2024 World Championships

The 2015 World champion is a journeyman?

Looking at the last four looks like a big chance missed by Ronnie ,Hendry will be happy tonight. Wonder will Stuart keep it together he would have to be fav now .

Great result by Bingham. On his day he can be incredible, but I also wouldn't be surprised if he lost against Jones.

Only downside is probably a whole weekend listening to Wilson go on about Bradley and Finlay. They are his sons, fair enough, enjoy yourselves at the event, and good luck to you all, but to be honest mate it's only of limited enough interest to the outside World.

Bingham was considered a journeyman before the increase in tournaments because of the amount of pro-am stuff he used to play.
No way he’s a journeyman this evening. Or for the past 10 years.
Some players can stay composed, even when Ronnie opens his box of tricks, like he did earlier. Others, as seen this week, hand him the win before a ball is potted. Day couldn’t function against him.

I turned off the TV and went for a walk when at 10-10 Ronnie on an easy blue to middle messed up position and missed a red playing it I think left-handed. I thought that's it, it's over.

PPoor tournament with many of the older crew showing their age! There's a changing of the guard going on, the only questions are how long it will take and how good are the guys coming through! Snooker needs a character or two, when I look at the semi's I just have a big yawn!

"He'll be kicking himself because he'll probably never have an easier run in to the final again".

Ronald has had equally easy runs in previous WC winning years. Bingham played well, but couldn't say he was on fire or anything remotely close. He needed 4 chances in the last frame to get over the line.

I think some people turn a blind eye to just how bad the standard is at times or just don't see it. Look at some of the players who were in the World Championship this year. Journeymen is what I 'd call them, as I did earlier in the tournament.

I don't agree that Bingham is a journeyman, but he's provisionally ranked number 31 I think at the moment. He's down there for a reason. I believed if he turned up and played decent he could beat O'Sullivan, which is what he did. So that should say something.

When you look at the 4 semi-finalists, it's not awe inspiring. I've never rated Wilson, and his nickname "The warrior". Pfft! He got mauled by Higgins last year 13-2. He was equally mauled in the 2020 final(in the running for one of the worst Championships ever) by O'Sullivan. I'm pretty sure he hasn't won a triple crown event. And he's the only ranked player left.

Gilbert is a journeyman.

Jones is a journeyman.

Bingham has 2 triple crown titles to his name, the 2015 WC and the 2020 Masters.

She actually asked the crowd to be quiet just for this one shot as it’s an important one.

EVERY shot is important at that point of a world quarter final!

And someone tried to tell me this is the strongest field ever? Definitely the weakest. Weakest semi-final pairings I've ever seen. If this was the early 00's, the lot of them would be also rans. Dearth of talent in the game definitely.

Delighted O'Sullivan is gone. Absolute fraud of a player. Always tries to be controversial for it's sake, completely disingenious most of the time. Thinks he's being like Alex Higgins or White, but they were genuine working class lads. This guy has got a bad boy people's champion reputation, partly cause his parents went to jail and he partied (mad b*stard eh!), but they don't realise he's always been a privileged toff, who looks down his nose at others. You see that self rightious indignation in his attitude, a nasty streak, that only a certain type of person carries. Has the armchair fans fooled.

Even in his attitude to the game and tour in general. It's easy knowing he was always handed everything in life. Bitter and arrogant, when he loses he "didn't want to win anyway" and "doesn't care", to belittle the achievment of others. Can't handle defeat so carries this nasty streak. A hallmark of the self righteous toff, who was always told they were the best and handed everything. Good riddance to him