Australian Goldfields Open Qualifying Discussion !!

Great wins for Elliot Slessor and Kyren Wilson over Cao Yupeng and Alan McManus respectively.

Saqib Nasir beat Allan Taylor 5-4 from 4-0 down in the first round then in the second round he lead Mike Dunn 4-0 thats 9 frames he won in the row but now Mike Dunn is on the verge of repaying the compliment and draw level at 4-4 from 4-0 down.

Alan McManus 3-5 Kyren Wilson
James Wattana 5-1 Zak Surety
Kurt Maflin 4-5 Craig Steadman
Mike Dunn 4-4 Saqib Nasir
Barry Pinches 0-4 Simon Bedford
Cao Yupeng 2-5 Elliot Slessor
Liu Chuang 3-3 Li Hang
Nigel Bond 4-3 Jamie O’Neill

Wildey wrote:Saqib Nasir beat Allan Taylor 5-4 from 4-0 down in the first round then in the second round he lead Mike Dunn 4-0 thats 9 frames he won in the row but now Mike Dunn is on the verge of repaying the compliment and draw level at 4-4 from 4-0 down.

Explain the score in frame 5 please Wild.

http://ls.worldsnookerdata.com/FrameDet ... 1&m=158711

Hm.. Now World snooker livesport terminated the event mid decisive frame between Li Hang and Liu Chuang, apparently because clock struck midnight here. Only thing comming up when I try to sign out and sign in again is: "Sorry, the event your'e trying to watch is already over."

I'm really getting my money worth of entertainment here...

What time did Pinches vs Bedford start?

as i said blame the skin flints

Pinches vs Bedord started at 7pm. It is now 1.05am and Pinches has just taken the 7th frame to make it 4-3 Bedford. I have one question.

Why doesn't Barry Hearn pay Barry Pinches severance pay or reduncancy so he quits the tour? He could offer him £500,000 on the condition that he never goes anywhere near a snooker table every again.

Pinches is far and away the most nauseating player ever to disgrace the green baize.

It is now 1.50am and it is still 4-3 Bedford.....

Give Pinches a £1 Million to retire.

At exactly 2.20am Barry Pinches knocks in the black to level at 4-4. This match started 7 hours and 20 minutes ago....

Christ is that the time?

Sonny wrote:Christ is that the time?

Just got in and indeed it is.

Match STILL GOING AT 3:02 A.M

Only pink and black left, Bedford leads 54-38 in the deciding frame, therefore Pinches already needs a snooker.

He just won't give in won't he.. Hell, if he has endured this far, might as well try for the snooker of course.

IT'S NOW OFFICIALY OVER

Bedford pots the pink and wins the match 5-4 at 3:04 a.m.

Bedford wins 5-4, knocking the final pink in at 3.04am....

Pinches goes home with nothing to show for his effort.

Ref back on first thing in the morning.

Andre147 PGC wrote:IT'S NOW OFFICIALY OVER

Bedford pots the pink and wins the match 5-4 at 3:06 a.m.

Get your facts right! It was a few seconds before 3.05am!!!!

Barry Hearn please give Pinches a big fat cheque so can retire with his family to the East Coast for good!

vodkadiet wrote:

Andre147 PGC wrote:IT'S NOW OFFICIALY OVER

Bedford pots the pink and wins the match 5-4 at 3:06 a.m.

Get your facts right! It was a few seconds before 3.05am!!!!

Yeah got a bit carried away myself and at the time I wrote it it was indeed 3:06 but of course already 2 minutes after it ended..

Not that it matters much after such a long match

7 hours and 55 minutes is completely out of order for a best of 9. I dont care what anyone says.

snooky147 wrote:7 hours and 55 minutes is completely out of order for a best of 9. I dont care what anyone says.

Anyone who disagrees with that would kill the game It's always exciting to watch safety battles and so on, but that amount of time for a best of 9 is obviously way too much, but anyway Bedford won't mind that at all and he would have stayed there 8 more hours if it meant the win.

Friday 31st of May

7pm

Alan McManus 3-5 Kyren Wilson
James Wattana 5-1 Zak Surety
Kurt Maflin 4-5 Craig Steadman
Mike Dunn 5-4 Saqib Nasir
Barry Pinches 4-5 Simon Bedford
Cao Yupeng 2-5 Elliot Slessor
Liu Chuang 5-4 Li Hang
Nigel Bond 5-3 Jamie O’Neill

Andre147 PGC wrote:

snooky147 wrote:7 hours and 55 minutes is completely out of order for a best of 9. I dont care what anyone says.

Anyone who disagrees with that would kill the game It's always exciting to watch safety battles and so on, but that amount of time for a best of 9 is obviously way too much, but anyway Bedford won't mind that at all and he would have stayed there 8 more hours if it meant the win.

theres more posting and contribution on the this tread from people than any other match of the qualifiers so its not that bad.

if every match was like that it would be a problem but once in a while i find it funny ans obviously a talking point.

in 1983 World Championship the final session of a best of 25 frame match between Griffiths and Thorburn took over 7 hours to complete and finished about 4am that didn't do snooker much harm did it,

Saturday 1st of June

11am

Rod Lawler v Ross Muir
Liam Highfield v Daniel Wells
Sam Baird v Matthew Day
Luca Brecel v Ryan Clark
Robbie Williams v Darrell Whitworth
Aditya Mehta v Lee Page streaming
Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon v Noppon Saengkham streaming
Anthony McGill v Li Yan

5pm

Peter Lines v Alex Davies
Paul S Davison v Andrew Norman
Alfie Burden v John J Astley
Michael Wasley v Ashley Carty
Zhang Anda v Oliver Lines streaming
Gerard Greene v Hammad Miah
Chen Zhe v Sean O’Sullivan streaming
Ian Burns v Ryan Causton

snooky147 wrote:7 hours and 55 minutes is completely out of order for a best of 9. I dont care what anyone says.

At least it was tucked away in the qualifiers, it would be worse if there were an actual audience. I'm sure there were similar sized ones in there before and that didn't kill the game.

I'm not saying it will kill the game, but it certainly won't do it any good. The press, the ones who know sod all and cant be bothered to research will just latch onto something like that and twist it into negativity.

Snooker haters in the press will always find some excuse.

snooky147 wrote:I'm not saying it will kill the game, but it certainly won't do it any good. The press, the ones who know sod all and cant be bothered to research will just latch onto something like that and twist it into negativity.

they will latch on to anything and turn it in to negativity if they want to even a match that finishes in a hour with 5 centuries.

Rod Lawler 1-0 Ross Muir
Liam Highfield 0-1 Daniel Wells
Sam Baird 1-1 Matthew Day
Luca Brecel 1-1 Ryan Clark
Robbie Williams 1-1 Darrell Whitworth
Aditya Mehta 2-0 Lee Page
Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon 0-1 Noppon Saengkham
Anthony McGill 0-1 Li Yan

From 1-0 down to Ryan Clark Luca Brecel wins 3 on the spin to lead 3-1 that included a break of 112

Rod Lawler 1-1 Ross Muir
Liam Highfield 1-1 Daniel Wells
Sam Baird 2-2 Matthew Day
Luca Brecel 3-1 Ryan Clark
Robbie Williams 2-1 Darrell Whitworth
Aditya Mehta 4-0 Lee Page
Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon 1-2 Noppon Saengkham
Anthony McGill 1-2 Li Yan

Rod Lawler 1-3 Ross Muir
Liam Highfield 2-1 Daniel Wells
Sam Baird 3-4 Matthew Day
Luca Brecel 5-1 Ryan Clark
Robbie Williams 5-1 Darrell Whitworth
Aditya Mehta 5-0 Lee Page
Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon 1-4 Noppon Saengkham
Anthony McGill 4-2 Li Yan

Saturday 1st of June

11am

Rod Lawler 1-5 Ross Muir
Liam Highfield 5-1 Daniel Wells
Sam Baird 4-5 Matthew Day
Luca Brecel 5-1 Ryan Clark
Robbie Williams 5-1 Darrell Whitworth
Aditya Mehta 5-0 Lee Page
Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon 1-5 Noppon Saengkham
Anthony McGill 5-2 Li Yan

5pm

Peter Lines v Alex Davies
Paul S Davison v Andrew Norman
Alfie Burden v John J Astley
Michael Wasley v Ashley Carty
Zhang Anda v Oliver Lines streamed
Gerard Greene v Hammad Miah
Chen Zhe v Sean O’Sullivan streamed
Ian Burns v Ryan Causton