Mosconi cup 2014

[jonny66]

Has begun! I'm not sure which bright spark decided it would be a good idea to put it on at the same time as the UK champs, but they are not on my Christmas card list.

[jonny66]

Looks like Mark Gray's playing with a Mike Wooldridge cue, black ferrule.

http://www.yopika.tv/20141201/v--956....44250940.html

[cueman]

I wouldn't be so sure that it is a blackspin ferrule. You can't use brass ferrules to play 9 ball pool so it has to be a composite material of some sort. Both Drago and Steve Davis used converted snooker cues when they played 9 ball and both had a fibre type ferrule. Whether its white, black or whatever the colour, doesn't mean to say its a blackspin.

[jonny66]

I thought blackspin ferrules were composite, I'm fairly sure they aren't brass.

[DeanH]

Mosconi cup 2014

good doubles match for Europe to bring it back to level 2-2
Darren Appleton now on for the last match of the evening.

[DeanH]

I thought blackspin ferrules were composite, I'm fairly sure they aren't brass.

yep blackspin is a "fibre"/composite type very similar to many American types and the American ferrules can be various colours
could be blackspin but I doubt it
there are other American ferrules that also have similar inner core features like Blackspin but MW did mention that they are not the same as his system

[rimmer10]

You can't use brass ferrules to play 9 ball pool so it has to be a composite material of some sort.

Why is that mate, is it a rules thing?

[jonny66]

I think it is, he's not playing with a pool cue, I heard the commentator say it was a snooker cue. Who else makes black snooker cue ferrules. Top match now, hoping to see Appleton dancing on the table after this.

[jrc750]

I think it is, he's not playing with a pool cue, I heard the commentator say it was a snooker cue. Who else makes black snooker cue ferrules. Top match now, hoping to see Appleton dancing on the table after this.

i think Stamford did for a while, was it Ebdon who tried one ?? altho Mike said it was not the same thing at all

[Mick Dundee]

He used to play with a robin cue Stamford do a black ferrule and they're local to him

[DeanH]

Mosconi cup 2014

lovely combo to take Europe 3-2 over night

[Chappy5]

It is good viewing the Masconi Cup and well worth watching.

I still watch in amazement at how fast that Simonis cloth is and the width of the pockets ( or should i say buckets )on those small tables! The cue ball though just keeps going and going and going like it is rolling down a concrete driveway!

[Leo]

It is good viewing the Masconi Cup and well worth watching.

I still watch in amazement at how fast that Simonis cloth is and the width of the pockets ( or should i say buckets )on those small tables! The cue ball though just keeps going and going and going like it is rolling down a concrete driveway!

I watched a bit last night and realised it's actually more harder to miss those pockets then pot, i mean come on there was one ball that was about 3 inches off target which ended up in the pocket

[golferson123]

Mosconi cup 2014

its never been about the potting leo otherwise trump would be world 9 ball champ

[Leo]

its never been about the potting leo otherwise trump would be world 9 ball champ

My mistake I thought the aim of a good 9 ball player was someone who is good at potting each ball in turn, obviously not.