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Australian Goldfields Open Quarter Final Discussion !!!

Postby Wildey

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Monday 30th of June~Sunday 6th of July in Bendigo, Australia

So the Quarter Finals and some surprising results as Wuxi Classic Runner up Joe Perry and Semi Finalist Barry Hawkins both losing out to players of yester year Alan McManus and Peter Ebdon respectively, Stephen Maguire got whitewashed by Jamie Jones and John Higgins lost his 4th straight match against Robert Milkins.

Anyway enough about who lost what about the players that's still in there fighting.

Former Champion Stuart Bingham, World no 6 Judd Trump, World no 12 Ricky Walden, Former UK and Masters champion Matthew Stevens, Shanghai Masters Runner up Xiao Guodong and Australia's Neil Robertson fresh from his win in Wuxi City last week are still there.

Who will reach the semi finals?

DRAW

Quarter Finals

Neil Robertson v Robert Milkins Robertson leads 3-1
Stuart Bingham v Mark Davis 6-6
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Judd Trump v Ricky Walden Trump leads 4-3
Matthew Stevens v Xiao Guodong Stevens leads 1-0


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Re: Australian Open Wild Card, Last 32 and Last 16 Discussio

Postby Wildey

mantorok wrote:
Skullman wrote:Well they're showing the concluding session. It's nothing new. They've never shown the opening session of the Aussie Open since it starts so early in morning at BST/European time.


They show repeats of matches throughout the day so I don't see why they can't do that with the final, there is no excuse, if you're going to commit to something do it properly, I can't believe they charge extra for this channel.

So it would be better not to show 20 hours of Live Snooker then?

Re: Australian Open Wild Card, Last 32 and Last 16 Discussio

Postby mantorok

Wildey wrote:
mantorok wrote:
Skullman wrote:Well they're showing the concluding session. It's nothing new. They've never shown the opening session of the Aussie Open since it starts so early in morning at BST/European time.


They show repeats of matches throughout the day so I don't see why they can't do that with the final, there is no excuse, if you're going to commit to something do it properly, I can't believe they charge extra for this channel.

So it would be better not to show 20 hours of Live Snooker then?


It's like showing a horse race up to the point just before they finish, how can you defend that? Do you work for ES or something?

Imagine sitting down with ES and agreeing to televise a sporting event, could you see someone going "Yeah, we are going to showcase the whole tournament but for some arbitrary reason we're not going to stream the first session of the final, that ok...?"

Re: Australian Goldfields Open Quarter Final Discussion !!!

Postby Wildey

Friday 4th of July

4am

Matthew Stevens v Xiao Guodong
Judd Trump v Ricky Walden streaming


10am

Neil Robertson v Robert Milkins Eurosport
Stuart Bingham v Mark Davis

Re: Australian Open Wild Card, Last 32 and Last 16 Discussio

Postby SnookerFan

mantorok wrote:
It's like showing a horse race up to the point just before they finish, how can you defend that? Do you work for ES or something?

Imagine sitting down with ES and agreeing to televise a sporting event, could you see someone going "Yeah, we are going to showcase the whole tournament but for some arbitrary reason we're not going to stream the first session of the final, that ok...?"


It's annoying, but Wild's right.

What are you going to do about it? ITV, BBC, Sky Sports. None of these channels are interested in showing the Australian Open. Check the BBC website, they're barely interested in posting results. Let alone showing it. Without Eurosport, we'd get a lot less snooker not more.

Nobody is suggesting we want to miss the final. Or it's a desirable event. Just on the flip side, without Eurosport there'd be bugger all snooker on at all.

Re: Australian Goldfields Open Quarter Final Discussion !!!

Postby hendry_fan

Wildey wrote:Friday 4th of July

4am

Matthew Stevens v Xiao Guodong
Judd Trump v Ricky Walden streaming


10am

Neil Robertson v Robert Milkins Eurosport
Stuart Bingham v Mark Davis






Well thats very charming innit,no Scots,no Selby,no Ebdon,no Ronnie,ah well,i,ll just have to root for Robbo then!. :-D


Come on Robbo!. :happy:

Re: Australian Open Wild Card, Last 32 and Last 16 Discussio

Postby Wildey

Without Eurosport = first tournament will be Champion of Champions in November
Without Eurosport = 64 days of snooker in 2014/2015
With Eurosport = 140 days snooker in 2014/2015

in the last 2 weeks eurosport has actually shown 60 hours live snooker that's more than whats been given to the World cup in the same time period.

Re: Australian Open Wild Card, Last 32 and Last 16 Discussio

Postby Andre147

mantorok wrote:
Wildey wrote:
mantorok wrote:
Skullman wrote:Well they're showing the concluding session. It's nothing new. They've never shown the opening session of the Aussie Open since it starts so early in morning at BST/European time.


They show repeats of matches throughout the day so I don't see why they can't do that with the final, there is no excuse, if you're going to commit to something do it properly, I can't believe they charge extra for this channel.

So it would be better not to show 20 hours of Live Snooker then?


It's like showing a horse race up to the point just before they finish, how can you defend that? Do you work for ES or something?

Imagine sitting down with ES and agreeing to televise a sporting event, could you see someone going "Yeah, we are going to showcase the whole tournament but for some arbitrary reason we're not going to stream the first session of the final, that ok...?"


Simple choice mate: FROMSPORT :D

Re: Australian Goldfields Open Quarter Final Discussion !!!

Postby hendry_fan

Wildey wrote:Friday 4th of July

4am

Matthew Stevens 2-5 Xiao Guodong
Judd Trump 5-4
Ricky Walden


10am

Neil Robertson v Robert Milkins
Stuart Bingham v Mark Davis






Judd Trump 5-4 Ricky Walden


Oh dear,a sickener for Walden!. :dizzy:

Re: Australian Goldfields Open Quarter Final Discussion !!!

Postby Wildey

Xiao Guodong reaches only his second ever World Ranking semi final and his 5th semi final in all having reached 3 PTC Semi finals losing in all of them.

The only other semi final outside China before was in 2011 PTC 2 in Gloucester where he lost 4-3 to compatriot Ding Junhui.

Re: Australian Goldfields Open Quarter Final Discussion !!!

Postby Wildey

Joe Perry has played 18 matches and has won 15 this season it just highlights the difference to how the tour was prior to 2010/2011.

in 2009/2010 season Joe Perry won 10 matches in 24 played.