2023 World Championship

[PatBlock]

Robertson is a great front runner but under pressure his shot selection and confidence go AWOL.

Well he certainly went AWOL this season, should have sent out a search party months ago.

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[daffie]

I know. Bet you'd love a little cuddle with Ronnie, ay daffie.

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I’d settle for Hazel.

[fkhan]

Don't rattle my cage mugs are up for sale, lol.

[PatBlock]

I’d settle for Hazel.

And 'settle' is Dutch for "Do absolutely anything", right?

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[itsnoteasy]

The O'sullivan vs Vafaei match could have been close. The amount of times Vafaei got in first and broke down was incredible. Ronnie won't win it playing at that level.
Robertson doesn't seem to have the internal drive to win. You can make a very good living being quite good at snooker nowdays, you don't have to win anything and that seems to be the path he's chosen.

[daffie]

And 'settle' is Dutch for "Do absolutely anything", right?

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Haha For Hazel…yes!

Btw this Board really needs more emoticons…

[PatBlock]

Haha For Hazel…yes!

Btw this Board really needs more emoticons…

We asked, apparently it's not doable. There are more in the formatting bar, click the emoji icon.

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[Odrl]

Don't even need more, I would just settle for better. And when I say settle, I mean settle.

[Zelig]

This boy, Si Jiahui, really has something in terms of technique. Try to get a video of his Crucible matches so far, and check for stills where the camera is zooming on his bridge hand. Play it at slow speed. You will see an absolutely perfect straight cueing, the cue seems to be pushed by a machine, not by a human arm. I could not see any, literally any deviation from a straight line, even on long backswing shots. He is currently 98% potting rate against Milkins. His cue action is up there with Robertson, and his character is already excellent (given how he is fearlessly playing against the big names in Sheffield's temple...), if he refines all the rest (shot selection, first and foremost) he can really become someone in the game.

[PatBlock]

...And when I say settle, I mean settle.

Obviously, you're not Dutch are you.

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[GeordieDS]

Exactly!, what can Ebdon do for you apart from telling you to take as much time over each shot as you can get away with, after all that's all he ever had.

Any suspicious betting patterns for Ronnie 13 Hossien 2 ?

Even if there was do you think they would ban Ronnie?

[trains]

This boy, Si Jiahui, really has something in terms of technique. Try to get a video of his Crucible matches so far, and check for stills where the camera is zooming on his bridge hand. Play it at slow speed. You will see an absolutely perfect straight cueing, the cue seems to be pushed by a machine, not by a human arm. I could not see any, literally any deviation from a straight line, even on long backswing shots. He is currently 98% potting rate against Milkins. His cue action is up there with Robertson, and his character is already excellent (given how he is fearlessly playing against the big names in Sheffield's temple...), if he refines all the rest (shot selection, first and foremost) he can really become someone in the game.

Helps if the game ( despite all the support you could ask for, see Paul Mount and the Gloucester Snooker Academy ) re Milkins still seems difficult and frustrating to you after all this time.
I like Si Juahui though, if he does win this I can't see him beating McGill though tbh.

[GeordieDS]

This Selby/Wilson stalemate has been fun, in a sadistic sort of way , it's like Kerplunk Pink

[Odrl]

Fun little section of play. But whatever Selby was trying to do with that last shot, he played it horribly.

[itsnoteasy]

The commentators on bbc( Virgo and Perry) saying GW kept asking for the balls to be re racked. He wasn't, he was asking if the three shot rule the ref had initiated had ended as Selby moved one red a bit and then he moved it further.