Fewer than 500 seats remain, apparently. Big turnout on the cards.

First home game in five weeks will help crowd numbers. Strange scheduling by NBL we play them in Townsville on Sunday

I think you mean Perth by 112^^

Feels like the start ove the season again, along time not to play a game in ure home gym in a season. Hope they bounce back and get the w on sunday perth by a few will be great to see a big turn out!

Hopefully we won't have to rely on a Matty Knight 3-pt shot to seal this one...

cats by 20. they won't lose 3 in a row. not with this team

7 rebounds at the half. Total. Top effort Crocs.

Although when Perth's first quarter offensive rebound count is the same as the Crocs first half total rebound count, butts need to be whipped.

Great game from Drake U'u. Need more games like that from him or Burdon to help out Martin and Beal

Matt Knight left the game with another knock to the head. Likely to miss the return game in Townsville.

Especially when Perth has proven that can beat anyone in the league without him. It's incompetence. You'd never see a serious concussion treated like that in the NBA.

Perth can beat the crocs tomorrow without him

You have to be free of symptoms for a week after a concussion in order to be cleared. Knight was suffering symptoms last Saturday, but they worked him out that morning to see if he could play that night.

Flying with a concussion in general is a bad idea. Shorter flights may have been better, but he really should've stayed in Cairns for a few days.

Keep in mind this is the same medical team that cleared Damian Martin to play in the semi finals last year.

Who knew there were so many doctors on this forum.

Being a doctor is irrelevant. Concussion guidelines are well-publicised.

If I were claiming he had a concussion and the medical staff disagreed, "you're not a doctor" would be valid. But the 'Cats staff have said he had a concussion and was experiencing symptoms on the Saturday. What needed to happen after that is well known, and I'm pretty sure it's an actual rule in the NFL.


FWIW, my brother's football team's medical staff frequently clear him to play, only for him to go to an independent doctor and be told he shouldn't have. They're team doctors, not player doctors, and the team wants its players available. Their job isn't to look after the safety of the players, it's to get them on the field.

Doesn't mean that basketball is behind the times. Could mean that symptoms mentioned were overstated to fool opposition that he was undersone or the club pushes players too hard.

You hear stories from doctors of how patients regularly turn up with a self-diagnosis because they read about it on the internet or saw it on a TV show.

It's the same thing that is happening here. There are different levels of concussion and they have to be treated in accordance with a medical assessment of the patient.

From the outside I would say Knight, with his history, shouldnt have played, but Im not going to pretend I know better than the range of professional people who would have assessed him and determined 10 days was enough time.

They didn't determine that 10 days was enough time. He was concussed Tuesday, flew Wednesday or Thursday, and worked out Saturday.

He should've missed the Wollongong game, then he would've been good to go on Friday night.

Outline his workouts and his rehab process the Cats put him through Kobe, how much work did he do each day, what was his recovery afterwards and how did they monitor his symptoms?

"Outline his workouts and his rehab process the Cats put him through Kobe, how much work did he do each day, what was his recovery afterwards and how did they monitor his symptoms?"

They were trying to work out whether he could play. Even if it was just a light workout, the game wouldn't have been.

The fact that he's come down with another concussion already, and played pretty sluggishly on Friday night, lends credence to my side of the argument. Particularly when the other side of the argument just assumes he must be okay, because someone said so. It's not exactly unheard-of for a team doctor to clear someone who shouldn't have been cleared, simply because the team wanted that player.

It doesnt assume anything, it just points out the obvious fact that no one outside the inner group knows what processes they followed and whether they were right.

They were thinking about playing him four days after he sustained a concussion.

Thankfully Sydney's upset over Adelaide has given us a little breathing room again, so they shouldn't feel too forced to bring him back in early.

Knight out two more weeks: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/basketball/a/20889311/crock-knight-out-for-two-more-weeks/