Betfred.com World Snooker Championship SEMI-Final Discussion

[lennon11]

Can we please not start all this shat again please guy's...

its still hugely relevant though,to the general public the only snooker they follow is the world championships,however most will know of the higgins issue and will wonder as to the integrity of the sport and the validity of its flagship event.its a sport i love and dont want others to see it as a joke or tainted.

[smackaine]

a brush of fresh air

er..........

[Wim]

i agree 100%,taking away the john higgins issue,i feel judd winning would be a massive boost for snooker to help usher in a new genaration of players and hopefully fans too.

True ! Meaning if you are good and talented you can win the title at 21 and you don't have to wait for many many years.
And watching the crowd going mad with his fantastic exhibition shots like Jimmy ..that is what makes snooker so magic isn't it ?

[cally]

its still hugely relevant though,to the general public the only snooker they follow is the world championships,however most will know of the higgins issue and will wonder as to the integrity of the sport and the validity of its flagship event.its a sport i love and dont want others to see it as a joke or tainted.

I'm not saying it not relevant bud, but it's been discussed too death here, there nd everywhere and it will just end up with bad feelings/arguements etc. best left in the PAST.

I have opinions on it but no good going into it now is it, whats done is done and no matter how much we talk about it or debate it or slate it, it ain't gonna change 'owt so what's the point eh! NO POINT really is there?

[zeroprobe2]

It's just paiunful to see everyone clapping and cheering John on to win. It's like the whole situation was brushed under the carpet.

What doesn't sit well with me was the detail Higgins went into if they were just trying to get out of there and "scared" for their lives. Mentioning villas in Spain that need paying off and haggling from 200k to 300k for the throwing of frames, it's a little too much imo.

[lennon11]

thats a fairpoint cally,just wanted to see what the general view was 12 months on and on the eve of snookers biggest 2 days media/publicity wise.

[BarryH]

Breath

To be honest, to be fair, Trump really is a breath of fresh (not necessarily hot) air.
WT

WHERE'S THE WHITE GOING???????
JV

[DWOT]

Grinding anti snooker from Higgins is not good to watch but it gets results.

[breakman16]

To be honest, to be fair, Trump really is a breath of fresh (not necessarily hot) air.
WT

WHERE'S THE WHITE GOING???????
JV

U like the guys in the cue ball shirts, WHERE'S THE CUE BALL GOING? lol then he said tonight where's the red going? he's a legend!!! Rememebr the great WT, "a few reds are gonna move here, stand by ur beds" or words to that affect, one red moved!! This was earlier in week, he loved it thought it was hilarious, me too!!

[breakman16]

Grinding anti snooker from Higgins is not good to watch but it gets results.

he does score great too, not like he's cliff thorburn or terry griffiths! yeah there are more flamboyant though, flamboyancy get's u nothing, getting results is what counts as u say, higgins has fans due to his fighting spirit which is beyond belief, is there a better scrapper in the history of the game??

[Wim]

Anyway I think Higgins is still favorite to win the title. Playing solid standard snooker could be more effective than the attacking and more exciting playing style of Trump.

[Rane]

Grinding anti snooker from Higgins is not good to watch but it gets results.

I simply can´t see that Higgins is playing grinding anti snooker. He´s no. 3 on the all time centurybreaker list, has made 5 147, and made unbelieveable many comebacks plus he can´t be accused of slowing the game down. And if you look back at the best matches over the last few seasons Higgins has been involved in most of them. If all you want is potting then I´ll suggest pool instead.

[montoya10]

Fair enough, although I think you might regret it later.

I agree. I probably will : )

[Hal]

For me, as a spectator and fan, I am sad Mark didn´t make it to final.
But on the other side, Williams:Higgins match was meeting of two best players of last two years in my eyes, I think there is no one else who can beat Williams in long format than Higgins, not even being in his very best form.

I was really impresed by Judd´s perfomance, but I can´t see him beating Higgins

[pottingpinks]

I do like the way Higgins plays the game and don't find him boring personally, though I think if he plays another tactical player it can get bogged down as alot depends on the make up of the players involved. Was a bit shocked by that video in Russia but putting that aside, I think he is the man for all seasons, he can attack ferociously when the situation demands, has a brilliant perception of the percentage shot and shows real grit too. I often think if you can adopt that kind of approach you can beat players far more talented than yourself so it can always give you hope.

Someone once told me "thats not the way to play snooker" when I beat them in a county competiton 25 years ago, but he was a far better break builder than me so I just tried to contain him with safety play and it worked, but what was I supposed to do, go for my pots and lose, he always had the option of splitting the pack if he fancied his chances against me!

But alot of it is down to clashes of styles I always feel, I've played a grand old stager in two competitions this year and four frames have taken us nearly three hours but I'm not normally like that honest lol, just that we both have similar games in matchplay so tended to cancel each other out.