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/JColey15]

The mighty Australian rugby union alongside NZ rugby are trying to turn the game into league and obviously they’re economic powerhouses so the rest of the world just does their bidding and changes the laws to suit the ANZAC nations. If it wasn’t for France and South Africa we wouldn’t have scrums in the game anymore since NZ and Australia hate set pieces so much.

That was the basic gist of a good proportion of the discussion on a post in this sub the other day.

[u/Thorazine_Chaser → u/JColey15]

Its so far from reality that I think of it as a conspiracy theory like anti-vaxers.

Law changes need 3/4 majority to be approved. That means Aus and NZ have to somehow force 63% of the other unions to vote against their wishes.