minijc Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Neil Robertson for me. Just for the name, don't know anything about him, other than he is an Aussie and has naff hair.He's found some form of late after going well off the boil the last couple of years, got too addicted to computer games which in turn meant he stopped practicing as much on the table. Link to comment
minijc Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Ding through 10-3 in the end in a game which was a potential banana skin for him, looked in great touch once he got going then finished it off in impressive style today. Link to comment
tiktak Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Cliff Thorburn was always my fave - stoned off his tits throughout haha crazy canuck cunt. Oh aye. Him against Griffiths wiz high octane stuff. Ye'd need to be stoned to watch that pair. Link to comment
maryhilldon Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Eddie Charlton was the man. Worked as a miner 'till he was 31, whist playing League football for 10 years, state level rugby, state cricket, boxing , tennis and surfing champion. Then he turned pro snooker player and became chronic to watch. Link to comment
BWG Posted April 26, 2018 Author Share Posted April 26, 2018 Naff heid out. Sixth seed to be eliminated. Link to comment
elephantstone78 Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Nice moment there between o Sullivan and carter where they, well, mainly Ronnie did that Ned like barging into each other then giving a bit of cockney wide boy lip. Dennis Taylor nearly wet his pants in commentary. Hope carter stuffs him. Link to comment
BWG Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Don't think Carter has ever beat O'Sullivan has he? First time for everything I suppose. Link to comment
elephantstone78 Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 ^Yeah 1st win and he looked fair chuffed with it. Very open tournament now. Link to comment
BWG Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Aye. No idea who would be favourite to win it now... Higgins maybe? O'Sullivan was about squaring up to the boy there. Carter has played him like a fiddle. Link to comment
Reed or deed Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Tournament poorer minus O' Sullivan, he just never performed and Carter went to non sportman like lengths to get to him. Stephen Hendry secretly delighted O'Sullivan is oot as he keeps his world title record. Link to comment
tiktak Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Anybody's to win now but I'll go for Ding. About time he manned up and won the thing. Link to comment
BWG Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 See Barry Hearn has said there will be a £20m prize fund in the next couple of years and that they are going to be naming and shaming the slow players over the next year. Oh to have a forward thinking person like him running Scottish fitba. Guess we'll have to settle for Tim McHun in charge. Link to comment
manboobs109 Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Don't like the obsession with fast play though. Nothing wrong with letting people think about their shot. Link to comment
minijc Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Don't like the obsession with fast play though. Nothing wrong with letting people think about their shot.That's not the issue, you've got guys that take close to a minute on average for fairly straight forward shots, over a match even where safety battles come in to it the top guys will be well under 30secs a shot, I think out of the lads left in the worlds just now the 'slowest' average time is 25secs a shot. As a fan I can appreciate the time taken for some shots and I absolutely love a good safety battle however a lot get put off with slow play, Bazza is doing and saying the right stuff. Link to comment
BWG Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 34.41 seconds is the slowest average time this season. Ebdon is 129th out of 131 with an average shot time of 31.51 seconds. It's not that big of an ask to get them to shave at most 4.41 seconds off of their shot time. Tactical snooker is fine. Taking 5 fucking minutes to miss a simple red is not. 1 Link to comment
tiktak Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 34.41 seconds is the slowest average time this season. Ebdon is 129th out of 131 with an average shot time of 31.51 seconds. It's not that big of an ask to get them to shave at most 4.41 seconds off of their shot time. Tactical snooker is fine. Taking 5 fucking minutes to miss a simple red is not. Do these stats go back to previous players? Griffiths and Thorburn were slow as fuck. Then along came Peter Ebdon and nowadays I'd say Marco Fu must be among the dullards. And who could have predicted this lot? A last four of John Higgins, Kyren Wilson, Barry Hawkins and Mark Williams? Link to comment
minijc Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 That was an epic battle between Higgins and Judd, glad Higgins got the win but do feel a little sorry for Judd, played extremely well. Link to comment
Guest milne_afc Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Has there ever been a good snooker player who was black? Link to comment
tiktak Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 That was an epic battle between Higgins and Judd, glad Higgins got the win but do feel a little sorry for Judd, played extremely well. Mind when Higgins done him in the final some years back? Trump totally outplayed him but Higgins just ground him down in the end. One of the toughest players to play against, such a good match player. Link to comment
redstrummer Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Has there ever been a good snooker player who was black? No they can't play snooker or swim , everything else though Link to comment
BWG Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 Judd is just overly aggressive and misses so much because of it. Higgins is just the better all rounder. Surely he'll go on to win it now. Link to comment
minijc Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 There's not a player playing that has a better all round game than Higgins, he's solid in every department. Link to comment
Henry Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Has there ever been a good snooker player who was black? Not sure about 'good', but Rory McLeod is a professional player. Muslim too. He's on the left. Link to comment
Dynamo Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Not sure about 'good', but Rory McLeod is a professional player. Muslim too. He's on the left. Sponsored by ISIS, fits he like. 1 4 Link to comment
The Boofon Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Not sure about 'good', but Rory McLeod is a professional player. Muslim too. He's on the left Cheers. Wouldnt have known which one was the 7 pointer unless youd said that. 1 Link to comment
manboobs109 Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 He's not allowed music when he comes in. Haram apparently. Link to comment
cruzcampo3 Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Hopefully the Weed out Ebdon. Use got a few the tournaments when was a bit younger. Remember Ebdon was playing Hamilton. Started there game 10am got taken twice due to running over the times for other games. Game didn’t finish till 12:38 in the morning Link to comment
maryhilldon Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Comes from good Scottish stock.(Mcleod, not Ebdon) Link to comment
BWG Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 Some match between Hawkins and Williams last night. Williams just had the better composure in the end. Link to comment
Reed or deed Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Williams is brilliant like and he has a great outlook on the game at the minute. I'm nae convinced Higgins can keep up with him just now, but I hope I'm wrong.Higgins break building breaking down too much and he looks like he's toiling. Link to comment
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