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Quote: Lprhino "I don’t think holding rugby players playing an aggressive physic game to the same standards as people on the street has anything to do with it.

In RL you can tackle somebody within the laws and that is absolutely fine. If you had an issue with being tackled then I assume you wouldn’t play. If you tackled somebody in the street it would be an issue as they aren’t playing a game in which tackling is part and parcel of it.

In RL you cannot make contact with somebody’s bum hole, it isn’t part of the game. As it isn’t part of the game and never has been I think you can say well if you did that in the street what would happen. It isn’t ok in the game or on the street, that’s the point. Tackling is okay in the game, fingers in bum holes isn’t ok anywhere.

If a young lad is watching that they could think well is that something you do, on a rugby pitch or just generally in the playground? Your kid comes home saying oh this lad stuck his finger in my bum today but that rugby player did it so it’s okay.

You just don’t do that anywhere to somebody you don’t know or you don’t have consent to do it to. He should be banned, how long isn’t up to me so doesn’t matter what I think. However, I do know I don’t want to see that on a rugby pitch, as I said it isn’t part of the game it’s just horrible and has no place in a professional family sport as far as I am concerned.'"

Correct. I have known two people go to prison for punching on the rugby field.

I am in no doubt that had Tomkins done that to a stranger either female or male on the street and a complaint was made to the Police, then he would at the minimum be cautioned. Likewise if Myler chose to make this a police matter, Tomkins would be cautioned.