Get a life Ryan!!

Well done to everyone involved, you could certainly see a difference tonight, well done to the Marketing Team plus the mentions by Neil at the end of the game, Isaac, Ben, PaulBonsor and Jane (I think).

Sixer won - well done to Phil, Brett and the team, band were great, singer did not mine - saw her rehearse whilst I was waiting for dining, unfortunate about the clock - did see people rushing around trying to work out what was wrong! These things happen - it did not take away from the game at all. Neil did a good job updating us of players points.

Good job to the 'fat guys' as you called them, showed their love for the game, entertained us all and gave up their time to do all this - they could have sat and done nothing but they answered the call. Good Job Navy Seals - you were fantastic.

I thought it was great!! Sorry Ryan totally disagree with you - I went home satisfied with the effort put in by everyone!!

Still, the scoreboard not working is fairly darn embarrasing!

technical hickups occur my understanding is it worked perfectly in test and right up till pre game then something in the controlling computer died, but hey i think they put some positive steps forward tonight replay screen will be great once its been ironed out remeber isaac and the others have been working there arse of on this and it will get better once sponsors by time and fox provide hightlights

and on a Playing note Coops was Solid and Nash looks in awesome touch little bit more match time and he will be recruit of the year

still miming the national anthem was dodgey but hey potsie and his crew should be commended for some seriously good positive steps in the right direction

well done Team and well done to guys and gals behind the seen who made tonight very enjoyable

Well, I enjoyed the night. There were hitches (the aforementioned PA issue, the scoreboard & my major gripe, the introduction sequence), but it was still the best entertainment I've seen at a 36ers game in a long while.

As far as the game goes, it seemed a lot like a pre-season game. Lots of fumbly errors etc. Maher was a little off, but still managed 19 & 8, Farley shot (and made) some ridiculous shots, but 8/21 FG's is sub-par. His D looks great when he gets up full court, but what him in the half court, he gets lost so easily. Dusty worked hard & was probably our MVP. Having 22 & 17 against guys up to 6 inches taller than him is a super effort. Jacob, Nashy & Oscar all did their job. They played 27, 22 & 15 minutes, respectively. I think Oscar could have got another 5-10, but overall, I thought our rotation was OK. Was good to see Nashy back on the floor & playing reasonably well. Cooper did well, was surprised he only ended up with 3 boards. I don't know that Reesy deserved all 15 minutes he got, but was good value, just as an annoyance to Rogers.

I'm not sure Perth are really going to contend. Bailey is a flashy street baller, but I'm not sure he'll be a star in this league. He's no Ricky Grace! Redhage was good (similar to Dusty) and with him, Crawford, Rush etc. running the lanes & Bailey pushing the ball, they could end up being quite exciting to watch. If they're to get in the mix of the top 6, I think they'll need more from Rogers & Burston. They managed 15 & 15 combined in 42 minutes, but seemed a relative non-factor. Wasn't fussed on Ingham's coaching tonight. Thought his sub patterns were a little weird.

On a side note : Townsville came back from an 18 point half time margain to beat W/Syd by 14. My only question: Why is Newley still coming off the bench? 24 points in 27 mins?! Let him loose Stacker!!!

Well done team. The sixers did what they had to do to win. Defensive intensity went up for the period early in the last quarter that took the points buffer out to about 15 and from that point they finished out the game.

And yes, it was good to let Rogers know what we thought of him. I noticed he tried to give all the players a big hug post game!

Great game tonight. All this fuss about the entertainment. If you want entertainment, go to the circus. I came to watch a good game of basketball and got exactly what I wanted.

well what6 happened with rogers?

Anthem singer certainly didn't mime. I was at the Dome from about 2:30 onwards and saw her rehearse. The band played with a backing track, but I believe this was because they weren't confident about acoustics? Who knows -- either way, I think the army/navy guys really responded to the invitation well -- truck and cannon setup out front of the Dome, the abseilers in full gear, half-time troupe were superb, etc.

Ryan, I think you were disappointed with the screen because Boti pre-emptively referred to it as a replay screen and got hopes up. The club will get there. It was installed on Tuesday and the projector is hired on game days which makes it difficult to test things like making sure promo screens were legible, etc. Plus I think it was operated by someone whose only practise run had been earlier that afternoon.

The setup and presentation was all done on a limited budget too, and hopefully the club will see the improvement and allocate more funds. To do live replays, you need a screen (usual big screen is $10,000/game to hire, so the rear-projection option is much more cost-effective), cameramen (the concourse camera isn't a great vantage) and then specific hardware. I think it's on the cards, but a bit much for first game unfortunately.

Update: BTW, if anyone was wondering why Dusty wore #44, his singlet went missing on the morning of the game. Oops.

Cooper isn't an import.

Nor has he trained that much lately due to illness.

Anonymous #48773 - Dusty's singlet got lost.