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Poor soul, he really deserved that :-/

― ailsa, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link

it just shows how an initial positional error can snowball into disaster. he was a bit thin on the green, then even thinner on the brown, and finally too thin on the blue :(

― Just got offed, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link

Why is Shaun Murphy so unlikable? I feel really bad about hating him, because I know he got bullied a lot as a child because of his appearance, but... it is quite an annoying appearance.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link

he comes across as quite arrogant and unapproachable. he doesn't seem to have a friendly rapport with the players or the referee, and he plays up the religious angle a touch too much for most people's liking.

selby gets a kick on (effectively) frame ball :(

― Just got offed, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link

equally, one might ask: Why is Michaela Tabb so foxy?

― Just got offed, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't like many snooker players, really. I have a ridiculous amount of affection for Jimmy White, and have a love-hate thing about Ronnie O'Sullivan. I actively dislike Stephen Hendry, Shaun Murphy and Mark Williams. I'm pretty meh about the rest of them. Oh, Peter Ebdon gets on my tits as well, the boring bastard ~~even though he looks like my husband~~

― ailsa, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link

snooker? i hardly know her!

― Wrinklepaws, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link

mark selby that is a magnificent shot (yellow w/deep screw)

― Just got offed, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link

Down to the final frame. First classic match of the tournament/year.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link

selby has won a nation's hearts etc.

if he wins this and the final, SPOTY? only phil nixon has seriously challenged him so far, and he lost his final.

― Just got offed, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link

actually, calzaghe this year SURELY

― Just got offed, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link

there have been some really good matches already. I would actually say murphy's comeback from a ludicrous amount down in the last round was very good. even though i don't like murphy.

― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link

I wonder if they ever do "Unlikable: The Shaun Murphy Story" whether they'll get David Mitchell to play him?

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link

yes! (to match and Mitchell)

― Just got offed, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Mark Selby is YOUR 888 World Snooker Championship finalist.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link

And he makes a joke about Parkinson's Disease in his post-match interview. WINNER.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link

suddenly (and especially after the warm hug for selby) i don't hate murphy that much any more...

the final already looks like another good'un, between two of the tournament's form players (i think they're 1 and 2 for most centuries, correct me if i'm wrong), but i'd like to add to the list of great games the 13-12 midnight thriller between selby and carter.

― Just got offed, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link

"And he makes a joke about Parkinson's Disease in his post-match interview. WINNER."

Thought you'd like that, Dom :-)

That hug ws great!! Two amazing semi-finals, though its the (at first) least promising of them that ws best in the end.

I've watched 10 hours of snooker today and have enjoyed every second of it!

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link

only shame about Selby getting through is we'll get the 'oh I've been so impressed w/him' guff from the commentators from now till monday night.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Right, 2 - 2. Reasonable, since they're both not quite awake yet.

But "Higgins is the more experienced player when it comes to world championship finals, he's been here three times before" sounds like a useful comment until you remember that he won his first final, winning over Ken Doherty, the reigning world champion! Du-uh.

― StanM, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Selby's getting bitchslapped out there right now.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Will this all be over with a session to spare?

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 06:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Not that Higgins wouldn't deserve it, but it's nicer when there's actual competition - let's hope Selby slept well and can pull back a couple of frames.

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Thanks, guys! (they're reading our threads!)

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm not unconvinced that Selby can't actually do this.

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Also, yeah, Parkinson's joke in his post-match interview on Saturday = guilty lolz.

I like him. I want him to win (this usually leads to kiss of death, so I apologise profusely in advance)

(re. SPOTY, surely Lewis Hamilton for teh win, regardless of what Selby achieves here, though best wait until Wimbledon out of the way just in case there's a surge of Andy MurrayMania befire tootling off to the bookies. Snooker players just don't register any more)

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm not unconvinced that he could do it either. The amazing thing is that it wasn't Higgins' fault - just that Selby got a start and he played as incredibly as Higgins has for many years. Selby will be gutted by that kick on the last frame, putting an extra half an hour on it so that only six frames could be completed.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 May 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link

WOAH -- I thought Selby would go down this afternoon based on last night, or I would have stayed in to watch the tv, but blimey, tonight might be a cracker!

― byebyepride, Monday, 7 May 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link

I ws thinking of going to see a movie but going all fluey last night prevented me from (probably) repeating the v same mistake I talked about at the start of this thread.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 May 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42895000/jpg/_42895065_selby203getty.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 May 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link

I can't work out if Higgins was actually genuinely amused there or whether he was all "yeah, yeah, you're funny, now fuck off" at Selby. I'm enjoying this hugely anyway, though Higgins has been utterly rotten all day today.

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link

So, only six frames this afternoon - what was all that about? Just ran out of time? I've never known a session to be truncated by two before.

13-11 at 9:15pm - it's gonna be a late one.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, they explained it during the last frame - the players need a chance to rest/refresh/compose themselves, and that's more important than the 8/8 thing. Especially after having played at this level for 16 days already.

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link

Won't they continue on Tuesday if it's still not over by, say, midnight?

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link

No, it'll be one of these epic "where were you when..." Dennis Taylor v Steve Davis in 1985 corkers with everyone sleeping in for work tomorrow morning.

They actually explained it away earlier on the BBC as due to other telly needing to be shown because I for one really REALLY needed to watch Eggheads and the Great British Menu rather than any more snooker, erm, hang on a sec...

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link

LOL at 1 person clapping 1 time before realising they're the only one and stopping - "Great shot! ... oh, it wasn't, I R pwnd"

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Selby was 100-1 at the bookmakers after last night!

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link

go on mark

― ken c, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Go on both of them! It's midnight over here and there's still a possible 9 frames to go (if it's going to be 17-18 or 18-17) - 9 x 45 minutes is going to finish, like, next week or something! OMG!

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link

I might have to revise my answer on the hours-of-sleep thread after this. Seriously, I might just nick off to bed and they'll proably still be playing this yellow when I get back up at 6.30.

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link

This is insane - 21min on one ball. They've already cited the Griffiths-Thorburn match from '83 - the one that finished at 3:51am (see also: Pernfors-Wilander at the US Open) despite The Grinder knocking in a 147.

I'm going to say Higgins 18-15 around 2am. I know I won't see the end. Of this frame.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link

epic.

the misses on the brown, the flukey pot, then snookered on the blue...

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Aye, I'm loving this. Anything involving Griffiths/Thorburn/Charlton or whatever = yawnsville, not to mention that tedious Dott/Ebdon final last year. This, however = total stone cold classic. Expect to find me slumped over my desk in a big yawning heap some time tomorrow (if I'm not still watching this!)

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh well, I'm off to bed. My bedside portable has a sleep function on it (which I used to great effect during the '94 World Cup), so I might just turn the sound right down and have it set for another three hours.

I think Higgins would streak away with frame 28 but it's another safety battle...

― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link

They're playing like they don't have to go to work tomorrow, these two.

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link

next frame, more safety..

i'd love a sleep function on my radio.

I need a new clock radio

I want DAB and Alarm and Sleep function.

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link

think > thought

I bet Ava comes into our bed if it gets to 17-17.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link

bugger, higgins goes 2 head again...

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link

maybe not...

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link

he has.

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link

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