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D4P wrote:Is Ronnie playing kamikaze style...?

Yeah, he just got in a plane.

D4P wrote:Is Ronnie playing kamikaze style...?

Not done anything silly so far.

SnookerFan wrote:

Hehehe. I'm a gold member. Dinner with Yatesy once a year. Alphabet soup!

Sweet cueing from the Rocket. 1-0

D4P wrote:Is Ronnie playing kamikaze style...?

Nah. Took a minute to play a shot when he could have played a (dangerous) long straightish red from on the baulk cushion.

SnookerFan wrote:

D4P wrote:Is Ronnie playing kamikaze style...?

Yeah, he just got in a plane.

Headed for your parent's house...

Dan-cat wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:

Hehehe. I'm a gold member. Dinner with Yatesy once a year. Alphabet soup!

You’d exhaust a tin of alphabet soup just writing one of Yates’ sentences.

D4P wrote:Is Ronnie playing kamikaze style...?

Far from it so far. He looks to be cueing well too.

I'm not sure who did the setup and production for the masters but they need to watch this so they know what the table is supposed to look like on TV.

Come on Dave, don’t hand it to him FFS

mantorok wrote:I'm not sure who did the setup and production for the masters but they need to watch this so they know what the table is supposed to look like on TV.

Holden Chinaski wrote:1 - 0 for El Rocketto.

That's what Rob Walker calls him sometimes... love it

Iranu wrote:

D4P wrote:Is Ronnie playing kamikaze style...?

Nah. Took a minute to play a shot when he could have played a (dangerous) long straightish red from on the baulk cushion.

Then again he just took on a stupid double

Kamikaze double

Big fluke for Gilbert.

eraserhead wrote:Big fluke for Gilbert.

Ronnie deserved it after that double though lol

Holden Chinaski wrote:Kamikaze double

Deserves to loose the frame for this stupidity.

Iranu wrote:

eraserhead wrote:Big fluke for Gilbert.

Ronnie deserved it after that double though lol

Yeah ridiculous shot.

Sometimes it looks like Ronnie's taking it seriously, then he plays a div shot and throws the frame away... Bit strange.

Andre147 wrote:

Iranu wrote:

eraserhead wrote:Big fluke for Gilbert.

Ronnie deserved it after that double though lol

Yeah ridiculous shot.

One thing I will say is I think he played it with a bit of safety in mind, but he got nowhere near the jaws so the red went up with the white.

Iranu wrote:

Andre147 wrote:

Iranu wrote:

eraserhead wrote:Big fluke for Gilbert.

Ronnie deserved it after that double though lol

Yeah ridiculous shot.

One thing I will say is I think he played it with a bit of safety in mind, but he got nowhere near the jaws so the red went up with the white.

You're asking for trouble with a shot like that... because even if the cue ball is safe, you have no idea where the red lands.

Hendry doing to Yates what he does to Taylor, just ignoring Yates when he addresses him

Poo.

If Ronnie loses here, he'll only play the Welsh Open before the World Champs I think.

Andre147 wrote:

Iranu wrote:One thing I will say is I think he played it with a bit of safety in mind, but he got nowhere near the jaws so the red went up with the white.

You're asking for trouble with a shot like that... because even if the cue ball is safe, you have no idea where the red lands.

Oh yeah totally, as I said at the time it was a stupid shot. But if the red had jawed it would have stayed in the bottom half and the white was behind the colours.

In some ways the worst thing wasn’t the shot itself, but how little time he took over it to get it right.

Andre147 wrote:

mantorok wrote:I'm not sure who did the setup and production for the masters but they need to watch this so they know what the table is supposed to look like on TV.

As always the ITV snooker production - looking and sounding great.

For Yates’ sake, Dave

Holden Chinaski wrote:Sometimes it looks like Ronnie's taking it seriously, then he plays a div shot and throws the frame away... Bit strange.

I often wonder if he gets a vibe off his opponent that he's not going to beat him and maybe gets a little complacent.

mantorok wrote:

Holden Chinaski wrote:Sometimes it looks like Ronnie's taking it seriously, then he plays a div shot and throws the frame away... Bit strange.

I often wonder if he gets a vibe off his opponent that he's not going to beat him and maybe gets a little complacent.

He definitely does in the first couple of rounds in the Home Nations. Without a doubt.

2-1 to ROS after Dave left a long red.