A History of Don't Argue

[FuriousGeorge]

@Go_Team_2.0

Duck into it and have him suspended. Intentional, high contact etc

Play on was the call…

Also, “Don’t argue” is a farking outstanding name for the action. “Stiff-arm” or “Fend-off” are boring.

[Bully]

@Clone_Hirdy

@Bully

I’m surprised more players can’t and don’t do it, surely there are guys in the comp as strong as a 19 year old Reid that should be practicing and mastering the art.

I don’t think it can be taught. You need to have confidence and cockiness to even attempt it. Coaches will rip your head off if you had a better option and then tried the don’t argue and got pinned. Unless of cause you have performed it successfully many times like Dusty and Reid.

Yeah but you’d think it would be taught at training, it’s such an advantage imagine having 2 or 3 in your team.

[Brewer_s_Droop]

I always thought you should hold the ball in two hands and use it to “stab” opposition players, like a tool. Get them right in the solar plexus and run. But I am a psycho, I think.

[Captain_Jack]

The danger in that approach is that the opposition can target the ball and knock it out of you hands. Tucking it under the arm and pushing off with the opposite hand/arm is not only the accepted method, it is also the safest in terms of protecting the ball.

[Lazer]

This was what annoyed me about Dusty’s fend offs. Go back and watch and most of his were in the neck or face which should all be illegal but dusty. Some pics for your perusal

[Paul_Peos]

Dane Swan dealt out a massive don’t argue to Baguley in the 2014 Anzac day, that still haunts my dreams.

[barnz]

Tippa decked dusty through a don’t argue

[eckorock]

is there a video of this? Was it a dreamtime game?

I remember him doing a rundown tackle on Dusty once but not the thing you mentioned.

[sine_nomine]

I think this is where Mr. Miyagi’s “wax on, wax off” should come into play.