2016 World Championship discussion

[Odrl]

Surprisingly one-sided stuff in these quarter-finals, not at all what I expected. It's funny though, the one match people expected to be one-sided is the only close one so far. McManus just won't go away, will he? :smile:

[trains]

Surprisingly one-sided stuff in these quarter-finals, not at all what I expected. It's funny though, the one match people expected to be one-sided is the only close one so far. McManus just won't go away, will he? :smile:

I had little reason to think that tbh,McManus won 4 straight frames from 7-9 v Carter in the last round,plus beating Maguire and thrashing J Robertson.
Young players game my Emirates :-)

[JimMalone]

How incredible would that be for Alan McManus to make the Semifinal in the crucible again after 23 years? Who would have believed anyway that he would make the WC-quarterfinals not once but twice again only five years ago?

[Stormwatch]

Come on Angles!

[Ben04uk]

Definitely a future world champion in the making.

Yes, it looks like Kyren Wilson will be the first 'new' player to be permanently into the top 16 since Trump in 2011. I know Liang Wenbo has been in for a short time at various times but essentially it has been very samey for the last 5 years.

[daffie]

Yes it would be an incredible story indeed. Alan is such a nice guy, and he thoroughly deserves it imo. Very hard to choose between him and JH for me personally. Still a good match to watch this one.

[PatBlock]

Getting sick of all these long close-ups of the players faces in between and now during shots.

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[daffie]

Yeah they tend to overdo that stuff don't they. ..

[PatBlock]

Yes it would be an incredible story indeed. Alan is such a nice guy, and he thoroughly deserves it imo. Very hard to choose between him and JH for me personally. Still a good match to watch this one.

Shame he couldn't make it 8 - 8 but 9 - 7 is not too bad. Now, if Barry could possibly get to 10 - 6 this afternoon we'd have an interesting evening on both tables to look forward to. It might not leave them much of a break between sessions though.

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[daffie]

Shame he couldn't make it 8 - 8 but 9 - 7 is not too bad. Now, if Barry could possibly get to 10 - 6 this afternoon we'd have an interesting evening on both tables to look forward to. It might not leave them much of a break between sessions though.

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I wondered about that. How come they play 2 sessions back to back? That's a bit too much isn't it...

[PatBlock]

Yeah they tend to overdo that stuff don't they. ..

You're not kidding, it's like they've got Sergio Leone on the mixing desk.

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[daffie]

You're not kidding, it's like they've got Sergio Leone on the mixing desk.

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All we need now is some Ennio Morricone music...

[PatBlock]

I wondered about that. How come they play 2 sessions back to back? That's a bit too much isn't it...

Hal posted earlier:

As for the change in order of the play, it is obvious. If the order of the matches pairing-wise was played by same pairs each session and both matches in one session went on to finish with session to spare, there will be no live snooker at all for one of the session on the 2nd day of the quarterfinals.

I think that makes sense.

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[daffie]

Hal posted earlier:



I think that makes sense.

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Cheers. Ouch that hurt my brain though...gotta lie down for some rest now

[jonny66]

That is very hard to read, what he meant was that if they hadn't messed with the schedule then some people who had already paid for tickets would be watching an empty table, or Steve Davis playing Dennis Taylor or something like that.