has that ever happened before? that was kinda cool.
Amazing final frame from Ebdon, can't wait for the final now.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Saturday, 29 April 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 29 April 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 30 April 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd rather watch a 3rd place play-off with Marcu Fu and Ronnie (using a bent pub cue with a rattle and a shiny tip).
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 30 April 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Someone just invoked the 3:51am finish between Thorburn and Griffiths in '83. Come on lads, beat that.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 30 April 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 30 April 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
N-night.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 30 April 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 30 April 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 1 May 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 May 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Now if he wins it'll be all "Well done Graeme, you won the worst final of the modern era. We didn't think it possible to bore Ebdon of all people into submission but you did it! Can you fuck off now?"
Ronnie's the only seat in town these days, and he's frankly not good enough. With his talent he should have dominated the last decade as Hendry and Davis did before him.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
:)
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Frame 20: Like a couple of chimps in London Zoo, Ebdon and Dott continue to scratch about as the match approaches the mid-session interval. Yet again, both men have chances. Dott breaks down after a 62 break before Ebdon misses a straight-forward yellow when overstretching. Dott then fluffs a snooker, leaving Ebdon to pot the yellow and lay a snooker of his own. Dott is unable to escape, but then flukes a snooker of his own and manages to flop over the line. A big psychological frame for Dott.Ebdon 7-13 Dott
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Ebdon and Dott can fuck off (except that I like when Scottish people win stuff, with the exception of Stephen Hendry)
xpost, that's brilliant. I wish he'd said "scratch their arses" though.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't think I've seen a competitor who had a greater skill level than all his competitors since Jahangir Khan was holding it down in the squash world 20 years prior
Hmm, odd comparison. I thought the thing about JK was his astonishing mental toughness; he wasn't the most audacious shot-maker, he just used to out-last his opponents. 555 consecutive wins, wasn't it? Ronnie can rarely manage 5. Perhaps a better comparison is with Roger Federer or - better - John McEnroe. McEnroe was more or less the best in the world for about four years but genuinely untouchable for a 15-month spell in the middle (i.e. what Federer's been doing to everyone for the last 2.5 years) - but then imploded. McEnroe annihilating Connors for the loss of four games in the '84 Wimbledon final and then shambling to a similarly humbling defeat vs Curren twelve months later was very Ronnie.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
He will fancy this now - and I might stick a bet on him to win.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Frame eight: Peter Ebdon must have walked in front of several black cats, while smashing a mirror or two for good measure, during the interval. To say he is not getting the run of the balls would be an understatement.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
hahah i love this guy
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
15-13.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Dott has just won, amazingly enough - 16-13.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Ebdon goes in off when threatening to overhaul a huge deficit in frame 29. Concedes. 16-13.
(Pam is asleep on the couch and has been for about two hours).
I worry just what Ebbo might do if he wins this, prone as he is to embarrassing outbursts. I can see the shirt coming off and some random punter getting punched out in his frenzy.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Ebdon, who usually wears the look of a man about to be blasted into outer space, does a nifty pirouette and mops up brown, blue and pink. Game on.Ebdon 9-15 Dott
BC guy/gal is better than the match (which is admittedly picking up after the 75 minute marathon).
Dott looks shattered.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link
16-14.
(I think the Beeb are copping the Guardian Unlimited style of irreverent reportage, which reached some kind of zenith with USA-Mexico in the 2002 World Cup..."top-bodied the sphere into the score bag" or somesuch).
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
"Dott resting his eyes - it's pretty bright under those lights."
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm starting to enjoy this.
17-14. Dormy.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link