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No, it'll be one of these epic "where were you when..." Dennis Taylor v Steve Davis in 1985 corkers with everyone sleeping in for work tomorrow morning.

They actually explained it away earlier on the BBC as due to other telly needing to be shown because I for one really REALLY needed to watch Eggheads and the Great British Menu rather than any more snooker, erm, hang on a sec...

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

LOL at 1 person clapping 1 time before realising they're the only one and stopping - "Great shot! ... oh, it wasn't, I R pwnd"

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Selby was 100-1 at the bookmakers after last night!

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

go on mark

― ken c, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Go on both of them! It's midnight over here and there's still a possible 9 frames to go (if it's going to be 17-18 or 18-17) - 9 x 45 minutes is going to finish, like, next week or something! OMG!

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

I might have to revise my answer on the hours-of-sleep thread after this. Seriously, I might just nick off to bed and they'll proably still be playing this yellow when I get back up at 6.30.

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

This is insane - 21min on one ball. They've already cited the Griffiths-Thorburn match from '83 - the one that finished at 3:51am (see also: Pernfors-Wilander at the US Open) despite The Grinder knocking in a 147.

I'm going to say Higgins 18-15 around 2am. I know I won't see the end. Of this frame.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

epic.

the misses on the brown, the flukey pot, then snookered on the blue...

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

Aye, I'm loving this. Anything involving Griffiths/Thorburn/Charlton or whatever = yawnsville, not to mention that tedious Dott/Ebdon final last year. This, however = total stone cold classic. Expect to find me slumped over my desk in a big yawning heap some time tomorrow (if I'm not still watching this!)

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

Oh well, I'm off to bed. My bedside portable has a sleep function on it (which I used to great effect during the '94 World Cup), so I might just turn the sound right down and have it set for another three hours.

I think Higgins would streak away with frame 28 but it's another safety battle...

― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

They're playing like they don't have to go to work tomorrow, these two.

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

next frame, more safety..

i'd love a sleep function on my radio.

I need a new clock radio

I want DAB and Alarm and Sleep function.

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

think > thought

I bet Ava comes into our bed if it gets to 17-17.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

bugger, higgins goes 2 head again...

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

maybe not...

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

he has.

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

cor century

― ken c, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

12 hours later

― ken c, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

After 12 hours and 3 minutes, stick a fork in it.

xp

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

Poor Mark :-/

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

Let's not take away from Higgins though, eh?

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

Excellent stuff. Higgins showed class in those last few frames. Where did he pull that out from? I was so sure this was going to the final frame and a 3am finish.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

Well played John Higgins. Poor bastard had to give up booze and Celtic to win it! Those last three clearances were astonishing under the circumstances. He's a class act and having only one world title was never a fair reflection on how good he's been for the last 10 or 12 years.

Selby looks like a future winner, but then so do half of these young scamps who keep knocking stupid shots in for fun. He needs to sort out all this 1min48sec thinking time shite though - unless it's a stupid bastard hard snooker every player knows what shot he has to play within seconds. If he keeps that up I'm going to call him Edbon II and hate him.

That yellow ball. Fucking hell someone just pot the fucking thing then play safe on the green for five weeks!

― onimo, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, that yellow was like watching arsenal. SOMEONE FUCKING SHOOT.

― ken c, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

Selby looks like a future winner, but then so do half of these young scamps who keep knocking stupid shots in for fun. He needs to sort out all this 1min48sec thinking time shite though - unless it's a stupid bastard hard snooker every player knows what shot he has to play within seconds.

That's because he's still basically a pool player trying to be a snooker player - does the daft/spectacular shots so well, but still learning on the tactics front. I think.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:22 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, pool players are noted for fucking around all day picking shots out.

― onimo, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

No, that's not what I meant. I meant when he realises that the knocking-shots-in pool-player tactics aren't going to work in a a situation, and he actually has to think about the long game, he's not quite so good at that yet, because it's a different skill. I may be wrong. Hence the "I think" tagged on the end.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

I think he was just trying to keep Higgins out of his stride. It's ok thinking about the odds shot but if you look at something like that yellow ball borefest I reckon Selby had >70% of the table time. On a lot of occasions I'd named his shot for him 2 minutes before he played it.

― onimo, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

give selby a break. he's 23 years old and had to qualify to get into the competition. he's never played a match like that in his life, and he had to come back from 12-4 down. I think there is something to breaking Higgins' stride, especially because I'm pretty sure that had they not stopped the afternoon session 2 frames early he would have gone into the final session 11-13 or maybe even 12-12.

Despite his love of the trick shot and his over-reliance on pulling shots off with the rest, I think he proved himself to be quite excellent in the tactical area.

I wanted him to win, but I was pleased with Higgins, especially those last few frames. Selby took the loss well and Higgins took the win well. I'm just mourning the loss of daily snooker. I'll have to do something else with my time now, seeing as I don't have the comfort of watching a green table with a bunch of balls rolling around. Le sigh.

― Gukbe, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I'm just mourning the loss of snooker in my life in general. Is it shown (or heard of) in the U.S.?

― Gukbe, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

I am giving him a break - I just touted him as a future winner. I am also moaning about the time taken over his shots. It's a fair criticism, he did keep me up to stupid o'clock despite losing by 5 frames.

― onimo, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

Well done Johnny Higgins! A good Celtic man!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:31 (eighteen years ago)

As one Leicester fellow to another - sigh. If only he'd won we could have added him to our statue...
http://www.sjncc.leicester.sch.uk/imageleicester_files/Images/ART/Sporting-Statue.jpg

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

Is it shown (or heard of) in the U.S.?

no.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

No, they prefer pool there (snigger)

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

Selby is last year's pool world champion, hence his surprising plants sometimes.

― StanM, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

And that female referee who did the semi final between Murphy & Selby has been a well known pool referee for a while now too. So stop sniggering.

― StanM, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

No, I like pool but it's kids stuff really

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

(try to ignore the childish (hey! childish comments by snooker fans! what a coincidence! xpost) comments)

― StanM, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

I loved the yellow ball contest! Those safety exchanges were great! (and I say this when watching it with a fever last night).

I think Selby did the 1m40secs thinking time on his semi-final too.

He has adapted a bit of pool to snooker. I saw him make a century with 3 plants, then another with two. So his knowledge of pool plays a part.

This wz def one of my favourite finals. Hope that Selby does go on and win it but it remains to be seen, he could become another Matthew Stevens - does seem to be 'tougher', tho'.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, 19 minutes on the yellow ball! Brilliant!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

Snooker players have been playing plants since forever, it's not a concept in any way exclusive to pool.

Also, Selby's been well known in snooker circles since his junior days, he's not some Johnny-Come-Lately pool player who thought he'd give snooker a bash.

― onimo, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

Why did they change his nickname for the final session? (all tournament, it had been "the jester from leicester" and for the final session of the final, it was "marvellous mark selby") Maybe changing nicknames is bad luck and that's why he lost!

― StanM, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

"Snooker players have been playing plants since forever, it's not a concept in any way exclusive to pool."

I know that! But there ws one or two that he picked out that other players might not have, I don't think. Don't remember a someone picking them out and getting that many plants in a championship. But yes obv I could be reading way too much into the pool connection (have only played pool on a computer :-)), how maybe a few maybe pick on the fact that Roger Fed played a lot of squash when younger.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

I don't associate plants with pool anymore than snooker

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

Must have been tough for Willie Thorne to try stay impartial!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

The concept of being the most jester-like snooker player just makes me think of Lee and Herring's "Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd"

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

"No, I like pool but it's kids stuff really

-- Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:24"

you say that to his face

http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/images/031007a.jpg

― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

It turns out that me bird's ma loves snooker. Or rather, she loves Ronnie O'Sullivan. Is snooker generally popular with older women?

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 21 October 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago)

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