Hoops

Sydney @ Perth – Friday 14 December – 6.50pm AWST

Have I paid for a ticket - yes
is there a vacant seat closer to the court that I can sit in - yes

Not like its never been done before by probably a vast majority of people in other NBL stadiums where they fail to sell out...

15 point lead. Cough. That is all.

"Just imagine if the Kings beat the cats tomorrow night.
Are you imagining it? It's sweet isn't it. You're smiling aren't you. Make it happen Kings. Bring joy to the whole rest of the country. It is nearly Christmas time and that is a time of joy after all."

I told you!!! Can you all feel this joy!!!

Wildcats more offensive rebounds than the Kings have total rebounds. That's the difference so far.

If I was a hawks fan I'd be buying back row and sitting courtside every week

While we're picking at the photo, it also shows Perth Arena instead of RAC Arena, and also shows Trevor in the vicinity of a ref but his mouth is closed.

"I love pork chops" but there are only skewers on the BBQ. Huh?

"All I did was suggest stealing, I don't understand why they're upset with me!"

You're welcome to buy the cheaper ticket and sit in that seat, nobody would have a problem with that.

As for my moral compass - I choose a seat with limited view that probably wont be sold regardless and then make my way to sit in a better seat with my family... I will sleep at night just fine (especially if the Cats win).

Clubs hanging up on their own members? What is going on? This is what happens when Jack Toft doesn't start the thread.

"As for my moral compass - I choose a seat with limited view that probably wont be sold regardless and then make my way to sit in a better seat with my family... I will sleep at night just fine (especially if the Cats win)."

Exactly, I concur.

Some weirdos think that paying for a cheap seat and then sitting in an expensive seat is the wrong thing to do since it is basically stealing.

I used to do it with the cricket at the WACA, mainly with test matches that weren't sellouts. Buy a general admission grass ticket for $20 bucks then go sit up in the stands in the shade lol.

Nothing they can really do about it. When ever I see people in sports sitting at at the very back while there are plenty other better/empty seats I always wonder why more don't move.

seems stupid that you wouldn't be able to do it the way you wanted. surely they could just charge you the different in price between adult and child ticket and some token admin fee and get it done. wildcats don't want your money? wildcats don't want every seat to be filled? thats very arrogant.

I guess it isn't wrong in what she is saying...guess it all depends on your own personal moral compass and the difference in price between the cheapest seat and the upgrade. She probably shouldn't have got so upset about it though, lol.

I don't buy this Kings are better than Wildcats theory.

Bowen's better than Hire in general, but Hire's been way more productive to us than Bowen has been to the Kings recently.

The backcourt is going to cancel each other out I think in this game, 2 former DPoY in Damo and Lisch covering Randle and Cotton. Norton will struggle a bit without trying to foul Randle. Even.

It's going to be won in the front court IMO, Jervis and Brandt need to contain Bogut as much as possible, but need to provide offense too which they both haven't done in recent times. If Kay has his way inside against Kickert and Wear then Cats have the edge inside IMO.

The rest: Terrico, Wagstaff, Steindl and Vague vs Newley, Pineau, Wilson and Deng. Cats easily have the experience, depth and talent.

Coaches: Gleeson/Knight - daylight - Gaze/Copeland

Yep, disagree that Kings are better.

Looks like most of the 400 section seats are mysteriously back to being Nickel today (and all other sections have only single seats available)

Perth wasn't even tipped to play finals, yet sit on top. Sydney have to show they can win here,perth don't have to prove anything.

"Perth's main advantage is having a coach."

Matty Nielson

In all seriousness, should be a cracker!

Perth's main advantage is having a coach.

Sydney's defence is as good as Perth's. Over the past month or so I think they've been the best defensive team in the league.

Kings better than Perth in most areas with one exception, defense, scraping and hustling.
Bogut more valuable than Cotton. He affects the game so many different ways. Randle and Lisch playing poorly at the moment but they have the potential to rip any team at any time. Perth probably only has Wagstaff under certain conditions.
Kickert is bonus time. They get by without him at moment but a player who can get going. Newley is another that they don't rely on. You would take Bowen over Hire anytime?
Team v talent. Talent 80% of time!

Lol very good "Anonymous 397". Just the type of response expected on here. Well done

*victory

Everyone got their Victoria grapes ready?

Cats fans don't go to see other team's players. We go to see our team win.

And it happens. A lot.

Just imagine if the Kings beat the cats tomorrow night.
Are you imagining it? It's sweet isn't it. You're smiling aren't you. Make it happen Kings. Bring joy to the whole rest of the country. It is nearly Christmas time and that is a time of joy after all.

So regardless of Bogut playing or not it makes no difference to the people going to the game? That logic alone is stupid. While it wont impact the attendance as much since PA is usually near capacity every game because members alone fill it up, if you think this game has the same level of interest as any other game then your crazy.

Put it this way, if Bogut was a last minute withdrawal due to injury, im positive there would be a deflating dissapointment from the fans even if they go to every game anyway and generally dont care who they're playing.

Interest alone in this game from the media has been significant, plus the cats have increased prices for tickets to a game that is clearly in hot demand (though its a bit greedy and im not thrilled about that personally)

How do you figure Sydney is a better team?

Sydney capable of playing poorly e.g. Breakers game, firing on about 2.5 cylinders. But they are a better team than Perth and should be too good. Perth will scrap and fight and could upset but I don't expect that result.

So who’s the original white meathead?

Heal, or do we need to look to another sport?

You know it’s a perth game when a thread is on track for 100 post before tip off!

Plenty of phantom fouls will be called on Bogut as a result of cats flopping. Randle will be slowed down by Martin & Norton hacking the shit out of him. Cotton will get the full LeBron treatment and score 30+ while Lisch will get no favours and maybe get a dozen. Hopefully Newley's 3 ball is dropping to keep the Kings in with a slim chance.

I hope Randle busts out of his funk Friday night, but maybe not against Martin. Always a tough ask to pick up a W in Perth though, and I expect Bogut's run of (relative) foul-free games to end either way. Win or lose, hopefully it's not another 70-64 type scoreline snoozefest.

"I heard because its a childrens ticket id need to pay extra to use it, they sit in gold section and was wondering if anyone has done this before and if so how much they needed to pay?"

Had a friend get pulled up on this once before, we managed to BS our way out of it at the gate and got in, but yeah you'll need to pay for an upgrade, I can't remember exactly how much it is though

"He carries on like a bit of a pork chop sometimes on social media and maybe carries himself in a way that I don't particularly agree with sometimes, but on court I still think he's a really great player"
-Angus Brandt on Andrew Bogut

Angus Beef vs Pork Chop Bogut should now be extra interesting. Which meat will win?

Ahh, that's my bad if those have been bronze all season. I'm pretty sure the whole top section was nickel in previous seasons.
There were quite a few people up there last game. At those prices I'm kinda shocked by that. Steep on multiple levels.

Referees at home licking there lips at the rimming they are going to give the Kings tomorrow night.

What happened to the NBA, you could go to one of those salt immersion therapy centres and you would STILL be the saltiest person there.

Still plenty of tickets available.
Cats might have stuffed up by cranking up the prices so much for this game.
$56.05 + ticketing fee for the worst seats in the house is a major piss take.

Its only Wednesday, he wont get his pocket money until Friday night.

Forecast for 38 degrees here in Perth on Friday, I'm gonna melt...

Absolutelynot Dazz might be confusing "Drawcard Player" with "OMG I Love That Player and will be cheering for him to destroy the Wildcats" judging by his/her responses to some of the things said here.

There is added interest as a result of Bogut. One person in the state denying it doesn't make it untrue. He'll still be wearing opposition colours though and 11,000 of the fans in there will be mostly the same 11,000 who are there supporting the Cats in all their other games so it's not like they're going to suddenly be Kings fans on Friday.

Now any chance we can get back to discussing Jack Toft? I feel like his thread-starting abilities had not been fully debated by the time all of this Bogut interest denial & rebuttal got going.

Exactly the type of people you’d expect to be sitting next to AD

The booing, if it happens of course wont phase Bogut at all, he'd probably even prefer it. Agree with everyone that says that. But there would have to be a reason to boo (and even moreso to do it all game) and that so called incident with Gleeson is hardly 'boo-worthy'. Booing to put off a great player to help your team win? Does that actually happen?

If there are boos, and im sure there would be a few from some overly fired up fans, i doubt it will be significant enough and done consistently throughout the game, unless something happens during the game to get the fans worked up.

And AD, you must be sitting next to some absolute morons if they're asking you those questions!

Bogut invaded a wildcats huddle and invited Gleeson to push him.

He’s a bad sport and that’s enough to rile up the feathers of the die hard casual wildcats red army members.


If you want to see what casual die hard wildcats fans look like just join the Cat Chat group on Facebook.

I’m glad that Australia’s leading bogan venue is home to so many casual Die Hard fans.

Anon 961

Humphrey Bogart:
"You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi".

He's a cock, but couldn't imagine he'd be that big of a cock!