2013 Masters discussion

[poona]

BBC website - Set up a proxy IP address..

Google the 'how to'..

[daffie]

Hendry is fast becoming my most favorite commentator, now that we don't hear so much of Clive Everton or sadly the great Ted Lowe!!

Hendry imo is the perfect commentator...knowledgable, good voice, funny at times but not too much, knows when to talk and when not to....

[Maxsys]

Can't you switch to the BBC? We've got Hendry oh, and JV.

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Hendry yes JV no, i will watch in silence

[coomsey76]

Hendry is fast becoming my most favorite commentator, now that we don't hear so much of Clive Everton or sadly the great Ted Lowe!!

[daffie]

Can't you switch to the BBC? We've got Hendry oh, and JV.

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I'd love to join you over at the beeb, but no red button available in The Netherlands...why don't you capture the live audio and beam it over to me

[PatBlock]

Hate getting (too) negative but sjeez the commentary on eurosport really is unbelievably annoying this evening. Please bring back Joe and Neil and David...this is torture with the mike&mike show.

Ahhh that makes me feel a bit better Weird match...might be a very close and late finish...hoping for one at least Unless of course Shaun doesn't pick up his game a bit...

Can't you switch to the BBC? We've got Hendry oh, and JV.

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[Maxsys]

I will agree to that, am watching on Eurosport, and now i have turned the sound down, cannot stand it any longer.

[daffie]

Hate getting (too) negative but sjeez the commentary on eurosport really is unbelievably annoying this evening. Please bring back Joe and Neil and David...this is torture with the mike&mike show.

Ahhh that makes me feel a bit better Weird match...might be a very close and late finish...hoping for one at least Unless of course Shaun doesn't pick up his game a bit...

[PatBlock]

Yes it's been a strange one hasn't it. Hindsight's a wonderful thing blah blah blah, but I can't believe Murphy didn't go for the brown to clinch the 3rd, the decision seemed so out of character for him.

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[daffie]

Once again, not sure whether to laugh or get annoyed by Mike Hallett's commentary about the "three misses" situation. After years of misleading the viewers, saying players needed to see both sides of a ball on for the rule to apply, he now had the opportunity to hear Camilleri's explanation to Murphy. And he had the nerve to say Camilleri might be wrong. :redface:

He said he was going to check, but I bet he forgets all about it the next time this situations presents itself. :wink:

Anyway, good frame for Higgins to win, because Murphy was always ahead in that colour scrap, and he might feel like he threw that one away. :smile:

Yeah and Mike's been rather crass in his commentary after that titbit trying to cover up his mistake, knowing he was wrong. He is not a very good commentator in my book...to put it mildly. He has no clue and is often a glass half empty kinda person. Today he's even worse than the other Mike

Anyway...a match close to my heart. Lots of weird moments, misses, scrappy frames, much safety play, a real battle...what more do you want

[Odrl]

Once again, not sure whether to laugh or get annoyed by Mike Hallett's commentary about the "three misses" situation. After years of misleading the viewers, saying players needed to see both sides of a ball on for the rule to apply, he now had the opportunity to hear Camilleri's explanation to Murphy. And he had the nerve to say Camilleri might be wrong. :redface:

He said he was going to check, but I bet he forgets all about it the next time this situations presents itself. :wink:

Anyway, good frame for Higgins to win, because Murphy was always ahead in that colour scrap, and he might feel like he threw that one away. :smile:

[daffie]

What a bunch of weird misses by both players Very unusual scrappy stuff atm. Enjoyable though...a touch of the twilight zone

[daffie]

Ok...next one please

Higgins vs Murphy...hoping for a real classic to be remembered for years to come....

[sberry]

Robertson was lucky to pot it as I imagine he'd miss more than he'd get if he played it again and again and Allen was unlucky but that's snooker and for a change it was a cracking match with two in form confident players going for it and making breaks, good stuff

[Looki]

He definitely played to pot the red. Not saying he expected to pot it but he played it thinking if it didn't go in he at least had a good chance of moving it away from the pocket and not leaving it on. A bit lucky perhaps but people seem to be forgetting that the red only scored him one point and there were still 13 reds on the table. How many other players would have made a frame winning break from that position under all that pressure?

Mark was very unlucky to lose but Neil wasn't lucky to win (if that makes sense!). He won because he produced a moment of magic when it mattered most.

Of course he played to pot it. That's one thing but to say that he went for the position is another. That he could only hope that to happen from that distance. I don't want to take anything away from him, he made a good break, he had to pot the balls and because of that, as I said earlier, he deserved to win.