The Ladbrokes Mobile Masters Semi Final Discussion!!!!!!!

Bourne wrote:Both playing well EB, for me Ding and Allen have been the two standout players this week by a country mile and a final between them would be very exciting.

Cheers Bourne. I agree with you that Ding and Allen have been the best but Cope is also in a bit of form. It will be a good match later.

Can't really knock Jamie this week, the only debutant in the field and he's made the semis. For such a confidence player then it should do him good for the rest of the season no matter what happens this weekend.

Bourne wrote:I think those frames where you put in so much mental energy trying to fight back in and you end up losing, those hurt a lot so I think Fu will be pretty peeved at the minute and vulnerable.

that frame looks bigger now

mark using lot of nervous energy

Wild wrote:mark using lot of nervous energy

Agree and the way the balls are here Marco is well in this frame

3-1 Allen

Casey wrote:

Wild wrote:mark using lot of nervous energy

Agree and the way the balls are here Marco is well in this frame

3-1

Masterpieces time

Allen looks very good this week. He will be tough to beat

Matthew Stevens Hazel

I'm 3rd row next to fu side on. Same tonight.

Sonny wrote:I'm 3rd row next to fu side on. Same tonight.

Fu not playing Tonight

nice footage they showed from 1984 white and stevens

as for todays match 3-1 allen i still think frame 3 could be significant if the match goes tight such as 4-4 or 5-5 fu may be a bit more mentally sharper

when you need snookers you dont spend energy trying to get them i know that sounds funny you spend more energy trying to kill off the frame when you know you missed an easy ball and your opponent comes back trying to get the snookers and the frame goes on for far longer

if fu got the snookers he needed then messed up an easy chance to steal the frame then that would have hurt him but you have nothing to lose when you playing on for snookers

players can always come back to the table even when they know they dont have a chance of winning the frame for various reasons depending on the match situation and the player it may have an impact on the match even though the frame realistically gone

allen a quick player fu wanted to slow him down as well as having an outside chance of winning the frame

so Negative

jojo wrote:when you need snookers you dont spend energy trying to get them i know that sounds funny you spend more energy trying to kill off the frame when you know you missed an easy ball and your opponent comes back trying to get the snookers and the frame goes on for far longer

Agree with that

if you win it after needing a snooker its a bonus

playing on when you need snookers not negative it depends on various reasons

White - Stevens

when snooker was snooker !!!

what a waste of a talent Kirk was

having look at the first part of the Match its Pack splitting that could cost Marco Badly in this match

The break came at a good time for Fu, just when Mark could have built up a bit of a head of steam, now Marco could just re-compose himself and get back in the zone.

Fu's long potting has been perfect today.

i think if fu loses this match he loses the frame he should have wrapped it up by now 40+ ahead in the balls frame at his mercy then runs out of position

i dont mind who goes on to win the tournament im split right down the middle but it will be good for the game if we have two chinese players in a major final they adore the game in the far east globally it will be good for the game

Casey wrote:Fu's long potting has been perfect today.

That was a stinker though

Wahey ! Matt from pro snooker blog on the front row, hes finally got rid of that black Man United training top

he just goes in to the pack very tentative in the balls when they spread about not many better than him but when pack splitting hes trying to tickle the balls open.

Wild wrote:he just goes in to the pack very tentative in the balls when they spread about not many better than him but when pack splitting hes trying to tickle the balls open.

that reminds me of Steve Davis in his later career, he prefers to pick off loose reds first then usually goes into the pack cautiously hoping to cannon one or two loose rather than send reds flying

Big big steal, Allen showing his class, this is his first final in waiting and tbh he's showing good nerve because in previous semi-finals he's been underdog just about every time hasn't he ?

I think this has definitely been one of the better games of the tournament

Allen for an Irish finalist

Not sure how wise it was to play a trick shot like that there, showing off ? Might stoke Marco's fire.

Witz78 wrote:

Wild wrote:he just goes in to the pack very tentative in the balls when they spread about not many better than him but when pack splitting hes trying to tickle the balls open.

that reminds me of Steve Davis in his later career, he prefers to pick off loose reds first then usually goes into the pack cautiously hoping to cannon one or two loose rather than send reds flying

hendry also every time hes got a pack to split he thinks negative that hes going to plant a red and he takes his eye off the pot.

Bourne wrote:Not sure how wise it was to play a trick shot like that there, showing off ? Might stoke Marco's fire.

Don't know, he usually does play a trickshot on the black.
4-1 you would have to say Allen is a big fav. Marco not playing bad though and if he wins the next frame its game back on.