EBSA European Under 21's Championship 2012
Each association can enter up to 4 players, closing date for entries is 5th February.
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John From London Town wrote:I'll be interested to see who's entered in this from over here (Ireland).
There is a 16 year old kid over here called Josh Boileau & he is incredibly good. He won't practice for some reason yet in the comp I played in on Saturday, his first match he hits a 102c on tables where the pockets are as tight as a ducks backside. People are trying to take him under their wing but he ain't having any of it.
Believe me, he is a quality player & if he’s ever playing when I’m around I’m always watching him play.
roy142857 wrote:John From London Town wrote:I'll be interested to see who's entered in this from over here (Ireland).
There is a 16 year old kid over here called Josh Boileau & he is incredibly good. He won't practice for some reason yet in the comp I played in on Saturday, his first match he hits a 102c on tables where the pockets are as tight as a ducks backside. People are trying to take him under their wing but he ain't having any of it.
Believe me, he is a quality player & if he’s ever playing when I’m around I’m always watching him play.
Hi John
He certainly had a very good November - I saw he'd won the under 18's national championship and the second event of the Irish under 21's tour (beat David Cassidy 3-1) - so I'd think he'd have a good chance of being picked, he's tied for first on the rankings with event 1 winner Karl Fitzpatrick, with Cassidy and Ryan Cronin just behind - if they picked those four they'd certainly be well represented.
Cheers
Roy
John From London Town wrote:I'll be interested to see who's entered in this from over here (Ireland).
There is a 16 year old kid over here called Josh Boileau & he is incredibly good. He won't practice for some reason yet in the comp I played in on Saturday, his first match he hits a 102c on tables where the pockets are as tight as a ducks backside. People are trying to take him under their wing but he ain't having any of it.
Believe me, he is a quality player & if he’s ever playing when I’m around I’m always watching him play.
roy142857 wrote:Confirmation of who they might pick from RIBSA "The top four players available on the RIBSA Under 21 ranking list will qualify ... All players must confirm this weekend if they are available." They're supposed to let the tournament director know this weekend at the President's Cup competition, maybe you could remind them?
(RIBSA seem really well organised on this kind of thing)
Good that they're planning to fill all the places available to them.
(And good luck yourself this weekend, I see you're one step away from a clash with last years European Championship finalist Vince Muldoon ...)
roy142857 wrote:Other entries:
England have entered the top 4 in the rankings of the Premier Junior Tour, Shane Castle, Sam Harvey, Elliot Slessor and Joel Walker
Northern Ireland have entered Declan Brennan.
Last year was ALMOST dominated by players from the British Isles - all bar one of the quarter finalists - but the winner was of course Poland's Kacper Filipiak (Harvey and Scotland's Eden Sharav both lost by 1 frame, before Filipiak beat Scotland's Michael Leslie 6-3 in the final).
Adam Stefanov, who reached the last 16 last year, isn't one of the four Polish entries (he's aged 18), despite his recent tournament success on the senior Polish National Tour.
Shachar Ruberg from Israel is back again following his reaching the last 16 in 2011.
The youngest entry - by far - is the nine year old French boy Nicolas Mortreux.
roy142857 wrote:Looking at the EBSA website, it appears there will be live streaming of 3 tables when this kicks off tomorrow ... hoping so, but won't be able to check it out as traveling to a funeral tomorrow.
roy142857 wrote:Other entries:
England have entered the top 4 in the rankings of the Premier Junior Tour, Shane Castle, Sam Harvey, Elliot Slessor and Joel Walker
Northern Ireland have entered Declan Brennan.
Last year was ALMOST dominated by players from the British Isles - all bar one of the quarter finalists - but the winner was of course Poland's Kacper Filipiak (Harvey and Scotland's Eden Sharav both lost by 1 frame, before Filipiak beat Scotland's Michael Leslie 6-3 in the final).
Adam Stefanov, who reached the last 16 last year, isn't one of the four Polish entries (he's aged 18), despite his recent tournament success on the senior Polish National Tour.
Shachar Ruberg from Israel is back again following his reaching the last 16 in 2011.
The youngest entry - by far - is the nine year old French boy Nicolas Mortreux
John From London Town wrote:I see Josh got beat against Jamie Clarke from Wales 3-2 but has won his next 2 match's 3 zip. If he plays like I know he can, he'll be at the business end of this comp.
roy142857 wrote:Wales' Dale Lawrence and Ireland's Karl Fitzpatrick are currently tied at two all - decider hopefully coming up soon on live streaming - seems to be off air at the moment