Surprised the ref forget the 3 miss rule then. Wonder what would have happened had Robertson not reminded him until after the shot (had Ronnie missed it).
Surprised the ref forget the 3 miss rule then. Wonder what would have happened had Robertson not reminded him until after the shot (had Ronnie missed it).
Looking like quite the bottle job from Robertson now.
Robertson has tossed this away so hard.
Those two ludicrous long pot attempts were just bonkers.
The World Grand Prix (no, I've no idea what that means either..) is on ITV4 now.
Higgins against Maguire, followed by Ronnie against Michael Holt.
World Championships kicking off this morning, I hadn't realised.
Bingham v Carter on BBC2 at the moment.
Marco Fu still knocking around. He must 63.
I've been playing a lot of pool lately, and am now a pretty decent player. However, it seems to have massively impacted my snooker game - I played today and was fucking awful.
I've never had opportunity to play enough snooker to become any good at it.
Had a game of pool recently where I potted all seven and the black in succession. The cue ball control was actually intentional as well and only one of the shots had any element of luck. I was buzzing.
I do like watching the World Championship so I'll be getting in on some of this today.
I'm starting the "best natural potter' tea drinking game. Every time a commentator says "when he's playing well, he's one of the best natural potters in the game", I take a sip of my earl grey.
I'm wearing a bow tie, too.
Terry Griffiths commentating on Peter Ebdon playing.
I'm out.
Hong Kong Fuey keeping Ebdon off the table
This is classic Murphy. Off the boil but still going for everything. Twat.
I was reminded of Stephen Lee the other day.
Urgh.
Murphy losing that is an absolute shambles.
Gives Ronnie an absolute cruise to the semis as well, although I guess the Hawk is a decent match player, whatever that is.
Ricky Walden is presiding over an absolute masterclass of shit on the red button right now.
This is genuinely some of the worst snooker I've ever seen, yet it's strangely appealing.
Just put it on. I fucking love Ricky Walden.
These little features they do in the mid-session intervals are absolute bollocks. Where do they even find the music?
You're in for a treat Jim.
13 frames in and neither player has yet compiled a break sizeable enough to take a frame in one visit.
Like that opening shot Jim?
Yeah, magical stuff.
No way he opens these up without breaking down.
How is this pillock 7-6 up?
Stupid fucking Virgin Media doesn't have BBC red button here.
Because Walden has been that bad.
It just gets better.
Hendry's exasperation is brilliant.
Surely 10-7 Walden from here. Even though he missed one by a foot in that frame.
You'd think.
Robbie Williams has gone from bad to looking like he's having some sort of mental episode.
Normal service resumed in this frame, just as Walden looked like pissing it.
I haven't seen any of it but is Michael Holt playing as well as the frame scores suggest? I saw him beat Ronnie in one of the piss ant tournaments a few weeks back and he was seriously on it then as well.
Are BBC just sticking all this on the red button now? I've seen nothing live since the weekend.
I was expecting a mega rant complaining about kicks and stuff.... there was nothing too harsh in what he said. Gave Holt credit for his win.
I didn't realise Ding had shat his way outside the top 16. Oh dear.
I quite want Ronnie to win this. Whether he will is debatable.
Liang Wenbo is playing godlike snooker. Just stuck £5 e/w on him winning the whole thing. Dare to dream.
Yep, what a machine.
Outstanding session of snooker, that. The son of some bloke I used to work with at Asda got a couple of tickets for it, lucky bastards.
The quality overall has been pretty spesh so far.
Eurosport has it live, only copped when I accidentally went up from SSN. You've all been a top help.
Ding.
I used to like Ding, but the last few years I have really gone off him. He has this attitude when something doesn't go his way that the whole world is against him.
To be fair to him, about 1/6th of it is...
Fair play to him here, at 6-8 down he looked gone.
Hearn's been speaking today. He's so good.
Davis' retirement interview.
As I said a couple of years back, these are great.
By 'these', do you mean Hearn and Davis?
Videos of the press conferences is general.
Hearn is basically a genius. Six or eight years ago it had no real right not to die a slow death, but looking through the draw this year there are strong players everywhere, and players you want to watch. No idea how he's turned it around.
He alludes in that video to a further press conference on 28th, which will outline what he wants to do over the next 6 years.
I should imagine Peter Ebdon won't be happy.
You have to hand it to Peter Ebdon. Surely the most awkward cunt in sport, and he's been doing it for over twenty years now.