He will be remembered as one of St George Illawarra's favourite sons and one of the best players in the merged club's history.
But the Dragons have a daunting task if they are to send Gareth Widdop out a winner on Saturday night.
St George Illawarra host reigning premiers the Sydney Roosters at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium in their last home match at one of their traditional venues for the year.
The Dragons host the Wests Tigers at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the penultimate round before finishing their season on the Gold Coast against the Titans.
Widdop will finish on 131 games for St George Illawarra should he play in their final three matches of the campaign. The 30-year-old from Halifax has captained the club for a large percentage of those games across six seasons since arriving at the Dragons from Melbourne in 2014.
Widdop will return to the UK at the end of the season to take up a three-year deal with Super League club Warrington after negotiating a release from his Dragons contract at the start of the year.
But if he is to leave Kogarah for the final time with a smile on his face Widdop and his Dragons teammates will have to do it the hard way.
The Roosters are in rich form, having won their last five games to sit second on the NRL table behind Melbourne.
They have scored 190 points in those wins conceding just 52 with an average margin of victory of 36-10. In their last three wins over Gold Coast, top four hopefuls Canberra and the New Zealand Warriors, the Roosters have scored 22 tries, conceding only four.
Dragons coach Paul McGregor gave credit to the Roosters but maintained his side would want to send their captain out on a happy note.
"It's the last game for Gareth here with his next journey being overseas. So it's a really big day for Gaz," he said.
"Certainly for the team we love playing here. It's a real ground that we look forward to playing at each and every time we do throughout the year. It's been a challenging season, we'd like to finish off on a high here.
"It's a challenge that we're looking to meet. And our attitude has to be unmatched. They've got a nice kicking game and at the back end of that they play in the right areas of the field and put you under pressure. So you've got to make sure you withstand that and for us it's about being patient, being disciplined, finishing off our sets well and getting into a nice tight grind with them.
"They've got threats across the park. They've got players in positions that are the best in the world. [James] Tedesco is a good example. He brings it every week and he's a real threat around the footy. On the back of that you've got two very good halves and a willing forward pack and some quick outside backs. So they've got some talent there but we've got 17 players as well that are more than happy to go out there and match that."
McGregor said he was happy with his side defensively in their last three defeats to Cronulla, Parramatta and South Sydney. But a solitary win over the Titans at Kogarah is St George Illawarra's only victory in their last seven matches as they have fallen from finals contention.
"We haven't played the right type of footy to enjoy ourselves. We've been putting ourselves under a fair bit of pressure due to low completion rates and possession rates," he said.
"Defensively the last three losses we've played teams in the top eight and only conceded one try [in the second halves of those games]. When I say only [one] it's still one too many. So we need to make sure our defence is on song and really play at speed and execute well and still have that excitement to us."
