2019 World Snooker Championship

[JimMalone]

Personality wise I like Lisowski way more than Carter.
But from their style of play I prefer the latter one.

[JimMalone]

Too true.

3 players I love to watch but can be incredibly frustraing - Un-Nooh, Brecel and Lisowski. They play safety like club players, agh!

And that's exactly why they never will become World Champion.

[Stony152]

Too true.

3 players I love to watch but can be incredibly frustraing - Un-Nooh, Brecel and Lisowski. They play safety like club players, agh!

It amazes me how some of these guys have so little tactical awareness after having played the game for so many years. I don't know if it's a lack of patience, or if they honestly believe that the best strategy is to just go for the pot. The gap between Lisowski and Carter when it comes to savvy match play is enormous. Over a best of 7 or 9 it's not as important, but over long matches like at the WC it's a huge factor.

[anish147]

Lisowski makes Brecel seem like a master tactician by comparison.

Too true.

3 players I love to watch but can be incredibly frustraing - Un-Nooh, Brecel and Lisowski. They play safety like club players, agh!

[Stony152]

Lisowski makes Brecel seem like a master tactician by comparison.

[Odrl]

Yes saw the little piece. He's has an overwhelming belief in himself which makes it look like conceited. One WC final and 3-4 of ranking events, hardly in the best players in the world.

Two WC finals. :smile:

[Nifty50]

I saw ROS knocked one, who was the other?

Gary Wilson as well IIRC.

[ken147]

He is a very angry man, very strange, and full of himself, almost embarrassingly so, did you see the little piece where he has to name the best players etc, he named himself several times lol

Yes saw the little piece. He's has an overwhelming belief in himself which makes it look like conceited. One WC final and 3-4 of ranking events, hardly in the best players in the world.

[vmax]

I actually quite enjoy Peter’s commentary. His knowledge of the game and the tactical side of the game is fantastic. I think Peter is a better commentator and better to hear in commentary than it is to watch him playing.

Ebdon seems to believe in the supernatural, his talk about cleaning the cue ball makes it throw wide is beyond belief, no wonder Robertson dropped liked a stone under his mentorship. Vegan good, Dr. Dave's quantam ramblings ridiculous.

It's all about the balls and what they're made of that has made this game the pot fest or kick fest that it's now become.
One table is playing very poorly, bit like the ones we play on, the other is a dream. Anything that creates more resistance between those balls turns it into a kicks lottery, be it slightly loose cloth, moisture in the atmosphere, too much nap, the wrong chalk (that's open to question IMO), any reason other than the balls are crap is mentioned because Aramith has a monopoly and they (WPBSA) feel they have no choice.

Thing is that they do, they put it up for tender to find a decent material that doesn't act like Saluc's phenolic resin and then matches won't be won and lost on who gets a kick at a crucial moment as a lot of balls that are missed thick are the result of bad contacts.
Un Nooh and Trump had a lot yesterday, as did O'Sullivan and Cahill, as did Selby and Zhao and all on the same table. Am I wrong but do all the players in one half play their matches on the same table ?
If so it explains the poor standard in all those matches in that half so it needs some work done to it.

[DeanH]

yep, everyone has a lie-in

[fkhan]

Oh ok. No morning sessions today BTW.

[DeanH]

I saw ROS knocked one, who was the other?

actually it was Cahill how knocked over ROS' bottle as he bent down to view what he had been left by ROS; ROS did a little hop/skip/jump to not get water on his shoes

[fkhan]

Not much room around the tables.

[the lone wolf]

I saw ROS knocked one, who was the other?

If I'm not mistaken, one of the referees knocked one over. But I'll stand corrected...

[fkhan]

not to me, two bottles have already been knocked over

I saw ROS knocked one, who was the other?