2016 World Championship discussion

[Ronnie's tip]

Have to say I love frames like this, despite the quality not really being there.

[Cov86]

I said it before but I will say it again...... Trump doesn't really have much of a 'B' game. He is either on fire or misfiring. There doesn't seem to be much willingness or ability to grind out a result. Also the commentators have mentioned he does seem to over hit the ball at times. You very rarely see the other top players absolutely bash the balls into the pockets like Trump does.

[cueman]

Have to say I love frames like this, despite the quality not really being there.

I like tense frames but this is just scrappy and its two players struggling and the conditions are causing the struggle.

What we are seeing now is a table that is too slow, noticeably they are having to strike the balls harder and are losing accuracy because of it. Look at the difference in scoring on table 1 compared to this and you can see why.

[gavpowell]

I said it before but I will say it again...... Trump doesn't really have much of a 'B' game. He is either on fire or misfiring. There doesn't seem to be much willingness or ability to grind out a result. Also the commentators have mentioned he does seem to over hit the ball at times. You very rarely see the other top players absolutely bash the balls into the pockets like Trump does.

He's always said he doesn't need a coach so he's never had one, but his game is in basically the same place as it was 5 years ago vs Higgins. He knows all the shots, but perhaps he needs a Griffiths or a Reardon figure to suggest a few strategies to him, as Reardon did with O'Sullivan's safety game.

[cally]

He's a very one dimensional player...

[Ronnie's tip]

It's so hard to bet against Trump even when he's playing poorly because he can easily go on a 4-5 frame winning run no problem. The fact that Ding is playing poorly as well helps him too.

[gavpowell]

He's a very one dimensional player...

Which is a particular shame, as he's got the ideal face for 3D TV

[itsnoteasy]

I feel a few of Trumps generation hit the balls too hard, Murphy and to a slightly lesser extent Selby being two.

[cueman]

Get the feeling there is some bad blood between these two! Unusual to see Trump refuse the concession there, but then why is Ding carrying on needing 5 snookers?

[DeanH]

I feel a few of Trumps generation hit the balls too hard, Murphy and to a slightly lesser extent Selby being two.

I would not say Murphy and Selby are the same generation as Trump :biggrin:
also I don't think Murphy and Selby hit overly hard as Trump does ...
imho

[itsnoteasy]

Are they not? Well there you go I don't really take much notice lol. For me Murphy is a bigger banger than Trump.
Although not counting tonight lol, they have both lost the plot.

[Hal]

Extremely unlucky double kiss on yellow for Allen, now the match is sealed. Did not expect this result to be honest.

And Ding/Trump match is pretty scrappy, their average frame time for tonight is 25 mnutes+.

[ADR147]

I never thought I would find myself saying this.... The Trump Ding match is a little dull...

[gavpowell]

I never thought I would find myself saying this.... The Trump Ding match is a little dull...

My mate said the same thing to me: "I thought you said this was going to be fantastic??"
"I did! It was!"

[DeanH]

2016 World Championship discussion

maybe I have never noticed before but how many times does Ding as for the cue ball to be cleaned!?