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this fucking break

imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link

Meh

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link

lol

imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link

it WAS a classic final - one of the best of recent times surely

imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link

Had a crush on Hazel some 15 years ago, I dare to admit

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link

boo

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link

Great final; shame it was between two dinosaurs tho.

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link

aw higgins is a nice person actually. such a weird disconnect from his playing style where he is the biggest bastard ever

imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link

other than peter ebdon

imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link

I feel for Williams and his cheque of 500,000 or whatever and his three chins. This is hauntology in real-life action. He shouldn't be here, yet he is, haunting us all, ghost of future past.

Hazel tho.

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link

Fuck Ebdon ffs

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link

Hazel tho :-) Crash of shame - her questions are terrible.

xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link

Her questions are terrible, by tradition. But she's Hazel, man. Hazel. :)

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link

tbf I doubt anyone can explain how you miss a pink like that and then go on and win it in one visit as if nothing has happened in the next frame.

I'll never forget that. One of the great crucible final moments.

xp = I know!

xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link

:D

I feel sore having missed pretty much of this tournament - Ronnie knocked out didn't help - but this final night was quite alright. 18-16 ain't half bad. I just had no-one to root for.

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link

if anyone can find that picture of higgins drunk riding in a transit van can you please share it

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link

how could you not have rooted for williams???

imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link

especially with higgins to overcome. it's the best test he could have had short of selby

imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link

how could you not have rooted for williams???

― imago, Monday, May 7, 2018 11:06 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes fuck you for pressuring me but fuck yes, Williams over Higgins. By a negligible margin tho. Higgins is grim death. But: they're both utter shite. Williams and his three chins and saggy skin draped around his dead bones has been a pest all his career. And an irritant, snooker-wise, all his career. He's dullness distilled and cut into even more dullness, the way you try and cut cocaine with your bank card like you've seen in a Tarantino movie but it doesn't work like that and it's a crying mess and you blow your nose and blow the coke away and you end up with nowt. That's fucking Mark Wiliams. He's a pain. A nuisance. Yet Higgins otoh is way more of pain: he's done, he should be done, he should be dead tbf, but he's not.

How am I expected to root for any one of these people?

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link

<3 higgins

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link

Apart from Ronnie few snooker players have compelling personalities - but those two have given us a hell of a match, and really I don't think I have ever seen anything like those last 3/4 frames - nothing will ever explain it. Snooker just played at its highest (possible?) level by two people who are re-defining how long its possible to go on for. The level of playing is a replacement for personality.

It was always strange that Williams won this twice. Too many wasted years. Three is pretty good.

xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 May 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link

Higgins I took a real hatred for because of the match-fixing bullshit. But he is a great, and so dismissive of Trump and Kyren Wilson. Took another all-time great to beat him.

xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 May 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link

Williams did the press conference naked as promised btw

StanM, Monday, 7 May 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link

Apart from Ronnie few snooker players have compelling personalities - but those two have given us a hell of a match, and really I don't think I have ever seen anything like those last 3/4 frames - nothing will ever explain it. Snooker just played at its highest (possible?) level by two people who are re-defining how long its possible to go on for. The level of playing is a replacement for personality.

It was always strange that Williams won this twice. Too many wasted years. Three is pretty good.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, May 7, 2018 9:36 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

taking a little break from our ongoing political contretemps to fully agree with this tbh

imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link

there's the wrong kind of leftie, and there's mark williams ;)

imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link

there's a Mr Snooker Extra on youtube who's got the whole thing up there in 50fps HD (with beeb commentary but footage from inside hall between frames) and it's just as exciting as it was the night itself :)

StanM, Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link

six months pass...

Been enjoying the UK Champs this year. Ronnie's been taking it easy this year but he's playing well this final against Mark Allen. Lots of scrappy frames but he manages to find solutions to most puzzles on the table.

'Questions asked' seems this years snooker commentary term. Ronnie's not been asked any questions this tournament year, Mark's being asked a lot of questions etc. Otherwise it's same as it ever was: Ronnie wants to haul over the snooker calendar with some champions league tournament, others call it a foolish plan, Steven Hendry still looking very uncomfortable in front of a camera etc etc.

Guessing it will be over p soon tonight.

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 9 December 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link

four months pass...

So, not Ronnie's 6th yet, then.

StanM, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link

Let me die lord

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:17 (five years ago) link

Socialism is cancelled for another year

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:19 (five years ago) link

That aside there have been a few close finishes so far?

xyzzzz__, Friday, 26 April 2019 11:33 (five years ago) link

There have. I particularly enjoyed the frame w/ the respotted black in the Carter vs Lisowski match. Every time I watch they serve up scrappy, tense frames, instead of the big breaks. I'm not complaining.

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 26 April 2019 11:44 (five years ago) link

Bet you Barry Hearn is.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 26 April 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link

Selby gone. Williams trailing by two going into the final sesh tonight.

This Ding-Judd trump match looks good. Starts tonight.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 27 April 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link

Off the players left I kinda want Ding to do this.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 27 April 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link

everyone does, but he always chokes. but yeah

imago, Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link

If not Ding, then Zhou, surely.

Was glad to see Selby go. Hawkins was impressive this morning.

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 28 April 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link

Trump had Ding on the ropes last night. 5-1 and it should've been 6-2 if not 7-1. Trump let him in for 5-3.

It's now 6-6.

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 28 April 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link

Bingham-Higgins also tight

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 28 April 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link

Another Carter respot in his match against Zhou. What a frame! And today he turned it around, just like Kyren vs. Hawkins! Sadly can't watch any matches until the weekend

willem, Monday, 29 April 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link

Carter would be a good winner as well.

Meantime the last sesh from Ding-Trump. Ding is 9-7 up.

xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 April 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link

^^ that escalated quickly... Ding sunk like a stone. Zhou did too, but you can forgive the young lad. Missed the respot!

I like Ali Carter though, he's in good form. Shame Bingham seems unable to rough up Higgins.

I'll be going to my very first live snooker tournament in November, in Coventry. As a spectator, not a player :) Am already trying to think of what shirt to wear to that televised event. I do know this: it will not be that 'Neanderthal morphs into snooker player' one that's all over the screen this tournament. Nor will it be 'Keep calm and watch snooker', ugh. Recommendations are welcome though.

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:42 (five years ago) link

Ding, choking? Never

imago, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link

Ikr? He wasn't even awful awful, just... choking's the word.

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link

My analysis of why Kyren the Warrior will never be the best: he often lands too straight on a pot when he should err in the other direction. This means he is often forcing angles or really deep screws and ultimately breaking down. A bad angle is always better than no angle.

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 10:55 (five years ago) link

Sadly can't watch this now, stuck at work. Gilbert had some crazy good pots last night.

Kyren has the most melancholy expression of the bunch. Even when he's winning his face is just stuck in this 'nothing matters we're all gonna die' despair.

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 10:58 (five years ago) link

make your own shirt! (I don't know, think of something. "Snooker? I don't even know her!")

StanM, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link

lol, I might!

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 11:31 (five years ago) link

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Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link

man, this match between Higgins & Gilbert

StanM, Saturday, 4 May 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link


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