Beswick is just an annoying, ignorant, bigoted, 'know it all', loudmouth, of the type that seems to festoon the airwaves. Why these radio stations think we need to hear the politically correct drivel from these clones, I have no idea. Don't listen to him is what I say.

Standard, stock reply from the BBC. I saw my over comments made by Gabby Logan in respect of Gareth Thomas and how he had been given a fair go by RU since 'coming out'. Now he was switching RL, he could be susceptible to homophobic abuse.

Body of text from email:

Thanks for your e-mail about 'Gabby Logan' on BBC Radio 5 Live on 4 March.

I understand you felt that Gabby Logan implied that Rugby League fans are homophobic during an interview with Scott Quinnell regarding Gareth Thomas.

During the interview - on the subject of Thomas' switch from Rugby Union to Rugby League - Gabby asked:

"it's been such a big year for him, after announcing that he was gay, which in itself is a huge thing in his life, this is obviously a massive move for him...do you think there are fears that he might become a target for homophobic abuse from rugby league fans? Rugby union has handled the whole thing with absolute credit."

Gareth Thomas' revelations about his sexuality is a story that's been covered widely by the media and in the context of this interview about his switch, we felt it entirely appropriate to discuss how the rugby world would react.

However, I do appreciate this is an issue which you feel strongly about and I can assure you that your comments have been fully registered on our audience log. This log is made available to all members of the BBC, including the team at Radio 5 Live and senior BBC management.

This ensures that your comments and others we receive are considered across the BBC.

Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.

To be honest I can't believe anybody could take his comments seriously, I know Beswick is an aggravating git but then again his remark was obviously tongue in cheek. Think this is a mountain/mole-hill scenario.

Beswick has always been and always will be a grade A, first class big mouthed knob, simple as. Maybe he should come down to the DW stadium and discuss his remarks .

Whilst I disagree with the comments, I don't know why people are so upset about the response from the BBC. It is not unusual to use templates in responses to complaints, yet this is clearly not a copy and paste job. They refer to the actual details and explain their thoughts on it (whether you agree with their explanation is a seperate matter).

Things like the last line is a standard line, of course it is, and why wouldn;t it be?

FWIW, I thought the comment was in poor taste, but aren't these guys paid to provoke and be controversial? We can't like everything they say, and had this been about Jonny Wilkinson's injuries, nobody would have said anything, and I would expect a fair few smileys on RL boards.

Unique brand of humour means he thinks he is funny yet everyone else thinks he is a cock but is to polite to say so.

town or city...cant be both son....also its a town

It is a town, but has a city within it's boundary.

I also received the same reply.

same here . beswick is a gonk

Get him do a rl phone in on sunday/ get him to stand on the centre spot when we play them in july

I think people have blown this WELL out of proportion