2014 World Championship - Discussion

[scottley]

Replay of the 1940 World Final - Joe v Fred

Does footage even exist? I'd happily watch that!

[daffie]

Well that was a short (and not so very sweet) afternoon of snooker...far too short for my taste. Hoping tonight's sessions will prove to be more 'extensive'

[statto]

Indeed. Judd could join him if he beats him here.

[Cyril]

While perusing the figures, does anyone have an idea of who is the only player to have played Ronnie more than three times and have a positive record against him?

John Parrott

[statto]

While perusing the figures, does anyone have an idea of who is the only player to have played Ronnie more than three times and have a positive record against him?

[Cyril]

I wonder what the BBC will show now for these 2 and a half hours?

Replay of the 1940 World Final - Joe v Fred

[scottley]

Cheers........

[statto]

We need a Robbo v Hendry frames to centuries ratio thingymajig.

Cuetracker provides these stats:

Robertson this season: 1 century for every 7.9 frames.
Robertson career: 1 century for every 13.6 frames
Robertson season match win %: 70.5
Robertson season frame win %: 60.1

O'Sullivan this season: 1 century for every 9 frames.
O'Sullivan 07/08 season: 1 century for every 7.6 frames.
O'Sullivan career: 1 century for every 12.26 frames.
O'Sullivan season match win %: 83.9
O'Sullivan season frame win %: 68.4

Hendry 92/93 season: 1 century for every 12.14 frames.
Hendry career: 1 century for every 15.13 frames.
Hendry 91/92 season match win %: 82.1
Hendry 91/92 season frame win %: 65.8

[mythman69]

We need a Robbo v Hendry frames to centuries ratio thingymajig.

Just had a look at Cuetracker - Robbo is scoring a century every 7.9 frames this year and averaged one every 13.6 frames (over career).

Stephen Hendry scored a century every 15.1 frames (over his career)

Not sure what the rate was at his best.

[DeanH]

Might just do that. Hendry's record was 53, what season was that? Still its tough to compare. We would never know how much could Stephen do if he had like twice more tournaments.

1991/1992

[Atypical Male]

http://youtu.be/LvY6hl6qOIw

It was another song which came to mind for me following Robbo's moments of angst:
http://youtu.be/uFeBp1PDKyg

[scottley]

Does anyone one know why we can't have the monitor like they have in China for replacing the balls after a miss? It would make it so much easier, surely we have the technology?

[missneworleans]

We need a Robbo v Hendry frames to centuries ratio thingymajig.

Might just do that. Hendry's record was 53, what season was that? Still its tough to compare. We would never know how much could Stephen do if he had like twice more tournaments.

[Jef]

I can't imagine Ronnie's 12 maximums to stand for 20 years, with all the agressive young (Asian) players coming on the tour... That plus the fact that there are (a lot) more tournaments will surely cause a new supertalent to beat that record...

Stephens 7 world titles is a different story though...

[scottley]

We need a Robbo v Hendry frames to centuries ratio thingymajig.