Champion of Champions

[jrc750]

In my opinion, best match I have seen in ages!

You for real ???

Allen v Robertson, you are joking?

Yep gotta be one of the worst surely ??

[Byrom]

I think Robertson sucked the life out of the match. It might win him finals to play like that but it looses him fans. When he first came on the scene he potted everything and attacked the game wining all them events it was great to watch now he has turned into some robot walking around the table checking everything playing safe safe safe zzzzzzzzzz - I don't actually like watching him anymore.

He made over a hundred of tons in a season not long back - half way through the season now and I bet he has not made 10.

[Neil Taperell]

Have to say that was one of the most boring Tournaments i have watched in a long while .

[shmeeko69]

I think Robertson sucked the life out of the match. It might win him finals to play like that but it looses him fans. When he first came on the scene he potted everything and attacked the game wining all them events it was great to watch now he has turned into some robot walking around the table checking everything playing safe safe safe zzzzzzzzzz - I don't actually like watching him anymore.

He made over a hundred of tons in a season not long back - half way through the season now and I bet he has not made 10.

There's a kind of love hate thing in watching Robertson. When he's in attacking mode and playing without fear he's good to watch , but when he starts analysing and delaying shots he's quite boring to watch

[ghost121]

Poor tournament, poor final. The only highlight being the performances of the two young Chinese guys. The right man won but that doesn't mean it was good for snooker. Robertson is a boring player, true, but so are many others. His safety play, not his long potting, won him the match.

[Byrom]

I think they need to re-vamp the commentary too - aside from Alan Mcmanus and the hot blonde knowledgably good snooker milf mmmmm

[tommy2k10]

Yeah, I see what you mean about the match come to think of it.
Email Niall Sloane, director of Sport at ITV to see what he says about new commentators

[shmeeko69]

Poor tournament, poor final. The only highlight being the performances of the two young Chinese guys. The right man won but that doesn't mean it was good for snooker. Robertson is a boring player, true, but so are many others. His safety play, not his long potting, won him the match.

It's a shame really, as he was quite an exciting player when he first burst through just over 10 years ago. Snooker needs more flamboyant players like O'Sullivan and Trump to keep it interesting especially for the younger generation.

[PatBlock]

I'm left scratching my head at some of the responses to this match.

I don't think it was that bad a final at all. 15 frames played, 10 of which had breaks over 50 including 3 century+ breaks and some very interesting and tense tactical battles. Yes it went a bit pear shaped toward the end, but that's because, understandably, the tension got to both players, they were after all playing for £100,000 in front of millions of viewers, not a few pints down your local club. It happens.

It was an entertaining final for me, just wish it had gone all the way. But hay-ho, each to their own.

...Snooker needs more flamboyant players like O'Sullivan and Trump to keep it interesting especially for the younger generation.

Maybe this says more about the expectations of the younger generation than the current state of the game.

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[shmeeko69]

I'm left scratching my head at some of the responses to this match.

I don't think it was that bad a final at all. 15 frames played, 10 of which had breaks over 50 including 3 century+ breaks and some very interesting and tense tactical battles. Yes it went a bit pear shaped toward the end, but that's because, understandably, the tension got to both players, they were after all playing for £100,000 in front of millions of viewers, not a few pints down your local club. It happens.

It was an entertaining final for me, just wish it had gone all the way. But hay-ho, each to their own.



Maybe this says more about the expectations of the younger generation than the current state of the game.

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I just found the final quite disappointing to be honest despite a few decent breaks and I certainly wasn't glued to the TV screen for this one. As for the younger generation, well, I just see the snooker numbers going down (from a local point of view) and hardly see anyone under 30 playing now which is very annoying. Football seems to be the default setting which really p*sses me off!

[SnookerFan]

I quite enjoyed being in Coventry and watching both semis, and the final.

Yes it wasn't always of the highest standard, especially from the Robbo vs Perry semi. But some of the misses added tension.

The Robbo / Perry match being the best example of what I mean. A pretty low standard from both men, but you never knew quite who was going to win. When Robbo got that 145 in frame 4, I thought; "Right, he's going to pull away." Perry won the next frame. When Perry was ahead in frame 6, only for it to go down to the black and Robbo made it 4-2 instead of 3-3, I thought that was another turning point. Perry made it 4-4. It was a hard match to predict.

I thought Robbo actually outplayed Allen in the final, despite being convinced Mark Allen would slaughter him. And the only frame that I'd call boring was the 50-odd minute one, and even then when Robbo took it, it felt like a big moment as it won him his ninth frame.

I enjoyed it, even if it wasn't the same sort of match or standard that Ronnie and Judd provided last year.

[crocodile]

Hello everybody.
I am totally shocked not being able to see the tourney in Germany.
I am subscribed to both the Eurosportplayer and the Worldsnooker livestream, but both do not show any of the matches.
And ITV is only for UK residents?
Anybody with an indea how to follow the matches from Germany?
Thanks in advance!

Well, it's a while ago now I suppose, but you might also have noticed that, apart from the results of the individual rounds, there was no mention whatsoever of the tournament over here on Eurosport's videotext. The latest piece of snooker information (on page 141) is that Mark Allen won the Bulgarian Open ....

[shmeeko69]

Well, it's a while ago now I suppose, but you might also have noticed that, apart from the results of the individual rounds, there was no mention whatsoever of the tournament over here on Eurosport's videotext. The latest piece of snooker information (on page 141) is that Mark Allen won the Bulgarian Open ....

If you think that's bad then, you should try the BBC iPlayer for snooker. They are extremely slow in showing you snooker information which is a non BBC event.