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    the poor positional shot where williams smacked the table is starting to look like a huge momentum shift now

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    yeah williams has lost it a bit

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    Great start to the evening session.

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    “John Higgins has just thrown a hand grenade into Mark Williams brain” says Steve Davis

    Wouldn’t go that far but great clearance and game on.

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    Still can't see Williams not winning 3 frames, even if Higgins does make it close.

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    Do they have to mention it every single time a player taps the table with his cue?

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    Fairly amazing how Williams has kept his head on here. Most would have folded mentally after that Higgins comeback.

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    He's missed tournament ball, Christ.

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    This is fucking brilliant

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    Higgins is ice cold man, clearing up for fun. Fancy him now.

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    Fucking hell.

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    Brilliant final.

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    Is Snooker secretly the most laddish sport or is this Williamson guy a bit of a card?

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Is Snooker secretly the most laddish sport or is this Williamson guy a bit of a card?
    I've been enjoying looking at Williams's twitter. He strikes me as a bit of a nob, but a self-aware(ish) and funny one.

    https://twitter.com/markwil147

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    https://twitter.com/markwil147/statu...95035727650816

    That might be the best picture I've ever seen on Twitter.

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    Mosconi Cup is great entertainment.

    First to 11 and USA were leading 10-6. Europe have pulled it back to 10-9.

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    Superb tactical battle at the minute here between Hawkins and Murphy.

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    This Trump v Robertson semi is a compete clusterfuck.

    It's one of the worst matches I think I've ever seen two professionals contest.

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    No one's looked particularly good in this tournament (although I've not seen Ronnie). I imagine Ronnie will piss the final tomorrow.

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    Well, I was wrong.

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    Watched the first half session before meeting my mate at the train station. Not sure I've seen a better isolated run of 4 frames than Judd's this afternoon.

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    I think O'Sullivan's about to get his 1,000th century on ITV4 now.

    EDIT: Or not.

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    He did it in the final frame to win the tournament.

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    Anyone come close to him on that?

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    Hendry made 775 in his career. Robertson is on 600 odd and Higgins on 700 odd, so no.

    It's very short sighted to say records will never be broken, but given snooker is a dying sport this one might not be.

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    How much do you watch these days?

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    I don't have Sky anymore, so not as much as I once did, but still a reasonable amount I'd say.

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    General feeling? I haven't watched anything properly for a good couple of years now. Same for tennis and cricket tbh.

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    The promising youngsters from Britain appear to have dried up somewhat and the Chinese players are mostly crap. Maybe that's a generational thing, in that it'll take a few for them to come through, but at the moment it's looking a bit barren on the new talent front.

    The old guard are so much better than the rest, which really shouldn't be the case for this long.

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    I'm still massively surprised that John Higgins is still competitive considering he's about 45. I would have expected him to be on the decline like Stephen Hendry was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    He did it in the final frame to win the tournament.
    'Bad' hand and all (as if he has one)


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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    The promising youngsters from Britain appear to have dried up somewhat
    The smoking ban 2006 closed half the snooker clubs and probably, long term, killed the sport.

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    My mates starting a masters in York in September, and has bought us tickets for a full day of last 64 games in the UK championship in November

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    If O’Sullivan wins the tournament on this week he goes back to Workd Number 1.

    A 6th World title is looking quite likely at the moment.

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    what a bloody frame

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    O'Sullivan going out in the first round to an amateur would be excellent. Not gonna happen but it'd be nice.

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    Other than during complete mental breakdowns, I’ve never seen O’Sullivan play worse than he did today.

    If he doesn’t improve hugely, and a 10am start isn’t a good omen for him, he’ll stand a very real chance of going home tomorrow.

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    I think the commentators mentioned it but from what I saw while half-watching he just didn't look arsed with it. He'll turn up and try precisely as much as he needs to and go through I expect.

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    He’s going out.

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    He's just been in to make it 9-9, but the last cannon to split the reds off a colour sent one straight into the corner. Just not his match.

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    I doubt you’ll find a bigger fan of him than me on the board, but he was a total disgrace in that match.

    Awful body language, disrespected his opponent and generally played like a total wanker.

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    His last frame summed it up really. He had 3/4 shots running where he should have been playing in safe, but kept going at the pot. Bad luck on the in-off but he shouldn't have been there.

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    Oh shit. Totally forgot about this.

    He's such a cunt, happy to see him go out.

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    Imagine putting in all this fucking effort that Dott has only to lose it here.

    Assuming Bingham doesn't have more bottling in him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Imagine putting in all this fucking effort that Dott has only to lose it here.

    Assuming Bingham doesn't have more bottling in him.
    Well.

    I actually called 10-9 to Bingham to my mate when it went 9-7 but BOTTLED putting money on it.

    Great tournament so far though, with this game and the amazing last frame in wilson vs brecel. Mark Allen getting crushed is also excellent news.

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    Is it my imagination or do the ex-pros commentating on snooker not enjoy upsets (or the potential for upsets) with quite the same glee that commentators in basically every other sport (that I ever watch) do?

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    I reckon it's because they know, deep down, if (too many) upsets happen they'll be watching a best of 33 frame shitefest in the semis and/or boring walkovers for much of the rest of the tournament.

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    Those who were there for Walden-Hawkins know that it, and not flashy breaks, was the best snooker has to offer.

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    Watching Selby get out-Selby'd here by Gary Wilson is glorious.

    Shame they're about to get pulled off.

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    The snooker commentators, who're normally impervious to bullshit buzzwords have now started saying "he decelerated on it" when a shot is missed.

    Stop it.

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