Betfred World Championship (Mon April 18th) Last 32 !!

Wow. Stephen Maguire in 2005 was the last person in the past decade to get more than 5 frames against ROS in a first round match; it was 10-9 to ROS on that occasion.

Since 2005, no one has managed more than 5 frames against Ronnie. Impressive stuff from Gilbert.

dont why he does that sometimes. at the masters he played vs bingham and got the snooker.

Cheshire Cat wrote:Wow. Stephen Maguire in 2005 was the last person in the past decade to get more than 5 frames against ROS in a first round match; it was 10-9 to ROS on that occasion.

Since 2005, no one has managed more than 5 frames against Ronnie. Impressive stuff from Gilbert.

Liang Wenbo in 2010 lost 10-7.

Cheshire Cat wrote:Wow. Stephen Maguire in 2005 was the last person in the past decade to get more than 5 frames against ROS in a first round match; it was 10-9 to ROS on that occasion.

Since 2005, no one has managed more than 5 frames against Ronnie. Impressive stuff from Gilbert.

wenbo got 7 in 2010

Andre147 wrote:

Cheshire Cat wrote:Wow. Stephen Maguire in 2005 was the last person in the past decade to get more than 5 frames against ROS in a first round match; it was 10-9 to ROS on that occasion.

Since 2005, no one has managed more than 5 frames against Ronnie. Impressive stuff from Gilbert.

Liang Wenbo in 2010 lost 10-7.

Oh of course, the one year I accidentally miss, the facts go against me.

There goes my application for being a stats man.

credit to the angry farmer, did himself justice against the main man.

Nice to see the warm congratulations from ROS.

EDIT: Oh dross, I meant 'commiserations' not 'congratulations'.

take a bow gilbert. the game was played in the right spirit.

17 frames in 3 1/2 hours.

Cheshire Cat wrote:Wow. Stephen Maguire in 2005 was the last person in the past decade to get more than 5 frames against ROS in a first round match; it was 10-9 to ROS on that occasion.

Since 2005, no one has managed more than 5 frames against Ronnie. Impressive stuff from Gilbert.

Maguires got 10-6 in 2004 didn't he?

Ronnie raised his game there, 77 breakto finish it off.

Gilbert deserves every credit, and had he been a tad more lucky at times, who knows... may have gone out the winner.

Doesn't matter, Ronnie played very well the whole match, 94% pot sucess rate justifies that.

It's a shame Gilbert went out playing like this. Rather have him than Walden or Williams.

Andre147 wrote:Ronnie raised his game there, 77 breakto finish it off.

Gilbert deserves every credit, and had he been a tad more lucky at times, who knows... may have gone out the winner.

Doesn't matter, Ronnie played very well the whole match, 94% pot sucess rate justifies that.

mantorok wrote:

Cheshire Cat wrote:Wow. Stephen Maguire in 2005 was the last person in the past decade to get more than 5 frames against ROS in a first round match; it was 10-9 to ROS on that occasion.

Since 2005, no one has managed more than 5 frames against Ronnie. Impressive stuff from Gilbert.

Maguires got 10-6 in 2004 didn't he?

Oh you said last. Nvm

snucar wrote:If Higgins eats one more burger, his waistcoat 's gonna explode.

Maguire, Allen, Bingham etc. This nando's had a lot to answer for.

na

boris_the_butcher wrote:

snucar wrote:If Higgins eats one more burger, his waistcoat 's gonna explode.

Maguire, Allen, Bingham etc. This nando's had a lot to answer for.

That sound like an excellent line up for the McDonalds World Burger Championship semis. Best of 33 burgers.

boris_the_butcher wrote:

snucar wrote:If Higgins eats one more burger, his waistcoat 's gonna explode.

Maguire, Allen, Bingham etc. This nando's had a lot to answer for.

Allen has gained some weitght recently hasn't he... somehow got him to win the Players Champs.

Gilbert:

'Best I will ever play and lose'

He's not wrong.

Accoring to SnookerBacker on Twitter, Ronnie has refused to do any media.

Faces disciplinary action.

Don't tell me he's got his antics back...

Andre147 wrote:Gilbert:

'Best I will ever play and lose'

He's not wrong.

Yeah, he played better on Sunday than the 6-3 score would suggest. If he'd finished 5-4 behind he could have really pushed Ronnie today.

Andre147 wrote:Accoring to SnookerBacker on Twitter, Ronnie has refused to do any media.

Faces disciplinary action.

Don't tell me he's got his antics back...

watch this gather more news than what anything else this week.

It's offcial then.

George Ryley, the guy who always interviews the players, has said on Twitter:

'Ronnie O Sullivan has just refused to do any media. Hasn't turned up for his press conference and world snooker say he'll be disciplined'

FFS Ron

wtf ronnie. last shoes, chalk as marker, snapped cue nearly in pieces.

maybe he has a valid reason

There is a war between the BBC and Ronnie going on a long time now.

He should be doing his media, but I don't really give a toss about press conferences for any player, so I guess it doesn't bother me much.

I suppose ROS fans should also remember that Steve Peters is actually with Ronnie in Sheffield this week, so it's hard to imagine him doing anything loony. But whatever, watch the furore begin.

Meanwhile, Day is really letting this slip. Poor shot to throw that frame away.

Day rolling over and getting his tummy tickled I see

Yes this will generate more attention than most of the things that have happened so far.

Anyway, if he keeps winning his matches, I don't give a toss if he faces a fine or not.

After fighting so hard from 2-0 down to 2-2, this has been very disappoiting from Day.

6-2, could be 7-2.

Higgins playing well and doing the business, helped in part by Day playing some admittedly poor shots. Really could have been 5-3 right now, but it's 6-2.

'Rolling over', as someone already said, is the best way to describe it. Day must win this frame to have any hope I feel.