Snooker Season 2022/23

O’Sullivan hammered 5-0 by Tian who was immense, hardly looked like missing.

Ronnie sat in his seat and anytime the camera pans on him he’s constantly fidgeting with or adjusting his tip. Given he spent the vast majority of the match sitting down, he’ll have that tip worn away…Guy gets on my wick… can only imagine it’s got to be the same for his opponents…a distraction.

That was some snooker escape by Murphy in frame 1. In and out of the knuckles and down the table to pot the red hanging over the middle.

https://twitter.com/eurosport/status/1627031193106677760?t=DaFEAbPcmkTU5VhcIau9rw&s=19

As good as the escape he had using loads of check side at the Crucible a few years back. Probably even better.

Good final Milkens leading 4-3. Enjoying the BBC Wales coverage with John Virgo on commentary and Ken in the studio

perhaps there lies the conflict of interest ? Little point of someone volunteering to do media work and feeling they are required to swerve straight and fair questions / conversations…. I’m sure diplomacy can prevail in situations… where he would not need to be critical.

Murphy really needs to up his game if he's wants to lift the trophy. His temperament seems quite poor today indicated by all that grimacing he's at.

Btw, like the BBC host Ian Dunt, pity he doesn't host some of the bigger events.

7-6. But Milkins is on a break in the next.

Dickie Davies has died aged 94. Presented the ITV snooker coverage throughout the 80s.

Well that's just great for the chap

Delighted for the Milkman. Think he's had a few issues with drink over the past few years. Hopefully this changes his life for the better.

Off to ITV for snooker this week

Good win for Joe O'Connor last night against Mark Allen, Mark was starting to come back but Joe held his nerve and took the match 6-3

I heard he once beat up Mike Tyson and also bowled a perfect game. But he doesn't like to blow his own trumpet (though if he did, it would be note perfect).

Yeah Murphy played great stuff this afternoon and really should have gone 4 - 0 up but for missing the clinching red in the forth which was a bad miss even with the rest. Wilted a bit at the end but got over the line eventually.

And Carter goes through in the final frame decider Tense and Nervy final frame with mistakes from both players.

Looks like Shaun was trying to make a general point about journalists not really examining key moments in a game, but was totally unaware that it would appear to be directed at Jill alone.

Probably comes from commentators like Dennis Taylor or Ken who very often say something like lapse of concentration, a bit of adrenaline, nerves etc instead of calling out a bad shot, or examine why it's bad. Foulds or Hendry much better at criticising an error.

Definitely not a good look for Shaun but I do think he has a point even if should have made it less directly.

Ken's a former world champion, he presumably knows what he's talking about. SM's right in the sense that there are a lot of reasons why a player can miss a shot - nerves, a misjudgement of angles or cue placement, or the characteristics of the table. But sometimes it probably is because they're thinking of the next shot or dwelling on cueball position at the expense of making the pot and that's "loss of concentration". Nobody can concentrate 100% all the time. Maybe it is lazy commentary but it's ridiculous to say it never happens. Anyway, it was an interesting discussion.

if someone was feeling mischievous they could trawl Murphy's commentaries to find an example of him citing "loss of concentration" after a miss 🙂

He really isn't a decent fella. Just look up his past history with other players ie the chalk incident with Maguire, cheating on his wife, claiming to be a Christian while being caught with prostitutes, his comments when the amateur beat him in the snooker while Murphy himself had played in a golf tournament as an amateur, his constant sniping at O'Sullivan, his utter inability to shut up in commentary. Murphy is a horrible person.