the rolling towards the pocket snooker championship thread

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.

so many games smell terribly of fixing

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

what you talking about, dott is great!!

his style of play isn't

and you accuse others of being boring.

ok maguire's pretty good

I'm all for fat snoooker players, keeping up with the darts players.

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.

One thing I really hate about Higgins - "The Wizard of Wishaw" wtf

Almost as bad as "The Robin Hood of Snooker"

the sheriff of pottingham

Modesty Baize

Look at these two old gunslingers race to see who can totally lose it first! Hendry's winning btw, dude needs to retire asap

Body language on both sides is pretty miserable.

lollll there's a player called Higginson

SON OF HIGGINS

well done barry pinches! good entertainment.

lol hendry and williams playing some of the *worst* snooker i have ever seen

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

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.

wow, that was hella drama. hoping for Ding v Robertson in the final.

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.

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.

god why do i watch john higgins play when within 3 minutes i am enraged

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.

fucksake die

CMON THE ROBBO
CMON THE DING

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

LOLOLOLOL Higgins goes in-off TWICE IN ONE FRAME, a frame he has looked odds-on to clear up

i almost feel bad XD

h8 this guy

DECIDING FRAME

this has been epic

cmon the robbo

ohhhhhhhhhh fuckoff

...at least ding is merking shaun!

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...

i am watching it, silently hating

hatin' what or who 'xactly?

match itself gettin 'nother little twist - and then 'nother.

read more or less every post i have made to this thread! haha

a'right, did read your recent posts.

and ronnie's won his sixth!

CMON THE RONNIE

yeeeeaaah :)

gets bettah too.

teh match, i mean.

I seriously love Ronnie and if he wins tonight I will be quite, quite overjoyed

Game deserves a deciding frame.

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.

AWESOME FLUKE

AWESOME POT

Y.E.S.

COOOOME OOOOOON RONNIEEEEEEE