by SnookerFan » 24 Feb 2017 Read
How is Alan?
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by Andre147 » 24 Feb 2017 Read
SnookerFan wrote:How is Alan?
Taylor?
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by KrazeeEyezKilla » 24 Feb 2017 Read
Coland wrote:Looking forward to seeing Zhao Xintong tonight. He could be the best Chinese player since Liu Song.
You enjoying the shootout?
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by Andre147 » 24 Feb 2017 Read
lol how Jimmy won that match I'll never know...
If the chinese had 2 or 3 sec more he would have potted the red and would have been at least a tie...
Jimmy was also so careless with the rest foul.
He's through and that's the main thing from his perspective.
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by Vallomas » 24 Feb 2017 Read
Well, that Jimmy vs Chen match was a thriller. Jimmy won 45-44 after giving ball in hand to Zhe, but the time ran out!
Two wins mean 1,000 pounds for Jimmy, that are valuable for his effort to save his tour place, through the 1-year ranking list.
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by SnookerFan » 24 Feb 2017 Read
Vallomas wrote:Well, that Jimmy vs Chen match was a thriller. Jimmy won 45-44 after giving ball in hand to Zhe, but the time ran out!
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by Cloud Strife » 24 Feb 2017 Read
Vallomas wrote:Well, that Jimmy vs Chen match was a thriller. Jimmy won 45-44 after giving ball in hand to Zhe, but the time ran out!
Two wins mean 1,000 pounds for Jimmy, that are valuable for his effort to save his tour place, through the 1-year ranking list.
The dream is still alive!
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by snooker_loopy » 25 Feb 2017 Read
This is the crummiest most amateurish pro-tournament I've ever seen. Jimmy White won his game by one point only cos of the time. He missed the red and the Chinese guy - who looked like he couldn't pot a red into a bucket let alone a pocket - didn't have time to make two extra points!
This is the Donald Trump of snooker events. Embarrassing.
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by Andy Spark » 25 Feb 2017 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Andy Spark wrote:World Snooker refer to it as a "ranking tournament"; therefore it is! I would tentatively suggest that the issue here is the reverence that people have for the status of rank and ranking events. For me the status of events is about prize money, strength of opposition, length of history and number of frames the matches are played over. It doesn't matter what the authorities actually call an event.
It's a ranking event if it affects a players rank, that's what a ranking event is.
It shouldn't be one, as it isn't snooker. Might as well make the 3 Cushion Billiards worlds a ranker.
To be slightly slightly pedantic it isn't strictly true that the test of a ranking event is simply if it effects a player's rank, because if that were so then the "minor" ranking events played previously would have full ranking event status, which they haven't been given. You may argue that a "minor" ranking event is still a ranking event, but as these are not counted in player's statistics regarding "ranking event" victories then it would seem that there exists a categorical distinction beyond the mere nominative major/minor one.
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by SnookerFan » 25 Feb 2017 Read
snooker_loopy wrote:This is the crummiest most amateurish pro-tournament I've ever seen. Jimmy White won his game by one point only cos of the time. He missed the red and the Chinese guy - who looked like he couldn't pot a red into a bucket let alone a pocket - didn't have time to make two extra points!
This is the Donald Trump of snooker events. Embarrassing.
Barry Hearn wishes you'd get a life.
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by snooker_loopy » 25 Feb 2017 Read
The problem is the format makes the players look a bit rubbish. The positional play is much poorer when you have 15/10 second per shot. Also, 10 min frames doesn't lend itself to big breaks. It's mostly hit/miss... hit/miss. I can't imagine there will be many 100 breaks in this tournament!
I think this is the only tournament when an average non-pro could have a chance to beat a top 128 player. The scoring is so low if you're a 40/50 break non-pro snooker player I reckon you could have a chance!
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by hamxa » 25 Feb 2017 Read
Vallomas wrote:This guy, Hamza Akbar, is so unlucky with his draws.
This tournament could have been a chance for him to get some money, but he had to face the highest ranked player....
He won!!
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by Wildey » 25 Feb 2017 Read
Andy Spark wrote:SnookerFan wrote:Andy Spark wrote:World Snooker refer to it as a "ranking tournament"; therefore it is! I would tentatively suggest that the issue here is the reverence that people have for the status of rank and ranking events. For me the status of events is about prize money, strength of opposition, length of history and number of frames the matches are played over. It doesn't matter what the authorities actually call an event.
It's a ranking event if it affects a players rank, that's what a ranking event is.
It shouldn't be one, as it isn't snooker. Might as well make the 3 Cushion Billiards worlds a ranker.
To be slightly slightly pedantic it isn't strictly true that the test of a ranking event is simply if it effects a player's rank, because if that were so then the "minor" ranking events played previously would have full ranking event status, which they haven't been given. You may argue that a "minor" ranking event is still a ranking event, but as these are not counted in player's statistics regarding "ranking event" victories then it would seem that there exists a categorical distinction beyond the mere nominative major/minor one.
if this event counts as a Ranking event then all the previous PTC should be upgraded too.
its ridiculous that a tournament that has zero to do with Snooker apart from the fact irs played on the same table is counted and PTC events that was hard graft isnt.
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by Pink Ball » 25 Feb 2017 Read
Wildey wrote:Andy Spark wrote:SnookerFan wrote:Andy Spark wrote:World Snooker refer to it as a "ranking tournament"; therefore it is! I would tentatively suggest that the issue here is the reverence that people have for the status of rank and ranking events. For me the status of events is about prize money, strength of opposition, length of history and number of frames the matches are played over. It doesn't matter what the authorities actually call an event.
It's a ranking event if it affects a players rank, that's what a ranking event is.
It shouldn't be one, as it isn't snooker. Might as well make the 3 Cushion Billiards worlds a ranker.
To be slightly slightly pedantic it isn't strictly true that the test of a ranking event is simply if it effects a player's rank, because if that were so then the "minor" ranking events played previously would have full ranking event status, which they haven't been given. You may argue that a "minor" ranking event is still a ranking event, but as these are not counted in player's statistics regarding "ranking event" victories then it would seem that there exists a categorical distinction beyond the mere nominative major/minor one.
if this event counts as a Ranking event then all the previous PTC should be upgraded too.
its ridiculous that a tournament that has zero to do with Snooker apart from the fact irs played on the same table is counted and PTC events that was hard graft isnt.
I actually thought the shoot out was a nice event. It was harmless fun, not pure snooker, but that's not how it was marketed. It was also played at two terrific venues - Blackpool and Reading - and the crowds were vocal without being annoying. It was a lot better than Power Snooker, the grimey crowds at which had all the charm of a worn sleeve tattoo.
But now it's been made what it did not need to be and what it was better off not being: a gameshow snooker event marketed as serious snooker. Awful move.
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by SnookerFan » 25 Feb 2017 Read
Pink Ball, have you been drunk for the last six weeks?
I'm worried how much sense you've been talking?
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by Pink Ball » 25 Feb 2017 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Pink Ball, have you been drunk for the last six weeks?
I'm worried how much sense you've been talking?
I don't drink a drop, good sir
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by SnookerFan » 25 Feb 2017 Read
Pink Ball wrote:SnookerFan wrote:Pink Ball, have you been drunk for the last six weeks?
I'm worried how much sense you've been talking?
I don't drink a drop, good sir
That's always been your trouble.
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by kolompar » 25 Feb 2017 Read
Shame Akbar lost, looked good beating Bingham, needs some money to stay on tour.
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by The Herminator » 25 Feb 2017 Read
Confused Dott gone
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by SnookerFan » 25 Feb 2017 Read
TWITTER ATTACK!
Dennis Taylor @dennistaylor147
How many people get a chance to play golf with the President of The USA.
Sport crosses all political barriers. Give Rory McIllroy a break
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by SnookerFan » 25 Feb 2017 Read
SnookerFan wrote:TWITTER ATTACK!
Dennis Taylor @dennistaylor147
How many people get a chance to play golf with the President of The USA.
Sport crosses all political barriers. Give Rory McIllroy a break
I just asked him about it, quite politely, and he told me to get a life.
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by KrazeeEyezKilla » 25 Feb 2017 Read
I doubt if there is a single person in the world who Taylor would refuse to play golf with.
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by SnookerFan » 25 Feb 2017 Read
KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:I doubt if there is a single person in the world who Taylor would refuse to play golf with.
I literally said "McIlroy played golf with Trump?"
He told me to get a life.
Senile out hammer.
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by Andre147 » 26 Feb 2017 Read
Why don't Sky hire DT to commentate their Golf tournaments? He'd surely do a much better job than commentating Snooker that's a certainty.
I do wonder when his Golf crap started... I've listened to his commentary in the 90s and early 00s matches via many Youtube links and his commentary was actually very good then.
It may be just a coincidence (or maybe not) but the commentary from the BBC made a serious decline when Clive left and above all when they started having people wear earpieces, which was around 2007 I think.
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by The Herminator » 26 Feb 2017 Read
On the red button do they still go off for a tea break each frame and leave you staring at a table being set up in silence for 2 minutes? The concept of dead air and audience entertainment seemed to be completely alien to the BBC then!
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by Gridlock » 26 Feb 2017 Read
I watched some of this last year...tried again this year due to nice refs....it felt like the dreams I was being ravaged with all week being sick with a fever and treating it with whisky. Of course the refs were nice, but I was so sick I was overcome with indifference. Not to mention the fact that I expect Earl the pearl Strickland to jump out at any moment. Too pool like for this guy.
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by Gridlock » 26 Feb 2017 Read
I gotta say however....it is nice to see guys I've never seen before play some pretty darn good snooker.
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by KrazeeEyezKilla » 26 Feb 2017 Read
Andre147 wrote:It may be just a coincidence (or maybe not) but the commentary from the BBC made a serious decline when Clive left and above all when they started having people wear earpieces, which was around 2007 I think.
I read years ago that BBC wanted their commentators to sound like they were watching a game in a pub/club. Informal and without much analysis.
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by Andre147 » 26 Feb 2017 Read
KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:Andre147 wrote:It may be just a coincidence (or maybe not) but the commentary from the BBC made a serious decline when Clive left and above all when they started having people wear earpieces, which was around 2007 I think.
I read years ago that BBC wanted their commentators to sound like they were watching a game in a pub/club. Informal and without much analysis.
Which is true. And it's the exact opposite of what ITV do, and that's the correct approach.
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by SnookerFan » 26 Feb 2017 Read
Yeah, if that is what the BBC are going for, they've got it wrong. Colin Murray and his Eurosport mates are closer to that. The BBC just sound like clueless amateurs most of the time.
Also, I don't think the infornal man in the pub approach works for sport analysis. I'd rather hear experts, than drunks having a laugh.
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