Hello There

[Removal man stevie]

Thanks for the welcome everyone. That's right about Alan he's been playing quite well this year he had a good run to the quarter's of the Welsh Open in February and I think he surprised a lot of people reaching that stage before unluckily losing to Maguire. He also got to the World Open and the Crucible as you said. He's a better player than his ranking position suggests an excellent tactical player on his day if only he score a bit heavier like he used to he'd get more results but there's certainly been a few signs of improvement recently. I'm not going to say he's going to reach the heights of his earlier career when he was an extremely consistent player but there's no reason he can't have a good season and push up the rankings the way he's playing.

So do you just play at Q club mate?

[Alan McManus Fan]

Yes mate, I've had a membership in there for a few years now I used to play at a different club in Paisley before that I've not been able to make it along to The Q Club as often as I'd like in recent years but this year I've been able to get along about once or twice week. Where is it you play ?

[Removal man stevie]

Yes mate, I've had a membership in there for a few years now I used to play at a different club in Paisley before that I've not been able to make it along to The Q Club as often as I'd like in recent years but this year I've been able to get along about once or twice week. Where is it you play ?

At my local British legion in eastkilbride but am a member off craig park masters in glasgow

[Alan McManus Fan]

Heard its a good club. Craigpark Masters and The Q Club are the two best clubs in Scotland apparently where all the Scottish pros play. I've heard John Higgins practices in there.

[Removal man stevie]

Yes a haven't saw John in ther yet. Not long joined frazz on hear got his card for main tour is in ther he works for table time a think realy nice guy dun ma tip first day a was down sum player and a suppose thers lots off great players in nice to meet up sum night for a game ?

[Alan McManus Fan]

Aye mate it would be good to meet up one night for a game, you any good ?

[Removal man stevie]

No mate not high standard 20s break but fed up playing guys in our legion a think to improve u have to play different players. Wat bout you ?

[Alan McManus Fan]

Not great mate make the odd half decent break of 30-40 but nothing special to improve I need to get playing other opponents on a regular basis I've not got much experience of playing in matches only played a couple of boys in the Club really, I mainly practice on my own but I think I would benefit If I play new people and maybe start playing competitively in some way or another.

[Removal man stevie]

Yes wee are in wee team 5teams of 6 1 frame and out so hard to get going wee are in final next Monday

[Alan McManus Fan]

Good luck in your final then.

[Aashish]

Hi, I am Aashish. Glad to have joined this forum and hope to have great conversations with you all. Have been playing snooker for the last 4 years. Love the game. Planning to buy my first professional cue in the near future.

[Mr Snooker]

Hi Alan McManus Fan, welcome to the forum hope you enjoy your stay, good to see Alan playing well, let's hope he can beat Ding in the APTC this afternoon and get revenge after his Cruciable defeat,

live streaming here http://www.my147.com/v_zhibo/ hopefully they will show Ding V McManus

also live scoring is here http://live3.my147.com/match_snooker...4&type=snooker,

also if you would like Alan McManus head to head and careerer matches let me know all the info is here

http://www.cuetracker.net/pages/play...ason=2013/2014

[Alan McManus Fan]

Thanks a lot for the link and the other help I was aware of the Live Scoring service and the cuetracker website but I wasn't aware of the live streaming for this game. I'm watching Alan's game at the moment it would appear that he's playing well he could of been 3-0 up but still holds a 2-1 lead, hopefully he can maintain his lead and press on for what would be an excellent victory and a place in the quarter finals.

[Alan McManus Fan]

Great 4-2 victory for Angles today against Ding Junhui its great to see him playing well again it just goes to show that when he is playing anywhere near his old self then he is more than capable of beating the best players. Not saying it will happen as there are no easy matches thesedays especially at this stage but I would say he has an excellent chance of reaching the final now as he's managed to avoid Mark Selby's side of the draw and will now face Yu Delu in the quarter-final for a semi-final match against Joe Perry or Cao Yupeng three players he's more than capable of beating going on his current form.