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2020 World Snooker Championship

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    #1502
    Mysterypunter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    lawrencesummers wrote: »
    Eurosport?

    Was watching on BBC, but could be Joe Johnson


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    #1503
    DelBoy Trotter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭DelBoy Trotter


    Disappointing result for me in that match, would have preferred Williams to win it. A very entertaining evening of snooker though.


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    #1504
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Fantastic win. If Williams was to win that respotted black Ronnie would have been in mental turmoil. He played very well today overall. Think we just have to accept he will miss a few more clangers than he ever used to but if he can play well for the next few days he has a great chance of lifting a 6th World Championship. Up next, his arch nemesis and the glum-faced torturer.


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    #1505
    bangkok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,638 ✭✭✭✭bangkok


    lawrencesummers wrote: »
    Eurosport?

    Bbc ronnie williams game


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    #1506
    melon_collie
    Registered Users Posts: 414 ✭✭melon_collie


    Ronni's spouting more sh1te in the post match interview.


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    #1507
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    That safety shot from Williams off the cushion first was the wrong shot for me at that point in the match. High odds it could go wrong and it did.


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    #1508
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users Posts: 7,700 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Ronnie is mad as a box of frogs


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    #1509
    Skid X
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    Jan Verhaas bottled that completely


    If it was a freeball, then give it and don't wait for O'Sullivan to advise you.

    If it wasn't a freeball grow a pair and don't let O'Sullivan call the match.


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    #1510
    DelBoy Trotter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭DelBoy Trotter


    Skid X wrote: »
    Jan Verhaas bottled that completely


    If it was a freeball, then give it and don't wait for O'Sullivan to advise you.

    If it wasn't a freeball grow a pair and don't let O'Sullivan call the match.

    Yeah I have to agree. He made the first call that it wasn’t a free ball, so stick with it and get on with the match


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    #1511
    melon_collie
    Registered Users Posts: 414 ✭✭melon_collie


    Hilarious interview with M Williams. Pretending to vomit after listening to Ronnie. So funny.


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    #1512
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Skid X wrote: »
    Jan Verhaas bottled that completely


    If it was a freeball, then give it and don't wait for O'Sullivan to advise you.

    If it wasn't a freeball grow a pair and don't let O'Sullivan call the match.

    I thought it was a free ball. Ronnie thought it was and was right to question the referee.


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    #1513
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    Skid X wrote: »
    Jan Verhaas bottled that completely


    If it was a freeball, then give it and don't wait for O'Sullivan to advise you.

    If it wasn't a freeball grow a pair and don't let O'Sullivan call the match.

    A lot of the times a free ball is incredibly close a player will ask for it to be rechecked. Jan did this from a new viewpoint and realised his first impression was incorrect.

    This has nothing to do with it being Ronnie. Jan has had no problem in the past standing his ground with Ronnie's opinions.


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    #1514
    Joe_ Public
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    Skid X wrote: »
    Jan Verhaas bottled that completely


    If it was a freeball, then give it and don't wait for O'Sullivan to advise you.

    If it wasn't a freeball grow a pair and don't let O'Sullivan call the match.

    Did he say it wasnt a freeball first, then changed his mind after ronnie quizzed it? Thought thats what I heard anyway. Was obviously impossibly tight but if he did say no first think he should have stuck to that.


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    #1515
    zuutroy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    Have to say I can't imagine Verhaas of all people capitulating to anyone. Not unusual for a player to ask for a double check and the decision to be reversed.


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    #1516
    walshb
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    What did Ronnie say in interview?


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    #1517
    amens
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭amens


    I thought McGill Maflin might have finished too :D


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    #1518
    raclle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭raclle


    Mysterypunter wrote: »
    Was watching on BBC, but could be Joe Johnson
    For an ex world champion he hasn't a f**king clue what shots the players are going for. I swear you couldn't make it up


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    #1519
    gormdubhgorm
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    walshb wrote: »
    What did Ronnie say in interview?

    His cue action is sh1te and he can't hit any longish shots positional play saving him, told people back Selby to win outright. Wants Robertson's cue action.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #1520
    Mysterypunter
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    raclle wrote: »
    For an ex world champion he hasn't a f**king clue what shots the players are going for. I swear you couldn't make it up

    Joe didn't play much position though, potted them from all angles, some cue action.


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    #1521
    walshb
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    gormdubhgorm wrote: »
    His cue action is sh1te and he can't hit any longish shots positional play saving him, told people back Selby to win outright. Wants Robertson's cue action.

    An insufferable pr1ck. Always has been!

    But wanted him to beat Williams, and want him to beat Selby!


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    #1522
    AllForIt
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    I would still have fancied Ronnie to win the match had he lost that last frame after missing the blue. His composure if as as good as I've seen him in a long while. The only thing he's doing wrong is missing easy balls.


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    #1523
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users Posts: 18,385 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Jan Verhaas is/was a legend! Proved again, in that Ronnie v Williams game. Plus no mention of fact Williams would have won the last frame if he did not call foul on himself.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #1524
    Panrich
    Registered Users Posts: 3,787 ✭✭✭Panrich


    Chalk McHugh wrote: »
    I thought it was a free ball. Ronnie thought it was and was right to question the referee.

    He questioned it correctly originally and asked the referee to check. I thought it was a bit off to question the referees decision when it was obviously so close. You can argue that he was in the right and it was the correct decision but because it made such a material difference and it was so obviously close, it should not have been pushed like that by the player. Williams had just shown the spirit of how the game should be played a shot earlier.

    The reaction afterwards of shaking his head like he didn't want it wasn't very convincing either. His sheepish look towards Williams after he cleared the balls was telling.

    I'm always been a fan of Ronnie but that whole episode didn't sit well with me.


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    #1525
    Mysterypunter
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    Another one for Maflin 12-10, was 54-0 behind in that one


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    #1526
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    Sign of the times when a person is slated for changing their mind. Ver Has saw it as a free ball, so did O'Sullivan, and Williams didn't protest therefore I don't see the issue.


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    #1527
    c.p.w.g.w
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    Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »
    Sign of the times when a person is slated for changing their mind. Ver Has saw it as a free ball, so did O'Sullivan, and Williams didn't protest therefore I don't see the issue.

    If more folks admitted their mistakes, we'd be a much better place throughout society


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    #1528
    gormdubhgorm
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    walshb wrote: »
    An insufferable pr1ck. Always has been!

    But wanted him to beat Williams, and want him to beat Selby!

    I think Selby will strangle Ronnie mentally. He gets inside his head. Was shouting for Williams. In fairness to Ronnie he destroyed him in the run in.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #1529
    Mysterypunter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »
    Sign of the times when a person is slated for changing their mind. Ver Has saw it as a free ball, so did O'Sullivan, and Williams didn't protest therefore I don't see the issue.

    It's the hesitation I wouldn't like, he looked, said clearly it isn't a free ball, then looked again and said it is.


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    #1530
    DelBoy Trotter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭DelBoy Trotter


    Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »
    Sign of the times when a person is slated for changing their mind. Ver Has saw it as a free ball, so did O'Sullivan, and Williams didn't protest therefore I don't see the issue.

    The referee said it was no free ball, and when questioned changed his mind. That’s what annoyed me. He spent time looking at it from different angles from both ends of the table before making his decision. It wasn’t a quick fire decision, so stand by your original decision


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    #1531
    raclle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭raclle


    But wasn't that before he placed the red balls? Maybe he should of done that before he made his decision but in the end correct call


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