and Storm fans will find it very hard to separate the emotions conjured by Williams's bombshell with that of Inglis.

Fair enough Inglis wanted a fresh start from Melbourne, but he gave his word to the Broncos.

And he's gone back on it.