by freakmoomin » 02 May 2018 Read
What a game!
Really glad higgins won.....but wow those pockets are awful!
Theres almost one pot a frame that shouldnt go in
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by Andre147 » 02 May 2018 Read
freakmoomin wrote:What a game!
Really glad higgins won.....but wow those pockets are awful!
Theres almost one pot a frame that shouldnt go in
At least one a frame that wouldnt drop on any club table.
It's a big irony, but one of the tournaments which had the tightest pockets this season was the Shoot-Out.
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by hendry_fan » 02 May 2018 Read
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by Badsnookerplayer » 02 May 2018 Read
Andre147 wrote:freakmoomin wrote:What a game!
Really glad higgins won.....but wow those pockets are awful!
Theres almost one pot a frame that shouldnt go in
At least one a frame that wouldnt drop on any club table.
It's a big irony, but one of the tournaments which had the tightest pockets this season was the Shoot-Out.
Andre - you are spot on. I often wonder whether commentators are right when they say "Club tables are easier than these" or similar. Many of the shots tonight would never stand a chance even on the easier tables in my club. Parrott in particular says this a lot.
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by Chalk McHugh » 02 May 2018 Read
Congrats pal. I have always admired and liked John. Such a gent also. Feck the begrudgers.
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by freakmoomin » 02 May 2018 Read
I think that will have taken a lot out of higgins... almost garunteed to have one bad session and wilson will need to take full advantage
I thought trump would have bottled it but he didnt, higg just found that wee bit extra
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by Andy Spark » 02 May 2018 Read
Andre147 wrote:freakmoomin wrote:What a game!
Really glad higgins won.....but wow those pockets are awful!
Theres almost one pot a frame that shouldnt go in
At least one a frame that wouldnt drop on any club table.
It's a big irony, but one of the tournaments which had the tightest pockets this season was the Shoot-Out.
Actually I don’t think comparison with club tables is helpful to those campaigning for tighter pockets. It’s a fact that most club tables do have much bigger pockets when compared with WPBSA templates and if people say they aren’t it just gives the WPBSA the excuse they need to ignore the attitudes of people asking for tighter pockets.
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by Badsnookerplayer » 02 May 2018 Read
Pink Ball wrote:The Mo Farah of snooker. Liked by people without a brain cell
I don't mind him
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by hendry_fan » 02 May 2018 Read
Chalk McHugh wrote:hendry_fan wrote:COMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMME ONNNNNNNNN JOHN HIGGINS!!!
OLE,OLE,OLE OLE,OLE OLE OLE OLE,JOHN HAGGIS HIGGINS!.
COME ONNNNNN JOHN!!!.
GET IN THERE LADDIE!!.
Congrats pal. I have always admired and liked John. Such a gent also. Feck the begrudgers.
Many thanx Chalk McHugh,
Aye,one can like,admire,not like John¨,whatever,John,but no one one can deny,he,s a true GREAT!.
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by Andre147 » 02 May 2018 Read
it's a mistery and for me no coincidence that World Snooker doesnt reveal how big or small the pockets actually are. No precise measures are given.
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by Pink Ball » 02 May 2018 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:Pink Ball wrote:The Mo Farah of snooker. Liked by people without a brain cell
I don't mind him
Then, as much as I like you, you haven't a clue
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by Raphael98 » 02 May 2018 Read
Pink Ball wrote:Badsnookerplayer wrote:Pink Ball wrote:The Mo Farah of snooker. Liked by people without a brain cell
I don't mind him
Then, as much as I like you, you haven't a clue
Hey Pink Ball, while Higgins had fault on the video, the NOTW had fault as well, because as far as I know, they were being investigated because of allegations of phone hacking at that time.
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by Badsnookerplayer » 02 May 2018 Read
Pink Ball wrote:Badsnookerplayer wrote:Pink Ball wrote:The Mo Farah of snooker. Liked by people without a brain cell
I don't mind him
Then, as much as I like you, you haven't a clue
Show me the man that is without fault.
I know you think Higgins was let off lightly and he probably was, but if you were him would you not have accepted that? What can he do to redress the balance?
I probably don't have a clue compared to you, but I can't help admiring the guy's play.
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by Raphael98 » 02 May 2018 Read
To finish this, if Higgins is corrupt, then who is Hann and Lee?
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by Andy Spark » 02 May 2018 Read
Andre147 wrote:it's a mistery and for me no coincidence that World Snooker doesnt reveal how big or small the pockets actually are. No precise measures are given.
Yes. I think it’s also important to note that other technical specs influence ease of pocket entry too. For example shift in patterns of reclothing. The more frequently a table is reclothed the bigger the pockets will play. All technical specifications should be in the public domain, but they aren’t. Why aren’t they? Politics.
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by Badsnookerplayer » 02 May 2018 Read
Andy Spark wrote:Andre147 wrote:it's a mistery and for me no coincidence that World Snooker doesnt reveal how big or small the pockets actually are. No precise measures are given.
Yes. I think it’s also important to note that other technical specs influence ease of pocket entry too. For example shift in patterns of reclothing. The more frequently a table is reclothed the bigger the pockets will play. All technical specifications should be in the public domain, but they aren’t. Why aren’t they? Politics.
Sorry Andy - why do they play bigger the more it is reclothed?
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by Cloud Strife » 02 May 2018 Read
If Higgins is drained, runs out of stamina and Barry can produce the beast mode form he showed against Ding, I can definitely see a Hawkins versus Wilson final. Big if though.
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by Andy Spark » 02 May 2018 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:Andy Spark wrote:Andre147 wrote:it's a mistery and for me no coincidence that World Snooker doesnt reveal how big or small the pockets actually are. No precise measures are given.
Yes. I think it’s also important to note that other technical specs influence ease of pocket entry too. For example shift in patterns of reclothing. The more frequently a table is reclothed the bigger the pockets will play. All technical specifications should be in the public domain, but they aren’t. Why aren’t they? Politics.
Sorry Andy - why do they play bigger the more it is reclothed?
A new cloth has a “sheen” that gradually wears away over the course of a day or two. This sheen influences the path of the cue ball when in the jaws of the pocket, making it more likely to “throw” the ball into the pocket off a jaw.
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by vodkadiet » 02 May 2018 Read
KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:vodkadiet wrote:Vote Green!!!!!
There's another party called For Britain and they are even better on animal rights. Or at least that's what Stephen Patrick Morrissey told me.
Morrissey has been brilliant for animal rights, he tells the truth no matter what people think of him. However, he has been a Pr*ck in many ways. Saying he likes Nigel Farage was the last straw.
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by Badsnookerplayer » 02 May 2018 Read
Andy Spark wrote:Badsnookerplayer wrote:Andy Spark wrote:Andre147 wrote:it's a mistery and for me no coincidence that World Snooker doesnt reveal how big or small the pockets actually are. No precise measures are given.
Yes. I think it’s also important to note that other technical specs influence ease of pocket entry too. For example shift in patterns of reclothing. The more frequently a table is reclothed the bigger the pockets will play. All technical specifications should be in the public domain, but they aren’t. Why aren’t they? Politics.
Sorry Andy - why do they play bigger the more it is reclothed?
A new cloth has a “sheen” that gradually wears away over the course of a day or two. This sheen influences the path of the cue ball when in the jaws of the pocket, making it more likely to “throw” the ball into the pocket off a jaw.
Thanks Andy - makes sense. Some of the cloths I play on have those grooves at the side of the jaws which trap a dead-weight ball. Sure pros don't have to deal with that.
Thanks again !
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by Cloud Strife » 02 May 2018 Read
vodkadiet wrote:KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:vodkadiet wrote:Vote Green!!!!!
There's another party called For Britain and they are even better on animal rights. Or at least that's what Stephen Patrick Morrissey told me.
Morrissey has been brilliant for animal rights, he tells the truth no matter what people think of him. However, he has been a Pr*ck in many ways. Saying he likes Nigel Farage was the last straw.
What's wrong with Nigel Farage?
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by Cloud Strife » 02 May 2018 Read
Raphael98 wrote:Pink Ball wrote:Badsnookerplayer wrote:Pink Ball wrote:The Mo Farah of snooker. Liked by people without a brain cell
I don't mind him
Then, as much as I like you, you haven't a clue
Hey Pink Ball, while Higgins had fault on the video, the NOTW had fault as well, because as far as I know, they were being investigated because of allegations of phone hacking at that time.
What exactly has the phone hacking scandal got to do with Higgins agreeing to corrupt activity on camera? I'm not seeing the correlation, tbh.
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by Iranu » 02 May 2018 Read
Cloud Strife wrote:vodkadiet wrote:KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:vodkadiet wrote:Vote Green!!!!!
There's another party called For Britain and they are even better on animal rights. Or at least that's what Stephen Patrick Morrissey told me.
Morrissey has been brilliant for animal rights, he tells the truth no matter what people think of him. However, he has been a Pr*ck in many ways. Saying he likes Nigel Farage was the last straw.
What's wrong with Nigel Farage?
He's a xenophobic, misogynistic media hussy piece of rubbish?
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by Andy Spark » 02 May 2018 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:Andy Spark wrote:A new cloth has a “sheen” that gradually wears away over the course of a day or two. This sheen influences the path of the cue ball when in the jaws of the pocket, making it more likely to “throw” the ball into the pocket off a jaw.
Thanks Andy - makes sense. Some of the cloths I play on have those grooves at the side of the jaws which trap a dead-weight ball. Sure pros don't have to deal with that.
Thanks again !
It’s OK. BTW I wouldn’t be surprised if someone on high has made a decision to increase the frequency of reclothing in order to make the pockets play larger in an event. They’re subtle.
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by Alex0paul » 02 May 2018 Read
Iranu wrote:Cloud Strife wrote:vodkadiet wrote:KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:vodkadiet wrote:Vote Green!!!!!
There's another party called For Britain and they are even better on animal rights. Or at least that's what Stephen Patrick Morrissey told me.
Morrissey has been brilliant for animal rights, he tells the truth no matter what people think of him. However, he has been a Pr*ck in many ways. Saying he likes Nigel Farage was the last straw.
What's wrong with Nigel Farage?
He's a xenophobic, misogynistic media hussy piece of rubbish?
I thought that said Nigel Bond for a sec
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by Cloud Strife » 02 May 2018 Read
Iranu wrote:Cloud Strife wrote:vodkadiet wrote:KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:vodkadiet wrote:Vote Green!!!!!
There's another party called For Britain and they are even better on animal rights. Or at least that's what Stephen Patrick Morrissey told me.
Morrissey has been brilliant for animal rights, he tells the truth no matter what people think of him. However, he has been a Pr*ck in many ways. Saying he likes Nigel Farage was the last straw.
What's wrong with Nigel Farage?
He's a xenophobic, misogynistic media hussy piece of rubbish?
He's against mass immigration and wants out of the EU. If that makes him xenophobic then so be it, but he has some valid arguments to make if people are willing to have a sensible discussion without throwing around terms like racist, xenophobe etc etc.
And yes, of course he's a media hussy. Isn't that part of the job description for a politician these days?
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by Iranu » 03 May 2018 Read
Well yeah, being a media hussy doesn't make him any different from any other politician haha.
But he thinks it's ok to use the word "ch*nky" for a Chinese meal, and said he would feel uneasy living next to Romanian neighbours, for example.
He doesn't even try to hide his xenophobia, so I'm not using the term lightly. His former party essentially built their platform on it.
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by Cloud Strife » 03 May 2018 Read
Iranu wrote:Well yeah, being a media hussy doesn't make him any different from any other politician haha.
But he thinks it's ok to use the word "ch*nky" for a Chinese meal, and said he would feel uneasy living next to Romanian neighbours, for example.
He doesn't even try to hide his xenophobia, so I'm not using the term lightly. His former party essentially built their platform on it.
When I read what he said about people using chinky to describe a Chinese meal I laughed because there used to be a prominent member on here who did that very thing. I don't agree with the description, but he's right to point out a lot of people use the term "chinky" without batting an eyelid, rightly or wrongly.
Also he didn't build his party on xenophobia, he built it on anti-immigration and anti-EU policies. Of course to his detractors his policies will be seen as xenophobic and racist. His supporters will see him as a patriot and a pragmatist. I'm probably somewhere in the middle.
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by vodkadiet » 03 May 2018 Read
Cloud Strife wrote:vodkadiet wrote:KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:vodkadiet wrote:Vote Green!!!!!
There's another party called For Britain and they are even better on animal rights. Or at least that's what Stephen Patrick Morrissey told me.
Morrissey has been brilliant for animal rights, he tells the truth no matter what people think of him. However, he has been a Pr*ck in many ways. Saying he likes Nigel Farage was the last straw.
What's wrong with Nigel Farage?
I need about 3 hours to answer that. So I will leave that for another day!
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