6-8 games???? Really???? Was it that bad?

If you put multiple question marks after a question it adds emphasis to the shock.

You think he shouldn't be banned????????????

I disagree!!!!!!!!!

John Hopoate springs to mind

Should be a big ban

I certainly dont see it as a 6-8 game ban and im shocked people think it was that bad. It was nothing like John Hopoate's incidents but i dont know what Tomkins was playing at.

We will see what comes of it. Maybe im wrong.

Walk up to someone in the street and intentionally put your finger up someone's bum and see what happens to you. Think you'll find it would be a lot worse than the equivalent of an 8 game ban.

NB I'm not actually advocating anyone do this

Are their degrees of severity with this?
Gentle tickle of the rim- 2 games
First knuckle- 4 games
Second- 6 games
Fist- ??
Depends how much assault you're willing to forgive I guess..

Walk up to someone in the street and intentionally rugby tackle them and see what happens to you. Think you'll find it would be a lot worse than the equivalent of 'tackle 1'.

NB I'm not actually advocating anyone do this

Your analogy is flawed, you know that really.

Go back to April 2017 when Ferres put a crusher tackle on Gildart who stayed down. No on-field penalty from Thaler until the video ref intervened resulting in a penalty and sin-bin (plus a subsequent 6 match ban). With that in mind I just cannot understand how Hicks kept schtum on both last night's incidents.
As for McNamara's response to Sky's questions in the post match interview "What incidents are you talking about?" that was the type of petulant response you'd expect from a stroppy teenager.
I also used to enjoy watching Catalans but under McNamara they've become a dirty, cynical side. Even someone as talented as Maloney was making head shot after head shot but only got penalised late on when it mattered less.

That's a false equivalence. For your apology to be valid, a finger bang would have to be legal in RL, like a rugby tackle is, which it isn't.

Did Hopoate get a 12 match ban?

It is at least the equivalent of a squirrel grab. It should be 8 matches minimum but you never know with the RFL.

Hicks must have gone for a w@nk when Dwyer had blood streaming out of his mouth and nose.
No idea how he missed that and the finger up Mylers jacksie.
Tbh I doubt there would have been a sending off even if he did see both incidents.
Most likely a sin bin for the thug and on report for the Tomkins incident.
Prior MoM and Martin played well as did Liam along with Hurrell.
Myler didn`t do too bad same with Handley.
Losing 2 props and poor referee decisions certainly didn`t help.
Think we would have won that game had we kept our props on the pitch.
As for the nob quoting Ryan Bailey in the same breath as McIllourum you need to get out more. LOL

Did he stick his finger up his bum tho is my point. I dont think he did but i dont know what he was doing. I might be wrong but i couldnt see that on the replays.

Hopoate went inside the players shorts, totally different to Tomkins.

Now dont get me wrong, its not Mylers place to make the complaint, but when asked if he wanted to he clearly said "no". Personally if a player went inside my shorts and put his finger up my backside i would -

1 get angry
2 give him 15 mins to remove it while wriggling like a duracell bunny
3 punch him in the face
4 make said complaint

We will see what the outcome is.

Certainly a grub Tomkins no doubt about that.

Can a video ref now rule on foul play incidents or was that changed last year?

I seem to think it was changed but im not 100%. Seems ridiculous that a video ref can see that tackle in slow motion and not say anything.

I can kind of understand a ref missing it at full speed but video ref has zero excuse.

Whatever happened to being banned 'sine die'? If anyone deserves to have their career ended that way it's Tomkins, an unpleasant individual of the first order