I can't remember the last time I watched Snooker, but even I'm finding this tense.
I can't remember the last time I watched Snooker, but even I'm finding this tense.
It definitely is tense.
Allen bottled that decision with the red to the corner there.
Oooof. Now then.
He's a right bastard.
As is Ian for the jinx.
Yeah my timing wasn't good.
Sorry, ladies.
Hopefully she's just setting him up for extra misery.
I am watching snooker.
Or is it 'the snooker'?
"Some snooking" is the common way of saying it.
She could've done with this composure when she flubbed that red in the last frame.
I think it's only 'the darts'. Snooker is just snooker.
Do you hate all women or is it just those in sport?Originally Posted by Ian
She could've done with this composure when she flubbed that red in the last frame.
That must be one of my most effective jinxes ever.
You normally need to be watching England play cricket for those sort of instant results.
Sort of glad Allen won in the end as I'd have been gutted to miss that.
Stephen Hendry's comeback may be continuing tonight vs Chris Wakelin. I say may be as the scheduling for this tournament is for some reason kept a bit of a secret.
Hendry won last night and looked ok despite only having a high break of 47.
I mean he's not gonna beat anybody good, is he?
I'd be very surprised if he did, but this short form format (and unseeded draw) is a bit of a joke so he has more chance here than elsewhere.
Hendry back on with one of the most tragic opening frames you could conceive of. 0-1 vs Gary Wilson.
Has he improved at all since that Jimmy White shit-off?
Judging by the opening frame and start of the next of this, he's somehow got worse.
Commentators excusing him with lack of 'match practice', but I don't believe in that. If you're good at snooker, you're good at snooker - Jimmy White has been banging on about how good he still is in practice for two decades now while being completely useless in matches during that time.
On the plus side for Hendry, his awfulness seems to be rubbing off on Gary King.
List of horrors so far include:
Breaking off and somehow leaving the white ball eight foot from the baulk line and in amongst the reds
Coming back to the table when he needed snookers (for that elusive match practice) only to miss a routine starter
Missing a host of pots I wouldn't be that chuffed to get so far in frame two
Shanking a long pot attempt miles wide
Probably more I've missed as I'm working while casually glancing up at it
Honestly, if he's not going to put six hours practice a day in, I don't know why he's bothering.
3-0 loss and out.
It's bizarre to think of snooker players going downhill with age. The table doesn't change over time and it's not a physical game. It should just be mental sharpness but that would imply practice would bring that back. Are ... are the other players just better now?
Everything deteriorates with age.
Considering John Higgins and Ronnie O'Sullivan are both pretty ancient and near the top of the rankings suggests it's more Hendry losing what made him good (practice maybe) more than purely his age.
Hendry wasn't very good by the time he retired and practice might not change that, but there's no way he's going to rock back in and beat people consistently without it.
People deteriorate at different rates.
I think it was Steve Davies that said it was the eyes that go. Once they go, you don't get it back.
Steve did have his moments, though. Made the Quarter Final of the world championships in 2010. That was the last time he qualified for one.
Been watching Judd Trump in the US Open 9 ball championship this week. He's playing now and looking good for the last 32 (I think!).
Where’s that on?
Sky Sports Mix at the moment.
Here's the schedule.
https://cuescore.com/tournament/US+O...p+2021/9209905
No idea how this loser/winner stuff works, but it has the whiff of a Swiss format about it.
Class. Love watching 9 ball.
He made some cunt of not just rolling in that 7 though.
The guy he's playing is genuinely wank (but somehow better than either of his first two opponents), to the point whether I wonder if I'd bothered with 9 ball in any way shape or form seriously I'd be in Atlantic City playing myself.
I obviously don’t watch it that much after all because I’ve never seen that thing they use to hold the 9 ball on the break before.
Me neither. Seems an odd thing to do given there isn't really anywhere on the table it could end up that'd be hard to pot. In fact, as I type that I wonder if it's encouraged to stay where it starts with that thing to stop racks ending in seconds if it went near a pocket instead.
Trump back on, apparently against someone good this time.
Seen that lad interviewed with Trump earlier. A Scot but sounds like he’s been in the US a long time. Sounded fairly confident of taking him anyway.
Yep. He's 5-0 up already.
Is he facing Jayson Shaw? Because if so Shaw will twat him.
He is indeed.
Apparently Trump was bookies favourite beforehand. If I'd known that I'd have started a train.
He’s well into the process of doing just that.
Seen Mark Allen walking out of some door here this morning, unfortunately I only clocked it was him too late to call him a cunt.
The final is just starting now.
I tuned in to Shane Van Boening getting absolutely smashed by some Singaporean the other day and there seemed to be a bit of a rules stoush underway as to whether an extension had been called.
It was against this Yapp geezer who is in the final.
I've enjoyed this tournament, but it's manifest nonsense that you can theoretically lose a match without playing a shot.
Aye, 9 ball pool is a bit of a circus. Is it winner stays on in terms of the break in this one? I only ever tend to watch the Mosconi Cup when that's on and I think they alternate it in that format.
It’s winner breaks. Biado won the lag and was 2-0 up without Yapp having a shot.
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