Any interesting names of the past or present?

Please enter your team and why you picked that player; particular memories etc

Malcolm Alker for Salford because he is the 1st ever player to complete over 1000 tackles in a super league season. Stand out performance was an academy game where he made 82 tackles

Dale Fritz........

Beat me to it.....

and...Michael Eager at a close 2nd!

richard salter

Trinity
In my time:
Graham Idle 70s/80s
Nigel Bell 80s/90s
Richard Slater 90s

Richard Swain (Hull FC)

You'd have to put Ellis in there. Belly would be top but Gareth Ellis would hurt you as well.

I would have to see proof of that. Not questioning your integrity but 82 is so far off the scale he would be in the GBoR

Assuming there was an even split of possession he had 40 mins to make tackles, then take another 10 mins off for ball being out of play

The other team would literally have had to run at him every single play.

Paul Moses diminutive scrum half at the Cougars.

No matter how big or whatever he had a superb tackling technique and down they went.

If only we had 17 like him now!

Mick Cassidy was always a good tackler.

Sean O'Loughlin is always our top man now although Mark Flanagan made an awesome 51 tackles during the derby last Friday.

Richard Slater, half man half machine.

my housemates uncle played in the 60s called charlie renilson, anyone remember him? apparently a good tackler

Adam Maher at Hull as well as Swainey.

Saints ..... Phil Veivers.

It could be rose tinted glasses , but I don't remember him missing a tackle .

In one.

One of the best defenders in the world on his day, will never forget his Charge down on Sinfields drop goal in the 05 Challenge Cup.

Richie Barnett Snr is worth saying purely for the amount of power he'd put in his tackles.

Ian Roberts

Steele Retchless was always a machine when it came down to tackling for us.

For Huddersfield
currently Stephen Wild
in the past Alan Wilson, Garry Coulter spring to mind

At Doncaster... Sean Leaf. He'd tackle a bus if it meant stopping it scoring.

51!!!

Was gonna say Mick. Otherwise, my memories are of Ian Gildart. Used to average around 40 tackles a game. Bloody useless running at the line though!



Steele Retchless though was the one player I can remember from modern times for being truly renowned for his work in defence.

Jimmy Taylor for Leigh at the moment. Tackles hard and consistantly and one against sheffield a few weeks ago was amazing!

Funny you mention that - I played a few times against Denis Betts and Ian Gildart when they played together at u15's & u17's - Gildart was the star of the show and was touted as the next big thing... then when they turned pro, he lost his running game completely and the coaches turned him into a workhorse

Betts of course went on to GB honours and NRL

You never know do you!

He holds the SL game record, doesn't he? 66 or something like.

In his relatively short Bulls career, Tahi Reihana did a bit. Langers (Jamie Langley) is a bit of a tackle machine as well.