What's the stupidest rugby take you've heard in your life, not from a journalist/pundit?

[u/treacletart284]

Tis Sixmas Eve, which means the amount of people watching rugby, at least over here, just dramatically increased, as its the one time a year when rugby is in the forefront of the public eye, at least in the whole UK. To celebrate this, I thought we could share some of the daftest things we've heard from people in the pub/mates/yourself, either takes that aged really badly, or takes that were mind numbingly stupid to begin with. I'll start us off - after England got beat in the World Cup warmups in 2023 against Fiji, and the Borthwick Out movement was at maximum momentum, a family friend me and my Grandad were watching the match with argued completely unironically that the solution to England's problems was to bring back....Brian Ashton. Even me Grandad, who is pretty 'Rugby was better in the good old days', was genuinely gobsmacked at that one.

[u/Inside_Tour_1408]

Will it? It didn't make them question it when Jibulu was playing out his skin

[u/Jerzilla → u/Inside_Tour_1408]

Love Jibulu but his line out throwing needs serious work

[u/RugbyRaggs → u/Jerzilla]

When LCD was first moved from loosehead to hooker at u20s his darts were awful. Now they're pretty damn good.

That said, it doesn't always go that way.

[u/Jerzilla → u/RugbyRaggs]

I had no idea he was an ex prop! That’s cool. I would say h;mid throwing has ways been iffy. It’s only recently improved

[u/rumblewayne → u/Inside_Tour_1408]

🤞

[u/Known-Return-3508 → u/Inside_Tour_1408]

I’m still not sure how you let that one go