Quarter Finals

[DeanH]

Donaldson has not beaten Allen in four attempts, will this be his time? He certainly is in good form of late but then so is Allen, ?

[Ronnie's tip]

Brilliant win for Selby. Maybe a bit of a worrying time for ROS now? No Masters means it's a while before he plays again. The no-handshake thing is just stupid and a bit disrespectful.

Selby is a gradually getting back to some serious form. I wonder if he can hold out Trump in a long match though.

[Billy]

So, the Scots have produced their fair share of players, but fans of the game... not so much

I keep thinking we're watching one of the Chinese tournaments.

[Cue crafty]

Brilliant win for Selby. Maybe a bit of a worrying time for ROS now? No Masters means it's a while before he plays again. The no-handshake thing is just stupid and a bit disrespectful.

Selby is a gradually getting back to some serious form. I wonder if he can hold out Trump in a long match though.

I actually felt a little sorry for Ron in this match, he gave it his all was bossing the safety to go 4-3 up, then that "miss" that wasn't really a miss as it was clear he feathered the red, gave Mark the frame winning opportunity ( which all credit to Mark he too superbly btw)

surely these recent cent events should call for the VAR to kick in and be formally adopted in snooker?

[Cue crafty]

I hope Dave Gilbert can win and make some money so that he can get his teeth sorted out! Looks like Austin Powers on a bad day after a "nutty" coffee. :glee:

[PatBlock]

surely these recent cent events should call for the VAR to kick in and be formally adopted in snooker?

Didn't we have a retrospective foul as the result of a call by the marker recently? If it can be done, which it clearly can, it should be done, typical half-arsed approach from WS.

As for Ronnie's germ phobia, you don't generally see people who are genuinely germophobic constantly stuffing their hands and nails in their mouth, as we always do ROS. Loved Selby's paper, scissors, stone response, brilliant.

-

[Cue crafty]

Didn't we have a retrospective foul as the result of a call by the marker recently? If it can be done, which it clearly can, it should be done, typical half-arsed approach from WS.

As for Ronnie's germ phobia, you don't generally see people who are genuinely germophobic constantly stuffing their hands and nails in their mouth, as we always do ROS. Loved Selby's paper, scissors, stone response, brilliant.

-

Lolz yeh agreed, Selbys response by grabbing and spreading was brilliant! Utter BS.

[Billy]

These shot challenges with Jimmy and Andy are priceless!

They set up a slow-roll pot played by Ronnie in a recent match and Jimmy sinks the red first time, replicating the shot almost perfectly.

Andy: "Right, play it again..."
Jimmy: "What d'you mean play it again!? What you want me to miss it now?"

I laughed so hard at Jimmy's reaction :highly_amused:

[Odrl]

It must be the first time in years that he got a shot first time, no wonder he didn't want to try it again. :wink:

[Billy]

It must be the first time in years that he got a shot first time, no wonder he didn't want to try it again. :wink:

I'll ignore that remark.

Seeing as it's true.

[Odrl]

:smile:

Looks like we might get a good weekend. Selby played quite well today, Gilbert was brilliant, and the two winners I didn't see must have played very well too, judging by the breaks they made, particularly Lisowski.

[crocodile]

Selby is a gradually getting back to some serious form. I wonder if he can hold out Trump in a long match though.

Won't have to now, now that the little kid's been booted out ...

[Odrl]

They couldn't have met in a long match anyway, because they were in the same half of the draw. :wink:

[vmax]

I actually felt a little sorry for Ron in this match, he gave it his all was bossing the safety to go 4-3 up, then that "miss" that wasn't really a miss as it was clear he feathered the red

If the ref wasn't standing twenty feet away he would have seen it and that's the crux of the problem with modern referees always standing behind the player.

[peterpackage]

LOL instead of Judd v Ronnie, we get Selby v Gilbert (they did earn it). Selby v Gilbert is for hardcore snooker fans only, like die hard fans, like really die hard fans, like people on this forum die hards fans, like really really really diehard fans

Ronnie v Judd would have had a chance of drawing casual sports fans away from football/MMA/Boxing/Basketball/tennis etc

Selby v Gilbert, not so much