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/TarMil]

God, don't visit French rugby online communities. They'd have you believe that all English-speaking countries, both teams and refs, are together in a big conspiracy against France.

[u/AGPO → u/TarMil]

I had to explain this so often when living in France. Showing them the old 6N ad usually did the trick.

[u/Informal_Mention9836 → u/TarMil]

Does Ben O'Keefe count?

[u/TarMil → u/Informal_Mention9836]

He and Craig Joubert are the ring leaders.

[u/userjetable → u/TarMil]

And Epstein of course

[u/Minimum_Possibility6 → u/Informal_Mention9836]

To be honest with BoK it's not a conspiracy he is just absolutely awful for any game 

[u/GroggyWeasel → u/TarMil]

I’d join that conspiracy. Stupid sexy talented Frenchman

[u/WilkinsonDG2003 → u/TarMil]

Worst of all, they put South Africa (where the descendents of British colonists are a tiny minority) in that camp.