Betfred World Championship Qualifying Rnd 1 (April 6th-9th)

Hamza Akbar has put himself in a good position. Leads Jamie Jones 5-1.

Jamie Jones is a joke these days

Can see Wakelin upsetting Wooly tonight

hendry_fan wrote:COME ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!,................................................

Ross Muir
Graeme Dott
Scott Donaldson
Alan McManus
Michael Leslie
Anthony McGill
Rhys Clark
Eden Sharav
Dylan Craig
Fraser Patrick
Jamie Burnett

Where are all these players from HF? Yorkshire? :P

What tournament did Jones collapse against Selby was it uk?

Edit: 7-2 after the first session.

GJ wrote:Jamie Jones is a joke these days

Can see Wakelin upsetting Wooly tonight

Jamie Jokes.

If Hamza Akhbar's beating you 7-2 you might want to hang up your cue.

Also special mention to Ebdon, pulled off a frame early.

Awesome preview by Snookerbacker http://www.snookerbacker.com/

...and a neat page built by Cuetracker Ron showing all the head to heads:

http://cuetracker.net/Tournaments/World ... 63/Preview

Jamie Jokes. Hehe

Come on Ng On Yee.

I post that, because World Snooker seem to think this is an acceptable photo of her.

I saw Gerard Greene play Ali Carter at The Crucible one year. He seemed like a nice man.

He signed my autograph book, and wrote a nice little message in. Something like; "Thanks for your support", or something.

The Slight Breeze takes the first frame

Jimmy White is laying the smack down.

Jimmy looking good here.

On Yee looks a poor player.

Schadenfreude wrote:On Yee looks a poor player.

Problem with the women's game is that it has no depth. So when the most successful players in it try to compete against men, that fall short because they've not had consistently hard enough competition to get good.

It's a shame, because there's no reason to suggest men and women shouldn't be able to compete on even grounds in a sport like snooker.

Remember that time Steve Davis said that women were rubbish?

SnookerFan wrote:Jimmy White is laying the smack down.

Saying that, the second frame has suddenly become competitive.

Dan-cat wrote:

hendry_fan wrote:COME ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!,................................................

Ross Muir
Graeme Dott
Scott Donaldson
Alan McManus
Michael Leslie
Anthony McGill
Rhys Clark
Eden Sharav
Dylan Craig
Fraser Patrick
Jamie Burnett




Where are all these players from HF? Yorkshire? :P

The only thing i know from Yorkshire,is Yorkshire pudding.






All these players are from the greatest country in the world,


They,re all fae Bonnie Scotland.





I,ll add Jimmy White to that list though,i know,he aint Scottish,but he,s one o the few nice Englishmen there are that are still around + i like his style of play.


COME ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN JIMMY!.

Apparently Anthony Hamilton was on the 14th red on a max and feathered the cue ball ending the break.

eraserhead wrote:Apparently Anthony Hamilton was on the 14th red on a max and feathered the cue ball ending the break.

what a kn*b!

SnookerFan wrote:Remember that time Steve Davis said that women were rubbish?

He didn't say that. You've taken him out of context. Damn media misinformation!!!

The point he made is that not many women want to spend their teenage years down a dingy snooker hall, which is what it takes to get good. It take a special kind of anorak to do that

SnookerFan wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:Jimmy White is laying the smack down.

Saying that, the second frame has suddenly become competitive.

Slight Breeze makes it 2 nil!

I wonder if he'll be 7 - 1 up after the first session, and then go down the pub to celebrate

Dan-cat wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:Remember that time Steve Davis said that women were rubbish?

He didn't say that. You've taken him out of context. Damn media misinformation!!!

The point he made is that not many women want to spend their teenage years down a dingy snooker hall, which is what it takes to get good. It take a special kind of anorak to do that

Yeah, I was kind of being facetious. The media turned it into a bit of a Steve Davis disses women.

But I think he had a point, in a way. When I was a kid, I was always being brought footballs and even had a toy snooker table. (A small, not even half size one. ) I hated sport as a kid, never liked doing it.

I think boys are encouraged into these things younger than girls, girls come into it as they get older because they want to. That's a disadvantage, because the most successful snooker players are practically born with cues in their hands these days.

SnookerFan wrote:

Schadenfreude wrote:On Yee looks a poor player.

Problem with the women's game is that it has no depth. So when the most successful players in it try to compete against men, that fall short because they've not had consistently hard enough competition to get good.

No.

Women have every chance to become good. They can practice with anyone. They can play in anything. There are no men only tournaments. But there are women only tournaments. The women's tour is just a bonus, you can't say it holds them back.

Dan-cat wrote:Slight Breeze makes it 2 nil!

I wonder if he'll be 7 - 1 up after the first session, and then go down the pub to celebrate

It wouldn't surprise me.

When I was at the Welsh Open one year, I went to get Jimmy Whites autograph, and my ticket fell out my little autograph book. Jimmy went to pick it up for me, but then tried to give it to some bird who just happened to be walking past.

I eventually convinced him it was mine, but he looked at me a bit suspiciously.

Dan-cat wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:Remember that time Steve Davis said that women were rubbish?

He didn't say that. You've taken him out of context. Damn media misinformation!!!

The point he made is that not many women want to spend their teenage years down a dingy snooker hall, which is what it takes to get good. It take a special kind of anorak to do that

Steve shouldn't have said that. Suggesting that only oddballs want to spend their teenage years practicing snooker is not promoting the game. Many snooker clubs are very nice, it's a lovely way to spend your formative years. Certainly much better than those awful loud nightclubs.

Changing the subject, is anybody watching the World Snooker stream at the moment? They got commentary on again this year?

SnookerFan wrote:

Dan-cat wrote:Slight Breeze makes it 2 nil!

I wonder if he'll be 7 - 1 up after the first session, and then go down the pub to celebrate

It wouldn't surprise me.

He nearly lost the World amateur final because he did just that!!!