by Wildey » 08 Nov 2017 Read
You know what sometimes its good to have a reminder how bloody hard snooker is to play and then you will apreciate the sport more when you see brilliance.
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by Andre147 » 08 Nov 2017 Read
Wildey wrote:You know what sometimes its good to have a reminder how bloody hard snooker is to play and then you will apreciate the sport more when you see brilliance.
This tournament has been far from being poor on quality, the 3 matches I mentioned are just an example that the quality has been fairly good.
There's been 6 matches played so far... 3 of them being good standard, the other 3 not great, so things are even at the moment.
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by SnookerFan » 08 Nov 2017 Read
Cloud Strife wrote:Murphy wins Group 2.
They aren't groups.
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by SnookerFan » 08 Nov 2017 Read
Murphy gets a seconf day in Coventry.
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by mick745 » 08 Nov 2017 Read
I wonder whether asking the players to play a bo7 followed by a bo11 is contributing to some poor matches? 18 frames in a day is quite a lot especially when there is not much gap between the second afternoon match and the evening session.
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by Cloud Strife » 08 Nov 2017 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Cloud Strife wrote:Murphy wins Group 2.
They aren't groups.
They are if Hearn says they are.
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by SnookerFan » 08 Nov 2017 Read
Cloud Strife wrote:They are if Hearn says they are.
Just like the Shoot Out is a ranker, if Hearn says it is.
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by Andre147 » 08 Nov 2017 Read
"The way I play snooker – aggressive, going for my shots, long pots, big breaks – I have to be getting them because my B-game, C-game doesn’t really exist. I never have been a really good safety player and I have accepted now that if I am going to win, I have to win like that. In the group final I had three centuries, a 78 and a 93."
This is what Murphy said post-match and for once I agree with him. He has one of the worst safety games of the Top 16.
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by Dan-cat » 08 Nov 2017 Read
Andre147 wrote:"The way I play snooker – aggressive, going for my shots, long pots, big breaks – I have to be getting them because my B-game, C-game doesn’t really exist. I never have been a really good safety player and I have accepted now that if I am going to win, I have to win like that. In the group final I had three centuries, a 78 and a 93."
This is what Murphy said post-match and for once I agree with him. He has one of the worst safety games of the Top 16.
I would call that a limiting belief. There is absolutely no reason why he couldn't get good at safety. Look at how Ronnie did it when he worked with Ray Reardon all those years ago.
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by The_Abbott » 08 Nov 2017 Read
Wildey wrote:You know what sometimes its good to have a reminder how bloody hard snooker is to play and then you will apreciate the sport more when you see brilliance.
Let me know when you spot some brilliance and I'll wake up
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