2020 Champion of Champions

[Cue crafty]

Ronnie showing Michael Holt he hasn't got his number just yet...

Just watching Ronnies break building is so insightful, with the quality of HD TV these days its so much easier to see how he steals more angle from pinching the pockets and how subtle some of his touch and side spin shots are to get great position all the time. Great to watch, but I do feel the way this table is playing so fast and smooth, its a match made in heaven for him to break build on.

[fkhan]

Ronnie showing Michael Holt he hasn't got his number just yet...

Waiting for it to become the official table for all WST events.

[fkhan]

A few long pots from Donaldson were simply stunning.

[DeanH]

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=...att &disp=safe

unusual post for you CC?

did you mean this link to Google Mail home page?

[Cue crafty]

unusual post for your CC?

did you mean this link to Google Mail home page?

Yep was trying to load a video of a shot someone put on whatsApp that shows Mags potting the last Pink, along the cush in Tour championship tourney when he was 5 all with Robertson, and its touches the rail about 2 foot before the pocket and still drops...Buckets!

[fkhan]

What was Ronnie going on about in frame 9?

[DeanH]

What was Ronnie going on about in frame 9?

supposedly Allen moved in ROS' line of sight
Allen was having none of it...

so even with no audience, diva Ronnie can pick on something/someone

[Ronnie's tip]

No idea what started it but ROS was clearly in the wrong for keeping it going. Tbh as strange as it is to say, WC aside ROS hasn't done anything for a while now.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

[neuronic]

Apart from the diva... great match.

[Cue crafty]

all i saw was a great performance from Allen....

[PatBlock]

all i saw was a great performance from Allen....

Yep, crackin' match, well done Mark. Pity about the max.

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[fkhan]

I did not observe all shots. Check this vodeo clip from 6m 40s onwards. Maybe Mark did not do it intentionally but it was definitely in ROS's peripheral vision.

Maybe ROS over-reacted and I know his temperamt is volatile sometimes too.

https://youtu.be/ZljmrMt9O0U

[balkend]

I did not observe all shots. Check this vodeo clip from 6m 40s onwards. Maybe Mark did not do it intentionally but it was definitely in ROS's peripheral vision.

https://youtu.be/ZljmrMt9O0U

Ronnie has a very long history of throwing his toys out of his pram , Most recently he belittled the majority of the pros , declaring they would never amount to anything and were low quality opposition. He suffers from brain flatulence from time to time , the Trump of the green baize. He is the most gifted player the world has ever seen .. but he belittles himself on occasions. Mark Allen is a perfect gentleman around the table and steely enough not to be phased by O Sullivan's tactics of distraction. He has met geezers before , Ronnie is just another of them . Ronnie tried to invert the tactic. It was he who was trying to distract , not Mark Allen . Ronnie is world Champion and Ronnie is also a bit of a geezer.

[Starsky]

When players are in the zone and playing well nothing distracts them . That’s the same from amateurs in a club thorough to pro’s.
If Allen was moving this would have been unintentional and O’Sullivan would have been within his right to say something . It’s the manner in which it was said and carried on in my mind is disappointing .
The form of O’Sullivan has been poor since becoming World Champion again and this has more to do with it than anything else I believe .

[trains]

Allen should only have fidgeted with his logo when it was his turn to play or when the frame was over or at most when he was completely behind o sullivans eyeline in other words at most when o sullivan was playing a shot towards the reds area from the baulk area , also the chairs seem to be a bit strangely closely in line with the baulk cushion which wouldnt have helped , they should be a bit further behind .