the rolling towards the pocket snooker championship thread

This really is a heroically, compellingly bad game, with 100% long pot success on both sides O_o

Also unsure about Michaela's ponytail

Glad your would smash policy has been clarified.

And yes, Hendry should give up, he always looks so miserable doesn't he?

His youthful vigour has truly departed now.

Big Break was no worse than any early Saturday night game show nonsense. probably not as good as Bullseye tho.

Epically scrappy, often awful snooker, the right winner but christ Hendry has lost it

lol peter ebdon

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 17 October 2008 00:22 (2 months ago) Bookmark

I HATE JOHN HIGGINS

SO MUCH

2009 "NO-HATING" POLICY DISCARDED FOR BORING FUCKING LUCKY SCOTTISH TOSSBAG WHO STEALS FRAMES LIKE INEVITABLE CANDY FROM MORE CHARISMATIC PLAYERS

FUCK YOU HIGGINS

HAHA FUCK YOU HIGGINS!!

OH I HATE THAT FUCKING GUY

God, why did you create a second Higgins, but make him the most *boring* player ever? I hate you, God.

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 19 October 2008 15:22 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

If he's not careful he's getting a capital-letter-filled swear thread of his own. Christ.

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:28 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

boring fucking tosser

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:59 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That frame was Day's to win you cunt. At least we deserved a decider

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:59 (2 months ago) Bookmark

Replace "Day" with "Ding" and it's history repeating

No other sportsman fills me with such utter loathing

real talk: all scottish players should be permanently banned from competition

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

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.

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

needed a snooker on pink and black to prevent epicke final frame, got it

you want one loveable ambassador of the game to lose to a woman, proving her right to be in the men's game in the popular opinion, you choose ken, and he fucks it

lol anyway, she played ok and women should be allowed to attempt to qualify always now, should have always been allowed

Women should be allowed to qualify/play in all tournaments really. Might take a few years but all that should flow through to the World championships.

selby with the eeyore celebration again lol

Anyone here bothering with the Crucible this year?

RIP Ronnie, heaven needed an intensely bored and uninterested snooker player

ronnie and ding on the 13th!

lol RIP Shaun Murphy's actually-he's-a-decent-guy rep

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/24/its-not-fair-shaun-murphy-rails-at-amateurs-in-pro-snooker-after-uk-championship-defeat-by-amateur
lmao