Topic: The Snooker thread

[CheshireDave]

5 in a row for Jones

Bingham 9-13 Jones

[Robinred]

The funniest thing about this is how much it seems to wind up murphy

Always a bonus😜 The unfunniest thing is that there’s now a second group of coughers.

[voodoo ray]

dreadful session of snooker really. if I'd had something else to do (or there'd have been anything else on) I wouldn't have watched that

[mattD]

Ah do you know what, the pair of them are playing wretched snooker. I think both of them are quite happy to play shit on a stick snooker and drag it down. It's piss poor.

Compare and contrast to the high flying Wilson/Gilbert match. The two matches couldn't be further apart if they tried.

A shame that Wilson/Gilbert isn't the final and that one of them has to go out, Bingham and Jones deserve to be hounded out of Sheffield for this nonsense.

[Dan The Man 28373]

I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to live snooker.

Going to The Crucible for the World Championships is on my sporting bucket list.

Trains to Sheffield will be quite cheap & hotels should be ok as well. It's the actual tickets for the tournament that I don't know how to go about getting.

I'm obviously. Registered already for the priority tickets tomorrow, would love a semi or final ticket but realistically getting 2-3 different sessions in the early part of the tournament might be easier to come by.  Can do a 3-4 day trip.

Is it better to look side-on or behind the table so Kop or Main Stand.

I don't have a particular affiliation to players & obviously draw not made for many months, it's a bit pot luck who u might see.

Any other pearls of wisdom about maximising my chances of getting good tickets?

[voodoo ray]

I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to live snooker.

Going to The Crucible for the World Championships is on my sporting bucket list.

Trains to Sheffield will be quite cheap & hotels should be ok as well. It's the actual tickets for the tournament that I don't know how to go about getting.

I'm obviously. Registered already for the priority tickets tomorrow, would love a semi or final ticket but realistically getting 2-3 different sessions in the early part of the tournament might be easier to come by.  Can do a 3-4 day trip.

Is it better to look side-on or behind the table so Kop or Main Stand.

I don't have a particular affiliation to players & obviously draw not made for many months, it's a bit pot luck who u might see.

Any other pearls of wisdom about maximising my chances of getting good tickets?

I've only been once but the crucible is so small that I don't think there's a 'bad' seat in there

[Robinred]

Ah do you know what, the pair of them are playing wretched snooker. I think both of them are quite happy to play shit on a stick snooker and drag it down. It's piss poor.

Compare and contrast to the high flying Wilson/Gilbert match. The two matches couldn't be further apart if they tried.

A shame that Wilson/Gilbert isn't the final and that one of them has to go out, Bingham and Jones deserve to be hounded out of Sheffield for this nonsense.

What an odd post. “hounded out of Sheffield”? They’re both trying to get to the final in the best way they know how. I may be in a minority, but I find the tactical stuff, and the slower play, absorbing; certainly an interesting antidote to the now usual clearance after clearance on generous tables.

Each to his own I suppose.

[meady1981]

I can see this going to midnight and the exhausted winner being trounced by Wilson

[Roady]

Ah do you know what, the pair of them are playing wretched snooker. I think both of them are quite happy to play shit on a stick snooker and drag it down. It's piss poor.

Compare and contrast to the high flying Wilson/Gilbert match. The two matches couldn't be further apart if they tried.

A shame that Wilson/Gilbert isn't the final and that one of them has to go out, Bingham and Jones deserve to be hounded out of Sheffield for this nonsense.

Ok then 😂

[voodoo ray]

complete and utter fuck up by bing there.

[BobPaisley3]

complete and utter fuck up by bing there.

Best shot of the tournament followed by the worst.

[BobPaisley3]

I can see this going to midnight and the exhausted winner being trounced by Wilson

My mate got 33-1 on Wilson before the tournament. He’s fuming it was only a fiver.

[voodoo ray]

I think I've got more chance of winning this game right now than bing does.

[meady1981]

Yeah binghams done. Ffs, what a waste of knocking out Ronnie.

[Armchair expert]

In any other sport you’d say the green that Bingham played was due to a betting spread . One of the worst shots I’ve seen at this level

[Garlic Red]

Neil Robertson saying Jak Jones has a top 5 safety game of all time is some shout. For a man who makes even the Australian accent sound moribund, that’s a pretty outlandish shout.

[CheshireDave]

Big ask for Ballrun now

Can't fault Jones' mentality here

[west_london_red]

I think I've got more chance of winning this game right now than bing does.

Chandler Bing plays snooker?

[voodoo ray]

the poor ref.

[meady1981]

Why the fuck, can’t they bring a little iPad out with a layered live image of the previous table so the ref can easily place the balls. I’ve been saying this all tournament and now look where we are

[Robinred]

Why the fuck, can’t they bring a little iPad out with a layered live image of the previous table so the ref can easily place the balls. I’ve been saying this all tournament and now look where we are

Where’s the fun in that?

[voodoo ray]

It's a good job they've started using the overhead (at long fucking last) to do these.

[meady1981]

Where’s the fun in that?

I hope it happens again

[mattD]

What an odd post. “hounded out of Sheffield”? They’re both trying to get to the final in the best way they know how. I may be in a minority, but I find the tactical stuff, and the slower play, absorbing; certainly an interesting antidote to the now usual clearance after clearance on generous tables.

Each to his own I suppose.

It's tongue in cheek, I don't really seriously think that! I love a safety battle but its exhausting for a full match, Bingham isn't doing himself any favours by missing ridiculous balls that even we could pot!

[mattD]

Why the fuck, can’t they bring a little iPad out with a layered live image of the previous table so the ref can easily place the balls. I’ve been saying this all tournament and now look where we are

Yeah, it's only fair on the refs. I'd have been an inarticulate mess in that situation, well played to both of the refs.

[BobPaisley3]

Attritional. 3 frames in 2 hours.

[Eeyore]

Why the fuck, can’t they bring a little iPad out with a layered live image of the previous table so the ref can easily place the balls. I’ve been saying this all tournament and now look where we are

Imagine if it was VAR doing it you would end up with 17 reds, three yellows and a purple.

[voodoo ray]

bing's break-building has died in this game. he's had a ton and no other breaks over 50 in the last 16 frames.

[Eeyore]

bing's break-building has died in this game. he's had a ton and no other breaks over 50 in the last 16 frames.

The none elite players just aren't used to playing this number of frames day in day out.

[voodoo ray]

The none elite players just aren't used to playing this number of frames day in day out.

this is the 3rd time bing's made the semis of this and he's won the tournament too.

[Robinred]

this is the 3rd time bing's made the semis of this and he's won the tournament too.

Yep, he’s an elite player when at his best, as witnessed by the win over O’Sullivan. He’s been in the doldrums, and like so many top players, has found it hard to get back to his very best. That’s a product of the sheer strength of the field now - there are players ranked outside the top 40-50, who are good enough to win major tournaments, certainly compared to a previous era.

[Eeyore]

this is the 3rd time bing's made the semis of this and he's won the tournament too.

In the last two years though Bingham has reached 1 best of 11 semi-final and three best of 9 quarter-finals. The grind of playing session after session day after day gets to players. Especially when they are not used to doing it.

The really top players regularly get to the latter stages of the longer events.

[BobPaisley3]

What has happened to Matthew Stevens? Thought he was class back in the day and he’s younger than some of the lads who’ve turned up.

[Eeyore]

What has happened to Matthew Stevens? Thought he was class back in the day and he’s younger than some of the lads who’ve turned up.

Ran into money troubles, went bankrupt and then never recovered.

[voodoo ray]

What has happened to Matthew Stevens? Thought he was class back in the day and he’s younger than some of the lads who’ve turned up.

he was very good once. I'm not sure he was ever quite the same after his mate paul hunter died but that might have just been a concidental loss of form or something.

[BobPaisley3]

Thanks chaps. Really classy player.

[voodoo ray]

Ran into money troubles, went bankrupt and then never recovered.

his loss of form was years before that. it's been well over 15 years since he was actually any good.

[Boston Bosox]

Good Start to this frame for Bingham

[voodoo ray]

oh look bing's got in and missed again.

[meady1981]

Wouldn’t it make sense to have a days rest for the final to make it more of a spectacle? I feel like the semis are usually epic and the finals a bit meh because they’re pooped.