GordonG
Last year
Definitely no Keanu Pinder (nor for the Brisbane game on Thursday), both teams played on New Year's Eve, Taipans with a win and Hawks with a loss.
Who wins this? Hopefully we do, but it should be a heck of a game regardless!
Dunkman
Last year
Who wins, taipans easy. Hawks are a rabble, Frazier while has been ok plays iso ball. Froling ain't doing it on his own.
Cairns by twenty.
Jatz
Last year
Who wins? Well it won't be the Hawks surely? They are in real bad shape. Taipans should win by plenty.
Ben
Last year
Will the Hawks win another game this season? Maybe, when they play Brisbane.
Cairns by 10 in a game that won't reach any moderate heights.
Jatz
Last year
5 fouls in the first 4 minutes. Refs getting involved early
Dunkman
Last year
Looking like woeful crowd, some of the fouls called so soft. You play up straight and get called, charge, block fouls are a joke.
Jatz
Last year
Taipans stinking the place up early. A game that could reach new lows
Dunkman
Last year
Bit like a pick up game, we won't play D if you don’t.
Dunkman
Last year
I'm certainly not jacket. Lol. I do have problems with nbl refs sometimes though.
Much better 2nd quarter, much more competitive. Grida showing some defensive energy.
Dunkman
Last year
Good third quarter and refs let them play. Again grida on D has been great.
Ben
Last year
Well, it could certainly be said that the Hawkies gave this game a good shake, for what they have available.
Jatz
Last year
Hawks did put up a good show. Taipans are dreaming. They're going nowhere.
Coach Forde abusing Hawks players is poor form too.
Dunkman
Last year
Hawks much better than all us punters thought, Cairns still never really challenged when it was needed. Hickey iso ball at end was rubbish, Froling, Grida, very good, Harvey ok but really needs a good team to shine.
Dunkman
Last year
I didn't see Forde abuse players but if true very poor form certainly after that crap he spewed out after the Melbourne game.
Pinch
Last year
Bad coaching by Jackomas. Having no shooters on the last few possessions to run decoy or secondary options instead had non shooters and Cairns just top locked Harvey.
Havachat
Last year
Has Mayberry a contract to Ref all of Cairns Games, he has done the last 5.
He seem to suffer from (Un)conscience bias
Manu Fieldel
Last year
Forde is, what we call in the industry, a bit of a cockhead
Manu Fieldel
Last year
Not too bad though, he's all right. But his take on Pinder was one of his worst
Anonymightymouse
Last year
Hawks have been very competitive with Siva and Frazier in the line-up, but the pleasing thing about last night was them playing pretty well without those guys. Augurs well for the rest of the season, but they need their keys on the court to pinch some wins.
Loving Sam Froling's work, shows such great composure with the ball for a young big. If he really works in the weight room and hones his three-ball the sky is the limit.
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