9:30pm tip NSW/VIC (I think)

Think the Cats will get this one, they will start winning enough games to finish in the play in but not enough to really make people think they can challenge for the championship.

If Illi is playing then United, he makes them so much better.

Got no idea, which side turns up for either of these two. Both last start winners and looking better than some of the previous performances. This could be a very good game, good match up in all spots.
At a guess United by 1 in double ot, mainly because I'd rather cats to win and can’t pick a winner.

"Got no idea, which side turns up"

That's a pretty good summary of this season!

Perth from some reason struggle with the United. Expect this to be tight game

Melbourne have won seven in a row in Perth apparently.

Shame Ili's been out for most of the seasons. United really are a totally different team with him playing.

Would you rather have Manek or Barlow?

Why has Vickerman played Okwera, Barlow & Peatling in the first 7 minutes of the game... What is possibly his rationale especially when Peatling isn't an NBL player.

What an awful 5 on the floor for the Cats. Don't know what Rillie is thinking.

Well that 5 with no offence didn't score, and the cats lost their lead....

Manek can't chuck it in the ocean. Cats let good lead slide.

Here comes the ref's, no foul when Thomas mauled, goulding gets it on a bs heave...

I'll say it. I think this has been a good game to watch, thus far. It's close, both teams are giving good effort and the crowd seems in to it.

No goaltend? On the way down above the rim???

Travers ain't NBA quality. God damn awful.

BC, Webster and Thomas and then nothing.

Norton, Blanchfield, when is there contracts over, they not offering much.

Cotton still the mvp.

Redhage still live in WA? Any chance of getting him back on the sidelines instead of Hire?

Manek 0-5, Norton 0-6, Majok 0-3, not good enough.

Humphries has played very well under Vickerman, really finding his best.

Will perth look to attack cg43 again??

Looks to be another night with too many passengers.

How the hell was that contact legal on the Humphries block?

Get Travers off.

Again with this fucking 5 on the floor!!

Good end to the qtr.

Cats to many soft players. Big come back though.

These commentators... Have to put it on mute. They don't call the game just rant about cotton for 5 possessions straight and he's not even on the court. Get it together

Travers at the 4!! Who knew.... looks bloody good, creates a huge mismatch.

Absolute bunch of bone heads this wildcats team

If Ili can stay healthy United will really push to make the play-in

Manek so bad

Hard to argue Bol. The sheer stupidity and poor decision making ability of the Wildcats roster is breathtaking. Rillie needs to get some discipline into this mob and quickly.

Ili clearly fouls to make sure no easy two, Aylen, nothing to see here. Travers showed him the mark in his arm... Aylen didn't care he has done his job this game, as usual

Stop blaming the refs - they were mostly fine. Blame Cotton's supporting cast or lack thereof.

After all that praise for Ili he does that

What a fucking win!!!

Still not convincing.

Awesome finish!! Didn't deserve the win but we'll take it.

Oh my, magnificent game.

United a little unlucky but also a brainless in lots of the game.

Cats got just get a decent 4 man next season and get Blanchfield playing like he did in the last minutes and future looking ok.

Crazy streaks can end in crazy fashion

See Hawthorn vs Geelong prelim 2013

Ummmm what the fuk?

Turned the game off with ten secs left after Bubbles has iced two freebies. Timeout to Cats down 5. Headed to bed because surely nothing will happen from there .....

Anyone care to provide a precis of the last ten seconds? I'm not going to go back through Kayo.

Bunch of yahooing in the commentary. Nice

I don't know if that was a great game but I sure enjoyed that ending

Still trying to figure out how United lost that.

Shout out to Blanchfield. Kinda surprising he was even out there at the death but he came up with some huge plays.

Season killer

10 seconds left I was dreaming of a home play-in, after moving to 4-1 with Ili

Now 6-11, a long way off the pace, that was worth double with Perth 8-7 in 6th

Wtf just happened!! United deserved to win that. They have the blueprint on how to beat the wildcats = just rebound.

Can we get a rebounding 4 man in before its too late. Manek is a waste of space.

Couldn't wait, went back and watched the last moments on Kayo. Dumbass Ili for closing out too hard on Blanch when he already had coverage.

And I don’t know if Blanch missed that ft on purpose, but damn he got the most fortuitous bounce you’ll ever see.

Everything had to go the Cats way to get that sun, and it absolutely did. Shattering for United.

Amazing last 10 seconds for Perth to steal the game. I thought they were no chance after the Goulding free throws.

Wildcats have serious issues with their roster for the second year in a row. Even though it may cost a bit, Norton, Majok and Blanchfield need to be moved on before next season. Presumably Wagstaff will also retire after this season. Perhaps they also need some new management to put together a balanced roster.

I don't know why Zunic isn’t getting Norton’s minutes. He is a complete liability on court. One assist was his contribution tonight.

It hardly all went cats way, xrm bank 3 and Ili hail Mary you could say were equally fortuitous, just happened earlier.

It was a nice gift from Ili to foul Blanchfield at the end but it's hard to begrudge him he was a big reason United were in a winning position most of the game. Absolute gun

I don't agree with Norton - I think Cotton freezing him out, Bryce wanting that point guard spot. The kid can play when allowed Cairns game awesome, got good consistent numbers most games. Has proven years previous when needed he can step up and score good numbers when given the opportunity, but team has to actually consider him an offencesive threat. Cotton just not interested in getting him involved could see it from the start of the season wouldn’t let the ball flow on to Norton completely removed him as an offensive threat by not giving him the ball. Everyone said Cotton carrying the team, well if you take most the shots and not give anyone else the chance that’s the responsibility you have. Blanchfield until tonight actually got the ball, once his team mates actually showed confidence in him he lifted. Norton has stepped up when needed and when given the opportunity. He has been benched because flow of the ball is better without him on the court why is that oh Cotton shutting him out. Now Webster on the scene he is taking the same line with Norton. Norton under the basket Webster dribbles straight to him and rather than giving him the ball for easy bucket (to get him going) he passes it - creates turn over. They spoke about boxing out - Norton the only Wildcat to actually box out every time. Don’t get me wrong Cotton and Webster killing it but to exclude players so obviously and then the coach to buy into to it. When a players confidence is low, taking a hit. Hard to watch his own team mates kick him while he is down. Norton has given more in points than Martin ever did, created more shots and been so unselfish for his team. While defensively working his ass off hard to watch as a Wildcat. Worst thing is head coach kicking him as well. I like him, seemed to always want to get everyone else on the team going first then worry about himself, team guy. He has been benched, excluded from the plays, DP’s getting more minutes than him and the head coach looks like his "i am going to get the best out of each player" just a comment. Our Stronger than one - lets see who is going to help him out of this as they have Todd. His mental health can’t be good, hope someone is watching that.

I don't agree with Norton - I think Cotton freezing him out, Bryce wanting that point guard spot. The kid can play when allowed Cairns game awesome, got good consistent numbers most games. Has proven years previous when needed he can step up and score good numbers when given the opportunity, but team has to actually consider him an offencesive threat. Cotton just not interested in getting him involved could see it from the start of the season wouldn’t let the ball flow on to Norton completely removed him as an offensive threat by not giving him the ball. Everyone said Cotton carrying the team, well if you take most the shots and not give anyone else the chance that’s the responsibility you have. Blanchfield until tonight actually got the ball, once his team mates actually showed confidence in him he lifted. Norton has stepped up when needed and when given the opportunity. He has been benched because flow of the ball is better without him on the court why is that oh Cotton shutting him out. Now Webster on the scene he is taking the same line with Norton. Norton under the basket Webster dribbles straight to him and rather than giving him the ball for easy bucket (to get him going) he passes it - creates turn over. They spoke about boxing out - Norton the only Wildcat to actually box out every time. Don’t get me wrong Cotton and Webster killing it but to exclude players so obviously and then the coach to buy into to it. When a players confidence is low, taking a hit. Hard to watch his own team mates kick him while he is down. Norton has given more in points than Martin ever did, created more shots and been so unselfish for his team. While defensively working his ass off hard to watch as a Wildcat. Worst thing is head coach kicking him as well. I like him, seemed to always want to get everyone else on the team going first then worry about himself, team guy. He has been benched, excluded from the plays, DP’s getting more minutes than him and the head coach looks like his "i am going to get the best out of each player" just a comment. Our Stronger than one - lets see who is going to help him out of this as they have Todd. His mental health can’t be good, hope someone is watching that.

Norton had 3 open looks from the arc and bricked them all, then drove into Humphries twice and got blocked.
I'm a huge fan of his but the league is faster and more athletic every year and unfortunately I think his time is up.

Another Anon - still don't agree. We seem very quick to just cast players aside. There were a few players that bricked their shots and turned the ball over and got the foul called. They just got the court time to recover themselves unlike him. I am more concerned and interested as a team, who is going to step in and help him up. We as Wildcats continually say we have great culture etc is going to try to get him going. Will be interesting but appreciate and respect your opinion. I have a Son and Daughter and would be very proud if they took it upon themselves to help a team mate up than kick them when down. Also we need to be mindful - sometimes people have things going on in their lives we no nothing about. He does seem to not be himself for sure. I would like to see him get the support of his team mates and Coaching staff would most likely be good for confidence. Rally around him perhaps.

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Norton has been way out of form, doesn't mean he can’t find form again, if not he’s still useful bench player. Cotton is the best player in the league, he’s not freezing anyone out, he plays to win.

Corey Webster is fast becoming the Wildcats best pickup in a long while. He is a stud

Norton will find form but he is light years, eons, parallel universes below Cotton in value to the club. I am more than happy for Cotton and anyone else for that matter to not pass to hims so far this season, however I've thought the same about Todd and he was pivotal last night so Mitchs time to shine is not far off.

It was loud as fark in there what a Monday night!

Shout out to the people who exited before the game was over.

Crazy back-from-the-dead victories are great and all, but nothing beats the feeling of getting back to your car before most of the other people.

Check the last 10 seconds, horrible, horrible box out from XRM to go with his six turnovers. United are just not that smart a team this season. There imports not on the money either, though Lee looks an asset.

Check the last 10 seconds, horrible, horrible box out from XRM

I think Rillie has been reasonably impressive in his first senior year of coaching, yes mistakes made, compared to cj though probably doing better. Travers to the four and Blanchfield on in the last 1/4 actually won the game, even if slightly lucky. You don't replace a Gleeson overnight, certainly with an aging squad as well doesn’t help either.

There was a possession in the second quarter where XRM looked off Lee posting up Norton and Ili being guarded by absolutely nobody in order to take a contested deep three. He made it, but it was phenomenally dumb.

Shout out to the people who exited before the game was over.

Crazy back-from-the-dead victories are great and all, but nothing beats the feeling of getting back to your car before most of the other people.

Either it was OT or I'm thinking of a different game. I missed the OT game, sadly, and that was back when games weren't on TV.

But who the hell leaves at half time? Why even bother going?

Yes, it was a non-TV game.

No idea why fans would leave so early but at the time the Razorbacks were no hopers and a win against them considered so inevitable that with a blowout score at HT they figured there was no point sticking around.