by Pink Ball » 25 Nov 2020 Read
Steve Davis v Doug Mountjoy (Best of 20 frames)
Group: B
Date: November 25
Match: Three of six
Match day: Two of three
Venue: The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Vote for which of the two players you think was greater. Vote honestly, and leave your bias out of it. Don’t vote for a player just because you like them, don’t vote against a player just because you dislike them.
Consider the table conditions to be whatever conditions would have the least impact on the result.
You can use your own personal criteria for measuring greatness once it’s free of any bias towards/against (delete as applicable) players you like/dislike (delete as applicable).
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by HappyCamper » 25 Nov 2020 Read
paul hunter's got this in the bag.
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by chengdufan » 25 Nov 2020 Read
I see Dan-cat has already voted
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by Juddernaut88 » 25 Nov 2020 Read
Only one winner here.
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by Cloud Strife » 25 Nov 2020 Read
You say all these matches are a best of 20 frames, but always leave out the draw option. Why?
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by Dan-cat » 25 Nov 2020 Read
chengdufan wrote:I see Dan-cat has already voted
Hahaha.
I love Doug, as you well know. But I love the nugget more!
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by Dan-cat » 25 Nov 2020 Read
My second book is about him, and will be called 'The Joy of Doug.'
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by badtemperedcyril » 25 Nov 2020 Read
The used to call him "Dog" Mountjoy! He looked a tough old unit back in the day, as you'd expect from a miner.
As for his snooker - he was so natural, had fantastic touch and timing but as he got older quite a bit of body movement crept into his technique, hence why he engaged the services of Frank Callan. What he did then was quite miraculous, to completely rebuild his game at the age of 45/46. It not only gave him two ranking titles but extended his career by six years.
Definitely one of the good guys.
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by Dan-cat » 25 Nov 2020 Read
badtemperedcyril wrote:The used to call him "Dog" Mountjoy! He looked a tough old unit back in the day, as you'd expect from a miner.
As for his snooker - he was so natural, had fantastic touch and timing but as he got older quite a bit of body movement crept into his technique, hence why he engaged the services of Frank Callan. What he did then was quite miraculous, to completely rebuild his game at the age of 45/46. It not only gave him two ranking titles but extended his career by six years.
Definitely one of the good guys.
Yeah I was totally rapt by that storyline as it emerged, remember it so well.
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by Iranu » 25 Nov 2020 Read
Dan-cat wrote:badtemperedcyril wrote:The used to call him "Dog" Mountjoy! He looked a tough old unit back in the day, as you'd expect from a miner.
As for his snooker - he was so natural, had fantastic touch and timing but as he got older quite a bit of body movement crept into his technique, hence why he engaged the services of Frank Callan. What he did then was quite miraculous, to completely rebuild his game at the age of 45/46. It not only gave him two ranking titles but extended his career by six years.
Definitely one of the good guys.
Yeah I was totally rapt by that storyline as it emerged, remember it so well.
They discuss it a bit in this week’s Snooker Scene podcast.
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by Dan-cat » 25 Nov 2020 Read
Thanks Iranu, I will check it out...
From that article above: 'It is fashionable now to pretend that nobody could really play 20 years ago but at one stage Doug compiled three successive centuries.'
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by The_Abbott » 25 Nov 2020 Read
There's only one Doug Mountjoy
But he was beaten by Steve Davis
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