2025 Masters

[PatBlock]

Well, yeah, you would think so... but then again, the occasion is in his head, his mother's birthday is in his head (he said), and he wasn't perfect on the last black, he had to stretch quite a bite there which hindered him from following all the way through the shot ... just some inches short.

Exactly, pressure. When you see how amazingly accurate they can be at judging the weight of a shot when, for example, laying a snooker, it almost beggars belief that he could end up behind the blue. But so much of this game is played by the subconscious, I sometimes wonder if, in a situation like that, it notes and marks that spot, to be avoided, but when it comes to taking the shot, the message gets flipped and part of you ends up playing to that exact spot, deliberately, as it were. I think the same thing when I see strikers consistently aiming, apparently, straight for the keeper.

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[Billy]

That's not exactly "hate", is it? Cmon, you can do better

Hate destroys the soul…

or something like that.

[Billy]

Max on Max off Daniel son. 🤦♂️

Daniel ‘San’

"-San" is used with someone we respect and with whom one is not especially close, for example a colleague or boss, customers or anyone you don’t know very well.

So even the film makers didn’t get its use wholly correct.

[PatBlock]

Hate destroys the soul…

or something like that.

Selby AND Allen tonight, the hateometer will be in the red for sure!

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[neuronic]

While we're at hating people... did I mention how much I hate, hate, hate that Eurosport Radzi presenter guy?

Gosh, I cannot stand him, every word coming out of his facehole drives me absolutely mad

[PatBlock]

While we're at hating people... did I mention how much I hate, hate, hate that Eurosport Radzi presenter guy?

Gosh, I cannot stand him, every word coming out of his facehole drives me absolutely mad

What? The young fella with the frizzy hair and the trainers? I'll let you into a secret, he's actually the lovechild of Andy Goldstein and Darren Bent. Yeah, obvious now isn't it.
I think he's there to appeal to the kidz.

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[neuronic]

He shall spontaneously combust! Away, away from me!

[neuronic]

Well, while the two Marks are (not unexpectedly) battling it out the Mark-way, I allow me to enjoy a dram or two of a freshly opened bottle of Scotch, because this surely will take a while and I don't have to get up early ... slàinte mhath!

[Billy]

Selby AND Allen tonight, the hateometer will be in the red for sure!

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I don’t particularly dislike either of these, personally speaking. Allen was getting on me tits with his laboured play over the last couple of tournies, but he doesn’t seem so bad now.

No, there’s a couple of players left in this who I have no time for, but I’ll let others speculate as to who they might be 😉

[neuronic]

*speculating

[itsnoteasy]

Murphy is obviously one and Shaun Murphy will be the other. There's enough hate to hate him twice

[neuronic]

Lovely day of snooker this has been... two very different 6:2 matches, both intriguing in their own way, but I enjoyed each equally. Very much looking forward to the three days to come, I'm sure all matches gonna be great to watch, regardless of the pairing.

Good night everybody

[Cyril]

While we're at hating people... did I mention how much I hate, hate, hate that Eurosport Radzi presenter guy?

Gosh, I cannot stand him, every word coming out of his facehole drives me absolutely mad

Radz is lovely. Compliments the experts in the studio perfectly. He also gives them space to do all the talking, which is what the viewers want.