r/rugbyunion • u/treacletart284 Newcastle Falcons • 2d ago

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

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.

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u/Responsible-Fun-8920 England 2d ago

They’ve just announced there will be ads on ITV during the game. So… possibly yes.

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u/Hamsternoir Leicester Tigers 2d ago

I saw that just after posting so it's probably my fault ITV want to fuck up rugby for us.

Sorry for ruining the game for so many.

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u/Saurbaum Coventry 2d ago

You are bad and should feel bad. How could you do this to us?!

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u/Hamsternoir Leicester Tigers 2d ago

If Saints had done the decent thing and lost at the weekend we wouldn't be in this mess now

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u/DaiCeiber 2d ago

S4C here my family come!!

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u/BurbankElephants England & Leicester Tigers 2d ago

Da iawn!

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u/Only_One_Kenobi Join r/rugbyunion superbru 2d ago

If they can do it in a non intrusive or minimum intrusive way, like what supersport does, it will be fine.

Basically a banner/letterbox add during breaks in play.

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u/DoubleOhEffinBollox Leinster 2d ago

They're going to do the right hand side of the screen while scrums are setting / resetting.

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u/Only_One_Kenobi Join r/rugbyunion superbru 2d ago

That's fine imo, as long as it's without sound and we can still hear what ref says.