World Snooker Championships Discussion

[Billy]

Why is he so slow. Why.

I reckon if you asked Ebdon what 2 + 2 was, he'd take 7 minutes to respond, not because he didn't know the answer, but because he'd spend that long looking for problems and connotations as to why the answer might just not be 4.

[cyberheater]

Yeah we're lucky his highest break so far is only 24. If he had been on a 147, they would have had to postpone the afteroon session.

Yes. I could have been a long long day.

I reckon if you asked Ebdon what 2 + 2 was, he'd take 7 minutes to respond, not because he didn't know the answer, but because he'd spend that long looking for problems and connotations as to why the answer might just not be 4.

Ha ha. Indeed.

I don't think I've ever seen Ebdon play so bad. He completely lacks any confidence. That mushroom on the end of his cue isn't helping him.

[narl]

Wonder why he stopped using the Stamford cue he was giving so much praise a while back?

[The Statman]

This is the thing with Ebdon, his best snooker is up there with the best of them, and not at all slow, but when he's down on confidence it's really awful and he slows down a lot. Actually, I haven't found him terribly slow today.

It's a shame he will always be remembered for slowness rather than his top snooker around the turn of the century because he is one of the best shot-makers in the game. But he's brought that on himself, of course.

I think he's managed also to veil a reasonably solid Dott today. He's had a couple of glaring misses but on the whole seems to be in reasonably good shape.

Does anyone predict this one coming off tomorrow morning before the scheduled finish? Now that it's 6-2, I think probably not.

[cyberheater]

He's had a couple of glaring misses but on the whole seems to be in reasonably good shape.

I thought it was telling when the white was near the blue pocket and he had a fairly straight shot on the red which would have allowed him to drop on the black and he refused the shot.

I think his confidence is shot.

[The Statman]

I thought it was telling when the white was near the blue pocket and he had a fairly straight shot on the red which would have allowed him to drop on the black and he refused the shot.

I think his confidence is shot.

I didn't write it very well, but that sentence was actually referring to Dott!

[Billy]

I didn't write it very well, but that sentence was actually referring to Dott!

Which sentence? The one you've quoted or the one the quote was in response to

[The Statman]

Oh yes, oops! My sentence, which cyberheater responded to, was referring to Dott.
I'll shut up now!

[mythman69]

I thought the next matches started at 2-30pm . . . running late?

[daffie]

I thought the next matches started at 2-30pm . . . running late?

2:30 local time, which translates to 1:30 CET. In my neck of the woods...3:30

[mythman69]

in my neck of the woods it is 11-30pm . . .

[daffie]

in my neck of the woods it is 11-30pm . . .

Some past-midnight snooker to look forward to then

[mythman69]

Some past-midnight snooker to look forward to then

I did some good training during the pre-qual and qualifiers.

: )

[coomsey76]

How careless was that last shot from Williams to gift White that frame after getting the snooker he needed.....??

Big frame coming up before the mid session interval!!

[cyberheater]

I didn't write it very well, but that sentence was actually referring to Dott!

In that case I agree