only our first season but has to be Ryan O'Hara, 627 so far not outstanding but about 100 more than anyone else

Many of these guys will inevitably be forwards. To mix it up a bit, how's about Alfie Langer. Was always bowled over with the way he'd pull down the biggest lads on the pitch time and time again.

Back to Wigan (sorry!) and an obvious one - Dean Bell was always immense in defence!

Still to this day don't know if I've seen another player who you might say suited the term workhorse quite like Gildart did. Don't think he was ever hero material, but I hope he reads this, as he was my favourite player as a kid cos I loved tackling.

Dale Fritz.......100% machine

Ian Morrison was good for us in our national league days although our best tackler now is probably galea, briscoe or murrell although stats show murrell and galea also miss a few.

Jimmy Walker was great defender for us back in the dark days once doing 60+ tackles in one game and then being taken to hospital with a broken arm after the same game (plus the hit he put on carvell at the kc in a 'friendly' that knocked him out)

Richard Slater had a year at Rovers and was solid alongside Paul Fletcher in our back row.

The best tackler i've seen against us or live include Gary connolly and Richard Swain (as others have said).

For my club David Watkinson, Gavin Miller, Len Casey, Gordon Smith.....

Nathan Hindmarsh , Ray Price , Peter Sterling are best i have seen otherwise (honourable mention for Ian Potter..)

Chris 'Bus Stop' Burton

Ian's still involved in the game - My lad's coach at Town Team, and a good one at that!

That's good news - I didn't know Ian socially but he seemed like a good bloke

This one.

From recent years

Dave Furner
Chris McKenna
Andrew Dunneman
Kevin Sinfield
Marc Glanville

Billy Conway!

Billy Conway.

Sam Obst.

Steele Retchless

Dessie Drummond. The shear strength of how he put his shoulder in and lifted the player of the ground.

Class player not just for his tackling

Fixed that for you.

Absolutely!

For someone different at Cas, Brad Hepi had an awesome tackling technique, was always amazing when he came on the field

Yep. That's one way of describing it

Shane Millard for Widnes stands out in my memory for my own club, but Gary Larson (Norths) in the 90's NRL was a tackle-bot and takes the prize for me.

A while back, but Peter Smith of Featherstone Rovers was the best I've ever seen - he quietly and efficiently put down anyone he needed to; and he always seemed to be there for the really important ones. And a little further back, for those who can remember, Keith Cotton should have a mention on this thread. Those who were tackled by him will certainly remember him.

For Northern...Jimmy Thompson and Karl Fairbanks...they hit you..and you'd know it!!!

The Hardest Tacklers ive seen for Donny are Vila Matautia, Asa Amone, and Peter Edwards. A mean bunch.

I'll give you that one, still effective though

Ones that stand out to me from Bulls in recent years include Scott Naylor (consistently kept the likes of Newlove, Senior and Renouf quiet). Danny Gartner and Sir Bernard Dwyer. I'm sure I'll add a good few more if I think about it. But you tend not to notice the hard-graft tacklers as much as the attacking players, do you?

For other clubs, a couple that stood out that immediately spring to mind are Steele Retchless (amazing) and Marc Glanville (under-rated by many I often thought).

Talking of Dean Bell ........... how about Jarrod McCracken