I'll be chuffed to bits if George stays for another year. Easily my favourite Wigan player of the last decade and has been pretty much since he arrived. Pure class - the way he ripped St George to shreds was awesome. Quiet, understated and does his talking on the pitch.

The amount of organization he does for the team, both in defense and from dummy half, tirelessly runs the ball out back; makes breaks, scores tries (that was his 50th for Wigan on Sunday). I think that Pat might want him to stay too - it's no coincidence that when George plays well, Richards scores tries! The best centre in SL at the moment and would potentially be a huge loss if he retires.

For me, Richards and Carmont are Wigan's best centre wing partnership of the SL era

I have to admitt I'm not 100% fully paid into Madge's theory of playing his strongest side possible in every game we play.

For me we could easily sign Carmont for next season and reduce his game time significantly from what we've seen this season. Does he really need to play every week of the league and cup?

Carmont also told me the same thing about recovery from knocks and games getting harder, and it was unlikely he would do another year, but he would wait until the end of the season to see how things were. He told me this at the last supporters club meeting.

Along with Gleeson he is in the top two centres in SL(apparently) So i'm guessing he's a very important cog in the Wigan machine.

He's no Matty Blythe is he.

I agree. Also if younger players dont get games at centre they arent going to be in any better position to take over next year then they would have been this year.