2012 Australian Goldfields Open Qualifying

[DandyA]

and Hot Rod Lawler beats Mark Joyce 5-0

[cueman]

As an Australian and avid snooker fan, I know how important the Goldfields Open is to Australian Snooker. To have 7 of the top 16 drop out including numbers 2 - 3 - 4 & 5 plus Ronnie will certainly hurt attendance with the tournament being in the second year of a three year contract. I hope it doesn't affect it being an ongoing fixture.

I think the main problem is the prize money. Don't forget these players have to pay for their own flights and accomodation and some are not as well off as others or have great sponsors to help pay these costs. Also Oz holds 47.5% tax, so a player winning £10k loses £5k straight away, travel and accomodation is prob around £1700 so you've done all that for for a couple of grand and that is if you've had a good run to the latter stages. And you wonder why the players have dropped out!

[LittleMissAlexa]

Do non tour players earn any points to add to their Q School Order of Merit points so that when it comes to fill Hendry's place, its still open who takes it?

I Believe they qualify for ranking points liu song did while he was covering for higgins and einsle a few years ago

[LittleMissAlexa]

live matches this morning will be nugget vs Wild and M White vs Mann would of been a diff white but he withdrew yesterday

[SnookerFan]

Be good to see Steve Davis make it through to Australia. Also I want Mitchell Mann to win, because he reminds me of this guy.

http://blog.5pm.co.uk/wp-content/upl...chelin-man.jpg

[PatBlock]

Just got back from walking the dog to see that Steve lost the first frame, was it a close one or what?

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[PatBlock]

What a frame that 2nd one was, I thought Steve had it after he got the points from the snooker he needed and then another one straight after, leaving him a thin cut on the last red into the top right corner, which he missed, Wild pots it but then misses the black off the spot only to leave Steve snookered on the yellow! Anyway, 2 - 0 to Wild now.

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[PatBlock]

54 each in the 3rd with pink and black left, and wild pulls out a cracking snooker, eventually taking the frame. Gritty stuff this, but Wild certainly seems to know his way around the table.

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[PatBlock]

Wild takes the 4th with a nice 102 break. 4 - 0 now.

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[cueman]

I see Steve has gone back to using his Parris cue this season. I did hear something that he was going to use it again, maybe that explains his poor form. Seems a strange thing to do at his age when the game is hard enough, without changing cue!

[PatBlock]

I see Steve has gone back to using his Parris cue this season. I did hear something that he was going to use it again, maybe that explains his poor form. Seems a strange thing to do at his age when the game is hard enough, without changing cue!

I didn't realise that, does seem a bit strange but he must have his reasons.
Great result for Wild though whitewashing the Nugget, hard luck Steve.

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[LittleMissAlexa]

I didn't realise that, does seem a bit strange but he must have his reasons.
Great result for Wild though whitewashing the Nugget, hard luck Steve.

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wilds second whitewash of the qualifying too he whitewashed Daniel Wells in 1st round

[PatBlock]

wilds second whitewash of the qualifying too he whitewashed Daniel Wells in 1st round

He's no mug is he. Should be a good match between him and Doherty tomorrow.

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[Neil Taperell]

I didn't realise that, does seem a bit strange but he must have his reasons.
Great result for Wild though whitewashing the Nugget, hard luck Steve.

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What cue was he using last season then ? I thought he always used Parris , or has he reverted to his original one ?

[beechy1212]

How come Jimmy has withdrawn?