2013 Masters discussion

[SouthPaw]

Yup he needs to wake up fast or else I'm afraid Selby will take him to bed

Shame on you daffie they're both happily married...

[streamer45]

Back again!

[arbitrage]

The complete and utter disrespect for others' opinion that you and other Selby "likers" show is mind-boggling....



Nope. You're getting mad at them, obviously. You wouldn't answer otherwise.



Lots of people proved so excited that they left the arena. Graeme Dott summed everything up perfectly in this :
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/s...005724153.html

If Selby's worth any kind of respect then Graeme Dott is as well. I wonder what you can answer to him.

EXCELLENT POST. and graeme dott is 100% bang on

[arbitrage]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/s...GlvbnM-;_ylv=3

[DeanH]

I've had a bet . Either player to win 10-9 . Hope it's a long match !

Neil, good luck with your bet
Are you not there in person? Is it not that far from you?

[sberry]

It has been mentioned many times in the past about the starting times of the final, why 2pm and 8pm when all previous days of the tournament have been 1pm and 7 pm, and the follow-on effect of late/early finishes.
I am sure it is connected to the past and the BBC Sunday football schedule but it could be changed without afftecting much nowadays, ?

There's no reason it couldn't have started at half six or seven, wouldn't have clashed with anything.

Problem if it goes to an early morning finish it will be problems for people travelling and like the British GP at Silverstone, it's not their fault if it rains but if they don't do everything they can to avoid bad news stories for spectators, they could lose it.

Couple of bad shows at Ally Pally and that will be looked at, I'm sure China would like to offer more prize money in return for a couple of wild cards.

[The Rook]

I've had a bet . Either player to win 10-9 . Hope it's a long match !

That seems a very believable scoreline.

[Neil Taperell]

I've had a bet . Either player to win 10-9 . Hope it's a long match !

[DeanH]

A possible 11 frames starting at 8pm

Judging by last night that could go on well past 1am. We're getting fresh snow in london, it's packing and icing up and public transport wil stop at midnight - good luck if you're driving in for the final session.

It has been mentioned many times in the past about the starting times of the final, why 2pm and 8pm when all previous days of the tournament have been 1pm and 7 pm, and the follow-on effect of late/early finishes.
I am sure it is connected to the past and the BBC Sunday football schedule but it could be changed without afftecting much nowadays, ?

[daffie]

I wouldn't dream of inhibiting your speech daffie. Post away pal, it's a free forum.

Will do Didn't mean to come across condescending, just want to keep things in this thread on a more positive note than it was yesterday.

Meanwhile...Neil in with a pretty good chance to put his 1st frame on the board. Very important frame for Neil.

[sberry]

A possible 11 frames starting at 8pm

Judging by last night that could go on well past 1am. We're getting fresh snow in london, it's packing and icing up and public transport wil stop at midnight - good luck if you're driving in for the final session.

[The Rook]

Can we focus on the snooker now and hopefully an entertaining final?

I wouldn't dream of inhibiting your speech daffie. Post away pal, it's a free forum.

[daffie]

Can we focus on the snooker now and hopefully an entertaining final?

[The Rook]

Personally, I find all of this quite amusing. I'm sure anyone looking through this thread tomorrow will find some of the statements quite bizarre. We had stuff like:

• Selby can't score centuries
• Selby will never be remembered for playing anything special, he doesn't go for any challenging pots, he only plays safety
• Selby is a terrible positional player (would be better if he worked on it rather than boring his opponents)
• Selby plays thin safeties to avoid opening up the reds
• Selby isn't good enough to pot, so he hides behind other balls
• It's embarrassing for the sport that Selby is number one, being so average
• The only way Selby can compete is with disgustingly negative anti snooker
• Selby's game consists of ****ty breaks of 20, cheap snookers and lifeless crowds, among other things
• People don't like snooker because of players like Selby
• Selby is destroying snooker
• Selby is a cancer, you cannot fight him forever

Pick your favourite. :wink: On top of that, we had the usual complaining about Selby's luck. And of course, whenever a frame goes scrappy or the balls go awkward, it's Selby's disgusting plan to bore Dott, while Dott is just an innocent victim of his. :smile:

Couldn't agree more with this. Personally I have absolutely no issue with people who find Selby's play boring. We all have our favourite players and styles. What I don't respect is the faceless keyboard warriors on here who continually attack Selby's character. Some of the things these people say are comically stupid and provably false (can't score a century, just a lucky player). However, saying that Selby is "smug", "unclassy", or describing him as a "cancer" is just plain personal and uncalled for. Snooker is only a game, and Mark hasn't done anything wrong.

[daffie]

@Patblock...that wasn't me in the crowd with the 'we love Hazel' tshirt on