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Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby HappyCamper » 22 Feb 2019 Read

SnookerFan wrote:
HappyCamper wrote:
SnookerFan wrote:
Ash147 wrote:
SnookerFan wrote:I've put a film on.


Is it a porno?


No.

Kind of the opposite.

About a pregnant woman going on a killing spree.


Prevenge?


Correct.

Image


good film

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby Badsnookerplayer » 22 Feb 2019 Read

It is a shame the snooker puritans on here cannot see the light side of snooker being presented to us by this year's Shoot-Out. A fun, frivolous and frenetic feast of fast paced firepower from the finest craftsmen in the game is scorned by some seasoned posters who sneer at short format speed snooker. This is a chance for players like Gary Wilson to let their hair down and fans to see some of the players who don't normally make the latter stages of tournaments like Ronnie O'Sullivan.

These joyless posters would do well to remember that if it weren't for this tournament, we might never have seen Mitchell Mann on our airwaves again.

Pinball, Vodkadiet, Snookerfan - allow us our dreams.

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby vodkadiet » 22 Feb 2019 Read

Pink Ball wrote:This is test match snooker, the game in its purest form.


The groundsman at Watford has produced an absolute belter of a table. It played beautifully on the first day. There is something in the wicket for all types of cueists but they must keep a good line and length with the cue ball. Equally if someone gets in they can trust the table enough to go on and make a big score.


I also have a feeling that it will turn appreciably from late on the third day. The spinners should have a field day. The top spinners, the side spinners, the stunners, and even the drag artists should be able to show the full repertoire of their talents.


Snooker and its fans are the winners in Watford. The model used this week should be the one to promote snooker across the globe.


<cool>

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby Pink Ball » 22 Feb 2019 Read

Fully agree Vodka. That was a day's snooker to savour, and by the look of that table, the viewer looks set to be rewarded for commiting to all five days. I've never seen a table looking so green, so much so that by day five it'll be looking like your classic day-two table.

I think today proves that more tablemen should be aiming for a surface that gives players a chance to make breaks once they're dialled in, but there's something here for everyone: the safety players are being rewarded when they find a good line and length, as should always be the case.

Big breaks are fine, but we want to see all facets of a player's game tested. Make them graft for their breaks, though not too much so. Let us, the viewer, see every shot in their armoury. Let the safety player feel that he can have a say on proceedings.

We want it all. This is test match snooker. Not Sunday League.

Big breaks are fine, but I'll always maintain the fans prefer to see a meaningful contest

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby vodkadiet » 22 Feb 2019 Read

Pink Ball wrote:Fully agree Vodka. That was a day's snooker to savour, and by the look of that table, the viewer looks set to be rewarded for commiting to all five days. I've never seen a table looking so green, so much so that by day five it'll be looking like your classic day-two table.

I think today proves that more tablemen should be aiming for a surface that gives players a chance to make breaks once they're dialled in, but there's something here for everyone: the safety players are being rewarded when they find a good line and length, as should always be the case.

Big breaks are fine, but we want to see all facets of a player's game tested. Make them graft for their breaks, though not too much so. Let us, the viewer, see every shot in their armoury. Let the safety player feel that he can have a say on proceedings.

We want it all. This is test match snooker. Not Sunday League.

Big breaks are fine, but I'll always maintain the fans prefer to see a meaningful contest


John Arlott would have been proud of that summation Pink Ball. It is though you lifted it from one of Arlott's written masterpieces!

The ideal walk on music for this bonanza of top class snooker, and also fitting in terms of the hallowed venue and such a well mannered audience would most definitely be something of this ilk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyOZe625SsA

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby SnookerFan » 22 Feb 2019 Read

Badsnookerplayer wrote:It is a shame the snooker puritans on here cannot see the light side of snooker being presented to us by this year's Shoot-Out. A fun, frivolous and frenetic feast of fast paced firepower from the finest craftsmen in the game is scorned by some seasoned posters who sneer at short format speed snooker. This is a chance for players like Gary Wilson to let their hair down and fans to see some of the players who don't normally make the latter stages of tournaments like Ronnie O'Sullivan.

These joyless posters would do well to remember that if it weren't for this tournament, we might never have seen Mitchell Mann on our airwaves again.

Pinball, Vodkadiet, Snookerfan - allow us our dreams.


For the billionth time, it's existence doesn't bother me. It's ranking event status does.

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby vodkadiet » 22 Feb 2019 Read

There should have been a referendum as to whether this should have been a ranking event or not. If David Cameron had been running World Snooker he would have consulted 'Joe Public.'. This 'clown' Hearn has yet to give us anything to vote on during his tenure. World Snooker is nothing but a dictatorship!

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby SnookerFan » 22 Feb 2019 Read

vodkadiet wrote:There should have been a referendum as to whether this should have been a ranking event or not. If David Cameron had been running World Snooker he would have consulted 'Joe Public.'. This 'clown' Hearn has yet to give us anything to vote on during his tenure. World Snooker is nothing but a dictatorship!


Let's get this right.

Hearn has done a lot more right than wrong.

Barring this, and maybe wrecking the UK, he has done so much good for the sport.

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby TheSaviour » 22 Feb 2019 Read

Gutted a few days ago didn´t play that 0-0 as I so precisely wrote and was almost 100% sure about that. And obviously about that draw also. Played only that X2. And gutted I didn´t had Jimmy either or wrote any pre-article about that much as it almost perfectly went as I predicted it would go. I was about to write that Jimmy shouldn´t be bothered when Reanne probably gets first in and makes that 15. As Jimmy´s still obviously a much more solid beak-builder than Reanne, so he should just play 5 or 6 carefull yet brave safeties after that Reanne´s first input, and after that obviously Jimmy still got the class to make that solid 40 after those happenings. Reanne´s better player to get first in than Jimmy. But that´s not any significant.

Reanne could had won it as Jimmy didn´t had her on the ropes in terms of cueing. Reanne played a few shots too carefully and it did cost her. Particularly that first blue of where she missed the position after getting first in. She played it too carefully, when the correct decision would had been to play it an extremely flamboyantly to relatively close to the loose reds. And that´s because Jimmy can´t much do any damage after playing something relatively flamboyant against him. Jimmy´s been always like that. That´s 100% mental aspect. But play something too carefully against Jimmy and Jimmy will be start to play like a train. Well, every credit to Reanne, in terms of brain work, as she obviously noticed that too and started to play some really flamboyant shots. Just wasn´t her day in terms of cueing, I suppose. But still the match went as it always was on the cards. But the life goes on.

The life goes on. I just don´t have any good memories from the last 6 years, besides some very few snooker-related ones. That´s why I do say that I have an every right to turn down any given invitation. If and now when possessing only a really, really and truly poor and pathetic memories from everywhere I ever go, I really can´t say I would be me anymore. Or even a living person. Only the likes Anthony McGill, Mark Selby or Ronnie O´Sullivan have produce some good stuff. They keeps coming on you as they just always has been. A very noticeable. Er, hah hah, that´s Anthony McGill keep scoming at me. Fair play to him. Some great stuff. But besides that, a completely pathetic, hopeless, highly irritating nation these days. If having a none good, SOLID memories from any given day while walking, at home, watching telly, or just anywhere, can´t really say this would be the life of mine and could accept some invitations to come and to chat with us. Not participating, sorry. But good luck still.

The people just can´t understand how lucky and a stern jobs they all are. Even me. From the childhood. There isn´t any flaws of how we all grow up. Impossible to me to shoot any holes in it, when it would only benefit them to have a hole or a few. I would rate a top-3 wonders of the world. One, well, a very obvious pick is that there actually is possibility to stream and some gets streamed. Tha-that´s I would certainly call as a wonder of modern world, and I would go as far as going to spamming the streets day in out, hour in hour out, to make even that one sleeping person to know there is such a miracle existing.

As a second wonder of the world I would like mention that there actually is a facebook-group called " the fathers of Cannon Street". That´s quite obvious pick also, as a top-3 wonders of the world. And once again I would go as far as going to spam that particular steert day in, day out to figure out and thinking about that which men on the that street actually are the fathers and who´s not.

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby Andre147 » 22 Feb 2019 Read

SnookerFan wrote:
vodkadiet wrote:There should have been a referendum as to whether this should have been a ranking event or not. If David Cameron had been running World Snooker he would have consulted 'Joe Public.'. This 'clown' Hearn has yet to give us anything to vote on during his tenure. World Snooker is nothing but a dictatorship!


Let's get this right.

Hearn has done a lot more right than wrong.

Barring this, and maybe wrecking the UK, he has done so much good for the sport.


+1

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby Ayrshirebhoy » 22 Feb 2019 Read

Been watching the shootout for the first ever time. Actually quite enjoying it lol. The crowd are mental with that shouting!

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby Ash147 » 22 Feb 2019 Read

Ayrshirebhoy wrote:Been watching the shootout for the first ever time. Actually quite enjoying it lol. The crowd are mental with that shouting!


If you think they're mental now, you should have seen some of the old matches when it was at Blackpool.

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby SnookerFan » 22 Feb 2019 Read

Ash147 wrote:
Ayrshirebhoy wrote:Been watching the shootout for the first ever time. Actually quite enjoying it lol. The crowd are mental with that shouting!


If you think they're mental now, you should have seen some of the old matches when it was at Blackpool.


Remember that You Have Been Eliminated announcement?

Re: BetVictor Snooker Shoot out !!

Postby Ash147 » 22 Feb 2019 Read

SnookerFan wrote:
Ash147 wrote:
Ayrshirebhoy wrote:Been watching the shootout for the first ever time. Actually quite enjoying it lol. The crowd are mental with that shouting!


If you think they're mental now, you should have seen some of the old matches when it was at Blackpool.


Remember that You Have Been Eliminated announcement?


That was fun.

Were you eliminated from the Shootout, and that's why you haven't been watching it?
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