How much $?

Congrats Perth fans.

As a non-Perth fan I will enjoy watching Bryce do his thing against all teams but my own, then cry into my hands during our match-ups.

guessing Kay not returning and 3 yrs 1 million

#473
Could not agree more.

easy deal ?

first yr with virus 150,000
2nd yr 550,000
third yr 300,00

"easy deal ?

first yr with virus 150,000
2nd yr 550,000
third yr 300,00"

Why would he take a paycut?

Will be Perth GOAT by the time he's done. Arguably he's already there.

Get this man in the green & gold. Imagine Simmons with the ball with mills, cotton & broekhoff moving off the ball.

Simmons
Mills
Cotton
Delly
Exum
Ingles
Broekhoff
Creek
Kay
Bogut
Baynes
Thon

Creek does belong there and Landale, but remove Thon as he's so overrated.

Kay is not coming back and the cats gave him their blessing to get his huge pay day in his prime. Perth has already made overtures to Oliver's agent but he is trying to get to the NBA and European league is is his second option.

White is definitely not coming back

Simmons / Dellavedva
Mills / Cotton / Thybulle
Ingles / Broekhoff
Landale / Kay / Maker
Baynes / Bogut

Reserves
PG Exum
SG Goulding or Green
SF Creek or Adel
PF Bolden or Cooks
C Humphries or Magnay

cotton is going before Goulding.

Cotton shot it at 38%, Goulding 39%


Cotton can do alot more than Goulding when screens are involved.

Full squad too you have to assume that the Goulding / Cotton spot is for the last chair on the bench. You should go Aussie over Import!
It's not like back in the day when it was Leroy or Ricky who got loads of impact minutes. Now the team has nba talent in Simmons Delly and mills.
Goulding SHOULD get the last spot. Cotton never grew up dreaming of playing for the boomers

Cotton over Goulding. No contest.

Straight after the WC, I also would have picked Goulding over Cotton because I thought CG played his role perfectly. Now, I'd have to pick Cotton - I'd rather get a 28 year old Cotton, coming off an outstanding season, into the Boomers system between now and the Olympics than go with the safer option in Goulding. Cotton is a big game player and could be just what we need.

Chances of Kay got a little better since he is still unsure . But I still say 60-40 towards going to Europe but it's improving. He loves playing for Gleeson and the Perth culture

Goulding can't even carry Bryces’s jockstraps. Cotton is elite on both ends of the ball

Well that's a snore fest.

Norton. ?.
Cotton, Wani Swaka Lo Buluk
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? , Majok??.

* Any chance Damo returns?
* Will Cotton be a citizen thereby freeing up another import spot?
* Could Nick Kay come back.

038 cotton is not an elite defender

No one loves playing for Gleeson
They love the money Perth pays outbidding everyone else

"038 cotton is not an elite defender"

Yeah you're right, he lead the league in steals by mistake...

IMO Cotton will be in our death lineup, probably something like:

Mills
Cotton
Ingles
Simmons
Landale

I genuinely think he will play a huge role off the bench in Tokyo. He's the only one besides Mills who can be relied on to create a good shot from nothing, accustomed to FIBA rules and styles, proven clutch player, good on both ends of the floor. It's going to be like almost having 2 Patty Mills' on the team.

#063 yes he did Lead the league in steals with 1.74. LaMelo was 2nd with 1.64 and it's widely acknowledged that he couldn’t catch a cold on defence so the stat on its own does not make Cotton an elite defender.

Melo's defence was just like his offense and the rest of his game, streaky. He did show some promise on the defensive end though, the stat can't be completely ignored.

Cotton may not quite be 'elite' but he's a very good defender. Its something that's been a big focus of his in Perth and he's learnt a lot off Martin.

He is a solid perimeter defender but gets abused when taken down into the low block. He can defend no doubt but in no way is he as asserted above elite at both ends of the floor.

Who abused him down in the block? I don't think the Cats defence allows for such a mismatch but tell us more.

I think most PGs would get abused down in the block lol

Forgot I was talking to Perth fans

Perth fans will call you out when you just make stuff up.

Wow this thread has derailed quickly.

Cotton is no Ware on the block or dribble penetration but hey you knew that because you're from Perf

I didnt say he was as good as Ware. I'm just wondering when he got abused in the post.

Cotton is a no-brainer if naturalised. It would allow us to effectively have Patty Mills and another very similar player coming off the bench!

Exactly, and the third guard Thybulle can play both sg and backup sf.

Thanks for the spelling correction Kober.
Legend :) xx

And no, it doesn't mean Kobe's not a wanker. If he posts constantly and is right three times a day, at the expense of being an insufferable dickhead fifteen times, he's a terrible person.

"Cotton is a no-brainer if naturalised. It would allow us to effectively have Patty Mills and another very similar player coming off the bench!"
So where is all this money coming from and how does it fit anywhere into the "cap"?

The riots in America are out of control.

So are the police

Really?

So Cotton "walks" out. He won't take this pay cut is the excuse. Meantime in the back room of the Perth Wildcats they say let's "cut" Cotton so the public thinks this is all serious. Then we will bring him back and lock him in for 3 more years hopefully he will be Australian shortly, back end his salary and pay him shit loads more and no one will be the wiser. The NBL is a joke right there.

Cotton didn't walk out, and Perth didn't cut him. He simply took up his option to seek opportunities elsewhere.

Well said Dazz.

Jack Bendat money and they'll still claim everyone is playing for the love of the fans

No one has ever claimed that.

It's Perth they will use every trick in the book to get that W. No cap is the problem. Cotton will get paid more than the whole of the Hawks cap. Just sayin.

Whinge whinge

They only whinge cause Perth have the biggest sad when another team does something to make themselves competitive.
Sydney 4 imports - CRYYYYY
Melbourne spend money - CRYYYYY
The moment perf feel threaten the fans have a cry. Full well knowing that club pays the most

#964 could not put it better myself.

So what if Perth pay the most. No rules broken.
Underachieving teams for example Adelaide need to pay up and they might just break a near 20 year title drought.

Nup. The problem is that Perf is simply better run than everyone else and other fans instead of holding their clubs to a higher standard piss and moan and accuse Perf of cheating. Plus Perf obviously take the time to figure out the rules while other teams are scratching their bums. I have said this all along but othe teams refuse to learn. The wildcats obviously strive to find the right players and lock them in long term. Back in the days of the hard cap and points system while other teams were still trying to buy whole new teams every season the wildcats kept their players and built a core to the point where they had almost everyone on loyalty discounts. Do other teams try to emmulate this? No they keep changing players like underpants.
The Sixers would be a challenger every year if they only managed to hold onto their players instead of trying to fuck everyone over. The joke is that Perf probably dont spend as much as people reckon because instead they look after their players. Gleeson maybe a dickwacker on the sidelines but clearly he has built a good squad and a good program and players want to go there. As opposed to the toxic shitheap Joey Wright left us with. Imagine if we still had Creek and Sobey and if guys like Froling Drmic and McVeigh were motivated to perfform and to stay.

I doubt Perf made any profits last season. A loss would be expected.

Kobe said "So their super-secret plan was to do exactly the thing they publicly announced they were doing," So where was it publicly announced they were going to cut Cotton and pay him more and take advantage of the loophole now created? Citation needed.

They obviously lost out on having fans attend a grand final game but other than that they had full crowds for 16 home games. They wouldn't have made a loss on that.