Not that have gone to review that I can remember but Lee Briers did it a year or so back on nothing happened. He was wrong, he shouldnt have done it but lets not blow it out of proportion!

He's right though - especially when your team is top of the actual league.

Why don't you get yourself a girlfriend?

I think my wife might object.

Funny seeing people get so worked up behind their computers!

Will Matt King be banned for making the winker gesture at fans a couple of years ago?

Or Myler and Mathers get retrospective punishment for their 2 fingered salute to the away fans at the HJ last season?

Maybe Sean Long for the countless times he's flicked the V's?

I think the difference is that it was one of rugby leagues biggest games being screened by the BBC in other countries as well as England. Tomkins did the gesture right in front of the TV cameras on a Saturday afternoon, with people new to our game watching, who will have no doubt been offended. While this was happening on another channel the other code was being played and although I hate to say it there was no sign of their golden boy (Jonny Wilkinson) letting down his sport.

Like others have said, it was a showpiece BBC televised event and if the RFL choose to ignore this then they are just laughable as a governing body for our sport.

He should be banned just for his pure arrogance with this response as on the BBC website

"But he played down the report that he made a two-fingered sign after Wigan scored their first try.

"Someone else mentioned that to me," he said. "I really don't know what it is."

I have stood up for him when he was getting the abuse Headingly but now he deserves every bit of abuse he gets.

Thats one of the differences between RL and RU. I know people on here hate RU because of the class war but most RU players - and fans - are university educated people who know how to conduct themselves properly which is why you don't have players swearing at fans or all the fan trouble that you have in league. I'm not saying that RL by being more a working class sport, has lower class of people (I grew up in a crappy part of Wythenshawe so am hardly Eton class) but we have to put up with our share of broken Britain chavs amongst the players and fans. You just have to accept what comes with both.

I like both Oasis and Coldplay but I don't expect Liam Gallagher to behave the same way Chris Martin does.

" Crappy part of Wythenshawe"

could you enlighten us on the " not so crappy" part of Wythenshawe?