tigerton Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 I dont know why, but i cant stand shaun murphy!! Cmon Fu! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reina Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Fu missed a fair chance there. Think it's Shaun 'boring b*****d' Murphy's game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reina Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 I dont know why I reckon it's his clothes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerton Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 I reckon it's his clothes. I think i just dont like the fact that hes a world champion that nobody had heard of, that annoys me for some reason. Fu still has a chance now! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reina Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 (edited) Great pot! C'mon Fu! Edit - fuxaches Edited December 22, 2008 by Reina 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Is Hazel Irvine up the duff? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gall09 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 There was one point in the final when Shaun Murphy was snookered on a red, missed it and hit the blue. Fu then got up, had a look and let Murphy play again, but the blue ball wasn't re-spotted to were it had been. I hadn't seen this before. I assumed you had to play the exact same shot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 There was one point in the final when Shaun Murphy was snookered on a red, missed it and hit the blue. Fu then got up, had a look and let Murphy play again, but the blue ball wasn't re-spotted to were it had been.I hadn't seen this before. I assumed you had to play the exact same shot. You do. If that happened (I wasn't watching) then it was an error. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kong Bundy Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 (edited) For a ludicrous bump... It peaked at around the early 00s when you had Williams, Hendry, O'Sullivan, Doherty, Higgins and Stevens all playing exceptionally well. Interest and prize money peaked then too. The game is in decline now, the 'rising stars' haven't delivered and the same cloggers are present. Look at top 32, many of these guys aren't any better than the men who have been mocked earlier in the thread (Meo, Johnson, etc) Few are capable of winning the Worlds now. A good workmanlike player can hang in there for a good while now - not the sign of a flourishing game. Edited January 2, 2009 by King Kong Bundy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 O'Sullivan attention seeking again this week. Says he snapped his cue before his 1st Round Masters win over Joe Perry because he didn't want to play and he thought breaking the cue would keep him away from the tournament. He makes a good point about the game needing a shot in the arm, however. It's a tough one though, you can't go the same way as darts has, as snooker relies on the audience being quiet, and introducing a darts style crowd to the game isnae going to work. How do you market snooker for the 21st century? The players are there, the venues are there, the tournaments are there, so what can you do with it to make it a marketable sport? RedWeb mentions the re-introduction of 'characters' to the game. I think a lot of the iconic snooker players of the 80's only have that status because everything was new then, television audiences had never saw that before, and these people became legendary. It's more difficult to have characters in snooker now. In Darts, it's easy to be wild as that fits in with the buzz from the crowd, but you won't get that in snooker. Shame, because it's a great sport, and despite protestations on this thread, the current crop of players are among the best there's ever been, so the talent is there. What can you do though? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedWeb Posted January 14, 2009 Author Share Posted January 14, 2009 What can you do though? Nothing...let it die in peace. Snooker will soon be back in the clubs and pubs where it belongs. Darts is the new snooker...accept it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 For a ludicrous bump...It peaked at around the early 00s when you had Williams, Hendry, O'Sullivan, Doherty, Higgins and Stevens all playing exceptionally well. Interest and prize money peaked then too. The game is in decline now, the 'rising stars' haven't delivered and the same cloggers are present. Look at top 32, many of these guys aren't any better than the men who have been mocked earlier in the thread (Meo, Johnson, etc) Few are capable of winning the Worlds now. A good workmanlike player can hang in there for a good while now - not the sign of a flourishing game. I'd generally agree other than that I think in terms of public interest it peaked much earlier than that. Mid-80's more likely and certainly the early 90's at latest. The standard of play on the other hand we'll go round in circles about but personally I think it peaked 4 or 5 years earlier than you have it. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowden til i die Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 (edited) Hendry is well past it. Robertson could be away to make a 147 though... Edit: or not Edited January 14, 2009 by Cowden til i die 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedWeb Posted January 14, 2009 Author Share Posted January 14, 2009 Hendry is well past it. Is it time Hendo packed the cue away and found a new day job ? Yes, he's probably still playing at a level which would see him hang around the top16 for a few more years but is that enough for a 7 times world champion ? I know Davis has hung around but I for one would like to see Stephen call it a day. However, I don't think he will but how long can he keep losing to blokes not fit to lace his boots. Worse still how long can he keep on missing the kind of pot he used to get with his eyes shut. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 7-7 in the final of the Masters between O'Sullivan and Selby, a great match once again ruined by John Virgo's fawning praise of O'Sullivan. I'm quite sure he has Ronnie posters all over his bedroom. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyser_soze Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Half way through the last frame I lumped £30 on Ronnie to win at 6/4, he is now 1/4 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Phoenix Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 7-7 in the final of the Masters between O'Sullivan and Selby, a great match once again ruined by John Virgo's fawning praise of O'Sullivan. I'm quite sure he has Ronnie posters all over his bedroom. This one has pride of place... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kong Bundy Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 O'Sullivan miscues shot. Taylor: 'Well, let's hope (!!)...(obviously thinks about what he's saying so stops mid-sentence ....long pause)...he's not taken a bit out of the tip of his cue there' BIAS BIAS BIAS 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Phoenix Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 He's no a bad player to be fair. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 He's no a bad player to be fair. Selby's now thrown away four frames in this match, if he loses, he'll take a while to get over it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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