2014 World Championship - Discussion

[robertmac]

Rpbertson seemed tired and not his usual self so hopefully
he can get on track tomorrow and take control of this match.

Hawkins hopefully can start strong tomorrow as well and get
his match evened out. He also seemed tired and off.

I would like to see a Robertson vs O'Sullivan final myself.

[Hal]

Superb snooker session for me, I am going to stick with minority .... I am not rooting for anyone, just want to one of Selby/Robertson to get world title :]

[Giggity1984]

Gotta say cueman's comments seem a bit strange. Just because players aren't attempting to pot every single ball with average shot times of below 20 seconds that it's boring? There have been big breaks, reasonable pot percentages, good safety. Sounds good to me!

I liken his opinion to how F1 is being run, where they are artificially trying to inject excitement with new rules, DRS, ers, disintegrating tyres, fuel flow regs. It's the sport trying to attract a new audience who couldn't care less about the sport. To complete the parallel, if you had 32 Ronnie o sullivans playing the game, you'd have no more viewers then you do right now. The people who don't watch snooker don't do so because it's hard matchplay, with safety play, they don't watch it because it's men with sticks hitting balls about.

Be careful what you wish for cueman, because a snooker WC with shot clocks, shortened formats, limited toilet breaks, and no safety only pots allowed, would be **** for the fans and the people who wouldn't watch snooker anyway wouldn't be enticed in.

Everybody loses.

[P.Smith]

Nice little session of snooker there. Not sure who to root for here as I have a slight preference for Neil but I'd quite like to see Selby win his first world title, so I think I'll stick to being neutral!

They took a long time for the first 4 frames, but it was actually high quality snooker rather than the snoozefest in the 2nd session of the trump/robertson match where Neil was taking a ridiculous amount of time on each ball.

[Masterdoctorgenius]

The stolen 2nd frame could be vital in the outcome of the match

[Odrl]

Excellent break from Robertson to cut his losses. That was a really great session of snooker, a couple of centuries and lots of good tactical stuff. :smile:

This could easily have been the final. But then again, the final might be even better. :smile:

[Dr_Doctor]

Listen to this, I won't repeat it twice : come on Selby!

C'mon Robbo! :P

[Valiullin]

Listen to this, I won't repeat it twice : come on Selby!

[Odrl]

I didn't see much of the afternoon session but I can only assume that as the table was rigged up overnight that it hasn't settled properly and its on a sprung floor which means that the position of the table in the arena could be having a slight effect with the roll down that side of the table. The cushion rubber will still be the same cut, they wouldn't have time to re-rubber a table that quickly and the rubber wouldn't need changing anyway. Only other thing, maybe they have a thicker cloth on the cushion which is making it slighlty tighter, could be to avoid the big bounces which they have done in the past.

Interesting... I don't remember seeing any big bounces tonight actually. There was one earlier with Hawkins that left him needing the rest, and for good measure he got a kick on the next shot and missed it. :smile:

Anyway, strong frame from Selby. This is an important visit for Robertson now, big difference between 6-2 and 5-3. Not that the match would be anywhere near decided in any case...

[frak]

am sure they will be reading this thread and it will help them

[cyberheater]

Fantastic...Mark now 5-2 up. Come on Mark!

Come on Robbo.

[daffie]

Fantastic...Mark now 5-2 up. Come on Mark!

[daffie]

Just a question: there were two tables until the semi-finals. Is this table (the one they are playing on at the moment) one of the two or is this a third new table?

they prepared one of the 2 tables for the semis and final.

[Viktortheman]

Just a question: there were two tables until the semi-finals. Is this table (the one they are playing on at the moment) one of the two or is this a third new table?

[cueman]

Perfect timing. :smile:

But seriously, the pockets do seem completely inconsistent. This is the same table as this afternoon, and it's just not playing the same. I can't imagine anything has been changed between the sessions, unless they got sick of all the criticism. :smile:

I didn't see much of the afternoon session but I can only assume that as the table was rigged up overnight that it hasn't settled properly and its on a sprung floor which means that the position of the table in the arena could be having a slight effect with the roll down that side of the table. The cushion rubber will still be the same cut, they wouldn't have time to re-rubber a table that quickly and the rubber wouldn't need changing anyway. Only other thing, maybe they have a thicker cloth on the cushion which is making it slighlty tighter, could be to avoid the big bounces which they have done in the past.