before Ronnie, Hendry was regarded as the most natural potter anyone had seen. He did have to develop a safety game though(not as good as steve davis safety game was), and it made him and even better player.ffs the guy won a world championship with a fractured arm. You gotta admit that takes something special.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
peter ebdon is about 10x more boring to watch than john higgins
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
and as boring as those guys may be, they aren't in cliff thorburns league!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
funnily enough, Terry Griffiths was a boring slow player, but I did like him.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
also, i don't see how potting stupidly ridiculous shots take more inspiration than a brilliant safety shot
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Ken OTM
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
yes but he is on the edge of complete nervous breakdown every time he misses a pot do you not see
and there's something to be said for his almost hypnotically self-denying style, especially in the context of the barely-suppressed wailing hair-tearing beast within...he is a man on the edge
WHOA
I got no problem with brilliant safety shots, amazing snookers etc...this is all part of the "inspiration" I referred to. I love 'em. What I was complaining about were functional potters who resort to good, often very good, "classic safety", when others might go for something inspirational or at least original.
― sorry for british (country matters), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
If only you could take Ken Doherty's personality and Stephen Hendry's game and fuse them into one...I do like Hendry, because he's great and plays the game in a superb manner, but he makes peak-era Davis look like Quinton Hann
― sorry for british (country matters), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
and miss and losexpost
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
But the game is cruel upon the mentally mercurial. Take Matthew Stevens. Now a wreck, now on the scrapheap. Once within touching distance of greatness. Bright talent, burnt out. At least he list to Mark Williams, who is/was a truly brilliant player and a fine personality.
― sorry for british (country matters), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
*lost
― sorry for british (country matters), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Not always, Kerr! Not always!
i never rated mark williams. he can pot long balls and that seems to be the extent of his game
in other newshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/7661707.stm
this is my favourite live feed so far. you just get to listen to 'drag racer' in a continuous loop
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
omg Graeme Dott's voice
― sorry for british (country matters), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
stop hating on scottishes
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
what is there to hate about his bonny lilt? even though it can probably only be heard properly by dogs
― sorry for british (country matters), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
btw
fuck off john higgins
― sorry for british (country matters), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
resilience
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
resilience can fuck itself
― sorry for british (country matters), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
When Higgins wins a match 13-7, 13-5, by completely outplaying his opponent, rather than hanging in with his utterly, unspeakably efficient, charismaless game, maybe then I might root for him, but this is sheer unrelenting cuntery of the highest order and bad for the game
― sorry for british (country matters), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
(n.b. I am drunk but still, argh)
maybe he should mouth "never in doubt" at the camera after every final frame clincher.
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
andrei_higgins.jpg
― sorry for british (country matters), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
why bother watching any game if you just want to watch predictable 13-5 drubbings?
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Thursday, 30 April 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't! I just don't want a game to be inevitably and heartbreakingly gritted out by a player I dislike...this sort of result was equally predictable, and more infuriating
― sorry for british (country matters), Thursday, 30 April 2009 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean, if he's gonna go 2 down with 3 to play or 1 down with 2 to play, I wanna see some opponents NOT bending over and taking his "resilience" right where it hurts, and getting over the line themselves...if he gets to the winning line first then fair enough
― sorry for british (country matters), Thursday, 30 April 2009 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
but clearly this isn't the case because he hasn't won every single tournament there is to win..
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Thursday, 30 April 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey you guys, am I the only one who remembers this?
― ailsa, Thursday, 30 April 2009 00:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I have no recollection of that whatsoever.
In today's news, Higgins races into an excitingly racy early charismatic lead thanks to playing mostly shite and resiliently asking for new balls.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/8027621.stm
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Mark Allen played *so badly* in that opening session. All Higgins had to do was wait for an opportunity; there was one in every frame. Even when Allen seemed in the balls, you knew he'd find a way to screw up. The two frames he won, he only did so because Higgins returned the compliment.
If there's any justice in the world, Neil Robertson will murk his way to the title
Instead, we'll have a Murphy-Higgins final, and I'll be sorely tempted to not watch it.
― sorry for british (country matters), Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
This match is more like it.
― sorry for british (country matters), Thursday, 30 April 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
A pal of mine applied for a ticket on a whim about two weeks ago, was somehow successful, and is right now sitting in the front row two along from Robertson. It makes for disconcerting viewing to see him in every other low-level shot.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 30 April 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
text him
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 30 April 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
nah dial his number during an important shot
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 30 April 2009 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice idea. I would get him to flick us the v's, but he's also the one person in Britain who doesn't have a mobile
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 30 April 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Red button interactive TV my arse
tell him to keep making the buzzing noise
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 30 April 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
The balls just made a perfect S shape!
― sorry for british (country matters), Thursday, 30 April 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
ffs
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, 1 May 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't imagine getting so worked up about snooker LJ!
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Friday, 1 May 2009 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
dude, the final that is looming is looming between the two players in the entire tournament i like the least
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, 1 May 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
haha I haven't been following the scores today but I guessed 12-4 from that 'ffs' - so near!
At least it's not heading for one of those 16-16 nail-biting last frame Higgins wins you so detest (cue (sorry) Higgins collapse).
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Friday, 1 May 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
This is like me and my mate playing :-/
― not_goodwin, Friday, 1 May 2009 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
except less skilled
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 1 May 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
actually that ffs was for robertson throwing a frame away when it was actually in both of his hands
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, 1 May 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
The tourney could use at least one of the nu guys reaching the final. Murphy bores the tits off himself never mind anyone else.
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Friday, 1 May 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
So tempted to open this in a sneaky window at work but I'd likely get caught.
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Friday, 1 May 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Murphy plays fairly charismatic snooker, but he truly is a manhole of likeability. Needs a Robertson win.
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, 1 May 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Why thnk you ken.what happened to murphy wife coming in while he's playing and handing him divorce papers?
― not_goodwin, Friday, 1 May 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Wee Graeme Dott for the win of least interesting player IMO.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Friday, 1 May 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link