The biggest compliment I can think to pay Carmont is that over the years he's got rid of this 'bargain buy' tag and has turned that in to a tag of 'brilliant buy' or 'Ian Lenagans best ever signing' or 'One of Wigans best ever superleague signings' and so on which just goes to show how well this guy has played and he's done it over a sustained period of time.

He came as a cheap option we'd thought would be here for a year or two and leaves as a club legend that would have been worth any wages we could have afforded for him.

Terrific player and above anything I hope we can win the GF for him(and Leuluai).

To be fair to those who were underwhelmed when we signed George, he wasn't a top player at that stage in his career. He was a competent but far from world class player when he arrived but he just got better and better every year until last season when he was at the peak of his powers.

I've always liked George as a player, and watching him in games like the WCC and the Exiles match was fantastic, what a season he had and how well deserved it was to see him fulfil his potential. It has taken him a long time and a lot of hard work to get to the pinnacle of the sport but last season he was truly world class and unquestionably the best centre in SL.

This season it is obvious that he is at the wrong end of his career but his class and hard work have kept him at the top of SL. His recent form has been very good and I suspect we may see some more of the 2011 George in the playoffs (not that the 2012 George has been bad!).

I think he could do another year and still be one of the better centres in SL but would understand if he wants to bow out at the top now, who would begrudge him his choice? For me the man is up there with the likes of Bell and Dallas as great overseas servants of this club in the modern era. Whatever he does is fine by me.

Now all we need to finish George's career is for him to get another SL GF winner's ring, it would be no more than he deserves.

Go George!

i was chatting with george on sunday(propper top bloke) on parbold hill and he was on about buying a ice cream van,i kid you not

Is he going to drive up to Wellens' house, stop outside and just when the Slug thinks he can catch him for the first time, he speeds off?

No need to speed off, surely? He could stay in first gear....

There was a reason I chose George's quote for my sig!!!
Not every player becomes a legend, but I seriously believe GC has done enough to warrant that status.
Thanks for everything George, enjoy retirement, we'll never forget you.

Just gets better and better doesn't he? A tremendous performance tonight from George, 34 going on 24 the way he is playing.

One more year

A great example that says don't think you can't make it if you have not made the 1st team in your late teens/early twenties - never give up.

I remember when we signed him the petition on the web site of his former club in Oz not wanting him to go. History has repeated itself in that regard and we got him for this season when we thought we would not.

IIRC he came over on a low wage and the club rightly upgraded his contract. I doubt he is set up for life after his time here but I hope he has enough behind him to have comfortable retirement from sport.

In one more year

Incredible as it sounds now, but we signed him around the same time as big Karl and the general consensus was that George was a cheap stop gap and KP was going to be the long term project.

Quite a few on here were extremely vociferous in their support for Karl Pryce.