Betfred World Championship (Tues April 28th) Quarter-Finals

So who is going to get it? I'd like McGill match to go on to lift the trophy seen as:

Trump's an arrogant pretentious basher and that handshake
Robertson's an aussie and was out of order with that unanswered points thing
O'Sullivan's a self-obsessed bad sportsman and that sock/chalk chimp thing
Ding has no realistic chance of defeating Trump and had a spat this tourney with
Bingham is a journeyman who's not worthy of a WC and had a spat this tourney with^
Hawkins is a decent player, but I still don't think he's the best in the world
Murphy seems to think kicks are to blame for everything and wears offensive waistcoats.

Ronnie79 wrote:Does anyone think Hawkins can run Robbo close ?

13-11 hawk imo

Skullman wrote:If Bingo could beat ROS and Trump back to back and then Murphy/Robbo/Hawkins, he'd deserve the title.

anyone who wins deserves the title of world champion. apart from robbo in 2010.

GJ wrote:

Ronnie79 wrote:Does anyone think Hawkins can run Robbo close ?

13-11 hawk imo

Trying to jinx poor Hawk...?

boris_the_butcher wrote:

Skullman wrote:If Bingo could beat ROS and Trump back to back and then Murphy/Robbo/Hawkins, he'd deserve the title.

anyone who wins deserves the title of world champion. apart from robbo in 2010.

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AC or LT? wrote:So who is going to get it? I'd like McGill match to go on to lift the trophy seen as:

Trump's an arrogant pretentious basher and that handshake
Robertson's an aussie and was out of order with that unanswered points thing
O'Sullivan's a self-obsessed bad sportsman and that sock/chalk chimp thing
Ding has no realistic chance of defeating Trump and had a spat this tourney with
Bingham is a journeyman who's not worthy of a WC and had a spat this tourney with^
Hawkins is a decent player, but I still don't think he's the best in the world
Murphy seems to think kicks are to blame for everything and wears offensive waistcoats.

That's a rubbish reason.

AC or LT? wrote:So who is going to get it? I'd like McGill match to go on to lift the trophy seen as:

Trump's an arrogant pretentious basher and that handshake
Robertson's an aussie and was out of order with that unanswered points thing
O'Sullivan's a self-obsessed bad sportsman and that sock/chalk chimp thing
Ding has no realistic chance of defeating Trump and had a spat this tourney with
Bingham is a journeyman who's not worthy of a WC and had a spat this tourney with^
Hawkins is a decent player, but I still don't think he's the best in the world
Murphy seems to think kicks are to blame for everything and wears offensive waistcoats.

Fair enough, and your idol is Ebdon?

did robbo pot a ball to avoid a some sort of dubious record? that's bang out of order.

Skullman wrote:

AC or LT? wrote:So who is going to get it? I'd like McGill match to go on to lift the trophy seen as:

Trump's an arrogant pretentious basher and that handshake
Robertson's an aussie and was out of order with that unanswered points thing
O'Sullivan's a self-obsessed bad sportsman and that sock/chalk chimp thing
Ding has no realistic chance of defeating Trump and had a spat this tourney with
Bingham is a journeyman who's not worthy of a WC and had a spat this tourney with^
Hawkins is a decent player, but I still don't think he's the best in the world
Murphy seems to think kicks are to blame for everything and wears offensive waistcoats.

That's a rubbish reason.

You'll see I provided another one, I actual really like Robbo's style of play but don't want him to win this year.

I understand that it would be deserved by the fact that they had beaten all before them, it's just I see Bingham / Hawkins as journeyman who've been around for ever, where as the others are multiple winners of tournaments who play the highest level a world champion should, apart from McGill who's is the out of nowhere contender

snucar wrote:Let's push this Bingham world champion discussion even further. Can you imagine what a great story would be winning it and successfully defending it next year. Stuart Bingham: the man who broke the curse!

Just imagine the film about his rise in 3-D.

Bingham is a sh*thouse who hasnt a hope of ever winning a world title.

Boris

Anything that iritates the haters like you has to be applauded

AC or LT? wrote:So who is going to get it? I'd like McGill match to go on to lift the trophy seen as:

Trump's an arrogant pretentious basher and that handshake
Robertson's an aussie and was out of order with that unanswered points thing
O'Sullivan's a self-obsessed bad sportsman and that sock/chalk chimp thing
Ding has no realistic chance of defeating Trump and had a spat this tourney with
Bingham is a journeyman who's not worthy of a WC and had a spat this tourney with^
Hawkins is a decent player, but I still don't think he's the best in the world
Murphy seems to think kicks are to blame for everything and wears offensive waistcoats.

That's not nice

Ronnie79 wrote:Bingham is a sh*thouse who hasnt a hope of ever winning a world title.

Dunno, he's got the Essex connection going.

LC wrote:I understand that it would be deserved by the fact that they had beaten all before them, it's just I see Bingham / Hawkins as journeyman who've been around for ever, where as the others are multiple winners of tournaments who play the highest level a world champion should, apart from McGill who's is the out of nowhere contender

Well if they win they definitely won't be journeymen anymore, and considering they're already amongst the top players in the world now, hard to see how they can be defined as journeymen.

snucar wrote:Let's push this Bingham world champion discussion even further. Can you imagine what a great story would be winning it and successfully defending it next year. Stuart Bingham: the man who broke the curse!

And in a similarly likely hypothetical lets discuss the possibility of Fred Davis and Walter Donaldson rising from their graves to compete at next years world championships, reaching the final to be reffed by a avian version of superman and playing the whole match on a medieval banquet table dressed as romans, with the eventual winner being decided by a samurai fight to the death with their cues..

GJ wrote:Boris

Anything that iritates the haters like you has to be applauded

lol i like him really but you're too easy to wind up.

Holden Chinaski wrote:Hawkins would be a much better champion than Bingham.

Yes, I agree. He's a very good player and can produce a much higher standard than Bingham. Bingham winning the title would be the worst case scenario.

AC or LT? wrote:

snucar wrote:Let's push this Bingham world champion discussion even further. Can you imagine what a great story would be winning it and successfully defending it next year. Stuart Bingham: the man who broke the curse!

And in a similarly likely hypothetical lets discuss the possibility of Fred Davis and Walter Donaldson rising from their graves to compete at next years world championships, reaching the final to be reffed by a avian version of superman and playing the whole match on a medieval banquet table dressed as romans, with the eventual winner being decided by a samurai fight to the death with their cues..

Fencing cues.....

boris_the_butcher wrote:did robbo pot a ball to avoid a some sort of dubious record? that's bang out of order.

Yes, his ego could not cope with the unanswered points record. Unsporting to say the least. But this comes from the land of under arm bowling no less.

It's like wba or hull winning the premier league, tho Blackburn did lol

Don't blame Robbo for potting a red. He's not there to make Hawkins look good!

I blame the earpieces. He probably heard Willie mention it and that influenced his decision.

I have no problem with what Robertson done. No one else in the game would have bothered. Why would he want an unanswered points record

Ronnie79 wrote:I have no problem with what Robertson done. No one else in the game would have bothered. Why would he want an unanswered points record

I agree.

If this were Ronnie I would have loved if he did the same thing.

Having sais this, even if Robbo had conceded, Hawkins was still 19 points away from the record, so no garantees he would have had next session.

Holden Chinaski wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:Shaun Murphy started playing.

No , I prefer poppadoms with nango chutney.

Although on tge subject of crackers there are many varieties and jacobs are my favourite.

Do you like noodles?

Need to know.

The pockets are buckets this year, play a ball to the far jaw and it will fall in. They need to tighten up the pockets generally.

Also they need to generally slow down the cloth speed! It's no wonder they haven't got many young players coming through when they have in economic terms, what amounts to, a barrier to entry. A young player has to get used to judging pace entirely differently. Now we have players like Judd playing long deep screw shots that aren't even available on the club tables that the young kids practice on. It's all terribly unfair.