Editing Tackle (football move) (section)

==Rugby football==
===Rugby league===
{{See also|One on one tackle|Dump tackle}}
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In [[rugby league]] the ball-carrier can be tackled by any number of defenders from any direction. The initial contact in the tackle must be made below the ball carrier's neck or it will be deemed a [[high tackle]] and penalised. A tackle in rugby league is completed when any of the following occurs:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.playnrl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ARL-Rules-book-2015.pdf |title=Archived copy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051045/http://www.playnrl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ARL-Rules-book-2015.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=}}</ref>
*The attacking player's ball or the hand or arm holding the ball comes into contact with the ground while still held by one or more defenders.
*Although still on his feet, the attacking player's forward momentum has ceased while still held by one or more defender.
*Being held by a defender, the attacking player makes it evident that he has succumbed to the tackle and wishes to be released in order to play-the-ball.
*A defender places a hand on the attacking player lying on the ground.

Once the tackle is completed, the ball-carrier must be allowed to get to his feet to '[[playing rugby league#Play-the-ball|play-the-ball]]' and the defensive team must retreat 10 metres (except 2 markers, facing the tackled player). [[Spear tackle]]s are illegal in rugby league, with most tackles in which the defender is lifted 'above the horizontal' bringing about penalties in the modern game. A stiff arm tackle is an offence. A 2012 New Zealand study found that over 659 tackles are made per game in professional rugby league.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=King D, Hume PA, Clark T |title=Nature of tackles that result in injury in professional rugby league |journal=Hutt Valley District Health Board |pmid=22458826 |doi=10.1080/15438627.2012.660824 |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=86–104 |year=2012 |s2cid=46483040 }}</ref> Of all the [[rugby league positions]], {{rlp|sr}} averages the most tackles.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rogers |first1=Tim |first2=Richard |last2=Beesley |title=Fitness for Rugby League |year=2006 |publisher=coachrugbyleague.com.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125024352/http://coachrugbyleague.com.au/Documents/International/Fitness%20for%20Rugby%20League.pdf |url=http://coachrugbyleague.com.au/Documents/International/Fitness%20for%20Rugby%20League.pdf |archive-date=25 January 2014 }}</ref>

===Rugby union===
In [[rugby union]], a player must be brought to ground for a [[rugby union gameplay#Tackle|tackle]] to be completed. The tackled player must release the ball, but the ball is not dead and a ''[[rugby union gameplay#Ruck|ruck]]'' forms to contest possession of it. If the ball carrier is not brought to the ground a ''[[rugby union gameplay#Maul|maul]]'' will usually form. High/reckless or stiff arm tackles laws once dictated any contact made above the shoulders was an offence. Now, even if contact starts below the shoulders, if the head is involved in any reckless tackle it results in the offending player being given a yellow card and therefore sin binned. World Rugby now defines a reckless tackle as being any contact where the tackler "knew or should have known that there was a risk of making contact with the head of an opponent, but did so anyway"<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/38322884 |title=High tackles: World Rugby changes rules over head contact |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=14 December 2016 }}</ref>