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Trent Barret
Luke Covell
Nathan Cayless
Scott Logan
Ty Williams
Steve Price
Mat Rogers

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Fond farewell as World Cup winners will all leave on a high note

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Fond farewell as World Cup winners will all leave on a high note
September 3, 2010
Brad Walter

Between them, Mat Rogers, Trent Barrett and Brett Kimmorley have won a premiership, officially launched an NRL season, set points-scoring records and played for the Wallabies as well as the Kangaroos.

Collectively, the trio, who will all retire when their teams bow out of the premiership race, also have the rare distinction of playing together in Australia's last World Cup-winning team in 2000.

''We haven't got a lot of senior players as role models so it is a pity that we lose three good ones all at once,'' said former Kangaroos coach Chris Anderson, who has enjoyed a long relationship with each of them.

'''Noddy', Trent and Mat have all been good for the game, at every level they played. Everywhere they have gone they have done their best and been good role models for the blokes coming through. I think the game is better off for the three of them. They have all been good students of the game.''

So much so that Barrett and Kimmorley will take on specialist halves coaching roles with Cronulla and Canterbury respectively after playing their final games this weekend.

Rogers is also planning to undergo a coaching course, but only so he can help his son's under-15s team at Burleigh Bears next year. The dual international will continue to work for Gold Coast in a sponsorship and hospitality job after the Titans' finals campaign ends, hopefully with a premiership.

''There's been times, like with the Sharks in 1999, where we should have won, and that still haunts me,'' Rogers said. ''There is the potential for this year to haunt me too because I think we've got the team to do it so let's hope it doesn't.''

Of the trio, only Kimmorley has won a premiership - steering Melbourne to grand final glory in 1999 against Barrett's St George Illawarra side. But they have each left their mark on the game in other ways, with Rogers's 24-point haul against New Zealand in 2000 still the record for the most points scored in a trans-Tasman Test, and Barrett winning the 2000 Dally M award, captaining NSW in this year's final Origin match and launching the 2001 season with a speech at the Olympic Stadium before the opening game. ''I was pretty nervous doing that,'' Barrett recalled yesterday. ''There's been so many highlights over the years, I couldn't pick one.''

Barrett and Kimmorley were still playing well enough to be chosen for NSW this season. ''He stood up on some big occasions,'' Kimmorley said of Barrett. ''He was in and out of Origin, [it was] unknown when he was going to get picked again but every time he got to play, the calibre of the player he is showed.

''Especially coming back from England and playing well … the competitiveness of the bloke shows that he wasn't ready to be finished. He came back and played great for Cronulla.''

Unlike fellow former representative teammates Steve Price and Steve Simpson, who have had decisions about their futures determined by injuries, Kimmorley, Barrett and Rogers needed some convincing that the time was right to retire now, and all are happy to be able to stay involved with the game through their off-field roles.

''I played a lot of footy with Noddy and 'Rat' [Rogers], and it's good that we are still able to have some involvement in the game,'' said Barrett, who also has arranged work with the NRL and Country Rugby League. ''I think we've all been blokes who have tried to do the right thing, and I think that comes from the guys we were surrounded by when we came into grade.''
 
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13 Players to “Retire” With Over 3000 NRL Games Between Them

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13 "Retire” With Over 3000 NRL Games
Tracie Edmondson
03 Sep 2010 09:46:00

Thirteen NRL stalwarts, who have played over 3000 Telstra Premiership matches between them, will start to hang up their boots over the next month before their official send-off at the NRL Grand Final on October 3.

300-plus games veterans Steve Price (313), Luke Priddis (314) and Brett Kimmorley (307) spearhead the star-studded line-up of players who are retiring or finishing their careers in the UK and have qualified for the NRL’s special Grand Final Day tribute. They have played a combined total of 3045 NRL games.

While Price unfortunately played his last game in June because of injury and the Broncos’ PJ Marsh (158) did not play at all this year being ruled out in the pre-season with a neck injury, the remainder will get to farewell their fans over the next five weeks during the final Premiership round this weekend and/or the four weeks of the finals series – depending where their team finishes.

Of the clubs out of the finals race already, the following players will lace up their boots for the last time this weekend: Sharks captain Trent Barrett (234 games) and team-mate Luke Covell (152); Eels captain Nathan Cayless (258); Ty Williams (Cowboys, 150); Kimmorley (Bulldogs, 307); and Steve Simpson (Knights, 216). UK-bound Luke Patten (Bulldogs, 281) and Brett Finch (Storm, 257) will also play in the NRL for the last time this weekend.

The remaining players, whose teams are still in the race for the top eight or have already qualified for the finals series are: Priddis; Josh Perry (Sea Eagles, 209 – UK bound); and Mat Rogers (Titans, 196).

They will all receive an on-field tribute and a dedicated video package at Grand Final Day. Stats for Retiring/ “Departing” Players (as at August 31, 2010)

Trent Barrett
Teams Illawarra 1996-98, St George Illawarra 1999-2006, Cronulla 2009-10
Games 234
Tries 82
Points 338
Runs (1998 -) 1552
Metres (199:cool: 10,832
Tackles (1998 -) 3087
Tackle Breaks (2003-) 152
Offloads (199:cool: 203
Try Assists 112

Nathan Cayless
Teams Parramatta
Games 258
Tries 27
Points 109
Runs (1998 -) 3732
Metres (199:cool: 27,392
Tackles (1998 -) 6358
Tackle Breaks (2003-) 165
Offloads (199:cool: 418
Try Assists 10

Luke Covell
Teams Wests Tigers 2003-04, Cronulla 2005-10
Games 152
Tries 62
Points 1086
Runs (1998 -) 1280
Metres (199:cool: 10,630
Tackles (1998 -) 732
Tackle Breaks (2003-) 445
Offloads (199:cool: 64
Try Assists 11

Brett Finch
Teams Canberra 1999-02, Roosters 2003-06, Parramatta 2007-09, Melbourne 2009-10
Games 257
Tries 66
Points 278
Runs (1998 -) 1495
Metres (199:cool: 11,330
Tackles (1998 -) 4661
Tackle Breaks (2003-) 298
Offloads (199:cool: 370
Try Assists 163

Brett Kimmorley
Teams Newcastle 1995-96, Hunter 1997, Melbourne 1998-00, Northern Eagles 2001, Cronulla 2002-08, Canterbury 2009-10
Games 307
Tries 82
Points 729
Runs (1998 -) 1756
Metres (199:cool: 13,314
Tackles (1998 -) 5121
Tackle Breaks (2003-) 254
Offloads (199:cool: 299
Try Assists 208

PJ Marsh
Teams Parramatta 2000-01,2005-07, Warriors 2002-03, Brisbane 2008-09
Games 158
Tries 22
Points 114
Runs (1998 -) 923
Metres (199:cool: 7624
Tackles (1998 -) 2985
Tackle Breaks (2003-) 95
Offloads (199:cool: 80
Try Assists 24

Luke Patten
Teams Illawarra 1998, St.George Illawarra 1999-00, Canterbury 2001-10
Games 281
Tries 100
Points 400 Runs (1998 -) 4066 Metres (199:cool: 33,099 Tackles (1998 -) 1177 Tackle Breaks (2003-) 691
Offloads (199:cool: 247
Try Assists 53

Josh Perry
Teams Newcastle 2000-07, Manly 2008-10
Games 209
Tries 20
Points 80
Runs (1998 -) 2271
Metres (199:cool: 19,872
Tackles (1998 -) 4334
Tackle Breaks (2003-) 244
Offloads (199:cool: 137
Try Assists 1

Steve Price
Teams Canterbury 1994-2004, Warriors 2005-2009
Games 313
Tries 35
Points 140
Runs (1998 -) 4005
Metres (199:cool: 31,600
Tackles (1998 -) 5913
Tackle Breaks (2003-) 322
Offloads (199:cool: 288
Try Assists 22

Luke Priddis
Teams Canberra 1997-98, Brisbane 1999-01, Penrith 2002-08, St George Illawarra 2009-10
Games 314
Tries 63
Points 252
Runs (1998 -) 2084
Metres (199:cool: 15,556
Tackles (1998 -) 8195
Tackle Breaks (2003-) 190
Offloads (199:cool: 250
Try Assists 43

Mat Rogers
Teams Cronulla 1995-2001, Gold Coast 2007-10
Games 196
Tries 106
Points 1355
Runs (1998 -) 1363
Metres (199:cool: 10,443
Tackles (1998 -) 1293
Tackle Breaks (2003-) 243
Offloads (199:cool: 164
Try Assists 29

Steve Simpson
Teams Newcastle 1999-2010
Games 216
Tries 32
Points 128
Runs (1998 -) 2089
Metres (199:cool: 16,763
Tackles (1998 -) 5738
Tackle Breaks (2003-) 178
Offloads (199:cool: 131
Try Assists 13

Ty Williams
Teams North Queensland 2002-10
Games 150
Tries 84
Points 336
Runs (1998 -) 1594
Metres (199:cool: 13,779
Tackles (1998 -) 885
Tackle Breaks (2003-) 238
Offloads (199:cool: 102
Try Assists 13
 
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