Evergrande China Championship

Alex0paul wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:Didn't Roland used to refer to Brecel as a genius?

He also said Liu Song would challenge for a world title

Dan-cat wrote:

hendry_fan wrote:Wildey mentioned the word "crum" earlier,which is actually spellt crumb,but i guess they say/write crum in Wales.


The word reminded me of a classic vid which i have in my youtube favourites,i remember how good old Earl the Pearl said,....

,...."well i was about to get into a fight with a guy in the audience,i mean he,s sittin there treatin me like i,m some kinda crumb or somethin".


It was a classic match and interview at the end was also a classic,both had quite a few antics throughout.


What a charachter Earl is.


I thought i,d share the vid with you all.





At 42:53 he called someone in the audience an ***hole! and at 43:14,he even told Mrs Tabb to "Shut up". and at 1:45:05,he went nuts!.

At 1:49:17 he mentions the "crumb".

https://youtu.be/63cpzcKAvdE

Love The Pearl!!

SnookerFan wrote:

Alex0paul wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:Didn't Roland used to refer to Brecel as a genius?

He also said Liu Song would challenge for a world title

Technically he has.

If you lose in yhe first round of qualifying, you've still challenged for it.

It was a failed challenge.

SnookerFan wrote:Robertson vs Dott.

Crucible Final Rematch.

Iranu wrote:I think Selby's mentality is more of a problem than his style of play. This is a man who 7 years ago made 6 centuries (joint second most ever) in his match against Hendry at the Worlds.

He used to dominate opponents pretty regularly but it just doesn't seem to happen now for one reason or another. He's constantly scrapping his way to victory.

He's 6th on the all time list for century breaks. You can't tell me that's a player whose game isn't set up for dominating opponents. John Parrott used to call him the Hoover for a reason.

Andre147 wrote:

Wildey wrote:

hendry_fan wrote:

Wildey wrote:Selby really strugling at the moment but hes been here before and managed to pull himself up.


thats the advantage Selby has over a lot of other players he scraps for every last crum and he can stil maintain a ranking without hitting 50% of his capabilities and eventually his form will come.

"he scraps for every last crum".


Liked that one from Wildey.


Verrry true though,every crum counts.

If Hendry had Selby's Mindset he would have easily won more World Titles and ranking titles.

Same could be said of Ronnie I suppose.

But that is one of the reasons I dont enjoy Selby' play that often..

Yes he's one of the best tacticians the game has ever seen, and his tenacity to win is second to none, BUT more often than not his matches tend to be exactly like this. He cant really crush opponents the way Hendry and Ronnie did and do so often.

His style of play just isnt suited to that. Hats off to him for the tenacity, but I enjoy more free flowing stuff.

hendry_fan wrote:

Tom Ford will be absolutely fuming,he,s not the best o losers,he lost on the final black against O`Donnell.

Alex0paul wrote:Come on Graeme

Iranu wrote:That frame ball miss from Selby is a perfect example of what I was talking about earlier. He's let Bingyu in with a chance of this frame and it's nothing to do with style of play.

hendry_fan wrote:What a decider that was between Xiwen n Higgins.

Both played very good safety at the start of the frame,with Xiwen winning the battle to create the first chance.

He blew it though,as he missed an easy brown.

After that they both had a few decent chances,but both just could,nt capatilise until John finaly made the most of an error of one too many from Xiwen.


Well done John,i have to say,i only managed to see the decider,but judging by the scoering,it was,nt anythin special,i,m sure John fought for every crumb though ,especially in that decider,many reds were in awkward positions.



Tom Ford will be absolutely fuming,he,s not the best o losers,he lost on the final black against O`Donnell.



Good win for Donaldson,i did,nt expect him to beat Jack tbh.

Wildey wrote:

Iranu wrote:That frame ball miss from Selby is a perfect example of what I was talking about earlier. He's let Bingyu in with a chance of this frame and it's nothing to do with style of play.

Hes low on confidence.


Confidence is fickle at the start of last season he had to miss some tournaments because of a injury and hes stil not got that back every match is a battle at the moment.

Iranu wrote:

Wildey wrote:

Iranu wrote:That frame ball miss from Selby is a perfect example of what I was talking about earlier. He's let Bingyu in with a chance of this frame and it's nothing to do with style of play.

Hes low on confidence.


Confidence is fickle at the start of last season he had to miss some tournaments because of a injury and hes stil not got that back every match is a battle at the moment.

This has been the case for at least 3-4 years, not just the last season. He's won 2 world titles in that time so if he's been low on confidence all that time then he'll be a scary prospect when he's confident.

I dunno, it just sometimes seems like Selby isn't actually getting any enjoyment out of the game, and I'm not surprised given how difficult it makes it for himself.