World Championship 2012 1st Round Discussion

[Mc2G]

I think that Trump was lucky to play against Dale, if he would draw couple of other qualifiers that could punish him severly for his mistakes, he would be out. Dom just couldn't do that and to be fair to him he wasn't playing 100% either. However if Trump will get over this food poisoning and will bring his A game I don't see any reason why he couldn't win this year

[johnsusername]

yeah I know, either I want the underdogs to have close matches between each other or the seeds to go through, thats the whole POINT of the worlds, to have the best of the best all playing each other, hence the very long format!!

Surely the whole point of the world's is that the player who wins the most games gets the trophy? Or am I missing something? Or you'll have the same players just contest the same competition every year - which I wouldnt mind, since I'm stuck in the past anyway!

[daffie]

Can't make any judgment of Trump's form yet. However he did beat Dominic Dale 10-7 despite being sick, which tells you that his 'C' game is still pretty good!

Tournament is wide open.

I think Hendry will beat Higgins.

Yeah I'm rather positive that Hendry will beat Higgins. However, I also think it will be a great tussle between 2 players that aren't at the top of their form at the moment. Plus Hendry making the odd mistake every now&then, I think just that bit more than Higgins will. At any rate, it's the fixture that I am looking forward to tremendously...

And I agree on the performance of Trump...he did well considering and applied his safety play rather well. Dale also missed too many (easy) chances though, so Trump basically was let off the hook too many times. Trump did seem to have a better allround safety game this time, he is growing and his game is improving. I'm very curious to see him within a couple of years time...see whether he has the good allround game that f.i. Hendry and Higgins had back then.

[Mr Snooker]

Great total clearence of 132 by Ali Carter his 139th centuray of his professional careerer to beat an off form Mark Davis 10-2, A good result for Ali who has had a bad season and at one point threatned to quit the game. btw does anybody of a link to careerer centuaries of all players, I remember a website a couple of years ago where you could pick your players for each tornamentand it also included the update centuaries of thier careerer after each tornament, but I think it closed down and I forgot the link to it as well

[tatannes]

“All rubbish. I don’t think I played well, I don’t think the table was right, I don’t think the fans were right. All rubbish. Rubbish fans.”
“I couldn’t concentrate on the game, like shouting you know, how can they do that? People say Chinese fans are no good, I come here, what do they do?”

I'm not sure BH will appreciate Ding's comments...

[PatBlock]

I think Hendry will beat Higgins.

I hope you're right, but I think he's just too inconsistent these days, and Higgins's tactical nouse usually carries him through the sticky patches.

Fingers crossed though, only Maguire, Trump and Robertson between him and the Holy Grail then. (I think we're about to see why I don't enter any of the prediction contests. )

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[eric12345]

Thanks a lot , man! Good stuff

[daffie]

Am I the only one who is getting a bit annoyed with Neil's constant complaints about some small noise or movement that put him off, while often it seems to be more like he is finding an excuse for a badly hit shot? I don't know, something that has caught my eye over the past 2 years or so. It's like he's gone a tad high&mighty imo. His change in walk-on music from the wonderful 'Down under' to some stupid heroic Gladiator-type movie-score since he won the WC 2 years ago has not favored Neil to me neither. I used to really like him...

[P.Smith]

I can't see the stream on the BBC website, anyone else having this problem?

[montoya10]

MJW off to a quick start. Looks set to be up 7-3 now.

[DandyA]

I can't see the stream on the BBC website, anyone else having this problem?

yes I had to look in my browser history ... try this, the link for the other table is on this page too ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/snooker/15973788

[P.Smith]

yes I had to look in my browser history ... try this, the link for the other table is on this page too ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/snooker/15973788

Thank you.

[montoya10]

Fluke of the season for MJW!!

[Masterdoctorgenius]

high stadar between maguire and perry

three frames with 3 centuries

and by the look of things mark on the way to meet ronnie

they met 2006, 2008,2010 and now 2012

any pattern visible

[breakman16]

Maguire and Perry seem intent on making the century charity some serious money, 3 centuries in 3 frames I heard? am watching Premier League Darts tonight with highlights of snooker later, got snooker on in background, Williams doing everything he needs to, so classy he's a great outside bet!