the rolling towards the pocket snooker championship thread

this Cope fella looks like the business, he's arguably better than either Robertson or Day, maybe even Selby

currently wasting John Higgins, with some absolutely superb, creative snooker

really tense frame here between dave harold and graeme dott, 70-70 on pink and black, some great safety from both players

ding versus murphy, this is IMPORTANT. Come on future god of sport!

Why do I still think Ronnie's going to hash this up?

Even if he does a Martin Adams and lets Maguire pull level, I'd still back him to win the deciding frame(s). In this form he's overwhelming. I don't think he's as mentally fragile as many people make out, either. It's almost as if he decides when to lose. He doesn't tend to miss pressure pots; when he loses, he lets the opponent rack up huge scores while he plays safeties. This isn't mental fragility, this is him 'just not feeling it'.

He is feeling it today.

The boy done good!
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44369000/jpg/_44369053_selby_203.jpg

Watching him roll slow balls in in the last two frames was just beautiful.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AUJUEgRZBMY

"Anyone want to give me a nosh? Suck my dick"

lol peter ebdon

God, why did you create a second Higgins, but make him the most *boring* player ever? I hate you, God.

If he's not careful he's getting a capital-letter-filled swear thread of his own. Christ.

boring fucking tosser

That frame was Day's to win you cunt. At least we deserved a decider

What a gobshite

'mon Higgins.

He's not all that bad.

Tournaments That Are So Gonna Be Won By Higgins: A Compendium

Well, he didn't.

Marco-Murphy spent half an hour chasing the pink ball around. Classic!

this is great TV

if indeed not great snooker

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/7823318.stm

Love this guy

Dude's had more farewell tour(nament)s than The Damned.

Ding takes the fundie!

Selby versus the vague lookalike of a certain Beardsleyesque ILXor is turning into something of a humdinger

comment by supersubag (U7126766)
posted 3 Hours Ago
There is a simple way of bringing snooker popularity to the masses: BRING BACK BIG BREAK!

Q to someone who actually saw Big Break: was it actually any good?

POT AS MANY BALLS AS YOU CAN

And no, it was shit.

comment by Meazza (U7140124)
posted 2 Hours Ago

It's about time World Snooker had a long hard introspective and asked themselves what they've actually done to help snooker over the last 10 years. If they wrote it all down they'd be lucky to get half a side of A4; and that's including a heading in size 18 font. World Snooker strikes me as an organisation lacking in ideas or direction and their rudderless approach has steered snooker on to the rocks.

An easy win would be to drop the dress code restrictions; especially the bow tie. I mean who wears bow ties these days apart from Chubby Brown? There should still be guidelines as you couldn't have a player wearing a dayglo Agassi circa '92 effort and putting other players off. But within reason why not?

The other thing they could do is expand the number of ranking tournaments. If you had a situation like tennis where there are dozens of events, but the ranking points differ drastically for each. It would mean more interest throughout the year, more lower ranked players getting the chance to play in front of an audience instead of the grind of qualifying school all the time and the rankings would be less of a closed shop. As I understand it there are non-ranking tournaments taking place in Europe currently, there are probably quite a few in Asia and maybe even some in Canada. Wherever there’s a tournament allocate some ranking points. More tournaments in more locations would help expand snooker. Of course the bigger tournaments would have the higher ratings and all the big names would be there for them. Obviously tennis is a much bigger sport globally and perhaps the format wouldn’t transfer favourably to snooker, but I think something has to be done about a season that consists of a mere 8 ranking tournaments.

Maybe these ideas would be the death of snooker, maybe not, but something needs done and the tubes in charge at World Snooker don’t look like the ones to do it.

^^^this is pretty much dead on

I suspected as much (re: Big Break)

And yeah, OTM. I think they should also relax the smoking ban for snooker venues, bring the audience closer to the table, and permit heckling.

ALSO, wherever there's a snooker tournament, there should also (in a separate room at the same arena) be a parallel three-cushion billiards tournament (or some other under-exposed cue sport other than trickshot competition), which could briefly capture the TV audience's imagination when flicking onto it via interactive, much like the doubles at Wimbledon, and introduce them to bona fide sports geniuses such as Torbjorn Blomdahl.

Day/Night Snooker games with Floodlights & Pyjamas.

btw i am a stated non-believer in "would smash" but in 2009 i will relax that principle just the once, for Michaela Tabb

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/tabb5.jpghttp://www.virginmedia.com/images/tabb2.jpg

Why does Hendry go on? Why? The man is a shell and has been for about three or four years now.

This really is a heroically, compellingly bad game, with 100% long pot success on both sides O_o

Also unsure about Michaela's ponytail

Glad your would smash policy has been clarified.

And yes, Hendry should give up, he always looks so miserable doesn't he?

His youthful vigour has truly departed now.

Big Break was no worse than any early Saturday night game show nonsense. probably not as good as Bullseye tho.

Epically scrappy, often awful snooker, the right winner but christ Hendry has lost it

lol peter ebdon

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 17 October 2008 00:22 (2 months ago) Bookmark

I HATE JOHN HIGGINS

SO MUCH

2009 "NO-HATING" POLICY DISCARDED FOR BORING FUCKING LUCKY SCOTTISH TOSSBAG WHO STEALS FRAMES LIKE INEVITABLE CANDY FROM MORE CHARISMATIC PLAYERS

FUCK YOU HIGGINS

HAHA FUCK YOU HIGGINS!!

OH I HATE THAT FUCKING GUY

God, why did you create a second Higgins, but make him the most *boring* player ever? I hate you, God.

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 19 October 2008 15:22 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

If he's not careful he's getting a capital-letter-filled swear thread of his own. Christ.

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:28 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

boring fucking tosser

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:59 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That frame was Day's to win you cunt. At least we deserved a decider

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:59 (2 months ago) Bookmark

Replace "Day" with "Ding" and it's history repeating

No other sportsman fills me with such utter loathing

real talk: all scottish players should be permanently banned from competition

there must be a law stating that all scots snooker players are exceptionally boring, dour machines with the flair of a peanut, who always somehow get lucky breaks against more attractive opponents

It must hurt when there's one tiny wee fucking game that some Scottish people can beat some English people at.

How many top players of any nationality aren't boring dour machines with the flair of a peanut?

I'll give you Ronnie "no really I'm fucking chucking it this time I'm telling you seriously I'm a fucking enigma me ok maybe one more tournament and that's me. I'm mad though, seriously!" O'Sullivan purely for his game as when it's good it's godlike. After that the top 16/32 is littered with boring twats.

Higgins lacks charisma but he's a colossus on the table when he's on his game. Pure fucking bottle.

Ronnie loses points for invoking Simon Cowell as someone who can breathe new life into snooker.

Maybe he just wants to play shite but get kept in tournaments with the public vote.

so many games smell terribly of fixing

lol someone bit

there's no danger of ronnie needing a public vote to remain in the world rankings, i'm afraid. he is that good.

i was more thinking of how higgins j, dott, maguire and the archdaddy of them all hendry have relentlessly battled their way to robotic success after success with nary a smile. maguire is probably the least offensive but he's also the least successful.

it's matthew stevens i feel for

what you talking about, dott is great!!

his style of play isn't

and you accuse others of being boring.

ok maguire's pretty good

I'm all for fat snoooker players, keeping up with the darts players.

Maguire could be brilliant if he could be arsed more often. He's like a lazy Ronnie who can't even be bothered lying about chucking it.

I still can't believe snooker got so bad that Dott managed to win a world championship.

One thing I really hate about Higgins - "The Wizard of Wishaw" wtf

Almost as bad as "The Robin Hood of Snooker"

the sheriff of pottingham

Modesty Baize

Look at these two old gunslingers race to see who can totally lose it first! Hendry's winning btw, dude needs to retire asap

Body language on both sides is pretty miserable.

lollll there's a player called Higginson

SON OF HIGGINS

well done barry pinches! good entertainment.

lol hendry and williams playing some of the *worst* snooker i have ever seen

was at o'sullivan v burnett on tuesday, and it was pretty poor. there seems to be a lot of wild inconsistency in playing at this year's grand prix. o'sullivan v higgins was pretty epic tho, and i'm gutted i had a ticket but couldn't go.

also otm re: hendry v williams

Higgins vs Robertson is a great match. Higgins had 100% pot success in the first four frames yet went in 2-2 at the interval. Robertson hit three centuries and led 5-3. Higgins did the old Mr Resilient and took it to a decider.

Higgins was clearing up to take it and knocks in a quality last red but accidentally hit the pink in. 7 points in it, on the yellow, nerves jangling everywhere.

wow, that was hella drama. hoping for Ding v Robertson in the final.

Looks like you're going to get your wish - Mark can't string enough points together.

Higgins - Robertson was awesome. No matter how great their respective techniques, its wonderful to see it coming down to those scraps of luck that anyone can randomly make the most of - it simply came down to Higgins making the last mistake. Not that it doesn't happen in other sports but snooker really zones in on this aspect particularly well.

wow @ the series of long pots Ding played to go 5-1 up against Williams. Esp that Brown - the complaint that most snooker players have sub-zero personalities evaporates as soon as you see some of those.

god why do i watch john higgins play when within 3 minutes i am enraged

he is living embodiment of the argument which states that instinctive genius >>>>>>>>> ruthless efficiency

ah it's higgins vs robertson! no match-up has me more partisan.

fucksake die

CMON THE ROBBO
CMON THE DING

dennis taylor, looking at the breakdown of neil robertson's 127 break: "it's very unusual to see all the colours in a century break! really went round the table, didn't he?"

n.b. 3 of those colours were potted in the final clearance

LOLOLOLOL Higgins goes in-off TWICE IN ONE FRAME, a frame he has looked odds-on to clear up

i almost feel bad XD

h8 this guy

DECIDING FRAME

this has been epic

cmon the robbo

ohhhhhhhhhh fuckoff

...at least ding is merking shaun!

ay, who's watching-dong-ding the higgins vs o'sullivan quater final now?
great entertaining crazyness in frame 13, eh!

higgins 8:5 to the good at the mo' and seems very likely to clinch the win - at last...

i am watching it, silently hating

hatin' what or who 'xactly?

match itself gettin 'nother little twist - and then 'nother.

read more or less every post i have made to this thread! haha

a'right, did read your recent posts.

and ronnie's won his sixth!

CMON THE RONNIE

yeeeeaaah :)

gets bettah too.

teh match, i mean.

I seriously love Ronnie and if he wins tonight I will be quite, quite overjoyed

Game deserves a deciding frame.

ho-ho. i got watching this (semi, not quarter-f, surely) only when it was 6:2 already - and was rather pissed off to see such a sad score. it's taken a few great turns since.

AWESOME FLUKE

AWESOME POT

Y.E.S.

COOOOME OOOOOON RONNIEEEEEEE

dum-di-dum-di-dum!
HUH.
i need a little schnapps.

omg @ this frame

tell ,as they say, me, like, about it :/

OH FUCK OFF HIGGINS

DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

and to think that for a number of great frames the world did appear a beautifuller place. and then - bam.

I HOPE DING JUNHUI ACTUALLY INSERTS HIS CUE INTO YOUR BUM AFTER WINNING THE FINAL 11-0 OR HOWEVER MANY FRAMES IT IS

DING!!!

If John wins the last 3 frames now, I am killing.

I wouldn't be surprised if John pulls a few frames back, but the way Ding just pinched those frames must be hurting him.

higgins will get another couple of flukes at least (and fuck them up)

yes, he is a 'fantastic competitor'. now stfu please

come on john!

oh shit John is going to win this goddamn thing isn't he

XD

cough cough cough come on ding!

I thought about a JH voodoo doll there, it worked

curse of the internet commentator!

"that cannon wouldn't work.. nope he's not hitting low enought that wouldn't work"
"oh he's played it perfect"

FUCKING DING!!! DAMN IT FUCK UP SO JOHN CAN WIN FFFFSSSS!

ding played a shot that was beyond the comprehension of john and willie. he is a sporting god. he is next-level.

lol ken

FUCKING PETULANT CRYING CRY BABY SHIT

etc.

yeah yeah ok well done

he's john's chance

here's

ok not yet

omg this shot

not ever

congratulation to ding and all his supporters

uh oh

surely not

COME ON JOHN

there's at least 2 more flukes in you yet

here we go

gaaaaame shooooot

congratulation to ding, and all his supporters

a smile there from the softest-spoken man in the game!

love his interview

now he can claim his weight in pie

yes a bit like how african football players always play with a smile on their face

xxpost

nah i just mean he doesn't smile much!

new decade, same ronnie

love how we've had o'sullivan-robertson and o'sullivan-selby in this tournament, and an early higgins exit. the beautiful game at its zenith imo

oh ronnie

best final ever

mark should be well past his selby date already, but miraculously clinging on and now it's 9-9!

bloody hell

best final evah!

ronnie is doing the post match interview like rafa

EPIC

(was watching on actual TV, hence lack of OMG-ing here...truly two players and two performances fit for a final)

I totally missed it :-(

i dunno. ronnie was pretty shit in the final 2 frames

xpost

Final frame needed a Ronnie comeback of sorts, and he did take on that batshit green in the penultimate one (after battling back superbly!) but he was pretty great throughout.

Stopped watching for motd= stupid.

he shouldn't have missed the easy yellow that led to the batshit green!!

also unrelated - for some reason the snooker online really zaps bandwidth cos everytime i start watching tmobile would send me a text message saying i've reached like 95% of the fair use policy or something lol

you'd think a picture that's mostly constant (green) with an occasional dot moving around is an easy stream to compress

loooooool neil robertson losing to the most amazing-looking sportsman in history - it's mark heap part 2!!

come the fuck on steve davis obv

holy. fucking. shit.

@ martin gould's performance in the final frame of the session

Especially the first 30 points of that final break in the last frame, yeah.

I keep expecting John to pass him but its not happening: 10-9

dammit I should be readying myself to play cricket but this is too engrossing, Davis digging so very deep

the plant-green-plant from Gould was one of the most sensational things I've seen

Yeah and then he followed that up with a couple of long blues, and a red red plant, too.

Lots of charismatic snooker.

Can't believe Davis will win till it happens. This is great.

oh wait that was the best bit yeah, the final plant, where I nearly fell out of my chair

watched some of gould last night. his potting is so totally next-level brilliance that he doesn't have to bother too much about position, insanely great.

oooooof

davis higgins is epic

I'm not going to see the end of this. You just know that the only time in the whole match Higgins takes the lead will be at the end of the 25th frame...

amazing

Bloody, and, indeed, hell.

Stunning double. Doubt this will be beaten for drama this year.

And, almost as amazingly, Robertson beats Gould 13-12: shame on the beeb for not cancelling a Dad's army repeat.

Robertson beats Gould 13-12

ok what the fuck

also huzzah steve davis

but srsly what the fuck at the robertson-gould game

dad's army.... uh... lol?

RT @owen_g: Higgins cleared of main match fixing charge. QC had "no reason" to disbelieve him. Banned 6 months on other charges,back 1 Nov 3 minutes ago via TweetDeck

guardian_sport

FUCK

OFF

HIGGINS

this dude is a nightmare

just when you thought it was saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and like that, you are asphyxiated

Tee hee.

That finish was fucking awesome, let's be honest. Just think how many titles he'd have if he wasn't punting frames at £75k a go.

the frame when williams went 29 up with 27 on the table was incredible.

perfect semi-finalists in this Masters

the two young British pretenders and the two most talented Oriental players

Marco Fu is a waste of talent, more like.

I <3 him, want him to win this tournament

Ding off to a good start, not really fussed who wins as both decent players.

fu shd be level :(

UK championship 2012 drinking game: every time a commentator mentions that Luca Brecel is 17 years old and/or from Belgium - drink!

Unconsciousness to follow.

Mark Selby is so painfully fucking sloooooooooooooooooooooooow it almost makes me want Graeme Dott to beat him. Almost.

For Ronnnie to make a final after being out for nearly a year really is some achievement. You could argue he hasn't had to beat anyone much however he easily beat Judd Trump.

yeah .. the final aint going to be all that though is it given at ththe other semifinalists are not exactly firing on all cylinders.

For the three frames he had to win last night I don't think he struck much above a 50 break but his positional play was a joy to watch: great brown to red in the first frame to kill that off.

Then a red to pink with his left hand in the last.

There is one weakness in his game in that if he has to pick up the rest he'll likely miss but that is only because he is so good with his left! There is no sportsman or woman anywhere who can say that this ability has actually created a weakness!!

Trump was totally bullied and subdued. In that first frame he should've gone for a cannon into the small pack of reds about two shots earlier but he was so vary of Ronnie and tried to pick as many points as possible that he then ended up going for a harder shot, missed and Ronnie took it anyway.

This could be the most underwhelming final since Hendry-Bond. You give Hawkins absolutely no chance. Only thing is you always suspect Ronnie could already be thinking the trophy is his. Its alright for us to think that, not him.

OTM. I don't think Hawkins has a chance. My estimate is it will be a one-sided affair, but that doesn't have to mean it'll be an underwhelming final. Not if O'Sullivan entertains as he did yesterday.

I didn't at all mind Ronnie not scoring high breaks, his positional play indeed was a joy to watch. Not seem him as focused, making the right decisions for a while. If he brings that to the table today I'll be a happy man.

It is a shame though that the competition seems so much worse. And that is compared to a man who hasn't played for a year.

1st Frame: great shot with a rest for a 70-ish break, scrap what I said before.

Hawkins misses his rest shot and O'Sullivan turns on the style for a 92 break. Top fkn class!

Hawkins now switched on tho'. good to see..

Amazing run of frames so far - v high standard considering both players seem unhappy with the table/cloth.

o'sullivan is some kind of genius huh

my annual campaign for him to be SPOTY rumbles on

it'll be some man united player tho. or alistair cook, when a terrible aussie team get theirs

it's a shame he's such a prick

nah he's a lej, bruv

well, i thought that was a great session ..
hope it stays at this kind of level ..
would love barry to keep ronnie under pressure.

Thank god they wheeled John "WHERE'S THAT CUEBALL GOING" Virgo out back to the old folk's home. Mr. Obvious has nearly ruined watching snooker for me.

I can see Ronnie getting in a bit of a tizzy tonight, he doesn't seem focused any more.

Amazing stuff again from Ronnie, two centuries then some brutal safety play to take a three frame lead overnight.

Truly terrific last frame (might not be a better frame in the final). Ronnie has all the answers so far and brilliant from Hawkins - he's asking the questions. It will probably suit him to come from behind anyway...

Yeah this was good stuff.

ah now that was incredible

Hawkins makes a terrific century, and Ronnie misses a sitter of a red in the next - first sign of nerves.

Break of 66: 15-12

Barry couldn't keep it up and Ronnie punishes, now to within one of a fifth world title: 17 - 12

wins with an 88 break, awesome.

That shot to get up for that last red was great. My love-hate relationship with Ronnie has gone back to love this week.

Awesomely awkward victory speech there

lolled at "whore's drawers", yes.

That was fab! "We're live, aren't we Hazel?"

12 year ban for Stephen Lee for match fixing - BBC reporting that he avoided a life time ban but when you're 38 and already on the slide, 12 years out of the game should just about do it. Great cueist, could've been a contender.

I'd forgotten about the existence of Quentin Hann. Apparently he was banned for 8 years in 2006 for match fixing. I have no recollection of that at all.

just watched final frame of selby - higgins. one of the great frames

knew I had seen this before

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/tabb2.jpg

http://31.media.tumblr.com/a07215930685f05ccd9e666bba9f709f/tumblr_mobthnv7OM1su2hd3o1_1280.jpg

Awful portrait.

yet it is probably the best painted portrait of a female professional snooker referee ever created :(

I think this one is better

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?s=7e8ea29a8e54a31265fd4eace0a598d9&attachmentid=406908&stc=1&d=1210113576

Jan Verhaas doesn't get objectified like this. Or does he...

Haha that's even worse! Why is her head just floating there? It looks less than the real woman than the first one did.

Ronnie in Jesus mode last night...

Amazed Walden didn't join the crowd after O'Sullivan knocked off that century.

to clap although he could just sat in the arena too.

That was one glorious bit of snooker yesterday afternoon, also enjoyed the presenter dude shiting it about how they were going to fill about three hours of remaining airtime.

Just spent an hour watching Ronnie's exhibition match in China with Pan Xiaoting in pool (9-ball I think) from Christmas-time. He's not playing his hardest, but still fun to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PgyAbL02ZA

do I wanna read the comments on that

hmm, weirdly civil. there is hope for you yet, youtube

haha, comments for video 2, where they play each other at snooker, much more what I was expecting

When he first displayed this left-handed ability in the 1996 World Championship against Alain Robidoux, the Canadian accused him of disrespect. O'Sullivan responded that he played better with his left hand than Robidoux could with his right.[243] He was summoned to a disciplinary hearing in response to Robidoux's formal complaint, where he had to prove that he could play to a high level with his left hand. He played three frames of snooker against former world championship runner-up Rex Williams, winning all three. The charge of bringing the game into disrepute was subsequently dropped.[244]

Haha that is great. So is this, also from Robidoux's wikipedia page:

Robidoux reached the semi-finals of the 1997 World Snooker Championship, but subsequently slid rapidly down the rankings.[2] He blamed his decline on the destruction of his favourite cue,[2] which he referred to as "the Eel". The incident occurred after Robidoux returned the handmade cue to its maker – an elderly craftsman in Canada – for repairs. But when the cuemaker saw that the cue's butt had been adorned with the logo of Riley, a leading UK cue manufacturer, he took such grave offence he smashed the cue into pieces and sent the remains back to Robidoux.[2] Several years later, Robidoux was asked whether the passage of time may have eased his anger towards the cue maker; "I want to kill him," was his heartfelt response.

hahaha I found that exact bit & strongly considered putting it here

more from snookipedia

In 1996, Ebdon recorded a version of the David Cassidy song "I Am A Clown"

He does not have to wear a bow tie in professional snooker matches due to medical problems, for which he has a doctor's letter.

Stephen Maguire also has a letter from his mum excusing him from doing cross-country in short sleeves.

was gonna post about the boy cahill, but he's just fucked up winning in about the most awful way possible. deciding frame now. tbf ding was str8 incredible from 11 foul points needed

cahill wins! good lord

he should have won (with his chances), he should have lost (as part of his educational arc), but has still learnt some almighty lessons, good luck to him

Enjoyed that as well - thought it was some late highlights at first.

Yeah that was a great match, from both players - was rooting for Ding for most of his comeback but Cahill's hanging on in the face of all that got me to switch sides for the decider.

So Ronnie nearly made two 147s in a row today...

lol @ "I'm like a born again Christian"

Bingham seems to self destruct atm. 4-4 after him being 4-1 up.

Beautiful match.

The next frame after 4-1 Bingham gave him a few opportunities but then its 3x60 breaks, a century and the 87 at the end, and that pot on the red (when he could've put Stuart back) was top stuff!

Yes that pot was magnificent. Ronnie v composed and 'with it' in the post match interview too.

He's been v with it for a long time now.

Can I say how much I enjoy Hendry's commentary, especially during Ronnie's matches. Never talks too much, just enough and there is nothing too obvious.

Absolutely agree on the latter, he's surprised me in a positive way.

That's good to hear about Ronnie, I've not been following snooker for a while so didn't know.

Its been a boring final - almost the only way to beat Ronnie is to play tactically and get his timing off (sounds cynical but it isn't), then score heavy when he makes mistakes. In the past Higgins was great at this and Selby beat him at the WC like this.

Ding and the likes of Trump aren't. 8-4 right now.

Not so boring now.

mad, mad stuff: 9-9 from 9-4! It was lightning too.

Incredible last hour - Ronnie pulls out a good safety and then took the points well.

Yeah that was good stuff. It was scrappy from both before Trump started getting into gear.

Loved the shots right after the end: Ronnie looked like he'd lost, like he couldn't believe it, whereas Trump was all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ after a couple of minutes.

cuddly ken, you cunt! she was supposed to win

needed a snooker on pink and black to prevent epicke final frame, got it

you want one loveable ambassador of the game to lose to a woman, proving her right to be in the men's game in the popular opinion, you choose ken, and he fucks it

lol anyway, she played ok and women should be allowed to attempt to qualify always now, should have always been allowed

Women should be allowed to qualify/play in all tournaments really. Might take a few years but all that should flow through to the World championships.

selby with the eeyore celebration again lol

Anyone here bothering with the Crucible this year?

RIP Ronnie, heaven needed an intensely bored and uninterested snooker player

ronnie and ding on the 13th!

lol RIP Shaun Murphy's actually-he's-a-decent-guy rep

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/24/its-not-fair-shaun-murphy-rails-at-amateurs-in-pro-snooker-after-uk-championship-defeat-by-amateur
lmao