2014 World Championship - Discussion

[daffie]

What a shame that the two best second round matches by a mile are scheduled at the same time.

Even more so because Eurosport has very little coverage today due to several other live sport events (always on Sundays). Very unfortunate indeed.

[Where's Willie?]

What a shame that the two best second round matches by a mile are scheduled at the same time. Especially when you think that last night we had Doherty-McManus and Dale-Wasley, two matches that not even I could bare to watch.

[daffie]

Still love Shaun's walk-on music...very funny

[ywfan]

If ronnie plays like the last two frames an a half ronnie wont care who he will face
I dont buy the fact that fu is his bogey player and he would have no problems*with*murphy because he has beaten him more often than not. There is always a first time.
But i predict 13-7 ronnie.
My fear is that out of sympathy to the younger players like judd, neil, selby, barry, etc. he may donate this title lol

cant see him donating anything to selby!
even ding, whom he has a lot of affection for (hi proclaimed 'favorite'), would have got hammered if they met in SF

[ywfan]

fu/murphy is the only barrier to ROS appearance in final
he will sweep past SF, likely be hawkins
then it will be a war with selby/robertson, hopefully they batter each other senseless so ROS can pick up the pieces!

[Masterdoctorgenius]

fu vs murphy
1. who will win?
2. which one will ROS prefer?

If ronnie plays like the last two frames an a half ronnie wont care who he will face
I dont buy the fact that fu is his bogey player and he would have no problems*with*murphy because he has beaten him more often than not. There is always a first time.
But i predict 13-7 ronnie.
My fear is that out of sympathy to the younger players like judd, neil, selby, barry, etc. he may donate this title lol

[snookerpoolman]

TV Coverage...

Fecking Eurosport as well. You wouldn't get this level of crap coverage if ITV had the rights to the tournament.

Interesting comment this.. I only see Eurosport when a tournament clashes with my hols. abroad Or when I watch the very patchy Fromsport link for the Chinese tournaments. The commentary from Joe Johnson / Mike Hallett can be banal. I guess Neal Foulds will redress the balance though..

The ITV4 coverage on Haikou Open and Champion of Champions was excellent IMO. Years ago, ITV coverage made Eurosport look good.. ITV has come on in leaps and bounds, plus Alan Mcmanus in the studio was good, and it was so refreshing to hear Clive again - He's the daddy!!!

I've talked to WS about these issues, so watch this space... Lots of new opportunities and possible changes afoot..

[brusque]

Love Hendry's comment on the trump/Day match "In the world championship, you have to take advantage of your opponents misses"! That may explain his recent break up!

haha .. good one!

[Bigmeek]

that doesn't narrow it down as many makers use the 15/16mm badges

Thanks, jB has clarified. If you've got any more info please post up.

[Bigmeek]

MacManus cue is a copy Parris made if his old two piece that had the tape on the joint. He had it made as a one piece.

Thanks JB. I'll try and get a closer look when he plays Selby. Not sure what the butt wood was but it was very plain. Not much in the way of fancy splices.

[daffie]

Really pees me off when you see upsets in tournaments like Wasley over Ding (good on Wasley for the win) then he goes back to his normal level and doesn't produce in the next round and we've lost a seed for nothing !
I know that is how things work but it's just a bummer

Kinda agree with you on this. A one-off upset from a non-seeded player doesn't weigh up to having a top-seed still in for the rest of the tournament. I would have loved seeing Ding up against the other top players.

Having said that, glad for Dominic who now has by far the weaker oppponent to face and therefore a much greater chance to go through to the next round. I'm hoping he can go far this year!

[attilahun]

I think Fu is favorite to win, but Shaun will make it very hard for him. Ronnie can beat any of them easily if he will play like yesterday. If he will play like in the first 2 sessions against Perry, i think he would like to play against Murphy rather then Fu.

[peterpackage]

Really pees me off when you see upsets in tournaments like Wasley over Ding (good on Wasley for the win) then he goes back to his normal level and doesn't produce in the next round and we've lost a seed for nothing !
I know that is how things work but it's just a bummer

Anyone hopefully we will see Judd v Neil

[Billy]

Hopefully all the way (if Neil doesn't win) as I put $2 on him at 400/1.

Good luck!

[the_unrepentant]

Love Hendry's comment on the trump/Day match "In the world championship, you have to take advantage of your opponents misses"! That may explain his recent break up!