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dott has a small throat.

'when I won the championship back in 1991...'

come on hendry.

YEAH I SAID IT.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

dennis taylor + john parrott are ok.

john virgo must die. he'd whinge even if he goes to heaven "ooh that's not that cloud i'd put myself on.."

ian mccolloch should have won, or david gray.

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 1 May 2004 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

o'sullivan just finished hendry off 17-4. I quite like to see Dott in the final but it may not matter who gets there.

O'sullivan has rarely got it consistently together, playing to his full potential as he has in the last two rounds, blowing away anthony hamilton and hendry with a session to spare.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 May 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

: (

this boy's good.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone else think Hazel Irvine the finest woman on Earth?

― Not Steve Davis, Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, for crying out loud, Dott-Stevens just went off the air at 16-15 with just four balls left on the table and an immense safety battle developing in frame 32. I was watching the live coverage on BBCi (ch701 on Freeview) when a message appeared "This interactive service is coming to an end, press [TEXT] to exit." WTF?! They'd never do this on a main analogue channel. I note the BBC website also appears to be down.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The BBC website isn't down any more.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently Dott won 17-15 - after "an exchange of unbelievably tense safety" according to the now-reachable BBC website.

After a laborious registration procedure I'm about to leave a Why Oh Why complaints on the Points Of View messageboard - in that curly electric typewriter font.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It's on Eurosport. But it must be on some time delay thing, as it's just at the start of the 32nd frame.

(x-post cheers Mike, I'm watching on Europsport)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(I'm sorry, Ailsa, it didn't occur to me that anyone other than the BBC was covering this.)

I was jumping the gun by claiming I was registered on the BBC website - despite doing precisely what they required I'm not registered. I requested a resend of their confirmation email and didn't get it. This is a very good way of intensifying but broadening miffed viewers' rage and ultimately getting them to give up. What a waste of 20 minutes of my life.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I keep reading this thread as "smoker world championship final" and that does not compute.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Microdott is 3-0 up! Ronnie does not look happy.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 2 May 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

4-0!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 2 May 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

!!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 May 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently that scoreline was 66-1 yesterday evening...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 2 May 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

This is rapidly acquiring an aura of unreality. Dott has now scored 300 points with no reply from Ronnie.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 2 May 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

5-0! Ronnie just failed to return to the table in a one snooker required situation.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 2 May 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Horrid thought - he's not trying to give him a head start, is he?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, normal service has suddenly resumed. Solid 100, and he is doing a lot of left handed stuff. 5-1.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

AAARGH I need to get digital telly! Bloody Young Musician Of The Year, grrr.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

5-3, last time I heard. :( come on dott!!!!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 2 May 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

5-4 now. Dott's at the table, looking a little twitchy, but holding it together nicely.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 2 May 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm starting to feel one of the great embassy emotions: anguish.

come on dott!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 2 May 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think Dott believes he can win. *I* don't believe he can, Ronnie looks that much more comfortable at the table. Every significant break Dott's made has been so painstakingly constructed, whereas O'Sullivan's been almost casual at times. And yet we're still at seven all.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

7-8 now, to O'Sullivan. Bollocks.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

*curses below breath; wonders whether it's live on eurosport right now*

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

...mwoah, man o'mullivann maketh it 9-7 now. dang.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

End of session. 7-9 to O'Sullivan the pantsmonger.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Why are the BBC showing me Nicky Campbell and that c#nt from Fame Academy?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you sure it's not the Spice Channel?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Peeps, get ready, frame seventeen to commence soonish!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 3 May 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

12-8 to pantsmonger. Start of the second half of the afternoon session. Would have been 11-9, if it weren't for a bit of atrocious luck in the last frame before the midsession break. Dott got a bad contact while belting a pivotal black, which then shuddered in the jaws, leapt out, travelled a good two feet along the top of the cushion and fell to the floor.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeh, that black was a bad mofunk-up-ah. And it wasn't, unfortunately, the only one of those crucial mistakes after which O'Mullivann came to the table and won the frame.

13-8 looks a bit grim for Dott.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Dott really has to get this one, or he's looking at having to win 2/3rds of the remaining frames. O'Sullivan's just had a bastard kick, so Dott's got a chance.

Which he's fluffed.

Bugger.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep. Almost a pattern there.

Aargh... Dott didn't get that red now, either!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

He got THAT one though!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Vow. Now that Dott-black was a goodie! :)

And then... ...

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

... it's O'Mullivann time again.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Dott's century to win his only frame of the day was heroic in the circumstances. 8-14, though...Hendry beat White from this position in '92. Worth a fiver, surely.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

8-15 now. No way back, surely?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Dott looks exhausted, like he just wants it to end.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I'd rather dote on Dott, but it's the hairy one who plays damn well :(

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

8-16. It looks like we're in for a very short evening session.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

: (

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 3 May 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the Rocket because he wears a plastic tiara.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 May 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

What happened at 11-8 was unfortunate but even at 12-8 I thought that the mid-session came in at the right time, maybe he could have won that 3-1 but when he came out his safety game just fell to bits.

Hope to see Dott winning a few frames tonight.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 3 May 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

O'Sullivan in control of the 25th frame already.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 3 May 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Will someone PLEASE tell John Parrot he's not funny.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 3 May 2004 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

17-8. The end is nigh.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 3 May 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Dott's just missed. Here we go.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 3 May 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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