BetVictor Welsh Open Qualifiers Discussion !!

Sonny wrote:Give him the benefit and assume he got held up in traffic or something until we know better.

Gouldy v Baird has been good so far. Frame 2 had a great 10 minute or so exchange at the end with both playing great safety and equally getting away with murder with fluking snookers from snooker and missed pots. It had everything. Gould was bossing it overall to be fair.

great match martin is pure class

And there you have it:

Janie Watkins ‏@weewelshwitch

@rulesy @snookeroland Cope was delayed on M1 - bad smash earlier apparently. 2 hrs = 2 miles

Ironic thing is he went all that way and will probably have turn back home as soon as he reaches Sheffield. Shame.

It shows up the lack of flexibility in snooker scheduling

It was out of copes control and yet he loses via walkover

It shows he should have left a bit earlier so he was allowing for any delays

Witz78 wrote:It shows he should have left a bit earlier so he was allowing for any delays

So Cope is meant to be mystic meg

GJ wrote:

Witz78 wrote:It shows he should have left a bit earlier so he was allowing for any delays

So Cope is meant to be mystic meg

Do you never aim to reach places a few hours early? You never know what can happen, as Cope found out.

GJ wrote:

Witz78 wrote:It shows he should have left a bit earlier so he was allowing for any delays

So Cope is meant to be mystic meg

no surprise your defending players who turn up at the last minute

Skullman wrote:

GJ wrote:

Witz78 wrote:It shows he should have left a bit earlier so he was allowing for any delays

So Cope is meant to be mystic meg

Do you never aim to reach places a few hours early? You never know what can happen, as Cope found out.

he moved 2 miles in 2 hours what time do you think he should have left at

5 am

GJ wrote:

Skullman wrote:

GJ wrote:

Witz78 wrote:It shows he should have left a bit earlier so he was allowing for any delays

So Cope is meant to be mystic meg

Do you never aim to reach places a few hours early? You never know what can happen, as Cope found out.

he moved 2 miles in 2 hours what time do you think he should have left at

5 am

these things happen on the motorways

He could easily have left first thing this mornign so he arrived and had a good 4 or 5 hours beforehand to relax and mentally prepare, instead of literally jumping out of a car after a long journey into a match. I know from experience having sometimes drove 200 miles then straight into a club to play someone that your massively disadvantaging yourself as your almost exhausted before you even start the game.

Witz78 wrote:

these things happen on the motorways

He could easily have left first thing this mornign so he arrived and had a good 4 or 5 hours beforehand to relax and mentally prepare, instead of literally jumping out of a car after a long journey into a match. I know from experience having sometimes drove 200 miles then straight into a club to play someone that your massively disadvantaging yourself as your almost exhausted before you even start the game.

Was going to say something similar

Goulds potting is just top drawer

His only weakness is he goes for too many and plays to open a game

Looks like Adi got his bottom kicked

Yeah just seen. 4-0 to the MAK

Baird is some player

He can be in and out. He played well last year to qualify for the Welsh, lost to Selby when he should've won and then hasn't done much again until now. Maybe he just likes Wales?

LAST CHANCE FOr Mart

Skullman wrote:He can be in and out. He played well last year to qualify for the Welsh, lost to Selby when he should've won and then hasn't done much again until now. Maybe he just likes Wales?

he must be the only one

GOULDFATHER = pure class

WIN THE DECIDER SON

Goulds been dire ever since he got into the top 16 last season, he hardly won a game when he was in it and since he dropped out hes failed to qualify for a lot of venues too

joke mart shootout must have went to his head

good luck robbo

he won a CL group since too so youd have thought hed have been in good form

Witz78 wrote:he won a CL group since too so youd have thought hed have been in good form

baird was flawless to be fair

Skullman wrote:

Witz78 wrote:

these things happen on the motorways

He could easily have left first thing this mornign so he arrived and had a good 4 or 5 hours beforehand to relax and mentally prepare, instead of literally jumping out of a car after a long journey into a match. I know from experience having sometimes drove 200 miles then straight into a club to play someone that your massively disadvantaging yourself as your almost exhausted before you even start the game.

Was going to say something similar

Yes I agree, but still I give Cope the benefit of the doubt cause we don't know the exact details... maybe he couldn't leave the place he was in earlier or something, we don't know.. and then caught that accident of the motorway and was bad luck really.

But yeah the better thing to do is to prepare yourself well, and one of the most important things is to be mentally fresh, and not drained after a long journey...

GJ probably backed him cause his beloved Robbo has often done similar things in tourneys

Has robbo ever lost 4-0 via walkover

examples please

You did understad what I was trying to say didnt you... I reckon he hasnt, but often he has lost matches or not prepared well for tourneys after arriving at the venue almost at the exact time his match was starting.

He does that less often nowadays though..

Sympathy for Cope that he's been eliminated due to circumstances beyond his control

That said, if I were a professional snooker player and have got an important qualifying match then I'd make it my business to get up to Sheffield the day before, to avoid any mishaps on the day

Saturday 9th of February

10am

Allister Carter v Gerard Greene
Neil Robertson v Duane Jones
Jamie Burnett v Craig Steadman
Stuart Bingham v Matthew Selt
Ricky Walden v Martin O'Donnell
Tom Ford v Justin Astley

2.30pm

Ken Doherty v David Gilbert
Andrew Higginson v Adam Duffy
Mark Davis v Michael Wasley
Graeme Dott v Rod Lawler
Fergal O'Brien v Nigel Bond
Peter Ebdon v Pankaj Advani

7pm

Shaun Murphy v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Stephen Maguire v Mark Joyce
Marcus Campbell v Anthony Hamilton
Barry Hawkins v Zhang Anda
Michael Holt v Alan McManus
Joe Perry v Jimmy Robertson

Wild do you know which matches are going to be televised tomorrow? For the morning and evening sessions I think it's pretty obvious they show Carter, Robbo, Murphy and Maguire. But for the afternoon session not so sure... Dott seems to me an obvious choice, but the other one.. are they gonna show Doherty v Gilbert or Ebdon v Advani? or even Mark Davis v Wasley...

Not sure about that one

Carter v Green
Robbo D. Jones
Mavis v Wasley
Dott v Lawler
Smurph v Thepchaiya
Mags v Joyce

According to WS live scores. Knowing them though, they'll probably change their minds ten minutes before.