International Championship 2013 - Discussion

[cyberheater]

Amazing match. Just to show that Ronnie can be beat.

[mythman69]

Amazing match. Just to show that Ronnie can be beat.

Glad I stayed up to watch it

I see Selby is at 4-4.

But time for bed.

[stephenm2682]

in ronnie's defence, he isn't match sharp!!!

[Table_of_Reds]

the way o'sullivan is playing some would say looks suspect

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this, his poor positional shots followed by poor safetys looked extremely deliberate to me.

[streamer45]

Finally Mark is through, 6-4 with a century in the last frame.

[luke-h]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this, his poor positional shots followed by poor safetys looked extremely deliberate to me.

There was one particular shot where he was on the blue stunned down and nestled on to the reds, he didn't need to go anywhere near, and another where he played the pink to disturb 3 reds and he played and wasn't on anything, thats without all the safeties going wrong....hmmmm

[fred.england]

Is Peter Ebdon using Mike's "blackspin ferrule"?
I remember he used a white Stamford ferrule last season for a short while!!

[streamer45]

Mark Davis [15] v Liang Wenbo [35]

on TV table instead of

Stuart Bingham [11] v Mark Selby [4]

I'm not surprised, china boy who beat Ronnie. It's not fair anyway to the better ranked players.

[Odrl]

I'm not surprised, china boy who beat Ronnie. It's not fair anyway to the better ranked players.

Yeah, Selby-Bingham is the match of the round really, the only match that features two realistic title contenders. But ok, I guess it's ok to give Liang the chance. He didn't really get the support against O'Sullivan, so if putting him on one of the main tables helps to raise his profile a bit then so be it. I will probably watch that match as first choice. Ding-Stevens I could easily skip, because that has 6-0 written all over it. :wink:

Anyway, Fu and Zhao have managed to reach their interval in less than an hour, very quick stuff. I switched from the Robertson match just in time to see Zhao miss a green to the middle off the first red, and get punished by Fu clearing up. Is this finally one too far for Zhao? 3-1 at the moment, Fu really playing well...

[billabong]

Is Peter Ebdon using Mike's "blackspin ferrule"?
I remember he used a white Stamford ferrule last season for a short while!!

I'm sure he had a black Stamford ferrule at some point in the last few years.
I remember him giving it air time at a premier league interview, and people on here wondering
if Mike was going to take any action about copying him ( not sure how all that turned out ).

Found it :-
http://www.thesnookerforum.co.uk/boa...in-by-Stamford

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[Neil Taperell]

There is no mention of the ferrule on their website now , i'm sure there was before .

[DeanH]

MW had a conversation with Peter at Stamford and all is well, no clash of technologies.
I thought the Stamford fibre ferrule was black, and it was the JP cue ("the Beast") that Steve Davis had a white ferrule? But he has long since gone back to his old cue with a standard brass I believe.

[fred.england]

MW had a conversation with Peter at Stamford and all is well, no clash of technologies.
I thought the Stamford fibre ferrule was black, and it was the JP cue ("the Beast") that Steve Davis had a white ferrule? But he has long since gone back to his old cue with a standard brass I believe.

I wonder how long before Ebdon screams ��"Stamford"?? Like when he shouted "veggie" or something like that!
He was praising Stamford ferrules in an interview last year I think!!!

[fred.england]

I'm sure he had a black Stamford ferrule at some point in the last few years.
I remember him giving it air time at a premier league interview, and people on here wondering
if Mike was going to take any action about copying him ( not sure how all that turned out ).

Found it :-
http://www.thesnookerforum.co.uk/boa...in-by-Stamford

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Very interesting read, thanks for the link billabong.

[PatBlock]

Robertson v Ebdon is turning out to be an interesting one, Ebdon could well be ahead if he hadn't forced and missed, the penultimate red of frame 3 (along the top cushion) to stay on the black. He made a lovely 134 after the MSI and has just drawn level at 3 all.

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