2025 German Masters

[GeordieDS]

Yip , never in doubt

[Cue crafty]

aaahhhgggg!!!!

[Billy]

aaahhhgggg!!!!

I turned it off! No way was I going to listen to him make his victory speech!

[Nifty50]

Bazza The Bottler again. Let me down in that World semi V Williams. Can’t forget it lol. Still like him though.

[Nifty50]

I turned it off! No way was I going to listen to him make his victory speech!

I did the same.

[TheBaize]

Is it just me (I doubt it) anyone else getting slightly tired of some of Kyrens antics lately, I'm talking about things like....sees he's not got out of a snooker and uses smashing the green to pot the brown as a gesture of conceding... Not funny and the ref wasn't best pleased having to clean chalk off the green!! Playing trick shots at the end of frames and never getting them right, trying to play flair shots at frame ends, without any flair...etc etc

And he forgot to shake McGills hand for the decider, it's all looking a bit me me me....but probably me too because he annoys me 😋

I`ve never warmed to Wilson. Fair enough that his game has improved massively in the last 12 months, but the more successful he is the more full of himself he`s becoming.

[Mark187187]

I`ve never warmed to Wilson. Fair enough that his game has improved massively in the last 12 months, but the more successful he is the more full of himself he`s becoming.

Most sportsmen have high confidence when they reach the highest standard. It's a weird quirk of snooker fans, that many want to like as well as admire the skill of the players. I personally couldn't give 2 hoots about a players personality as long as they are playing well. Kyren has earned the right to be confident, he's world champion and winning tournaments.

[Cue crafty]

Most sportsmen have high confidence when they reach the highest standard. It's a weird quirk of snooker fans, that many want to like as well as admire the skill of the players. I personally couldn't give 2 hoots about a players personality as long as they are playing well. Kyren has earned the right to be confident, he's world champion and winning tournaments.

This maybe true, and fair comment btw, but people also have the right to be unimambered by what they perceive to be unentertaining styles of play. Kyren may be attacking and skilled in some ways but to many he is difficult to watch and very laboured in his approach.

I think many of us can blame messers Alex Higgins, Jimmy White & of course the GOAT Ronnie O'sullivan for entertaining us and who adore their style of play above all else..

I'll continue to yearn for the next virtuoso who doesn't appear to have fallen off a conveyor belt....

[vmax]

I'll continue to yearn for the next virtuoso who doesn't appear to have fallen off a conveyor belt....

Any static ball game can be improved by coaching a certain technique but it takes a seriously focussed individual to apply that without slipping back into a natural trait that makes it unworkable.
Steve Davis had it and Kyren has it, one would think Ding had been coached the perfect technique but no!........... he says that he has never been coached and worked it all out for himself and recomends others to do the same but he's as regimented as Kyren in his technique but doesn't receive the negatives that Kyren does.

The biggest problem for any cue sport is getting the cue on the line of aim, and if one has been coached a certain regime that does that 90% of the time then you can't really say it's robotic when everything else about the technique looks natural. Kyren's feathers and delivery are different to anyone elses, I don't think Barry Stark has had any influence on that and after watching a few of his videos on youtube he's quite uninformed about certain things, states the obvious on most things and can't be taken as some kind of snooker guru at all.

I read John Spencers book a long time ago and he stated that he never really stood in the same way for every shot, maybe that's what the difference is between yesterday and today, you remember to do the same thing everytime until it's totally engrained, we amateurs don't have the time for that eight hours a day routine, we have to work for a living and so did the old pros before1969 when the game went pro again and all their natural faults were with them.