Manlys best ever tackler

[maxta]

young Jake has had me thinking about this with his no nonsense defence.
It has a touch of old school style with copybook technique that stops even the best attacking players in their tracks.
There's been some great tacklers at Manly including Terry Randall, Ronnie Gibbs, Tooves & for a fullback Matt Ridge deserves a mention.
Do you rate Jake up with these legends & who else is in the best ever Manly defenders?

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

Terry Randall....that is all

 

[Midnight Rambler]

Craig Innes

 

[Utility Player]

Cement

 

[MissKate]

Cement

Recently saw some old footage of Cement, have to agree, he was pretty brutal

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

There's no need to discuss any player before or after the great Igor. Not only the toughest Manly player, voted one of the 10 toughest ever to play the game in the centenary of League celebrations ( mind you 2V also made that list).

 

[brad]

The BEAVER.

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

In the 70s and early 80s RLW ran a weekly player profile. One of the questions posed was "Hardest Tackler?". The answer across all players and all clubs for years was invariably "Terry Randall". That says it all for me.

 

[HappilyManly]

Igor, cut them in half, one on one and watched them twitch

Beaver is the last player who took their legs out, one on one.
The biggest cheer in the 2008 GF after Beaver's try, was for Beaver cutting Slater's legs off in the 79th minute. Classic footy tackle

I hate the 3 man wrestle dance that waits for a Ref to call 'held' 😡

Jake is consistent but not great - yet 🙂

 

[HoldenV8]

Steve "Beaver" Menzies

For all of his try scoring ability, Beaver was one of the best defenders in the games history.

 

[Budgie]

Igor.

 

[Chip and Chase]

Igor was brutal and hit with great timing - not many better than he.

Beaver had great technique (not sure it'd pay dividends these days as there is no reward for classic tackling technique in the modern game)

I worry about Jake's technique and the likelihood of more head knocks. He targets that mid section nicely and with good shoulder drive, but you do leave yourself open to the odd stray hip.

 

[The Who]

I disagree. Randall was a brutal tackler, probably the best at hurting opposition players.
But, having watched Manly for 55 years, imo the three best tacklers from a techniques perspective (ie. bootlace) were:
Ian Martin
Alan Thompson, and
Beaver
Sadly, today's tacklers are taught to wrap up the ball so copybook bootlace tacklers are rare.

 

[slamminsam24]

Beaver. Immortal in my eyes and is the main reason this born n bred brisbanite is a one eyed silvertail for life.

 

[qldeagle]

Igor....... No more questions your honour.

 

[Budgie]

And then there's our rock solid last lines of defence, Wombat and Snake - bit of a theme there!

 

[PONTIAN SEA EAGLE]

Igor & mark carroll

 

[pjayz]

That Brett Kimmorley was a total cat - but could pull off a hit!

 

[Vyssini]

Terry Randall.

 

[pjayz]

Igor
Beaver
Cement
Jake T
Craig Innes
Rambo

....and for pure hits (apart from the above):
Matai
Haumono