Matchroom.Live Northern Ireland Open Final !!!!!!

Very good 137 break from Ronnie though.

Dunno how Ronnie managed to get out of that only 2 frames down. It felt like he was comfortably second best throughout this afternoon.

Ronnie century to finish the session 5-3, good stuff, don't think he would have recovered from 6-2

Judd will be happy, Ronnie also.

5th frame maybe big in the context of the game

Wonderful 137 to keep himself in the match.

But the difficult thing is only that sort of form is needed to beat Judd, but he can do it of course.

Until those last two frames, this was probably one of the worst sessions these two have had against each other.

But one century each to finish it off was just what this final needed quality wise.

One positive is that Judd hasn't allowed Ronnie to win consecutive frames. He's managed to respond everytime he's won a frame. I hope he can continue that this evening. Once Ronnie wins consecutive frames that's where it becomes worrying signs.

5-3 not great not terrible.

Juddernaut88 wrote:One positive is that Judd hasn't allowed Ronnie to win consecutive frames. He's managed to respond everytime he's won a frame. I hope he can continue that this evening. Once Ronnie wins consecutive frames that's where it becomes worrying signs.

What if Ronnie wins consecutive frames once he's 8-3 down? Still worrying for you?

Andre147 wrote:

Juddernaut88 wrote:One positive is that Judd hasn't allowed Ronnie to win consecutive frames. He's managed to respond everytime he's won a frame. I hope he can continue that this evening. Once Ronnie wins consecutive frames that's where it becomes worrying signs.

What if Ronnie wins consecutive frames once he's 8-3 down? Still worrying for you?

If Ronnie was 8-3 down and got it back to 8-6 then I'd be feeling concerned.

Juddernaut88 wrote:

Andre147 wrote:

Juddernaut88 wrote:One positive is that Judd hasn't allowed Ronnie to win consecutive frames. He's managed to respond everytime he's won a frame. I hope he can continue that this evening. Once Ronnie wins consecutive frames that's where it becomes worrying signs.

What if Ronnie wins consecutive frames once he's 8-3 down? Still worrying for you?

If Ronnie was 8-3 down and got it back to 8-6 then I'd be feeling concerned.

Relax.

Judd’s got this match sewn up. No way he loses from this position.

I think the World Grand Prix should be in the New Year

D4P wrote:On a related note, it annoys me when the camera cuts away from the cue ball after the final black has been potted, since there's always a chance that the cue ball will go into a pocket (especially when the shot was played "exhibition style").

It's shoddy camera work, not by the camera operator but by the people in the TV production room who choose the camera shots throughout the game. Unfortunately, they are obsessed with he ball going in the hole and not the path of the cue-ball, or, the player. I prefer a side on shot of the striker where you get to see their stance and also their cueing (the main camera achieves this, usually). All too often they use the "face on" camera (the ones operated by two men by either top pocket) so all you can see is the players mug shot. Utterly pointless.

Interesting tactics by Ronnie so far

Snooker Overdrive wrote:Interesting tactics by Ronnie so far

welcome back mate!

How do you see this one going?

Nothing wrong with Ronnie's long potting and safety stats, but missing far too many sitters.

Needs to cut that out or Trump wins his 3rd title in a row.

By the way, Hendry was the last one to do it, but Ronnie himself won the Shanghai Masters 3 times on the bounce, but the first title was ranker, and the other two weren't.

Andre147 wrote:

Snooker Overdrive wrote:Interesting tactics by Ronnie so far

welcome back mate!

How do you see this one going?

Good to see you too

Trump was always going to be favourite, he's the most consistent player out there at the moment. His scoring is very good and his safety game is up there with the very best.

Ronnie will have to hang on early on and then pull out something special. Just like in a certain semi final What a win that was, I'm still buzzing thinking about it!