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Ding just needs one more frame to win. Davis just hasn't quite got going - he's never scored heavily as he has done throughout the week to get to this stage, and its not surprising its not like he gets into finals every week like he used to.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Looks like Davis is going to pull one back here though. He doesn't look confident at all, I think momentum has helped him a _lot_ this week, and he's lost it now.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link

The end of that frame just now was great. 9-6 - come on steve :)

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Thoughts on Ding- as darts players get thinner, snooker players get fatter. Why?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

"A star is born"?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 18 December 2005 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Higgins/O'Sullivan in the final - let's watch.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 January 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I am watching - but it's the break right now. Higgins is winning 5-4, and gambling dude John Parrott wouldn't pick a winner.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry, I'm talking pish, it's 5-5. As you were...

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

The tactical play has been just as remarkable as the miraculous breakbuling under pressure. Higgins comeback from 3-0 to 5-3 took immense nerve and skill. Ronnie winning the first two kind of the evening session suggests we're in for a last frame but we'll see.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 January 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

silly ronnie

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Do all tournaments have their own specific number of frames to be won in the final? Or is it always best of 19 except in the world championship? (where it's best of 35 (best of 19 = first round), right?)

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Jeez! Ronnie had an outside chance to level at 8-8, missed the black, set it up for Higgins with a really easy shot, Higgins missed it and Ronnie levelled!

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link

silly john

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry, that was the worst summary ever. Ronnie was out of the frame, but he pulled it back, clearing up to the black, then was left with an impossible angle to pot the black for the frame, he tried the safety, arsed it up, left the black on for John to pot, and John arsed it up.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

ronnie's throwing it away at the moment

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link

although he's in again after some flukiness

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

9-8 to the sullivan

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link

great break with just the blues

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link

timefor a bit of higgins flukiness and he's now in

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

but missed a black off the spot

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link

but ronnie couldn't capitalise and john back in

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

ooh, nice double and now is a chance

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

9-9

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

This is fantastic.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I honestly don't think there's a more watchable sportsman on this planet than O'Sullivan.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Woah, missed a reasonably easy red to let Higgins back in...

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

And Higgins chokes AGAIN! BEST! FINAL! EVER!

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

And, yet, right back atcha! Higgins in again...

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

omg.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link

And he's done it! Wow, really, that was so exciting! Even with all the colours spotted, I sort of thought Higgins would still contrive to cock it up.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link

i wish i placed my bet on higgins when he was 12-1 rather than 2.3-1 lol still, profit

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Incredible 64 clearance. That double! Was that better than his namesake Alex's 69 vs Jimmy White in '82 (the gold standard in awkward frame-winning clearances)? Maybe, maybe not.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I like how this is sponsored by Saga (insurance for old gits) yet at 33 I think I'm the oldest person on ILE watching this :)

(xpost, or maybe not!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Poor Ronnie.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha, Ailsa! 37.

I actually only watched it from 0-60 in the last frame; this thread dragged me away from half-watching Bourne Identity on ITV2 with the missus. (Pam & I once spent three consecutive 65-hour weeks at work coordinating subtitles in 40+ languages for the 13 elements of the Supremacy DVD; it was so stressful we started to feel like we were Jason Bourne. So we've always meant to watch the original. But not at the expense of the snooker.)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link

The thing about O'Sullivan is that you're not watching him play his opponent, you're watching him play himself. It's just one man's battles against his own mind, it's like sports psychology writ large.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I was actually just waiting for MOTD2 (and avoiding Blade 2 on in the other room), and thought I would give the snooker a cursory glance, having paid no attention to the entire tournament thus far. I'm so glad I watched it though, it was top entertainment.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 23 January 2006 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link

er, no Dom, not in this game (though when he took that long comfort brake against Ebdon there was a 'will he come back' thought) - O'Sullivan is probably the best player ever but Higgins is up there too. Ronnie has to battle his own boredom but if he gets to the final of a tournament it takes a lot to beat him. You probably have to take certain chances and that double in the last just illustrated that perfectly.

wotta a game, easily up there w/some other masters finals over the years (hendry-williams finished on the black too, hendry-mcmanus a decade ago) - apparently these two will be scheduled to meet in the QFs of the world championships and that is a total shame.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:34 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Dramatic exit for Hendry today. 9-9 with Bond, it went to the final frame, which dragged on for more than half an hour. Nobody could get a decent break going, loads of snookers and fouls. It went right to the final black. Bond potted it, the crowd cheered, he'd won it, and then the white trickled across the table and into the middle pocket. Doh. I thought that meant Hendry had won, but instead they had some kind of tense play-off with just the black.

― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Were the scores really level? bcz that is when a re-spotted black situation occurs. If Hendry went ahead by getting the 7 points would he have automatically won instead?

Anyway, awesome n'all - totally happy Hendry is gone.

Apart from Higgins going out its all been predictable and one-sided so it ws good to see a thriller that finally get this championship on the move, so to speak.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Ronnie off to a great start with the 10-4, I reiterate my desire to call my firstborn male Ronnie O'Sullivan Passantino. What a hero.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

9-7 down against Day, who is playing some gd stuff and has really evil-looking eyes. Ronnie's long potting hasn't been as good as usual, however its made more of a diff more in the 1st session than in the 2nd. wonder what's going with his wrist, he is handshaking with his left hand - maybe its a new custom you just never know w/Ronnie.

The other really gd game is Doherty-Stevens (8-8), playing to a conclusion later on.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 24 April 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Were the scores really level? bcz that is when a re-spotted black situation occurs. If Hendry went ahead by getting the 7 points would he have automatically won instead?

yeah but this is different because the white went in-off. so the black technically wasn't potted and hence it is respotted.

what i didn't get was another one, the ken doherty game last night(?) - it was 55-55 on points with a black to play. ken doherty missed the black altogether and the other guy was awarded the frame (matthew stevens?) and i didn't understand why.. or maybe ken conceded? surely they can still play for a re-spot.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

btw guys, it's not the final yet! there's a general snooker championships thread...

the rolling towards the pocket snooker championship thread

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Wasn't there once a "Ronnie is a Muslim" story when he befriended Prince Naseem Hamed? Maybe he's worked out that it's ruder to use your left hand.

(the in-off in the Hendry game resulted in level points, that's why it was respotted - otherwise the black can only be scored once, whether potted or fouled)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link

o rly i didn't know that! that makes sense then for both instances

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

(oh well didn't see that other thread - even if this thread ws started in response to what ws happening in the final this has turned out to be the snooker thread with revivals for all sorts of matches in any tournaments.)

As for what happened last night: from the commentator's explanation its in the rules that if you don't hit the black in that situation the frame is automatically lost. xp = ok so yeah level points.

There ws a story a cpl of years that he converted but apparently he just went to a mosque and the story snowballed.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

The best thing about that rumour was that he was supposed to have converted in a kebab shop. You couldn't make it etc etc.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Doherty smashed Stevens to win 13-8, he really played well, and might not play as well again.

Here we go: O'sullivan-Day final session..

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I forgot this was available on the BBC web feed. John Virgo just said "It's a funny old game" - Ronnie doesn't seem to agree.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

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