by vodkadiet » 30 Mar 2012 Read
Skullman wrote:Thought it seemed weird Lee was a vegan. The closest he's going to get to becoming a vegan is if he eats one.
There isn't enough meat on any Vegan for Lee to have any interest in eating them!
Credit to Lee though, he is playing well, and it is good to see him playing so well. He seems to be playing far more aggressively, which was his achilles heel in the past.
I still fancy a Maguire vs Ding final though, with Maguire winning.
This year's World Championships will be the most open ever.
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by Skullman » 30 Mar 2012 Read
vodkadiet wrote:Skullman wrote:Thought it seemed weird Lee was a vegan. The closest he's going to get to becoming a vegan is if he eats one.
There isn't enough meat on any Vegan for Lee to have any interest in eating them!
Credit to Lee though, he is playing well, and it is good to see him playing so well. He seems to be playing far more aggressively, which was his achilles heel in the past.
I still fancy a Maguire vs Ding final though, with Maguire winning.
This year's World Championships will be the most open ever.
The thing with Lee is how he'll cope with longer matches. It's alright winning best of 7s and 9s, but he has do the business in multiple session snooker. The only long frame match he has been in this year, he got thrashed.
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by SnookerFan » 30 Mar 2012 Read
Monique wrote:Just a thought that struck me … we could have Ebbo in the PL next season, should he win this. Now that would be something to behold!
Indeed it would. Almost worth wanting Ebbo to win.
Almost.
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by Snooker Overdrive » 30 Mar 2012 Read
Looking at Ding's route to the final:
Woollaston - Carter - Ebdon
I have to say normally you don't reach a ranking final by beating these 3 people in a row.
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by vodkadiet » 30 Mar 2012 Read
Snooker Overdrive wrote:Looking at Ding's route to the final:
Woollaston - Carter - Ebdon
I have to say normally you don't reach a ranking final by beating these 3 people in a row.
Tell me once when a player has reached a ranking final by beating the same 3 players twice?
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by Skullman » 30 Mar 2012 Read
Snooker Overdrive wrote:Looking at Ding's route to the final:
Woollaston - Carter - Ebdon
I have to say normally you don't reach a ranking final by beating these 3 people in a row.
Well for a start you usually have to beat four people to get to a final. Plus don't knock Carter or Ebdon, they were class players. Carter still is; he's just having some health problems at the moment.
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by Andre147 » 31 Mar 2012 Read
Skullman wrote:vodkadiet wrote:Skullman wrote:Thought it seemed weird Lee was a vegan. The closest he's going to get to becoming a vegan is if he eats one.
There isn't enough meat on any Vegan for Lee to have any interest in eating them!
Credit to Lee though, he is playing well, and it is good to see him playing so well. He seems to be playing far more aggressively, which was his achilles heel in the past.
I still fancy a Maguire vs Ding final though, with Maguire winning.
This year's World Championships will be the most open ever.
The thing with Lee is how he'll cope with longer matches. It's alright winning best of 7s and 9s, but he has do the business in multiple session snooker. The only long frame match he has been in this year, he got thrashed.
yes I completly agree with what you sayd about Lee, he has to be consistent in the longer format, something he cant quite do, especially at the Crucible.
It seems every year we keep saying the world Chamiosnhips will be the most open ever, and I´m kinda of getting tired of all that, but maybe it´s true, because the level of play is increasing every year and no player is dominating...
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by Snooker Overdrive » 31 Mar 2012 Read
Skullman wrote:Snooker Overdrive wrote:Looking at Ding's route to the final:
Woollaston - Carter - Ebdon
I have to say normally you don't reach a ranking final by beating these 3 people in a row.
Well for a start you usually have to beat four people to get to a final. Plus don't knock Carter or Ebdon, they were class players. Carter still is; he's just having some health problems at the moment.
I know - Ding can only beat the players who are put in front of him. I'm not making fun of Ebdon, he deserves his place in the semis and I also respect Carter a lot.
But it is a remarkable fortunate draw nonetheless. Everybody who would have predicted that route a week ago would have been declared crazy.
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by vodkadiet » 31 Mar 2012 Read
There is certainly no clear favourite for The Crucible this year. You could pick 6 players and still not get a finalist.
I can even see a qualifier winning again.
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by Snooker Overdrive » 31 Mar 2012 Read
vodkadiet wrote:There is certainly no clear favourite for The Crucible this year. You could pick 6 players and still not get a finalist.
I can even see a qualifier winning again.
Higginson or Campbell?
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by vodkadiet » 31 Mar 2012 Read
Snooker Overdrive wrote:vodkadiet wrote:There is certainly no clear favourite for The Crucible this year. You could pick 6 players and still not get a finalist.
I can even see a qualifier winning again.
Higginson or Campbell?
Now you're going into the realms of fantasy.
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by Andre147 » 31 Mar 2012 Read
vodkadiet wrote:Snooker Overdrive wrote:vodkadiet wrote:There is certainly no clear favourite for The Crucible this year. You could pick 6 players and still not get a finalist.
I can even see a qualifier winning again.
Higginson or Campbell?
Now you're going into the realms of fantasy.
But if soemone told you a week ago that the semi final line up for this China Open would be the one we have, especially with ebdon and carter in the quarters, you would also say we´re going into the realms of fantasy, so everything is possible really, though Campbell...
think not...
But yeah a qualifier could win, but a very remote possibility for me.
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by vodkadiet » 31 Mar 2012 Read
Andre147 wrote:vodkadiet wrote:Snooker Overdrive wrote:vodkadiet wrote:There is certainly no clear favourite for The Crucible this year. You could pick 6 players and still not get a finalist.
I can even see a qualifier winning again.
Higginson or Campbell?
Now you're going into the realms of fantasy.
But if soemone told you a week ago that the semi final line up for this China Open would be the one we have, especially with ebdon and carter in the quarters, you would also say we´re going into the realms of fantasy, so everything is possible really, though Campbell...
think not...
But yeah a qualifier could win, but a very remote possibility for me.
There will be 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers so it will be a 50/50 chance!
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by Andre147 » 31 Mar 2012 Read
vodkadiet wrote:Andre147 wrote:vodkadiet wrote:Snooker Overdrive wrote:vodkadiet wrote:There is certainly no clear favourite for The Crucible this year. You could pick 6 players and still not get a finalist.
I can even see a qualifier winning again.
Higginson or Campbell?
Now you're going into the realms of fantasy.
But if soemone told you a week ago that the semi final line up for this China Open would be the one we have, especially with ebdon and carter in the quarters, you would also say we´re going into the realms of fantasy, so everything is possible really, though Campbell...
think not...
But yeah a qualifier could win, but a very remote possibility for me.
There will be 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers so it will be a 50/50 chance!
Yeah
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by vodkadiet » 31 Mar 2012 Read
Andre
It will be a great event. I cannot favour anyone to win the worlds at present. It is a lottery.
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by SnookerFan » 31 Mar 2012 Read
Come on Lee!
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by SnookerFan » 31 Mar 2012 Read
Interesting mini-session.
Lee looked out of it at 2-0. He was sat in his chair, head-slumped, looked like he didn't want to be there. Maguire misses one ball he shouldn't have, and it was 2-2.
It seems Lee needs to be two frames down before he starts playing.
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by Odrl » 31 Mar 2012 Read
A missed opportunity for Maguire, wasn't it? He could have gone three in front when Lee was still asleep. But now that he's found his rhythm, Maguire will have to raise his game as well.
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by Alpha » 31 Mar 2012 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Interesting mini-session.
Lee looked out of it at 2-0. He was sat in his chair, head-slumped, looked like he didn't want to be there. Maguire misses one ball he shouldn't have, and it was 2-2.
It seems Lee needs to be two frames down before he starts playing.
How have they both played SF? Missed the first 4 frames because I was still asleep
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by hitman_ronnie1 » 31 Mar 2012 Read
chubby in a bit of trouble now.
4-2 maguire.
world champs starts 3 weeks today.
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by Snooker Overdrive » 31 Mar 2012 Read
4-2 Maguire I see.
He should take this match now. The last ranking title he won was 4 (!!!) years ago - the 2008 China Open. It's unbelievable that Maguire hasn't won anything for a nearly half a decade, he's overdue.
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by Roland » 31 Mar 2012 Read
Yeah it is surprising that Maguire's not won a title for that long. He's not won this match yet either.
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by Roland » 31 Mar 2012 Read
Yeah, very good break from Maguire
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by Snooker Overdrive » 31 Mar 2012 Read
Maguire looks very strong today. That win yesterday surely gave him a big boost.
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by SnookerFan » 31 Mar 2012 Read
If Ding beats Ebdon today, it'll be an interesting situation, with the finalists both being very close to being out in one of their matches. And despite Ding being 4-0 down, you could argue Maguire came even closer to going home.
Either way you could have a story of the winner having quite a clear turning point early in the tournament.
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by Snooker Overdrive » 31 Mar 2012 Read
SnookerFan wrote:If Ding beats Ebdon today, it'll be an interesting situation, with the finalists both being very close to being out in one of their matches. And despite Ding being 4-0 down, you could argue Maguire came even closer to going home.
Either way you could have a story of the winner having quite a clear turning point early in the tournament.
Ebdon also won a decider against Higgins. John needed snookers, got one and tried to clear the colours but missed and Peter won. That's also pretty close to being out in my opinion.
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by randam05 » 31 Mar 2012 Read
COME ON EBDON!
YOURE THE ONLY PLAYER LEFT I LIKE!
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