In theory Perth should get this with ease but Illawarra should give Perth a contest for at least three quarters before running out of legs in last quarter.
Hopefully Blanchfield is OK after the other night I think when he goes for 20+ this season Illawarra will be competitive.

This has a trap game for Perth written all over it.

I thought the "Sunshine Swing" was a double road trip, being Townsville and Cairns.

If the hawks win this the taipans go top of the table for round 1. go the hawks.

Cats by 10. AJ to keep stinking it up.

conklin looking at martin and licking his lips..

Love it when Ogilvy comes to the arena

Classic AJ

Poor Bevo, he even had to argue the screen that was abviously legal.

Jackson is absolutely washed!

Stop the fight! : (

I think I've turned in to a Perth-hater now... Sickens me watching Norton & Kay in their line up. Not quite like KD going to Golden State, but it still hurts.

I didn't expect Jordair Jett to be better than Cedric but here we are. The league has left him behind and they would be better off picking up Shannon Shorter instead.

AJ Ogilvy once again has pulled a heartstring muscle, soft, weak as piss, most overpaid and overrated player in the NBL.

Hawks look more ready to scrap then play basketball... Grida just going after it for no reason, didn't even realise he had 4 fouls...

Oh dear. 50 point win is on the cards here

There was no one happier than AJ when he sprained his ankle. He didn't have to suffer the humiliation of playing out the game

Agree the concern that Perth would be relying on cotton seems to be incorrect this year

Looks like last seasons aberration of Perth not playing in the GF has been well and truly abolished

Scoreline aside, that was the best the Cats had played as a team for a long time, particularly on offence.

Surely Cedric wont make 5 games.

Could be the worst roster decision (Jackson and Jett) since the 3 centers Tigers experiment (which got the coach fired BTW)

That was disgraceful.
For all the hatred for Cedric, he still has the smarts and some of the moves.
Jett, fair dinkum, looks like he spent the last few years at McDonalds.

It wasn't even worth booing Conklin. Playing for that team is the worst punishment. At least we got to see plenty of the bench, and even Steindl was putting on a show.

In 2 weeks, Perth go from losing to 58, to losing by 8, to winning by 8, to winning by 40.

Hawks players weren't given exit seats on the plane! Im short as and i hate flying because i feel squashed, can't imagine how these guys felt. ME was complaining about import level, well saving costs by makimg teams fly in coach, in normal seats is a big no no for attracting big talent!

In a 40 point game exit row seats probably can`t be blamed too much, which is just as well because yeah that`s a joke of a scenario for any NBL team. I`d hate for something like that to have been the difference.

Agree that Jett/Jackson combo is questionable. At best, a serious gamble they probably couldn't afford to make.

Had high hopes Cedric would return to his best under Bevo but doesn't sound like it's going to happen. If he isn't going to bring any one facet, might as well have a livewire who could excite people or might go 5/16.

Still just a bit cheesed by the whole thing.

I wanted to go to home opens but had to abandon those plans as apparently most of our games are now in the middle of the day.
Never received our membership packs, so arrived early to collect, but apparently a lot of people were in the same boat. Never understood why The Cats helpdesk is on the inside, where you can't go without a pass? They couldn't find it, again not the only ones, so they had to reprint one-off tickets for us.
The, God only knows what they were going at the doors. We arrived at the Arena at 1:30~35, for a 2:20pm start, and still missed all but a minute of the first quarter.
Then, and after 6 years they still can't get this right, printed the wrong doors on our tickets, so had another argument with the door-nazi. FMD.

Then the game was a total yawn-fest. It was literally over before I sat down.
Cats bench cam on and just started bombing away, and the Hawks still couldn't keep up. Two of their guys fouled out, and it was just meh, yawn. I actually felt sorry for Bevo.
I like a good shellacking as much as the next fan, and sometimes its nice to not have heart palpitations during the last few minutes, but this was ridiculous.

Agree that Jett/Jackson combo is questionable. At best, a serious gamble they probably couldn't afford to make.

Had high hopes Cedric would return to his best under Bevo but doesn't sound like it's going to happen. If he isn't going to bring any one facet, might as well have a livewire who could excite people or might go 5/16.Between the two of them, they almost make a good import, but its as though each has only one dimension to their game. Jackson is a good backcourt general, but doesn't do much himself. Jett can shoot, but that's about it.

Well that didn't work

Sorry to hear about your bad day Dazza.
Chin up mate no more Sunday home games until 25 November.

I arrived at 2pm and was inside for the minute of silence before the anthem. Not sure how it took you an hour to get in.

Where were the warnings about bah size, i never saw them anywhere. Didn't help that security was holding the whole line back when one person had a bag issue.

All over the RAC Arena website, tweeted by RAC Arena and the Wildcats, posted in the Wildcats email newsletter, announced on loop over the PA system outside RAC Arena....

Didn't see it in the newsletter. Probably should have been in the members pack or on facebook. Or sent as a specific message not fineprint. Bit late once you are at the game

All over the RAC Arena website, tweeted by RAC Arena and the Wildcats, posted in the Wildcats email newsletter, announced on loop over the PA system outside RAC Arena....

Also in a text message from RAC Arena on the morning of the game (at least I got one, not sure about others).

didn't read the fine print in a newsletter.

That's a horrible policy. Had no one who works at the arena ever had kids? If you want to go somewhere with a couple of small kids you need a bag.

I arrived at 2pm and was inside for the minute of silence before the anthem. Not sure how it took you an hour to get in.

Well maybe you should read posts more thoroughly before responding?

"So Dazz first you said you had a holiday house you go to on weekends but now looking for another place?"

Holiday House? I wish.

We've had Sunday arvo games before, and whilst annoying I can suck it up for a couple. But 8 of our games are in the middle of the day.

Think about the conversations that may have taken place between those three after Martins jaw was smashed.

That's a horrible policy. Had no one who works at the arena ever had kids?

That's pretty much the only reason for any of the rules, as far as I can tell.

Even the 'no outside food' is explained as a food safety policy, instead of a 'so-we-can-jack-up-prices' policy.