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    Yeah this is about as invested as I get, I think.

    More of what we saw from Murphy yesterday, please.

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    I hate this navel-gazing shit. The game's fine, leave it alone.

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    Why the fuck is the current World Number 1 in the commentary box?

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    Because he had a whinge about how the commentators are all older.

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    after finding out murphy is a god bothering pro-life twat as well as a general irritant, i'm fully on team jester

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    Whereas Selby wishes everyone was dead?

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    Quote Originally Posted by igor_balis View Post
    after finding out murphy is a god bothering pro-life twat as well as a general irritant, i'm fully on team jester
    Oh, what?

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    You're post about him the other day provoked me to look at his wiki and there's some interesting/funny shit in there.

    @Igor

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    Oh god is he?

    Oh well, he's still preferred dickhead here.

    The Jester looks like he strangles them fresh from the womb.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Oh, what?
    NEWS UPDATE

    he is, apparently, no longer a "god botherer", but i will present these tweets:









    i love him randomly doing a poll my own take is that he's just a bit of a div, really

    spending 8 hours a day in dark smoky snooker clubs with other snooker weirdos from early childhood would stunt the development of other aspects of anyone's personality to be fair - you just have to see their walkout music picks to confirm that

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    His personal life section on Wikipedia does make it sound like like he had the sort of childhood that almost guarantees you're going to end up a weirdo.

    However: "Murphy's wife filed for divorce in 2009 on the grounds of infidelity after The People newspaper published an exposé revealing he had spent the night with an escort girl he had met at a religious youth group. Murphy's then manager, Brandon Parker, issued a statement confirming that Murphy had slept with the woman but denied he had been unfaithful, stating that Murphy did not have sex with her."

    There's a lot to unpack here but "an escort girl he met at a religious youth group"???

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    "They slept together but didn't fuck." I mean, if it's good enough for Michael Jackson and Sia ...

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    The best part was when he was hiding away from it, she threatened to serve him his papers while he was live on TV at the Crucible.

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    shame selby is so tedious cus i actually prefer tactical battles and safety play to break building, but taking 5 minutes per shot and just being a humourless grump gives it a bad name. it's like the snooker equivalent of being a slow, defensively solid batter in cricket (good) who self-servingly runs out his partners and protects his average in run chases (bad)

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    I'm with you there. Matches where they just trade century breaks don't do much for me, back and forth frames are better if the Selby joy vacuum isn't at full pelt.

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    Bit of a turgid first mini-session that.

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    And this is absolutely horrible to watch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    And this is absolutely horrible to watch.
    Yet we can't stop.

    I'm more enjoying McManus on commentary thinking he's some kinda poet.

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    "Absolutely fabulous shot" - he bounced off a cushion bruv, simmer down before your lob-on rouses the dead and infirm.

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    Nearly an hour without potting a ball.

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    I've not seen any stats on it but is Selby the player involved in the highest number of reracks? I imagine he leads by a mile.

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    His head's gone.

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    this is terrific stuff

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    If Murphy plays better today it could be epic. He knows he's got the crowd completely with him and is starting to play off it.

    Also (I haven't had much of the BBC studio stuff during this tournament, mainly off Eurosport), why is John Parrott knocking balls in on a table in the background while Hendry and Davis do their punditry?

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    It is indeed. If Murphy's break building was better he'd be level now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post

    Also (I haven't had much of the BBC studio stuff during this tournament, mainly off Eurosport), why is John Parrott knocking balls in on a table in the background while Hendry and Davis do their punditry?
    Occasionally they'll cut to him and he recreates (badly) one of the shots from the frame.

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    That, I believe, is Blockbusters.

    Shame.

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    Bit stagnant and dull yesterday but today has been cracking

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    Really enjoying it too.

    52 points from three visits by Murphy in this frame is so frustrating though.

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    It's been good today but unfortunately for Murphy it seems like Selby is absolutely in the mood to capitalise any mistake. Could do with him rattling off some more frames here.

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    I gave up at 13-9, then turned on again to see this, maybe God will only allow me to watch Selby crab his way around the table. Mon Murphy.

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    That was delightful. Keep that fucker in his chair.

    Huge last frame this.

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    I feel like Selby is just trolling viewers now.

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    Jim is definitely banned from being one of them from here on in.

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    Because Selby is a humanoid robot of some kind, nothing affects him emotionally like it does with other players, and he can emerge from any 'adversity' with complete ease.

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    It's almost as if this fella's a three-time Champion, lads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    It's almost as if this fella's a three-time Champion, lads.
    Oh he's a brilliant, brilliant player and had/has the game to be the best ever. He's just absolutely horrible to watch.

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    Hes easily top 10 ever but man's just a master of the old school grind. So many players these days wanna hit century after century and he knows how to get under their skin.

    Similar to when Dott won it with fuckawfulness. Literal cloud of depression over the table that year.

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    I don't mind him but then I've never looked at snooker as a sport to be played at pace. And it's not like the grind is all Selby has.

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    O'Sullivan downing him at the end of that semi last year, at the end of an otherwise consummate Selby performance, was a work of utter genius and seemed to scar Selby for ages. Shame Ronnie ran out of steam this year or we could have had a repeat.

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    This first frame alone should see us through to morning.

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    They're just gonna keep shuffling the balls toward that pocket the black is over until it's re-racked, aren't they?

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    That shot on the pink just as he was putting it together feels like how half of the frames Murphy has lost have gone, and Selby will mop it up from here.

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    It's so careless and frustrating to watch, and is presumably why his lone title was 16 years ago.

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    It seems impossible to guess with him which way it's gonna go as well. he'll rattle off some cracking shots and then the next one bonks harmlessly into the side of the pocket.

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    McManus really talks a lot of shit.

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    get on eurosport

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    Who does commentary there?

    I don't have it anyway.

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    I've always wanted to know how much actually goes into being a snooker referee, and how you actually become one in the first place. Other than the rules we all know, there isn't that much to it, is there?

    If it pays more than £50 a day I might make the switch over from cricket.

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    Murphy's fucking mammoth skull would need a wobble here if his neck was capable.

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