World Championship (Sat 21st of April) Round 1 Discussion !!

I will avoid most of Higgins' matches, unless it looks like he's going to get beaten. I think Trump will have a lot more experience than last year and he's certainly one of the players who can beat Higgins. But I don't think they are seeded to meet until the late stages.

Higgins will progress with ease in the quarters no matter the opponents... After that its basically who is not gonna rubbish his pants against him...Probably only Trump...

kostasmad wrote:Higgins will progress with ease in the quarters no matter the opponents... After that its basically who is not gonna rubbish his pants against him...Probably only Trump...

The same Trump who lost 11-5 on the final day of last year's tourney to Higgin's B game?

He is grown from then...You learn much from defeat and he has definitely learned...

trump has more experience now and higgins had some horrendous run of the ball at crucial moments which helped keep him in touch

bingham or hendry await in round two with the likes of maguire dott and perry in the quarter finals

dont like that to be honest as looking at the draw higgins has more than a good chance of reaching the semis

shame

Don't think he'll do it, but we'll have to disagree.

Anyway, I've learnt that snooker is unpredictable and I'm not going to look too far ahead and take things one round at a time.

jojo wrote:trump has more experience now and higgins had some horrendous run of the ball at crucial moments which helped keep him in touch

bingham or hendry await in round two with the likes of maguire dott and perry in the quarter finals

dont like that to be honest as looking at the draw higgins has more than a good chance of reaching the semis

shame

I have a sneaky feeling that Maguire will do better than you suspect. If you want someone to stop Higgins before the semis, he'd be your best bet.

Dott or Maguire could beat Higgins.

Looking forward to Maguire's match against Luca.

Muppet147 wrote:Liang might have a chance because Higgins has been rubbish all season. But I'd be surprised if he lost over best of 19 frames.

Liang has been even More Rubbish all season Advantage Higgins.

Hendry has been worse than either of those two. Cant' wait to see him get thrashed within an inch of his life.

How many times has the defending champ gone out on the first day? I can think of:

1982 - Davis 1-10 Knowles
1986 - Taylor 6-10 Hallett
2000 - Hendry 6-10 Bingham
2011 - Robbo 8-10 Judd

Davis knocked Griff out in 1980 didn't he? Was that day 1 round 1?

No, I think Davis played Griffiths in the second round because the score was 13-10.

2007 Dott 7-10 McCulloch :(

Yeah just remembered that one so 5

Muppet147 wrote:No, I think Davis played Griffiths in the second round because the score was 13-10.

It was prob a different format, starting with 24 matches or something? That wouldn't have been day 1 anyway so doesn't count.

seriously doubt maguire will beat higgins over three sessions at the crucible unless he get off to a storming start and thrashes him

if it stay close or maguire is behind higgins will win maguire has history at the crucible

getting myself in the mood by watching the remaining two sessions of Liang vs. Swail. Cannot wait!!!

I think Wenbo will give Higgins a scare. He'll probably come through in the end as he always does but it won't be plain sailing.

Muppet147 wrote:Okay, Gould isn't an underdog. But he's not a hot favourite like Bingham.

you bucking tw@t

Smart wrote:

Muppet147 wrote:Okay, Gould isn't an underdog. But he's not a hot favourite like Bingham.

you bucking tw@t

Bingham will drill Hendry a new blue frog.

Muppet147 wrote:

Smart wrote:

Muppet147 wrote:Okay, Gould isn't an underdog. But he's not a hot favourite like Bingham.

you bucking tw@t

Bingham will drill Hendry a new blue frog.

Keep your fantasies to yourself

Muppet147 wrote:

Smart wrote:

Muppet147 wrote:Okay, Gould isn't an underdog. But he's not a hot favourite like Bingham.

you bucking tw@t

Bingham will drill Hendry a new blue frog.

i hope that is the case, but you remain a bucking TW@t

Smart wrote:

Muppet147 wrote:

Smart wrote:

Muppet147 wrote:Okay, Gould isn't an underdog. But he's not a hot favourite like Bingham.

you bucking tw@t

Bingham will drill Hendry a new blue frog.

i hope that is the case, but you remain a bucking TW@t

You're a banker!

Muppet147 wrote:

Smart wrote:

Muppet147 wrote:

Smart wrote:

Muppet147 wrote:Okay, Gould isn't an underdog. But he's not a hot favourite like Bingham.

you bucking tw@t

Bingham will drill Hendry a new blue frog.

i hope that is the case, but you remain a bucking TW@t

You're a banker!

Yes

is this the only year where former world champions are playing against each other in the first round ?

o sullivan v ebdon and robertson v doherty

cant remember it happening before jimmy v hendry springs to mind in 1998 but then you have to remind yourself jimmy never won the world championship

jojo wrote:is this the only year where former world champions are playing against each other in the first round ?

o sullivan v ebdon and robertson v doherty

cant remember it happening before jimmy v hendry springs to mind in 1998 but then you have to remind yourself jimmy never won the world championship

Dott vs Ebdon in 2010. Not sure if there are others. Will have to check.

Edit: Hendry vs Williams in 2009. The wonders of Wikipedia Found some more but I think that's enough examples, unless you really want to know all them.

I have felt for some time that twitter is a runts paradise. Today I get even more evidence.

Well I hope that any fence sitters give Liu all their support.

MJW

I will give Liu no support as he knocked out Jimmy with his boring robotic play.

come on guys play nice

dott v ebdon knew there was one somewhere

obviously the o sullivan v ebdon match will be tasty but i expect ronnie to win and go on from strength to strength

smart i wouldnt worry about williams winning his first match because ronnie awaits in the next round