English Open Day Four

kolompar wrote:Ronnie is wearing black trainers, by the way.

SnookerFan wrote:Absolutely has to be Ronnie's tournament to win, surely?

Steve Peters there. Me at the final with somebody else who doesn't like Ronnie.

He's playing well, he has more incentive to do so to overtake Higgins now. This motivates Ronnie more than he lets on.

He's hard an argument with World Snooker early in the week. This pretty much guarantees he'll kick up his game. For some reason he thinks him winning proves a point to World Snooker. (Despite them wanting him to.)

It's got his name written all over it, this tournament.

My prediction is that he'll win the English Open, then pull out of Northern Ireland just to make a point about the million pound prize fund.

Andre147 wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:Absolutely has to be Ronnie's tournament to win, surely?

Steve Peters there. Me at the final with somebody else who doesn't like Ronnie.

He's playing well, he has more incentive to do so to overtake Higgins now. This motivates Ronnie more than he lets on.

He's hard an argument with World Snooker early in the week. This pretty much guarantees he'll kick up his game. For some reason he thinks him winning proves a point to World Snooker. (Despite them wanting him to.)

It's got his name written all over it, this tournament.

My prediction is that he'll win the English Open, then pull out of Northern Ireland just to make a point about the million pound prize fund.

That would be quite funny and he would be right in doing so.

In an ideal world, I would make things like this: if you manage to win 2 consecutive Home Nations tournaments you receive 250 000 grand, if you win 3, then you pocket 500 000, and all four you have the 1 million.

SnookerFan wrote:Oh rubbish. Is the match still going on? I thought he'd won 4-0. I have trouble access live scores at work.

Cloud Strife wrote:

Andre147 wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:Absolutely has to be Ronnie's tournament to win, surely?

Steve Peters there. Me at the final with somebody else who doesn't like Ronnie.

He's playing well, he has more incentive to do so to overtake Higgins now. This motivates Ronnie more than he lets on.

He's hard an argument with World Snooker early in the week. This pretty much guarantees he'll kick up his game. For some reason he thinks him winning proves a point to World Snooker. (Despite them wanting him to.)

It's got his name written all over it, this tournament.

My prediction is that he'll win the English Open, then pull out of Northern Ireland just to make a point about the million pound prize fund.

That would be quite funny and he would be right in doing so.

In an ideal world, I would make things like this: if you manage to win 2 consecutive Home Nations tournaments you receive 250 000 grand, if you win 3, then you pocket 500 000, and all four you have the 1 million.

That will never happen because it's only ever meant to be a gimmick to drum up abit of publicity. Hearn has no intention of actually having to paying out a single penny.

Dan-cat wrote:

kolompar wrote:Ronnie is wearing black trainers, by the way.

Thank you. This is important shiz.

Wildey wrote:That woman could have stabbed Ronnie or whatever

SnookerFan wrote:

Dan-cat wrote:LOLZ!!! An intruder runs in and Ronnie lets her have a go at the black.

...and he's in the last 16, beats Yong 4-1 with a sparkling performance.

What? Really?

What in bucks name was the security doing?

SnookerFan wrote:Was she an older woman? I've seen a few people on Twitter joking; "Ronnie brought his gran."

That's not an excuse, by the way. Why was she allowed to do that?

Security has always been a bit of a joke at snooker. I once got refused entry to The Crucible at 7:02pm because it was; "After the scheduled start of the match, and I might disturb play." The players weren't out yet, Rob Walker wasn't out yet. Anybody with any common sense could've seen that we weren't even close to having any play to disrupt. On either table. I'd have been in my chair in plenty of time. And yet security got draconian with me.

However, when somebody runs towards a player, security does nothing. Even if it's just some harmless old woman who has had a glass of sherry at lunch and got over excited, seems like a lapse. Same as that clown a few years ago, that handed a bankruptcy notice at the Welsh Open. How did he get that far?

Or am I overreacted to having not seen it properly?

Dan-cat wrote:Ref said 'what are you doing?'

And she replied 'I'm just having a jog'

hahhahaha.