Correct decision by the RFL.

However McGoulricks little dig after Sams first try went unpunished.

I'm sure I remember incidents in the past when players got more than a slapped wrist for making obscene gestures to the crowd.

He made no attempt to disguise it, and it was a prolonged gesture, not a flick of the wrist.

It was at the Cas end though, wasn't it?

Could he have got a yellow for the hit? I am unsure on the rules now but i know some offences are or at least were red or nothing which is stupid in my opinion.

It was late and more importantly for me it seemed like he changed direction to make sure he got him plum, which shows there was concious thought behind what he did.

All part and parcel of the game though, i think Tomkins is going to have to get used to that treatment throughout his career.

Right call by the RFL for a change in my opinion, acknowledge it was wrong and move on.

Can't understand the Widders warning letter though.

The laughable thing is a late challenge on a kicker carries an automatic yellow card, why is this not the same for a late challenge on somebody who has just passed? the 2 scenarios are almost identical yet the punishments aren't

It is a yellow for a late hit on the kicker, im not sure what the rule is regarding a man who is just standing there after a pass.



Its an offensive jeasture?

whats really getting to cas fans is they expected after the hit this kid to hid and they wouldnt see him again..WRONG

He took control from that moment. And produced 2 world class trys

Not sure. But surely he wouldn't be giving a two-fingered salute to Cas fans. Why would he?

Maybe some individual had been giving him grief.

But whoever he made the gesture to, by his body-language and the look on his face - he's clearly too thick to make any attempt to conceal these things - he was not joking or messing around.

IMO, he should get a week's suspension for something like that.

For the record, Eddie Hemmings and co didn't seem to think it was that serious. I wonder how they'd have responded if a Wigan player had done it?

When Tomkins took the hit i remember thinking to myself 'thats the worst thing Cas could have done'.

He's not the type to hide away so unless your going to hit him that hard he stays down i wouldn't bother.

He got up, dusted himself down and made them pay.

Let's face it, in 1970 they won a Challenge Cup final on the strength of a brutal attack to the head of one of Wigan's best players.