Rugby

Rugby fanatics are their own animal and they know it themselves. Rugby demands different things of those who play it and those who watch it. There’s an intensity to how they experience the sport that bleeds into every part of their life; the mud they wake up in on Saturday morning, the pints they down after the final whistle, the way they can sit and watch a scrum unfold and actually know what the fuck they’re looking at. If you’re buying for someone like that you need that same level of specificity. Generic sports gifts won’t work here. Trust us, every rugby fan knows immediately when you’ve given them something that could just as easily have been given to a football fan. That’s why we put this gift collection together. That rugby fan we just mentioned? We know them. We’ve sat next to them in stands so cold that our phones have stopped working. We’ve watched them tape their ears pre-game and laughed. We know the difference between the person who casually watches rugby and the person who lives and breathes it. Every item in this collection is about catering to that latter breed. We could list every occasion but you already know them. Birthday. Christmas. The end of season. Your boy just got his first cap for the club. Your daughter played her first touch and fell hard. They never shut up about rugby so you need a gift that lands just right with someone who has strong opinions and plenty of knowledge on the sport. You want them to know you’ve put some effort in rather than grabbing the first rugby related thing you see. That’s why we’ve been so strict on what made the cut. We used one rule when selecting items. Would a casual sports fan understand this? If the answer was yes then it didn’t get past us. We chopped things that felt like they were piggybacking rugby’s tough guy image rather than actually helping thesport and its fans. Everything you see here we wouldn’t hesitate to gift to Someone We Know Who Likes Rugby. Some of it is practical. Some of it is celebration of the game itself. Some of it is for the dude still playing at age 45. Some of it is for the supporter who’s watched the same team since they were your friend’s age. Point is, rugby has built a culture and if you’re a fan you should buy into it. These gifts will help you do just that.