2014 World Championship - Discussion

[stephenm2682]

He's hardly strolling!

[funkrider]

If Ronnie continues strolling in his semifinal he will have a poor start in the final, I'm calling it right now. The problem is I don't see either Selby or Robbo to be fresh enough to take a healthy lead on him.

[stephenm2682]

6-2 for Barry is match still on!

[funkrider]

The evening session just got more interesting. Ronnie is bound to have a weak session at some point. Maybe tonight the shackles will come off for Barry.

[stephenm2682]

16-16 I think you mean

[Odrl]

Good finish from Hawkins to limit his losses... O'Sullivan won the first two sessions 6-2 and 5-3, so Hawkins needs to do the same now to make it 17-17. I think it's too much to do, even if he continues to play well...

[stephenm2682]

not looking like ronnie will have saturday off! i think that was playing on his mind after the mid session interval

[Masterdoctorgenius]

Ronnie played the opposite of what he played before the msi

[stephenm2682]

every power shot jumps, yet more emphasis is put on it when they miss, put the object ball into the middle of the pocket and don't pinch! simples!

[vilkrang]

Yeah as soon as he is out of the match with no realistic chance of winning, he plays well.

My point was that if Selby or Robertson play well then they might just give him a decent match. Especially with how he is currently playing.

[stephenm2682]

to many covering comments going on, yesterday they put hawkins misses down to bad cueing, then doherty said it "may of swerved before it got to the red" when they were blaming the table not being level!! it was travelling 6" to the red, unless it's sat like the titanic then it won't make a difference

[RaveDave]

The ball probably jumps a tiny bit like that whenever there is contact no?

[rich45]

As soon as Hawkins starts to play half decently he miraculously wins a couple of frames against the "invincible" O'Sullivan.

Funny that, isn't it?

Yeah as soon as he is out of the match with no realistic chance of winning, he plays well.

[Masterdoctorgenius]

Ronnie was first in every frame after the msi but "choked" in the two und nearly in the third

[montoya10]

Two amateurish positional mistakes.

Oh God, Barry..
How do you judge whether the kick (ball jumping) affects the line or not? Commentators said something like "It wasn't well cued".