Cronulla skipper Trent Barrett has ended months of speculation by confirming he will retire at the end of the season. www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... rrett.html

Cronulla skipper Trent Barrett has ended months of speculation by confirming he will retire at the end of the season. www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... rrett.html

Pity. Not a bad player really!

And only 32.

I'd love to have seen the Trent Barrett of 4 years ago playing with Sam as 7 behind next year's pack. He was playing behind a struggling pack in most games while he was here.

Still, we've got Finch and Sam playing behind the 2011 pack to look forward to!

Thanks for the memories Trent....

Quite simply an outstanding rugby league player and a joy to watch.Its a shame he was only really let off the leash by the coaches at Wigan when we were getting hammered in games and it was a final throw of the dice.

He is pretty young at 32 to be calling it a day, but given his style of play which was more like an extra forward as well as a fantastic half back his body has probably had enough.

Would have loved to have seen him play his natural game more often at Wigan, but still fantastic for us a real quality.

Best player in Super League while he was here. Played in an atrociously poor coached side, but still his class shone through. One of the best imports I've seen in years.

Great player

There's a reason that we were known at times as Barrett and the Twelve Disciples, he won a hell of a lot of games for us.

That ridiculous pass for our first try at Bradford in the playoffs was superb, must have missed out about 8 people!

If only our game plan would have allowed him to do that from the kick off!! Not talking about throwing wild passes and going for broke right from the off, but just giving the team more freedom to be led on the field by Trent a man who I am sure from watching him play has forgotten more about attacking rugby league, runners and pass picking than BN has ever know.

That for me was one of the most frustrating things about having BN as our coach.

Thanks for the memories Trent. Right, time to bugger off from this thread as the usual suspects will jump on with their garbage....

What an awesome image that was!

Class Act!

I like the fact he said Live on Sky at the end of the Bradford game it was one of the best wins he's been a part of. That'll do for me, because it was one of the best games I've ever seen.

Barrett was quality. Great player who, like Faz on a few occasions, won the game for us on his own.

A good player .... a great player even..... but no James Roby!

A great player, and a sublime piece of eye candy *sigh* Made the Cronulla games worth watching.

I love this picture.

Enjoy the retirement Trent; thanks for gracing us with your talent. A real pleasure to watch.

Barrett was amazing for Wigan and that night at Bradford in the play-offs is a game I will never forget.

He is/was a truly World Class player and players of this greatness are a sad loss to the game when they reach the age were they cannot carry on playing.

The great thing about our sport is that the next world class player is always there to take over the mantle. The King is Dead..Long live the King...

Watching players like Barrett make me smile... Our sport is a minority sport in this country for reasons that I still cannot fully fathon. I am just glad my Dad was a Wigan Fan who showed me the light and that I can pass that light to my son... Yes we are a minority sport but we(RL Fans) arn't half lucky to watch our great game every week...

PS.. I was going to call our son "Trent".... Lets just say the wife wasn't too keen... so WE! agreed on "Jake"!!! Women

Trent, what a player!

Trent is one of the best players I have seen in the cherry and white.............

Having named my 21 year old, Greg, after one of our great scrum halves, surely you called your son Jake Trent?

I saw Barrett play for Australia and always wished I could see him in person each week.

Im glad I had that chance.

He was first class for us.

True, he was magnificent for Wigan.

He was a player that proved that Australians can settle into a new team and a new country from game 1.

I remember Stevo rambling on about how Barrett would come good on the harder grounds but he was first class from day 1 when we played Warrington in the snow.

Im sure Tim Smith will benefit from playing with him for the rest of the season at Cronulla.