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Originally Posted by vmax
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Well I took the day off work to watch the semis without knowing who was going to get there. Great stuff this morning and I rather stupidly had a gander at this afternoons match 
What an incredible borefest, taken off after only six frames, another re-rack included, frames consisting of 45 minutes of bugger all followed by the last four colours clearance getting ecstatic applause
. I really feel for poor old Leo Scullion trying desperately to stay awake to referee this rubbish. Labelled as 'snooker for the purists' to try to sell it to us, what crap. Two great players have reduced themselves to taking no chances at all, playing with absolute fear and no belief.
Such a shame that one of them will reach the final and carry this on until monday and probably win it.
What an incredible borefest, taken off after only six frames, another re-rack included, frames consisting of 45 minutes of bugger all followed by the last four colours clearance getting ecstatic applause
. I really feel for poor old Leo Scullion trying desperately to stay awake to referee this rubbish. Labelled as 'snooker for the purists' to try to sell it to us, what crap. Two great players have reduced themselves to taking no chances at all, playing with absolute fear and no belief.Such a shame that one of them will reach the final and carry this on until monday and probably win it.
This is not snooker, its anti snooker. There is zero skill involved in playing nothing safety shots, in giving your opponent nothing to go for. You have to pot balls to win a frame of snooker, but these two are trying their hardest to make this game look more difficult than it is. They will look back at this in horror at the players they've become. Its like watching two old men that used to be really good potters and breakbuilders playing frames as if they give the other a sniff of a chance its frame over, despite the fact neither are scoring much when they do get a chance.
People keep saying snooker would be boring if everyone played the same. Yes that is true, but also the game would be dead if we had a few more Allen's or Selby's on the circuit too. Sadly these two have realised this is the most annoying and frustrating style to play against for their opponents, hence why they are where they are in the game. Allen has been a boring player for a while, its quite a while since he exhibited any flair. As for Selby, I don't mean to sound horrible, but he plays snooker like someone that suffers from mental health, in fact I'd say that the way he plays either caused his mental health issues, or his mental health is why he plays the way he does. Its all about winning and nothing else, he doesn't care if the frames are 50+ minutes, that he just plays a game of patience, its just about winning. At what point do the rule makers decide that this is not good enough or entertaining for the audience or viewers and need to consider something to prevent them suffocating the game with deliberate negative and slow play. Pool had to introduce a shot clock and a ball having to hit a cushion on every shot in order to prevent stalemates, maybe snooker has to go down that route if this continues. He's already won the world champs 4 times playing this way, and he's only 39, we could have another decade of this, if the sport exists by then!
And classic Selby this afternoon, somehow taking control of the match from nothing, like he did against Higgins. Seems to always happen for him in the second or third session of a match.
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