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Saints ..... Phil Veivers.

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

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Quote: Steve0 "Richard Swain (Hull FC)'"


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.

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

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

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[b:34z93omz][url=http://www.donsstats.co.uk:34z93omz]http://www.donsstats.co.uk[/url:34z93omz][/b:34z93omz] - Full results and player stats for Doncaster RLFC from 1951 to the current day. [b:34z93omz][color=#000000:34z93omz]"Lost the battle, lost the war Lost the things worth living for Lost the will to win the fight One more pill to kill the pain"[/color:34z93omz][/b:34z93omz] - Michael Burnett:



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

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Quote: Bilko "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.'"


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! icon_lol.gif

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

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[quote="OFFTHECUFF":1xb0p6sn] Wish i could watch a team like Leigh. :CLAP: [/quote:1xb0p6sn] [quote="Steve":1xb0p6sn] Dislike Leigh with a passion, but they are a million miles ahead of any other club in this league, a sad fact. [/quote:1xb0p6sn]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_24148.jpg



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

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Quote: oxford-pie-eater "51!!!

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

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Quote: oxford-pie-eater "51!!!

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

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

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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!

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Quote: Dunbar "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!'"


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.

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Quote: BIGAL1 "Richard Slater, half man half machine.'"


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

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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).

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