by Skullman » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Could be just be an off week. No one accused Ding of not being motivated when he lost to Smurph and he was just as poor for the most part. Odd though that we have so many poor performances at the Masters.
Happened last year as well, with most people playing quite tentatively with the exception of Robbo and possibly Allen last year.
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by hendry_fan » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Wildey wrote:Sometimes you play bad that's life Robbo has had an Amazing season Winning the UK and in Wuxi you cant keep that up every time you go out to play that doesn't mean he wasn't motivated because i believe Robbo is motivated to win every tournament he enters.
Absolutely Wild!.Robbo for some reason played drivvel tonight by his top standards and it,s certainly not due to the lack of hunger/motivation.
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by GJ » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Will be nice to enjoy stress free snooker st the weekend as robbo has been in so many finals in recent times.
3 crackers to come
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by Snooker Overdrive » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Andre147 PGC wrote:GJ wrote:Andre
True I think he just had an off tournie and it happens to all top players.
He will come back stronger and I hope this will increase his hunger for the next major the worlds.
I do hope he has a great Worlds, he's one of the few selected players who I think will end his career with multiple Worlds Titles, and in Robbo's case 2 or 3 or even 4, he deserves that with everything he brings to this game.
I think it's safe to say he'll win another world title but a total of 4? No way. Higgins won his last at the age of 35 and Robbo is now 31.
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by GJ » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Hendo fan
Don't generalise about the motivation thing SO made an observation , your making out alot of others said the same thing
Well done to your man though
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by Skullman » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Ronnie won his last at 38.
Plus I think Robbo's a bit of a late developer. Only won his first worlds at 28 and while most players seem to peak at his age, he seems to be getting better with age. Three definitely possible .
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by Andre147 » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Snooker Overdrive wrote:Andre147 PGC wrote:GJ wrote:Andre
True I think he just had an off tournie and it happens to all top players.
He will come back stronger and I hope this will increase his hunger for the next major the worlds.
I do hope he has a great Worlds, he's one of the few selected players who I think will end his career with multiple Worlds Titles, and in Robbo's case 2 or 3 or even 4, he deserves that with everything he brings to this game.
I think it's safe to say he'll win another world title but a total of 4? No way. Higgins won his last at the age of 35 and Robbo is now 31.
Yeah I was getting a bit ahead of myself with 4, but 2 or 3 is definately possible.
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by Andre147 » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Robbo on Twitter:
"I know what I did wrong and I'll never make the same mistake again. Simple as that"
That's the way to see things, identify what you did wrong and correct the mistakes in the future.
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by Skullman » 18 Jan 2014 Read
What did he do wrong?
I'm interested to know.
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by Andre147 » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Skullman wrote:What did he wrong?
I'm interested to know.
Well if he said that he sure knows what he did wrong.
EDIT: That was meant to be a joke right? Shame on me
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by Snooker Overdrive » 18 Jan 2014 Read
GJ wrote:Will be nice to enjoy stress free snooker st the weekend as robbo has been in so many finals in recent times.
3 crackers to come
In some way I envy you. Watching that UK final was fantastic watching Selby and Robbo battling it out.
This time you can relax while this whole site will go bucking crazy watching Ronnie and Selby having the most dramatic, nerve racking final imaginable.
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by Skullman » 18 Jan 2014 Read
You never know, it could be Murphy v Maguire.
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by Andre147 » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Skullman wrote:You never know, it could be Murphy v Maguire.
Was thinking the exact same thing
They are only the favourites on paper, because out there anything can happen.
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by Snooker Overdrive » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Skullman wrote:Ronnie won his last at 38.
Plus I think Robbo's a bit of a late developer. Only won his first worlds at 28 and while most players seem to peak at his age, he seems to be getting better with age. Three definitely possible .
Ronnie is a freak of nature. If Higgins, Ebdon, Davis, Hendry, Williams can't win it past 35, so won't Robertson.
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by GJ » 18 Jan 2014 Read
I'm assuming its about his preperstion
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by Snooker Overdrive » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Skullman wrote:What did he do wrong?
I'm interested to know.
Was it not being motivated enough?
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by Andre147 » 18 Jan 2014 Read
According to Robbo this is what went wrong:
" It was a really lacklustre performance, and that is the last time I drive myself to a match more than an hour away. I just seemed to lack concentration.
“It was similar to Mark Allen, no adrenaline, and no buzz, I didn’t feel under any pressure and it was an empty performance. The first frame was very long, the worst we have ever played.”
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by Andre147 » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Whereas Mags dedicates this win to his mum
"I was close to pulling out on Thursday, I have tonsillitis and if it wasn’t for my mum getting the anti-biotics down here I had told her I couldn’t play.
“So that win is for my mum for what she did, I couldn’t even speak yesterday but I feel a lot better now and I am on the medicine for a week now."
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by Skullman » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Andre147 PGC wrote:According to Robbo this is what went wrong:
" It was a really lacklustre performance, and that is the last time I drive myself to a match more than an hour away. I just seemed to lack concentration.
“It was similar to Mark Allen, no adrenaline, and no buzz, I didn’t feel under any pressure and it was an empty performance. The first frame was very long, the worst we have ever played.”
I'm sorry, but like Hendry Fan said, this is second biggest tournament of the season. If you don't get a buzz here, why are you a snooker player? And what has driving got to do with it?
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by Skullman » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Andre147 PGC wrote:Whereas Mags dedicates this win to his mum
"I was close to pulling out on Thursday, I have tonsillitis and if it wasn’t for my mum getting the anti-biotics down here I had told her I couldn’t play.
“So that win is for my mum for what she did, I couldn’t even speak yesterday but I feel a lot better now and I am on the medicine for a week now."
I demand a drug test
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by Andre147 » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Robbo has this tendency of arriving almost on top of the hour the match is supposed to start, it has been a little bit better in recent years, but every now and again he does it again.
That's why all the pros say the most likely player to arrive late for a match is Robbo.
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by Andre147 » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Skullman wrote:Andre147 PGC wrote:Whereas Mags dedicates this win to his mum
"I was close to pulling out on Thursday, I have tonsillitis and if it wasn’t for my mum getting the anti-biotics down here I had told her I couldn’t play.
“So that win is for my mum for what she did, I couldn’t even speak yesterday but I feel a lot better now and I am on the medicine for a week now."
I demand a drug test
And then he gets disqualified from the tourney
Ronnie actually was at the Irish Masters 1998 he won against Doherty, testing positive for cannabis.
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by Wildey » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Skullman wrote:Andre147 PGC wrote:According to Robbo this is what went wrong:
" It was a really lacklustre performance, and that is the last time I drive myself to a match more than an hour away. I just seemed to lack concentration.
“It was similar to Mark Allen, no adrenaline, and no buzz, I didn’t feel under any pressure and it was an empty performance. The first frame was very long, the worst we have ever played.”
I'm sorry, but like Hendry Fan said, this is second biggest tournament of the season. If you don't get a buzz here, why are you a snooker player? And what has driving got to do with it?
During the 2013 World Championship hardly anyone got a buzz and that is the biggest.
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by Muppet147 » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Haha - Robbo winning four world titles?!
Someone has been at the wacci bacci.
He will never win it again. No way that he could get such an easy draw two times running.
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by SnookerFan » 18 Jan 2014 Read
Muppet,
Did Robbo once refuse to sign an autograph for you?
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