Sharks enforcer Cameron McInnes delivered a “hell of a knock” in opposition to the Panthers, making a file 78 tackles in his aspect’s 28-0 loss.
In the absence of skipper Dale Finucane, the 29-year-old performed 80 minutes within the center and after the Fox Sports Lab analysed the numbers, McInnes’ complete was topped essentially the most tackles in a recreation ever.
McInnes bested the earlier file of 74, held by Raiders lock Shaun Fenson throughout his aspect’s 2011 conflict with the Bulldogs.
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Sharks coach Craig Fitzgibbon praised McInnes’ tireless efforts within the center and revealed his teaching workers questioned whether or not he ought to have been taken off.
“How does it get to a point where you have to do that much defence? The effort was honestly there, defensively we have had some issues,”
“The effort and scramble, so many tackles on our goal line… that’s Cam, he just turns up every day, he’s so consistent.
“He’s always got bark off him everywhere, we were looking at it in the box and the analyst made us aware of it. We said ‘does it look like he is declining energy wise?’.
“He had a couple of slight wobbles but he looked great, so we thought let’s let him be great today and play him 80. I thought it was a hell of a knock.”
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McInnes now sits in esteemed firm, atop a listing crammed with the NRL’s hardiest forwards.
Fensom’s 2011 effort sits in second, whereas Jake Friend and Michael Luck taking over the following three spots on the leaderboard.
Friend made 70 tackles in a recreation twice, as soon as in 2016 and as soon as in 2018, whereas Luck’s 70-tackle effort within the Warriors’ 2009 Anzac Day conflict additionally etched his identify in to the historical past books.
McInnes additionally sits in sixth after making 69 tackles for the Dragons in 2020 in opposition to the Warriors.
The remaining names on the record are Jake Trbojevic (69), Chris Randall (68), Nathan Hindmarsh (68), Cameron Smith (67) and Hindmarsh once more with two 67 sort out efforts.
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