Watching the offending tackle on youtube, even anyone new to the game could see that he rolled himself and played for the penalty.
1. Bird should be sanctioned by the diciplinary committe for behaviour detremental to the spirit of the sport
2. He should be laughed at as a diving nancy by all other players.....
3. He is a grub..... Sooner he slopes off back down under the better
4. Both officials got it wrong on the day but hell will freeze over before NB admits he and they were wromg

Traffic I agree with every word you have written above

NB if it is history and yesterdays chip paper why raise the subject again. Is it because the referees greatest fan is trying to justify the indefensibile

You wont get it because it doesnt exist.... But like trump, NB believes repeating a lie will eventually make it a truth

Both valid points, still can't work out if the posts are a wind up or delusional. Whatever they are they've been shown as a waste of time and effort reading them, based on very little, if any fact.

Mmmmmm

Lets work on the reasonable premise that the majority of the body's mass is above the thigh and as such the body's centre of gravity is somewhere in the upper body.

Lets also assume that Newton got it right about resultant forces - unless you want to contest that NB.

It doesn't take a huge leap of understanding to appreciate that using whatever contact Brid had with the tackler as a small amount of force, and this combined with his overt lunge and roll, then he could indeed cheat the referee.

This is exactly what happened.

Don't be so silly, the ref can clearly overule Newton's laws, they are paid officials after all.