Coral U K Championship Final : O'Sullivan v Trump !

Skullman wrote:

Snooker Overdrive wrote:By the way Ronnie has now the chance to win the triple crown in the same season. He has never done it before unlike Hendry or Williams. I'm not saying he will and even if he loses every match in 2015 no one can take this away from him but the chance is there.

Problem is he typically doesn't have a good Masters after winning the UK.

1994 Masters - Lost 5-1 to Taylor (!) in the wildcard round. (I'll chalk that to youth and inexperience)
1998 Masters - Lost 6-3 to Davis (QF)
2002 Masters - Lost 6-5 to White (QF)
2008 Masters - Lost 6-5 to Mags (L16)

Skullman wrote:

Snooker Overdrive wrote:By the way Ronnie has now the chance to win the triple crown in the same season. He has never done it before unlike Hendry or Williams. I'm not saying he will and even if he loses every match in 2015 no one can take this away from him but the chance is there.

Problem is he typically doesn't have a good Masters after winning the UK.

1994 Masters - Lost 5-1 to Taylor (!) in the wildcard round. (I'll chalk that to youth and inexperience)
1998 Masters - Lost 6-3 to Davis (QF)
2002 Masters - Lost 6-5 to White (QF)
2008 Masters - Lost 6-5 to Mags (L16)

Skullman wrote:

Snooker Overdrive wrote:By the way Ronnie has now the chance to win the triple crown in the same season. He has never done it before unlike Hendry or Williams. I'm not saying he will and even if he loses every match in 2015 no one can take this away from him but the chance is there.

Problem is he typically doesn't have a good Masters after winning the UK.

1994 Masters - Lost 5-1 to Taylor (!) in the wildcard round. (I'll chalk that to youth and inexperience)
1998 Masters - Lost 6-3 to Davis (QF)
2002 Masters - Lost 6-5 to White (QF)
2008 Masters - Lost 6-5 to Mags (L16)

Snooker Overdrive wrote:Ronnie turned into a winning machine since 2012. His match play reached a peak John Higgins level now.

The best ever Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Andy Spark wrote:Thank God Ronnie didn't become "the man who lost a triple crown from 5 up with 6 to play"...I think those last two frames gave me my highest heart rate yet for a Ronnie match! I am only just recovering.

Andre147 wrote:Dont forget SO,it all started after that Higginson match

Snooker Overdrive wrote:Was today even better than the 2010 UK final?

Andre147 wrote:Anyway, I definately need to go to bed now, wake up early tomorrow

Cant still quite believe it, such a great and incredible win, Ronnie is like a fine wine, getting better with age

Snooker Overdrive wrote:Was today even better than the 2010 UK final?

Snooker Overdrive wrote:

Andy Spark wrote:Thank God Ronnie didn't become "the man who lost a triple crown from 5 up with 6 to play"...I think those last two frames gave me my highest heart rate yet for a Ronnie match! I am only just recovering.

Plenty of time for that now

Andre147 wrote:As usual, the likes of Vodka, jester, AlexOPaul and a few others don't congratulate Ronnie if it were Judd winning this, would have been very hard to take, but I, like I always do, would be one of the first to congratulate him. Like I congratulated Selby on his World Champs win.

Always the same between them, not that I mind in the slighest or need their appreciation for Ronnie winning this, but it's just funny really.

Rocket13x147 wrote:Broken ankle wins the UK!

147 apart, he played rubbish and still won the title. What do you Selby, Trump, Robbo, supporters think is going to happen when he's fully fit and hitting tons?

I'll tell you; Masters No.6.

Rocket!

SnookerFan wrote:This may sound silly, but Ronnie has looked a much improved player in the last couple of seasons. He was always massively talented, of course. But he would often lose games because his mentality wasn't right. He seems to have sorted that out now.

I actullay reckon he'd be a ten time world cha!lion if he'd been like this his entire career.

He'll win The Crucible this year, in my opinion.

SnookerFan wrote:In fact, I will go as far as to say the Ronnie will win at least two more world championships and equal Hendry's record. He'd have done it already if he'd found this inner peace earlier in his career.

Muppet147 wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:In fact, I will go as far as to say the Ronnie will win at least two more world championships and equal Hendry's record. He'd have done it already if he'd found this inner peace earlier in his career.

I think he will certainly win at least one more.

Selby is one of the few people who can cause him problems but I would be surprised if Selby reaches the world final again this year.

NNear wrote:It could just be a blip, but at the moment Ronnie's long game is sometimes suspect and he's lost a little fluency. Perhaps that's just for this UK Championships... perhaps he couldn't prepare as thoroughly as usual for the event, but his game felt roughly similar at the World Championships, so it's been like this for two Majors on the trot...

I'm not going to assume Ronnie will win another WC but do believe he has more titles in him, including a few rankers, which may or may not include more Triple Crown event wins.

Perhaps it would be surprising if this was his last Triple Crown event victory, but the glory can end at any time. He's probably more likely to extend his current TC tally of 15 though, than to see it end there.

I've followed Ronnie O'Sullivan my whole life... even as a kid watching him come onto the scene in the 90's. Every victory is sweet in the context of his whole career, and remembering especially his win at the German Masters in 2012 is particularly poignant for me, after believing myself that Ronnie might be more or less done on the very biggest stages, firmly thinking he had underachieved.

The match against Higginson, the finals win over Maguire were critical. Ronnie's reaction after that match said it all. In hindsight perhaps it's the most important tournament in his career, or the one that had the biggest knock on effect afterwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7PwotY-_uw

It's actually my favourite moment of Ronnie's career so far. I kid you not -- it isn't any of the World Championships or the UK Titles or the Masters; it's the 2012 German Masters.

Glory can end at any time. Ronnie looks good for a while yet, but take nothing for granted.

Muppet147 wrote:
I think he will certainly win at least one more.

Selby is one of the few people who can cause him problems but I would be surprised if Selby reaches the world final again this year.

SnookerFan wrote:

Muppet147 wrote:
I think he will certainly win at least one more.

Selby is one of the few people who can cause him problems but I would be surprised if Selby reaches the world final again this year.

Selby may well be concentrating more on family than practice the next few months, so I wouldn't be surprised either.

Cannonball wrote:
I thought only disgraced tory MPs used the family excuse?