World Champ. 2009 -1st round discussion!

[Alex0paul]

Good start required for Bingham. Needs at least 3 of the first 4 to have a chance tonight.

[Alex0paul]

Good to see BBC showing a loop of Steve Davis' 30 years at the Crucible instead of Carter v Greene

Sort it out BBC

[spike]

Not looking good for Bingham....falls further behind at 7-4.

[Alex0paul]

Not looking good for Bingham....falls further behind at 7-4.

Lets hope so.

[spike]

Oops....getting carried away there.

[Alex0paul]

Whos going to win the next frame then spike?

[Mal]

Similar to how ROS has been for a couple of years now - excellent in the balls, but long potting not good at all.

His percentage play in turning down difficult pots has generally been wise however.

[spike]

Whos going to win the next frame then spike?

Looking good for Stuart i would say.

[Alex0paul]

Carter leads 1-0 against Greene.

Come on Stuart! 7-5.

[Mal]

Impressive for Stuart - I see they are just discussing Steve's quote earlier - I was thinking that myself - there have been plenty of comebacks against Ronnie - McLeod had a go earlier this year, Perry, Selby in Welsh Open final, Ebdon a few years ago, higgins.

Come on Ballrun.

Thorne saying about ROS long pot success rate being the lowest for a long long time - Look back at the Masters and UK and it was regularly low then - however, his game is much more than that and always has been.

[João]

It's nice to see Stuart with some nerve against Ronnie, unlike a certain captain.

[spike]

C'mon on Gerard!

[Black_cat]

Again bleeding tennis everywhere and masculine sunburnt women grunting (ew!) while passing a white ball around! Moments like this I hate tennis more than soap operas. Rest of the time it's just stupid. And no working stream anywhere. Thank you, Euro****sport!
Other than that, from what I've seen in one of the chatrooms while I was waiting for the stream to load, seems like Ronnie won. With some lovely breaks, too. So that's quite ok! Well done!

[hegeland]

it wasn't much to see. ronnie didn't have to play anywhere near his best to comfortably win over a bingham that, at 8-5, looked beaten and buried. felt like a warm-up game of snooker to me.

btw, buy eurosport player. then you get both tables uninterrupted.

[spike]

Ronnie looked really good in close quarters but as it's been mentioned many times in commentary and the stats clearly show it's his long game that needs to improve.
Good win for O Sullivan none the less....and Stuart played well i thought.