2014 World Championship - Discussion

[cyberheater]

Some of the worst potting I've seen in a long while. Amazing.

[Odrl]

What a nerveless clearance that was from Xiao Guodong! Carter only needed a couple of balls, and anything other than holding the pink spot like he did would have left him on a sitter. 8-8, lovely. :smile:

Carter back in after a massive fluke though...

[dieselman147]

cant believe how bad ding is playing! how on earth is he 3-3. wasley has no chance as ding must improve on this.

[gavpowell]

I definitely don't think he was joking cause just after he said he thought those pockets were way too generous for a World Championship table.....

Yes but I assumed that was him joking as well

[scottley]

Anyone else just found the red button has just switched from Carter to Ding all by itself?

[cyberheater]

WTF are the beeb playing at. Showing a short interview thing with Carter rather then showing the actual match. What the hell.

[blowfish]

HAHAHA, one frame Ding's rubbish, and the next highest break total clearance.

[scottley]

I don't know why with all the technology these days why can't we have choice of tables on the red button? We used to be able to? I dont want to watch on Eurosport because i don't like the commentators or adverts.

[Odrl]

Well played to Carter, he finished the match pretty strongly there. It could be high-quality stuff against Selby in the 2nd round. :smile:

As for Xiao, I guess he can count himself unlucky to have drawn Carter, considering how the likes of Bingham, Perry, Maguire have played... But he had a strong season, and I'm sure he will feature heavily in some events next season as well. :smile:

[cebs]

Carter got a lucky fluke to start his break at 8-8 but held himself together when it looked like he was close to losing it at one point.

Xiao can pot a ball and plays nice attacking snooker, shame he missed the reds when trying to break them up near the end.

I look forward to seeing more of him next season, was my good outside bet for round one but never mind.

BBC did announce they were changing tables but it is a joke, what if your recording it not watching live. And then you change and they show a stupid interview rather than the break and first few shots.

They stopped doing the second red button streams years ago and since then it has been a pain in the arse to try and watch both on a tv screen, bit easier now with both streams online and they work on android tablets so you can view and stream them to your tv if you have the setup.

Some nice snooker to come tonight, I fancy Day to finish Maguire off but think Murphy will turn his match around but it could go close.

[luke-h]

Are you lot watching the same snooker match???? Wasley is playing well.

[dieselman147]

would hate to see his bad game!

[blowfish]

Wasley was playing well, until he got absolutely frozen out in the last 3 frames

[jb134]

Carter got a lucky fluke to start his break at 8-8 but held himself together when it looked like he was close to losing it at one point.

Xiao can pot a ball and plays nice attacking snooker, shame he missed the reds when trying to break them up near the end.

I look forward to seeing more of him next season, was my good outside bet for round one but never mind.

BBC did announce they were changing tables but it is a joke, what if your recording it not watching live. And then you change and they show a stupid interview rather than the break and first few shots.

They stopped doing the second red button streams years ago and since then it has been a pain in the arse to try and watch both on a tv screen, bit easier now with both streams online and they work on android tablets so you can view and stream them to your tv if you have the setup.

Some nice snooker to come tonight, I fancy Day to finish Maguire off but think Murphy will turn his match around but it could go close.

I thought Carter did well, he had the worst run I have seen for a long time until the last two frames. Just shows, it's better to get a bit of run at the end. He could easily have won 10-5.

I think the value outsider of the first round is White. You have to fancy Selby but at 3/1, given Selbys form, there's some value there.
If McGuire motors it's far from over but I agree, I think Murphy will come through.

No favourite is a stick on from what I've seen of the pockets or is that my imagination?

[jb134]

I definitely don't think he was joking cause just after he said he thought those pockets were way too generous for a World Championship table.....

Missed this. I agree. I bet Carter so I was watching closely and one frame last night Xiao has stuck in a long red (which he missed) followed by a tricky black off the spot (which he missed) and won the frame off it. I'd expect possibly some scoring records and DEFINATELY some upsets in the first round.