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Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby Roland » 25 Apr 2014 Read

Perry played well but did what he always does and isn't scared of Ronnie, he just plays the table but he was gifted chances. It was a very un-Ronnie like performance and if I was being cynical at times it almost looked like he wanted to hand chances to his opponent. It's not like Perry got in through good safety, he was given most chances on a plate.

Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby PLtheRef » 25 Apr 2014 Read

DAY SEVEN TABLE - 17/31 Matches played

103 RANDAM05 WC 13 - 4
97 SAVOMILOSEVIC 14 - 0
97 CLOUD STRIFE 13 - 2
97 DRLOG147 13 - 2
95 THECLEAVER 13 - 1
95 WILDEY 12 - 4
91 JMAL1 12 - 3
90 SNOOKER OVERDRIVE 12 - 1
89 ALEX0PAUL 12 - 2
89 HOLDENCHINASKI 11 - 4
88 SUNDAYGIRL 12 - 2
82 SLOWJOE 11 - 2
81 SMART 10 - 3
80 MEDHI99 10 - 1
79 SKULLMAN 11 - 2
77 PLTHEREF 10 - 1
76 GJ 10 - 3
72 ANDRE147 10 - 1
72 SNOOKY147 9 - 3
71 CONORS9 10 - 0
70 JADECHELSEA 9 - 2
68 KOLOMPAR 9 - 3
66 AYRSHIREBHOY 9 - 0
65 VODKADIET 9 - 2
65 AC OR LT? 8 - 2
64 NICE_SHOES_KEN 9 - 1
62 JDM375 9 - 1
60 GNOMY 9 - 0
60 BORIS_THE_BUTCHER 8 - 1


Maximum Score 181


Remember if 2 players are seeded in the same match or 2 players are unseeded in the same match then the score is 7 points for the correct winner.

Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby Holden Chinaski » 25 Apr 2014 Read

GJ wrote:So basically if an opponent is missing very little Ronnie has to be playing bad .....

No it doesnt have to be like that, but thats how it was today.
Perry was playing great but Ronnie was making lots of unforced errors. Ronnie definitely was not at his best. Not being a fanboy, just stating a fact.

Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby Holden Chinaski » 25 Apr 2014 Read

Sonny wrote:Perry played well but did what he always does and isn't scared of Ronnie, he just plays the table but he was gifted chances. It was a very un-Ronnie like performance and if I was being cynical at times it almost looked like he wanted to hand chances to his opponent. It's not like Perry got in through good safety, he was given most chances on a plate.

Exactly!

Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby Wildey » 26 Apr 2014 Read

Skullman wrote:Surely it doesn't matter as much now as it did last week, as he'll obviously get a wildcard if he were to drop off.

Remember you get Wild Card tournament spots based on carear earnings so Jimmy is 3rd in line if 128 out of 132 players don't enter.

and having to play a top 64 player in the 1st round of events

Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby Wildey » 26 Apr 2014 Read

SnookerFan wrote:I can see Ronnie coming out and making a couple of centuries, to make the game very interesting.

What will make the Game interesting if Joe wins the opening Frame.

If Ronnie wins the first 2 frames it will be 13-9 to him

Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby SnookerFan » 26 Apr 2014 Read

Wildey wrote:
SnookerFan wrote:I can see Ronnie coming out and making a couple of centuries, to make the game very interesting.

What will make the Game interesting if Joe wins the opening Frame.

If Ronnie wins the first 2 frames it will be 13-9 to him


Yeah actually, you're right.

Perry needs to take the opening session 3-1 to stand chance, I reckon.

Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby SnookerFan » 26 Apr 2014 Read

The Sports Section in The Times had a round up of some of the snooker happenings, and as Michael Wasley prepared to play Dominic Dale, it had this to say;

"Michael Wasley, the world No 73, admitted he was wound up by a perceived slight from Stephen Hendry, the seven time world champion, before his shock first-round win over Ding Junhui. The 24-year old is revelling in his new reputation as a sudden-death specialist after a 10-9 win over Rob Milkins, this time on a respotted black to reach The Crucible for the first time, and then another to see off the world No. 2. Wasley, coached by Terry Griifiths, the former world champion, takes on Dominic Dale, of Wales, for a place in the quarter finals. 'When Stephen Hendry did a pre-match interviews, he was only interested in me doing a Rubik's cube,' Wasley said. 'I did a few things on tour and it would have been nice if they had done their homework. In my first year I qualified for the German Masters and the Welsh Open, which went unrecognised. And they all said they didn't know anything about me in the studio! It did make me want to try harder."

I made a similar observation yesterday. How many times the BBC pundits had claimed not to know anything about a player this week.

Good for Wasley for pointing it out. We're paying the license fee, so it's not unreasonable to expect the experts on the telly to know a lot about the sport they're talking about.


Ps. I typed that quote out, because I'm a girlfriendless wonder. If credit needs to be given, it was written by Hector Nunns in The Times.

Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby Wildey » 26 Apr 2014 Read

Its not the Expert Fault that they Know nothing about a player its the fault of the BBC for employing them.

Stephen Hendry has made no secret of the fact he hardly watches Snooker because as a player he never did watch it but the BBC Want to employ "STAR NAMES" instead of Snooker Watcher or a journalist like Clive Everton who through his Work on Snooker Scene knows players thats playing junior events.

theres people on Snooker Island that would be a better pundit/comentator than the majority that is currently commentating on snooker.

Nothing Wrong in getting these Pundits in to doing summerising and commenting on shot selections etc and Hendry is one of the Best at doing that but they need someone along side them that knows the history and game of the players playing.

Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby Muppet147 » 26 Apr 2014 Read

SnookerFan wrote:
Wildey wrote:
SnookerFan wrote:I can see Ronnie coming out and making a couple of centuries, to make the game very interesting.

What will make the Game interesting if Joe wins the opening Frame.

If Ronnie wins the first 2 frames it will be 13-9 to him


Yeah actually, you're right.

Perry needs to take the opening session 3-1 to stand chance, I reckon.


You are always trying to jinx Ronnie.

At 2-2, the match is still Perry's to lose.

Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby Snooker Overdrive » 26 Apr 2014 Read

Wildey wrote:Its not the Expert Fault that they Know nothing about a player its the fault of the BBC for employing them.

Stephen Hendry has made no secret of the fact he hardly watches Snooker because as a player he never did watch it but the BBC Want to employ "STAR NAMES" instead of Snooker Watcher or a journalist like Clive Everton who through his Work on Snooker Scene knows players thats playing junior events.

theres people on Snooker Island that would be a better pundit/comentator than the majority that is currently commentating on snooker.

Nothing Wrong in getting these Pundits in to doing summerising and commenting on shot selections etc and Hendry is one of the Best at doing that but they need someone along side them that knows the history and game of the players playing.


Agreed.

Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby Muppet147 » 26 Apr 2014 Read

Snooker Overdrive wrote:This will be the most nerve-racking Ronnie session since the CoC. Only with more at stake.


I didn't think Ronnie played that badly yesterday. When he got in the balls, he was striking them crisply and making the game look easy.

But Joe played really well too.

I honestly think if Ronnie can scrape through this match, he has a great chance of winning a sixth world title.

Re: Dafabet World Championship (Saturday April 26th) Last 16

Postby Andre147 » 26 Apr 2014 Read

Snooker Overdrive wrote:
Andre147 PGC wrote:Right, here we go :roll:


It's not that bad, is it?. I remember him being 11-5 down to Higgins in 2007. That was the time to pull out that smiley.


yeah you're right.

Anyway, we've got to believe in Ronnie so

CMON RONNIE :-D
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