Betfred World Championship (Fri April 21st) Last 16 !!

Hopefully Murphy has time to change his nappy

LowKey wrote:Calm down. He's won this event before and won a huge amount of career prize money. I'm sure any of us would want to be as good as him!

Very likely. Just frustration seeing how poorly he plays. At least make it competitive, Murphy.

Murphy needs to come out in a gimp mask in the next session.

mantorok wrote:Murphy needs to come out in a gimp mask in the next session.

A Hawk mask might be better

mantorok wrote:Murphy needs to come out in a gimp mask in the next session.

Is Fergal still about?

Murphy has won one frame so far in this session. More than I expected tbh

Remember some people saying before the match that "if Barry can beat Ronnie in the second round after having a bad record against him, so can Shaun"?

Alex0paul wrote:

mantorok wrote:Murphy needs to come out in a gimp mask in the next session.

Is Fergal still about?

No hes back on home soil doing his second job as the fourth member of the Irish Chippendales.

Snooker Overdrive wrote:Remember some people saying before the match that "if Barry can beat Ronnie in the second round after having a bad record against him, so can Shaun"?

Lets give Ronnie the trophy then

TheRocket wrote:Murphy has won one frame so far in this session. More than I expected tbh

We should be very pleased with Ronnie's performance. Few expected Ronnie to score so well here at the Crucible...

mantorok wrote:

"You see that camera up there? You know what that's for? It's recording us, love."

Snooker Overdrive wrote:Great mini session from Ronnie. His scoring is the best I've seen from him in a long time.

More impirtant than that, he's not missing the sitters he's been doing almost all season.

And his scoring like you say is much better. Needs to improve safety and long potting though.

Yan would've given him a much tougher game

I notice some players do not care at all about noise and others are angry about any noise. I feel like from this it's clear Ronnie could be better if he was stronger mentally. If he's effected easily by small noises and he plays this good then imagine how good he would be if noise didn't effect him at all.

Higgins did what he does best... after not potting a ball for 2 frames, managed to level the match at 2 each. Allen missed a trick in frame 4, should have gone 3-1 up after Higgins missed a red to left middle.

Great match though that one.

The reason hes not missing sitters is there no pressure from his opponent , early on last night he missed a few easy ones as soon as he knew murphy was folding like a deck chair pressure off Ronnie.

its very simple. O'Sullivan is the superior breakbuilder and safety player. So if Ronnie plays at a decent level the only way Murphy can beat him is to pot everything he goes for.

If you're capable to realize that, you wouldn't be surprised about the result at all. Murphy is just the perfect match up for ROS. Similar to what poor Andy Roddick was to Roger Federer all the time.

GJ wrote:The reason hes not missing sitters is there no pressure from his opponent , early on last night he missed a few easy ones as soon as he knew murphy was folding like a deck chair pressure off Ronnie.

I'd like to see Murphy v Grumpy

Alex0paul wrote:

GJ wrote:The reason hes not missing sitters is there no pressure from his opponent , early on last night he missed a few easy ones as soon as he knew murphy was folding like a deck chair pressure off Ronnie.

I'd like to see Murphy v Grumpy

Which deck chair king would come out on top though

Andre147 wrote:

Snooker Overdrive wrote:Great mini session from Ronnie. His scoring is the best I've seen from him in a long time.

More impirtant than that, he's not missing the sitters he's been doing almost all season.

And his scoring like you say is much better. Needs to improve safety and long potting though.

Exactly. Especially these long distance matches are won by potting the easy balls, making the 70 breaks, calmly picking up the points, day in and day out. That's how titles are won.

Als: if you pot all the balls you're supposed to pot in a match you'll probably win 99% of all matches. Much more important than pulling off flashy super shots.

I find it absurd that Bingham or Wilson will have played their first and second round matches before Selby comes back to play

Some shot from ROS

Alex0paul wrote:I find it absurd that Bingham or Wilson will have played their first and second round matches before Selby comes back to play

The scheduling is very odd

Snooker Overdrive wrote:

Andre147 wrote:

Snooker Overdrive wrote:Great mini session from Ronnie. His scoring is the best I've seen from him in a long time.

More impirtant than that, he's not missing the sitters he's been doing almost all season.

And his scoring like you say is much better. Needs to improve safety and long potting though.

Exactly. Especially these long distance matches are won by potting the easy balls, making the 70 breaks, calmly picking up the points, day in and day out. That's how titles are won.

But hes under No pressure in this match from the off

Wildey wrote:

Snooker Overdrive wrote:

Andre147 wrote:

Snooker Overdrive wrote:Great mini session from Ronnie. His scoring is the best I've seen from him in a long time.

More impirtant than that, he's not missing the sitters he's been doing almost all season.

And his scoring like you say is much better. Needs to improve safety and long potting though.

Exactly. Especially these long distance matches are won by potting the easy balls, making the 70 breaks, calmly picking up the points, day in and day out. That's how titles are won.

But hes under No pressure in this match from the off

For a change I agree with you

Murphy plays the piano,is scratch handicap at golf and would love to go on strictly come dancing.Bit of an all-rounder is the Magician.Talented boy.

Higgins breaks down on 24

That last frame before the mid-session internal was important because it guaranteed Ronnie a lead going into the last session whatever happens now in these four frames.

Murphy makes Ronnie come back tomorrow.

Bully.