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34 Days of back to back snooker begins today !

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    #362
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 16,421 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    As John Parrott says, Ursenbacher has missed the boat. Ronnie has had the rub of the green as well.


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    #363
    weemcd
    Registered Users Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭weemcd


    Ronnie is having a howler here but he keeps being let off the hook again and again. He'll win but this should already be over.


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    #364
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Ursenbacher has had plenty of chances against an off colour Ronnie so he won't get many better chances to beat him on the big stage. Be disappointing for the tournament as a whole to lose Ronnie so early but dont think that will happen now.


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    #365
    zuutroy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    About as unpolished a player as you'll see, this fella.


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    #366
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    I have not been.impressed at all with Ursenbacher..I thought he was better the last time i saw him play but his game is very untidy.


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    #367
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    You see these guys, occasionally shoot the lights out, but more often on the tv tables, they freeze or clam up. There's a reason they're down the rankings. Actually recall putting a couple of bob on Urs for the worlds at fancy odds but he fluffed his lines there too. He's young but got an awful lot to learn if he wants to go far.


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    #368
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 16,421 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Flicking round between the end of the rugby and the start of the hurling. Come back to the snooker and the end of an Alexander break, with John saying Ursenbacher has played a stinker. What a surprise!


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    #369
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    In saying all that we're going to a decider!


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    #370
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 16,421 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    This is horse $h1t from Ronnie. Trying to play mind games with Ursenbacher by playing on.


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    #371
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users Posts: 18,354 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    sligeach wrote: »
    This is horse $h1t from Ronnie. Trying to play mind games with Ursenbacher by playing on.

    If another player did it to him he would be raging!

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #372
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Ronnies a keen student of the history of the game, maybe he's harking back to the days when frames had to be played to the final black, regardless of score! I doubt bbc execs will be enamoured of it, though!


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    #373
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 16,421 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Ronnie took no time at all over that safety shot, so the in off serves him right.


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    #374
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Ursenbacher was unlucky when he opened the reds to land where he did. Also Ronnie going in off did him no favours but he potted a nice long red and it is a massive win for his career. Ronnie was pretty rubbish and didn't deserve to progress. Big blow for the tournament all the same.


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    #375
    weemcd
    Registered Users Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭weemcd


    And there you go, Ronnie is out. Brutal stuff.


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    #376
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Took his chances well there in the end to be fair. Would have been a setback not to win but did have to pot them.


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    #377
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 16,421 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    If Ursenbacher had showed that level of care throughout the match as he did in the final frame, it would have been over long ago.


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    #378
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 16,421 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Fair play to Ronnie in his interview, he's made no excuses.


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    #379
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users Posts: 4,459 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    Wait until somebody down the rankings, or Selby, starts playing on against him with multiple snookers required.

    Ronnie will have the week off I think he pulled out of the Scottish open last year, he could have a fortnight off if he fancies it.


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    #380
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    He's in the Scottish draw anyway so you'd expect him to play. He keeps going on about how he needs table time so pulling out would seem counter productive. Then again this is ronnie so logic doesn't always apply! He's set for the masters too apparently, but there's still time for that to change as well.


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    #381
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 20,991 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    weemcd wrote: »
    And there you go, Ronnie is out. Brutal stuff.

    Both were muck. Ursenbacher slightly less muck

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #382
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Murphy getting a bit of a pasting here, i'd say he's dying to get home as soon as he can, probably sick of the sight of Milton Keynes. Slessor been very good though, looks a player who could make a breakthrough at some stage.


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    #383
    thejuggler
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭thejuggler


    Pity Hazel Irvine and John Virgo are still missing for this tournament. Is JV still stuck in Spain (since August)?


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    #384
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    thejuggler wrote: »
    Pity Hazel Irvine and John Virgo are still missing for this tournament. Is JV still stuck in Spain (since August)?

    Dunno bout hazel but Virgo hasn't done the UK for past couple of years now. Just does the masters and the worlds so assume we'll hear him again in january.


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    #385
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users Posts: 4,459 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    The rankings don't lie but Liang Wenbo is a tough last 64 match for Trump.


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    #386
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Not sure about Wenbo really. He hasn't troubled Judd much in recent years losing the last six matches between the two. He seemed to promise s lot when he burst on the scene but hasn't really done as well.as some predicted.


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    #387
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Great red though very close to foul shot i thought. Impossible to call in real time, though.

    Looking again, probably just ok. Safety in behind yellow was sublime touch.


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    #388
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Another limp performance from Wenbo. Too easy for Judd.


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    #389
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Being very kind to liang on eurosport, talking up judds b game. But reality is judd is vulnerable today and liang has just spurned chance after chance. That in off was totally amateurish.


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    #390
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Interesting comments regarding the irish lads. Assumed murphy was basing himself somewhere close to the venue, but apparently he's been driving over and back via ferry and then self isolating. Ken, in contrast, has been staying in London. That would make more sense to me but it's not easy when you have a young family so totally understand Murphs choice. Can't be easy for the likes of Kurt Maflin either.


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    #391
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Too many drubbings in this comp. 128 players, and mainly best of 11. Like others have said it's a diluted down version of what it was. Also, as one or two posters have said I too think that an 'open draw' is the way to go; for various reasons.

    In that format once it got down to the last 16 half or more of the matches would be competitive (maybe 1 or 2 hammerings) , but at least it would give the lower ranked players a chance of making an impact and progressing in the game.


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