World Championship discussion

[April madness]

maguire is favourite to take frame 4 and level the score at 2-2

potentially a cracking match....with the other one more than interesting too

Nice nice hopefully they'll save some of it for the evening session

Looks like Murphy going to steal a frame from JP

[April madness]

looks like 7-4 to Murphy

[Mitsuko]

Looks interesting, I'll hobble downstairs to watch it soon Then watch it again at 1.30

[zong]

looks like 7-4 to Murphy

it is now

[Maija]

Positional play isn't really flowing for Maguire now, he keeps having to save himself from shot to shot.

Swail is back again, up amongst the colourful baulk end soup, missing a red, letting Mags in again, white in the soup again.

Three reds left, shots to nothing coming up.

46-21 reds all at cushions, Mags is fouling. Swail is back in

I jinxed Mags

[Semih_Sayginer]

solid clearance by murphy though to take that lead. perhaps a turning point in that match now?

maguire is only slight favourite now for frame 4 on the other side of the wall. turning a bit scrappy...

[April madness]

solid clearance by murphy though to take that lead. perhaps a turning point in that match now?

Is it looking like Murphy will roll over poor JP full steam ahead without any significant resistance from JP?

[Semih_Sayginer]

Is it looking like Murphy will roll over poor JP full steam ahead without any significant resistance from JP?

i wouldnt say so. think JPs confidence is quite high and hes a batler, but if he doesnt hang on to murphys coat tails just now then......

2-2 with maguire and swail, both missing chances

parrot wins frame 12. 5-7 behind now

[Maija]

Mags left Swail in with an easy red, he gets the wrong angle to pot the black and develop the reds, so more safety play will follow.
46 - 39 now and Mags has another go at safety, with white just next to the blue and both reds on the bottom cush. He returns to slightly below baul line. Swail knocks one red up towards the left middle pocket, but not pottable into the middle, whereupon Mags sends it up between yellow and green, not far from the green corner. Swail pots it and the cueball nearly goes inoff in the yellow pocket. Cue more safeties. This could go on forever.

46 - 40.

Mags pots a long red, is sort of on black, but close to the cushion. He pots the black and is nicely on yellow, though he missed that and left it nicely for Swail in front of the middle left pocket.
Swail delivers and is nicely on green, with the rest though. Mags looks like he wants to murder his teddy, as Swail pots green and brown.
Pink is still up on the brown spot, and Swail needs up to and including the black. Cueball too close to the cush, and pink wobbles in the jaws and Mags is on again, pots pink and Bob is now our new uncle.

2-2.

End of detailed commentary from yours truly

[April madness]

nice comments, really enjoy reading them. keep up the good work!

hopefully JP take some more frames off Murphy to level the match. and look forward to see a close competition between Swail and Maguire

[Sarmu]

Can someone tell me which match went to mid session interval first?

[snookersfun]

the Maguire one, but the other match just a fraction after that...

(at least I think, I had some connection problems at that time)

[Maija]

Both matches are on again.

"I half expected Maguire to punch the air there."

- upon his first successful breakoff (frame 5)

Every time I want to use my really really bad pun of "Look at JP flying", he misses or runs out of position, hence I will use it now and have it over with. Look at John Parrott flying! A break of 68, and it's now 7-6.

[Alex0paul]

If John Parrott wins this match he will be back into the top 32 next season.

[Ginger Freak]

If John Parrott wins this match he will be back into the top 32 next season.

And more importantly, he will have our eternal gratitude for knocking out Murphy!!