― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
I enjoyed 'Frame Academy' very much indeed. It put the 'OO' back into snooker for a few minutes, especially Steve Davis's elasticated balls.
I also enjoyed the odd glimpse of Terry Griffiths.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 08:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 09:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 09:52 (twenty years ago) link
o'sullivan vs hunter 8:7 ...and 4 more to go, eh? or less, meh?(it is live on eurosport, innit?)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:40 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago) link
Also these are a couple of sexy shits, eh?
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
They're both pretty great.
(xpost)
O'Sullivan's post-therapy interviews are a mind-boggling wonder of pop-psychology-speak (well, the only one I saw this week anyway).
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link
(xpost - that "biting off his tip" made me laugh a bit. New relaxed therapied Ronnie seemed to not care at all that he lost)
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
(he has just made a reference to shagging his woman)
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
Go on ronnie!!! He's just won the first four frames of the second session in 42 mins (he so totally deserves to be called 'the rocket').
two eighty breaks and a century and he's 10-2 up.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 30 April 2004 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Heh heh heh.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 30 April 2004 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― prima fassy (mwah), Friday, 30 April 2004 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
And why has Dominic Dale suddenly vanished from the commentary team? Dennis Taylor is starting to irk me a bit...
Worst thing about Parrott - his tips segment, where he teaches Stan Boardman to play snooker. Fucking hell.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 30 April 2004 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
is he worse than Higgins? nobody is but
― imago, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:31 (ten months ago) link
Selby and Higgins are both all time greats lol
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:33 (ten months ago) link
give up on the long pots ffs
― ledge, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:33 (ten months ago) link
Brecel's game is looking very shabby at the moment. He said he doesn't use a B game but I don't think he has one.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:34 (ten months ago) link
Now..
Ok that 50 break could be what Brecel needs.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:42 (ten months ago) link
blimey, a lot going on here. It's Brecel's to lose now
― calzino, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:47 (ten months ago) link
Selby flukes that red then misses the brown...snookers required
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:48 (ten months ago) link
Brecel one away
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:50 (ten months ago) link
Brecel played some really good safety in that one
― imago, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:51 (ten months ago) link
I meant worse than Higgins in terms of their ineluctable grit, their monstrosity
― imago, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:52 (ten months ago) link
supoib
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:07 (ten months ago) link
Awesome!
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:07 (ten months ago) link
you love to see it.
― Fizzles, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:07 (ten months ago) link
Great tournament
― nxd, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:09 (ten months ago) link
heartwarming stuff
― ledge, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:10 (ten months ago) link
Fantastic!
Another one I can't stand is Hazel Irvine. Imagine going through all that and then you've got this idiot to deal with.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:13 (ten months ago) link
what a nice chap
― imago, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:15 (ten months ago) link
he didn't get Selbied, so now he's getting Hazeled.
― StanM, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:16 (ten months ago) link
What's the Selby and Vicky thing?
― Covfefe and TV (ken c), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:18 (ten months ago) link
That was weird. I know Selby has spoken of mental health issues.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:19 (ten months ago) link
I recall one year when Selby won it and was visibly depressed throughout the whole post-match, he clearly has his demons, but it feels like this is physical health maybe
Here's to more snooker like how Brecel and Si play it
― imago, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:25 (ten months ago) link
he bounced back from a serious burnout iirc
― StanM, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:25 (ten months ago) link
I watched the Ronnie Amazon documentary, *The Edge of Everything*. I have an instinctive emotional response to Ronnie at the best of times and found this moving - particularly as the whole thing is inevitably organised around the central wound of his dad's imprisonment. Curious to note how similar Ronnie's story is to Beckham's (whose name is on the credits as an executive producer) - how driven they both are by strong father figures and how both seem to seek father figures in their lives, albeit in Ronnie's case, the father figures seem generally more benevolent (Ronnie Wood, Damien Hirst, Jimmy White and his psychologist Steve Peters).
On the downside, it doesn't need to be the best part of two hours, and the snooker on show is oddly neutered. There's lots of Ronnie self-analysing in hotel rooms. I liked the use of the close mic during in the 2022 World Championships; there are times when you can hear the squeak of his shoes amid the muttering and cursing.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:14 (three months ago) link