real talk: all scottish players should be permanently banned from competition
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Friday, 16 January 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
there must be a law stating that all scots snooker players are exceptionally boring, dour machines with the flair of a peanut, who always somehow get lucky breaks against more attractive opponents
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Friday, 16 January 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
It must hurt when there's one tiny wee fucking game that some Scottish people can beat some English people at.
How many top players of any nationality aren't boring dour machines with the flair of a peanut?
I'll give you Ronnie "no really I'm fucking chucking it this time I'm telling you seriously I'm a fucking enigma me ok maybe one more tournament and that's me. I'm mad though, seriously!" O'Sullivan purely for his game as when it's good it's godlike. After that the top 16/32 is littered with boring twats.
Higgins lacks charisma but he's a colossus on the table when he's on his game. Pure fucking bottle.
― Francisco Javier Sánchez Brot (onimo), Friday, 16 January 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Ronnie loses points for invoking Simon Cowell as someone who can breathe new life into snooker.
Maybe he just wants to play shite but get kept in tournaments with the public vote.
― Francisco Javier Sánchez Brot (onimo), Friday, 16 January 2009 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
so many games smell terribly of fixing
― o_O (ken c), Friday, 16 January 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
lol someone bit
there's no danger of ronnie needing a public vote to remain in the world rankings, i'm afraid. he is that good.
i was more thinking of how higgins j, dott, maguire and the archdaddy of them all hendry have relentlessly battled their way to robotic success after success with nary a smile. maguire is probably the least offensive but he's also the least successful.
it's matthew stevens i feel for
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Friday, 16 January 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
what you talking about, dott is great!!
― o_O (ken c), Friday, 16 January 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
his style of play isn't
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Friday, 16 January 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
and you accuse others of being boring.
― o_O (ken c), Friday, 16 January 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
ok maguire's pretty good
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Friday, 16 January 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm all for fat snoooker players, keeping up with the darts players.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Friday, 16 January 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Maguire could be brilliant if he could be arsed more often. He's like a lazy Ronnie who can't even be bothered lying about chucking it.
I still can't believe snooker got so bad that Dott managed to win a world championship.
― Francisco Javier Sánchez Brot (onimo), Friday, 16 January 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
One thing I really hate about Higgins - "The Wizard of Wishaw" wtf
Almost as bad as "The Robin Hood of Snooker"
― Francisco Javier Sánchez Brot (onimo), Friday, 16 January 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
the sheriff of pottingham
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Friday, 16 January 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Modesty Baize
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Friday, 16 January 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Look at these two old gunslingers race to see who can totally lose it first! Hendry's winning btw, dude needs to retire asap
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Sunday, 19 April 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Body language on both sides is pretty miserable.
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Sunday, 19 April 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
lollll there's a player called Higginson
SON OF HIGGINS
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link
well done barry pinches! good entertainment.
― kell surprise (country matters), Monday, 5 October 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
lol hendry and williams playing some of the *worst* snooker i have ever seen
― Man!! (Man!!) (country matters), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link
was at o'sullivan v burnett on tuesday, and it was pretty poor. there seems to be a lot of wild inconsistency in playing at this year's grand prix. o'sullivan v higgins was pretty epic tho, and i'm gutted i had a ticket but couldn't go.
also otm re: hendry v williams
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Thursday, 8 October 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Higgins vs Robertson is a great match. Higgins had 100% pot success in the first four frames yet went in 2-2 at the interval. Robertson hit three centuries and led 5-3. Higgins did the old Mr Resilient and took it to a decider.
Higgins was clearing up to take it and knocks in a quality last red but accidentally hit the pink in. 7 points in it, on the yellow, nerves jangling everywhere.
― Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Saturday, 10 October 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, that was hella drama. hoping for Ding v Robertson in the final.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Saturday, 10 October 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like you're going to get your wish - Mark can't string enough points together.
Higgins - Robertson was awesome. No matter how great their respective techniques, its wonderful to see it coming down to those scraps of luck that anyone can randomly make the most of - it simply came down to Higgins making the last mistake. Not that it doesn't happen in other sports but snooker really zones in on this aspect particularly well.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 October 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
wow @ the series of long pots Ding played to go 5-1 up against Williams. Esp that Brown - the complaint that most snooker players have sub-zero personalities evaporates as soon as you see some of those.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 October 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
god why do i watch john higgins play when within 3 minutes i am enraged
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Sunday, 6 December 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
he is living embodiment of the argument which states that instinctive genius >>>>>>>>> ruthless efficiency
ah it's higgins vs robertson! no match-up has me more partisan.
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
fucksake die
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Monday, 7 December 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
CMON THE ROBBOCMON THE DING
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
dennis taylor, looking at the breakdown of neil robertson's 127 break: "it's very unusual to see all the colours in a century break! really went round the table, didn't he?"
n.b. 3 of those colours were potted in the final clearance
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
LOLOLOLOL Higgins goes in-off TWICE IN ONE FRAME, a frame he has looked odds-on to clear up
i almost feel bad XD
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
h8 this guy
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
DECIDING FRAME
this has been epic
cmon the robbo
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
ohhhhhhhhhh fuckoff
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
...at least ding is merking shaun!
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
ay, who's watching-dong-ding the higgins vs o'sullivan quater final now?great entertaining crazyness in frame 13, eh!
higgins 8:5 to the good at the mo' and seems very likely to clinch the win - at last...
― t**t, Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i am watching it, silently hating
― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
hatin' what or who 'xactly?
― t**t, Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
match itself gettin 'nother little twist - and then 'nother.
― t**t, Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
read more or less every post i have made to this thread! haha
― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
a'right, did read your recent posts.
and ronnie's won his sixth!
― t**t, Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
CMON THE RONNIE
― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
yeeeeaaah :)
― t**t, Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
gets bettah too.
― t**t, Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
teh match, i mean.
I seriously love Ronnie and if he wins tonight I will be quite, quite overjoyed
― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Game deserves a deciding frame.
― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
ho-ho. i got watching this (semi, not quarter-f, surely) only when it was 6:2 already - and was rather pissed off to see such a sad score. it's taken a few great turns since.
― t**t, Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
AWESOME FLUKE
― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link