Plain ball all the time - nonsense

[jrc750]

... but these posts saying , I don't beleive you can play ,prove it to me. If you want to do that the rule should be ,well you first.

I don't pretend to be brilliant (64 high break, around 40's on a regular basis) so no need to show me, but i just do not believe for one second Longbombers claim of a 134 (i think) on a full size table (after seeing his century on the pool table)

[pottr]

Plain ball all the time - nonsense

There was a lad in my town called Matthew Thorpe...
A weird lad, but loved snooker and woukd play with his old man once a week...

His highest break was 55... his next highest was 39...

He could pot... but completely clueless.

We were short one Monday night and took him over to Topspot in Glenfield to fill in for us...

He made a break of 104... in the league!!!

I swear to God it was the most mental thing I have ever seen with regard to snooker...

He landed on a blue on 99, straight to the corner... but chose to cut it in the middle. The white went up and down the table four or five times at mach one and left him perfect on the pink... which he didnt even jaw!

But still... a break in the 130+ region... Is a different language alltogether.

[itsnoteasy]

Aye when you get into the total clearance region, you have to be a very good player, it's going well up the grades of snooker, even I can tell that from my low standard.

[pottr]

Plain ball all the time - nonsense

The trick to making massive breaks is to not try to make massive breaks... just stay at table...

If it's easier to play for blue then to hold for black then it's definitely easier to play for baulk colours...

Little things you can do to make your shot as easy as possible... undercomplicate things almost...

Just keep at the table... big scores follow...

I used to be that guy. In practice, when there weren't 10 reds left I'd lose focus coz I'd want the ton...

Just unnecessary thoughts...

"Where do I want the white?"

Nothing else matters

[j6uk]

There was a lad in my town called Matthew Thorpe...
A weird lad, but loved snooker and woukd play with his old man once a week...

His highest break was 55... his next highest was 39...

He could pot... but completely clueless.

We were short one Monday night and took him over to Topspot in Glenfield to fill in for us...

He made a break of 104... in the league!!!

I swear to God it was the most mental thing I have ever seen with regard to snooker...

He landed on a blue on 99, straight to the corner... but chose to cut it in the middle. The white went up and down the table four or five times at mach one and left him perfect on the pink... which he didnt even jaw!

But still... a break in the 130+ region... Is a different language alltogether.

i would of liked to have been there.. some of my fines memories have come via the characters of the past with their mad shots and breaks played with loads of bottle
then there were the ones who liked to kid themselves with a porky who were memorable too.. but yeah theres a pattern to becoming a nice player as any one whos done the work will tell you. first ton to a 'it was nothing' total clearance are two different players

[pottr]

Plain ball all the time - nonsense

I genuinely believe that any player who can make a 50/60 break can make a ton... with a lot of work or a lot of luck...

But... I don't think you're gonna go from being a 50/60 break player to a 130+ at all...

0.1% probability in my eyes...
999/1

[itsnoteasy]

Do you think the lad that got that ton, could have been a player if someone had got hold of him and he had put a bit of work in. Its amazing he held his nerve, I doubt I would on my first chance of a Ton.

[pottr]

Plain ball all the time - nonsense

Nooooooo no no...

To put it kindly, he had mental problems and was a little off...

I think he threw himself infront of a train once and hurt himself really bad...

But he could really pot a ball...

[mythman69]

"Where do I want the white?"

Nothing else matters

Yep, this is the key for sure. Just don't start screaming "where is the cue-ball going?"

[tomlimcj]

I have played checked side 2 cushions to swing across to hold black and before but I do have bad choice of shots. tend to overdo things. OK mayb I shud stick to 1 cushion check. haha. I used to apply a little running side on all my shots but its a bad habit...so nowadays I tend to play plain ball only.

[vmax4steve]

it only takes the combination of life and its unforced errors and you could find yourself in there scooby doos

BTW Aristophenes has it spot on.

[itsnoteasy]

BTW Aristophenes has it spot on.

Yes he said " only use side when it's needed"

[Terry Davidson]

I'm sure I saw your name on the winners trophy... when I am at Hinckley Snooker club I will check...

Chris Wakelin is the best player in Nuneaton... I'd say I have a claim to be number two although there are some other good players around like Adam Edge and Paul Williams who play to a high standard...

Pricey's still class but he's all but packed it in now, which is a shame coz he's so good.

I've been fortunate enough to make back to back centuries in a Hinckley League match... I think I am the only player to do that as even Mick and Norman Dagley never did that?

I couldn't find a winner's trophy but I did find a pairs winner trophy with G Marshall and also a KO Cup winner's trophy so maybe that's the league champ one, but not sure. You definitely are doing better than I did as I never had back-to-back tons in either the league or in a tournament.

[magicman]

Back to backs in a league match is quality stuff pottr, well done dude!

I've played Adam but don't know Paul, and I thought Matt Selt played in Nuneaton regularly now? He might take offence at the Chris being the best player bit!

I grew up in Nuneaton and Mick had his second or third ever max against me, but I think I'm right in saying that though Norman Dagley knocked in thousand breaks at billiards, his highest break at snooker was just 97. Or at least it was when I left and he was around mid to late forties by then.

[pottr]

Selty lives in Atherstone

But true enough, he is playing regular at the Atack.

I saw Norman make a break of 121 in Earl Shilton Cons a couple of years before he died and he followed it up with a 90 odd a frame or two later... I saw him play on about 5 or 6 occasions, I'd be very surprised to hear he ever struggled to knock em in consistently at snooker... He was in control of that white.