Looked like Johnson was injured too

Wanna catch up for a beer Dazz so I can tell you how much the rest of the comp doesn't give a toss?

Suffer in ya jocks.

Must be karma for all the Dazz personnel changing threads

I don't have any personnel, just me.

Perth just need to ride out the storm. The door is open for someone to step up.....who will it be?

Can Lucas Walker come in as an injury replacement for Knight again?

Only if we deactivate one of the chairs near our home court bench

Probably wait till Monday to see how bad the injury really is. Shoulder injury is really hard to assess until the person is well enough to test the full range of movement.

Yea, need injuries for us to miss the finals! suck nuts!

I don't expect non-Perth fans to "care" (although sympathy for the individual player should be maintained.) Furthermore, yes I can understand that anything that brings the Cats back to the pack, or below is not only welcome in some quarters, but potentially even good for the league.
However the discussion about what direction they take with replacements etc should be of interest to some. If not, why do you bother posting?
Honestly, if you can't see how pathetic and juvenile it is to enter a thread purely to post "i dont kare suk egs Perf," then you are sadly short a chromosome or two.

One of the best OP's I've seen in my countless hours wasted on internet forums.

In Regards to Walker, the (somewhat weird) rule is that we can only add him to replace a "season ending" injury. So hopefully for Matty it's not, and we can't.

As for whether he is getting paid and "how is that even allowed?" I'm not sure that's even a question?
The Wildcats, like anyone else, can employ somebody to do whatever they want. The Cats definitely have Training Players, maybe some of them get paid. Same way the kid making Nick's coffee gets paid, and the guy collecting the towels.
The rule as it is probably exists precisely for this reason, so that teams cannot effectively keep a 12th player up their sleeve all season.

I don't even know if Walker is still around, but if so it makes sense. The Cats need training players, and he would want to keep in practice in case another gig opens up somewhere. He's got a much better chance of a phone-call if he stays in shape, than if goes and starts driving a taxi to earn a crust.

Oh, I didn't even watch tonight, oops. Didn't read properly. Didn't mean to kick em while they are down

Its time to bite the bullet and replace Johnson with someone that can provide more offense. He shows glimpses of what he can do but goes missing for long periods. He seems to have a good few minutes after a rev up from the coach but the cats need more of a consistent scorer and outside threat.

Its a bit of a worry when knight and hire are hitting more three pointers than your guards

Sign Nate Robinson problem solved

Perth dosent need a big to replace Knight because Brandt, Mckay, Wagstaff and redhage are more then enough . they need a pure 2 guard.Someone who can break defences down off the dribble. Kenny, Martin and Bragg are more then enough at the 1.I would look at someone who can penetrate and be a secondary playmaker/passer.

Walker certainly appeared to be around when he had his head in the huddle after the win on Thursday

^ Good post.

Shit happens, but hopefully we can still get some positives out of an unfortunate situation.

Bragg has seized the day.

He would definitely be winning his permanency in this team.

If JJ can churn out more than 10 ppts a game, he should stay. Even Cadee can have a zero point game.

No, it's not "turmoil time."
We are down two players and need to replace them, that (at a minimum) is where we're at.
Whether we're able to find some semi-decent guys, or just run with DP's is the question.

The other question is whether our two new imports are going to perform to expectations, and if not, what if anything the Cats will do about it.
I think things would need to get pretty dire before they looked at sacking JJ again.
McKay has been ill, so we'll have to wait and see if he can step up in Matty's absence.

Along with Prather Matty has been one our offensive weapons in recent games, so without him it will be interesting to see if the other guys can step up to fill the void. We'll feel the loss, the question is how much. Time will tell.

McKay 25 / Brandt 15
Wagstaff 30 / Redhage 10
Prather 30 / Hire 10
Johnson 25 / Dexter 15
Kenney 25 / Bragg 15

It looks ok to me, it actually helps their balance now that we don't have to endure old man Redhage or Wagstaff playing the 3 spot. If Dexter shoots well backing up JJ, and Bragg keeps his level of play up they'll be just fine.

Perth are really well equipped to deal with Knights injury. Wagstaff and Redhage are both 4's although play a totally different game to that of Knight.

If they are looking at replacing Knights strength and size they can always look to Brandt to play a little of the 4 also. You can never really replace a player the calibre of Knight but they certainly have plenty of options without having to start talking about replacements or change to imports.

The Cats WILL replace Damo & Matty, it is merely a question of who.
At a minimum, we suit up Bragg and Vague.

As for the imports, that's really a separate (but all related) issue.
You wouldn't replace McKay just "because Matty got injured." They might replace him if he's not living up to expectations and they had someone better in mind.

Not going to rehash it, but yes the whole JJ/Ingram farce was embarrassing and I wouldn't want to see a repeat.

Listen people why do I have to keep telling you this we will replace injured players it's not like we are going to suit up only 8 guys next game. I predict we will replace Martin with this guy called Bragg and I'm a great predictor I'm telling you I have the best predictions. Just wait and see.
I really don't want another import even though just the other day I mentioned getting Cedric Jackson. I'm not going to rehash it now but in a few hours I'll start a whole new thread and rehash it to death there. Stay tuned you won't want to miss it because I make the best threads.

If you want to replace one of the imports my advice is that you need to get someone who is in the NBA because apparently those not in the NBA are not wanted by the NBA.

I have read lots of posts and apparently this is quite important for some reason.

Gleesons a flog

Lolz at players who aren't in the NBA fstos.

I was at the game behind the bench, when Knight came over he couldn't lift his arm. The trainer ran him through a few movements then stepped back and Matty put his head in his hands and went to the rooms. If body language is something to judge by, he's gone for the year.

As for a replacement there's no like for like out there. Walker isn't a binside banger he's an outside 4 just like redhage and wagstaff. Mckay is to slight to really muscle in on th O boards a Brandt is wayyyyyyyy to slow on D, Brandt will need to play more minutes but he'll be in foul trouble every game.

With the latest injuries, IMO starting 5 should be:
Bragg
JJ
Prather
Hire/wagstaff/redhage (in no order, all the same)
McKay
And play fast!!

But Gleeson is a dumb shit that will keep Kenny on the floor despite 3 straight TOs and then get called for a Tech when we have momentum.

Perth should be giving Burston a call. They don't need him to be a superstar, just play some D, change shots and make the odd basket.

Did I hear correctly during todays game Rosen said Knight is out for 6 weeks? If so probably best to keep him out for 8 weeks given his previous shoulder injuries. It's probably close to the point now of ruling a line through this season for Perth I think.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but looks like they might've made a mistake giving Redhage another season.

Matt Burston and McKay together would be rim protection +, but who knows what Burstons situation is, if he's even in shape.

This hurts them more on the offensive end tho

Article today says the Cats "are hoping star forward Matt Knight will be cleared of serious injury to his shoulder when he has scans on Monday."
So not sure how long that means, I guess we wait to hear after the scans.

redhage can play a role in this situation though. Knight was actually helping spread the floor in offense. He offers outside shots (long 2pts, not talking about those 2 3pters on the weekend). McKay doesnt offer that. Id like to see redhage come on and help us spread the 4 man out to the 3pt line. In all that will have decreased, his 3pt shot is reliable. He needs to get that up and working for us.

Burston is officially retired & staying in Queensland.

So that has absolutely 0 chance of occurring.

Sounds like good news, but I imagine he could still be out for a few weeks.

Ok, my bad. That was s storm in a teacup.
Some said it looked like it was dislocated, Boti said we were going to reactivate Walker...
and now they say "no damage and rest for a day before we test again"

Cats just ordered a playing strip for Matt Nielsen.