World Snooker International Championship Last 128 Discussion

Streams have frozen.

Fu takes whitewashes Castle barring snookers. Very straightforward for him in the end.

JDM375 wrote:Streams have frozen.

That's my problem every day

Good to see Marco Fu bashing up the illiterate.

Keep it up Marco, send him back to school!

Cloud Strife wrote:Good to see Marco Fu bashing up the illiterate.

Keep it up Marco, send him back to school!

illiterate?

JDM375 wrote:illiterate?

Shane Castle doesn't know how to read or write.

Story in the papers around the last year's UK about Castle. Basically he stopped going to school and can barely read (if at all).

JDM375 wrote:illiterate?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/others ... mpion.html

Cahil pulls another back, 3-4 now,.

Cahill closes to 4-3.

ROS only needed one snooker. Guess he's not that bothered.

Great back up plan he has there, pretty lousy parenting,

Skullman wrote:Story in the papers around the last year's UK about Castle. Basically he stopped going to school and can barely read (if at all).

he should be a member of snooker island then

Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-3 James Cahill
Marco Fu 6-0 Shane Castle
Fergal O'Brien 4-0 Fraser Patrick
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 4-3 Andrew Normans
Rod Lawler 3-1 Tian Pengfei

It'll be interesting to see how successful Cahill's comeback will be ;) I hope he wins.

Ronnie hasn't looked right since the WC. The form just isn't there, at the moment.

ROS within one of victory now.

Cloud Strife wrote:Ronnie hasn't looked right since the WC. The form just isn't there, at the moment.

Don't worry, his good form will comeback, and since he plans to play more this season, plenty of oppurtunities to do so.

Cloud Strife wrote:Ronnie hasn't looked right since the WC. The form just isn't there, at the moment.

According to Ken Doherty, his 'aura of invincibility' has gone since the WSC this year.

Maybe he'll just burn himself out

Andre147 wrote:

Cloud Strife wrote:Ronnie hasn't looked right since the WC. The form just isn't there, at the moment.

Don't worry, his good form will comeback, and since he plans to play more this season, plenty of oppurtunities to do so.

Needs to be wary of the old burnout syndrome then if he plans to play more.

Well, these last 128 matches are very unpopular among any Top 16 player I suppose. I don't think, there are many topplayers who really give 100% into these matches. They all just wanna win as quick as possible and move on.

Cahill

Was looking good for 4-5 and now it's all over.

Cahill pots a very difficult red and then misses a very easy black. Well, match over for sure now.

ROS wins 6-3.

Meanwhile, Lawler and Pengfei have just finished their fifth frame.

Good thing that one's not close.

TheRocket wrote:Cahill pots a very difficult red and then misses a very easy black. Well, match over for sure now.

I was stunned when he missed that easy black off its spot... I kinda wanted him to make that clearance you know...

Anyway, without hitting top gear, Ronnie did what he had to do, and as you said it's just a matter of getting through these "qualifying" matches, he can now improve once he plays in China.

Skullman wrote:Meanwhile, Lawler and Pengfei have just finished their fifth frame.

Good thing that one's not close.

Ronnie will now play Woolaston in China, not an easy opponent for a proper first round but anyway...

Andre147 wrote:

TheRocket wrote:Cahill pots a very difficult red and then misses a very easy black. Well, match over for sure now.

I was stunned when he missed that easy black off its spot... I kinda wanted him to make that clearance you know...

Anyway, without hitting top gear, Ronnie did what he had to do, and as you said it's just a matter of getting through these "qualifying" matches, he can now improve once he plays in China.

I really hope, Ronnie will reach the latter stages of this tournament, at least semi hopefully. As we know, he's usually playing below his class when playing in China. I really, hope, he won't have another first or second round defeat. That's would be a little blow imo.