2023 World Championship

[Nifty50]

Great telly. Not all about century breaks. Well done The Milkman. Will find it tough V Si or Smurph.

[Starsky]

What a season Milkins is having .

Joe Perry will be gutted but not as much as Mark Davis is 😉

[PatBlock]

Perry and Milkins, so painful to watch. Amateur hour from both players. John Parrot, commentating, is biting his tongue and struggling to find anything remotely positive to say.
Virgo might say: "The strange things that happen on a 12 by 6 snooker table".

Couldn't disagree more. Superb comeback from Milkins. It never fails to amaze me how many snooker people don't understand the pressures involved and the effect those pressures can have on players, especially at the Crucible.

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[DeanH]

What a come back from Rob Milkins, turned the pressure on Joe and kept on going.

First time in 10years to get to L16.

[PatBlock]

Imagine all those punters who lumped in on Perry at 5 - 0

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[JimMalone]

What a come back from Rob Milkins, turned the pressure on Joe and kept on going.

First time in 10years to get to L16.

Actually Milkins made the last 16 in 2018 as well. Both times after beating Neil Robertson in the opening round.

[DeanH]

Actually Milkins made the last 16 in 2018 as well. Both times after beating Neil Robertson in the opening round.

you're right, how did I miss that one

first time in 5yrs then

[Rane]

I like to think I'm a good judge of players and I think I was one of the first on here to say Judd will become the best in the world because I could see the direction his game and his talent was in. He subsequently did for a couple of seasons and I thought that he would stay at the top and break many records for a decade.

However I've also seen huge fragility in his game, we've seen it a lot. We saw it earlier in his career, bad losses to Rory McLeod and mark Joyce in the world and UK respectively. However he was a much more reliant on his potting and scoring back then, lacked practice time and lacked the all round game needed to win regularly.

However the fragility is back only it's not due to having no safety or tactical game, he literally is getting chances and failing to take them. Now the issue isn't work rate or lack of match play, it's purely down to technique as I mentioned in previous post.

This isn't something that can be worked on without completely changing his cue action, basically his failure to get a solid foundation earlier in his career is going to shorten his career at the top. The problem is, you cannot change how someone has learned how to pot and and sight the ball for 25 years, it's just not possible. There has never been a cueist like him in the game, it's only a natural ability which he managed to reach the level he did which has got him to this point. Who does he turn to if he can't fix it or he can't sustain it as his body ages and reaction times decrease affecting timing?

As players get older that deteriorates and that's why players turn to things like sight right or work on their alignment in order to stay competitive. That really isn't an option for Trump, he's now the wrong side of 30 and like Hendry who was finished at 33 in terms of being a dominant force, so too is Judd.

I think you can´t compare Hendry and Judd Trump. When Hendry finished beeing a dominant force. He had set the bar so high that the only motivation left for him was improving even further. I think more than anything Hendry ran out of motivation. O´Sullivan has broken most of his records now but it took about twenty years. We have seen O´Sullivan, Higgins and Williams work on their game, adapting to changes in the way the game is played. I see no reason why Trump shouldn´t be able to do the same? And to me Hendry seemed a bit conservative, like he wanted to win be all out attack. If he had worked more on his safetyplay I think he oould have prolonged his career, but winning one title a season was never Hendrys goal.

[wemba]

I like to think I'm a good judge of players and I think I was one of the first on here to say Judd will become the best in the world because I could see the direction his game and his talent was in. He subsequently did for a couple of seasons and I thought that he would stay at the top and break many records for a decade.

However I've also seen huge fragility in his game, we've seen it a lot. We saw it earlier in his career, bad losses to Rory McLeod and mark Joyce in the world and UK respectively. However he was a much more reliant on his potting and scoring back then, lacked practice time and lacked the all round game needed to win regularly.

However the fragility is back only it's not due to having no safety or tactical game, he literally is getting chances and failing to take them. Now the issue isn't work rate or lack of match play, it's purely down to technique as I mentioned in previous post.

This isn't something that can be worked on without completely changing his cue action, basically his failure to get a solid foundation earlier in his career is going to shorten his career at the top. The problem is, you cannot change how someone has learned how to pot and and sight the ball for 25 years, it's just not possible. There has never been a cueist like him in the game, it's only a natural ability which he managed to reach the level he did which has got him to this point. Who does he turn to if he can't fix it or he can't sustain it as his body ages and reaction times decrease affecting timing?

As players get older that deteriorates and that's why players turn to things like sight right or work on their alignment in order to stay competitive. That really isn't an option for Trump, he's now the wrong side of 30 and like Hendry who was finished at 33 in terms of being a dominant force, so too is Judd.

No-one has time read essays.
Keep comments brief folks.

[PatBlock]

No-one has time read essays.
Keep comments brief folks.

This isn't twitter mate.

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[PatBlock]

Nice try by Matt, but he just left it a bit too late.

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[fkhan]

Si Jiahui is stealing food from Murphy's plate

[Nifty50]

Looks like my Murphy bet is fooked.

[Cue crafty]

Si Jiahui is stealing food from Murphy's plate

Probably lol, but he still doesn't look that hungry to me tbh. 😉

[vmax]

This isn't something that can be worked on without completely changing his cue action, basically his failure to get a solid foundation earlier in his career is going to shorten his career at the top. The problem is, you cannot change how someone has learned how to pot and and sight the ball for 25 years, it's just not possible. There has never been a cueist like him in the game, it's only a natural ability which he managed to reach the level he did.

Judd sights the ball the same as everybody else does, his offset address compensates for his movement on the delivery stroke, if you watch his right shoulder you can see it. The harder he hits the ball the more he moves and he has this down to a fine art when hitting the ball firmly, it's the slow shots where the movement is very small that he has a problem with and that's where his safety falls down.
To be fair he was flying until he entered the US open 9 ball and found himself having to offset his address point on a larger ball, it seemed to confuse him, got absolutely hammered by Jason Shaw and hasn't been the same player since.

He simply needs to get his confidence in his technique back and play his natural attacking power game that's he's so very good at. No more US pool.