'...my opinion. It's usually right.'
O'Sullivan appears to be on an upswing again now after beating Dale. And fairly comfortably too, if without the 147, if'n he needed the extra £10k. I didn't realise/know/had forgotten that they let Rob Walker actually talk to players and people other than squeeing about them into a microphone and making up names for them. I wonder if he keeps a list.
Hendry talking about retirement or talking about thinking about retirement or whatever it is he's doing, walking into doors sometimes and winning sometimes other, I guess though possibly not enough, or if so then only just. He must've been the player to have picked the card out of the hat for this tournament that said 'openly ponder retirement, do not pass go, try and collect £250,000', I bet O'Sullivan's glad someone else has finally picked that one, glad or maybe jealous. Judd Trump must've got the one for the tournament's daft haircut complete with not-completely-out-of-the-blue-upset.
Speaking of daft haircuts, Mark Allen and Matthew Stevens were playing today, looking all very sober and sensible. Still with Stevens sticking his feet in the air on his shots, one at a time a'course. Started off scrappy and with the frames shared fairly even. Must be the first time that I can recall where John Virgo wasn't cursing the miss rule for its existance. Terry going to make tea for his player in the interval. Match seems to be running to the make a 50, trip over own feet, watch the other guy win it. Allen with a bit more luck than Stevens at making it over the line in one go.
If I'd been asked for my 'top 10 sports in which the weather is an important factor' snooker would not be on the list, probably not the top 20 either. Maybe the top 50, but probably only because I'd be running out of sports I know the name of. But apparently the weather is too humid/warm/springy outside and is messing up the weight of the cloth or the table. Well. It's a theory, I suppose.
And nobody wants to win the final frame, a bunch of chances on both their parts, and Stevens' long pot success rate is through the floor, or 36%. Has he perhaps considered a blindfold?
Allen has got to be wondering what went wrong there - largest breaks were all his, potted circa one and a half times as many points as Stevens, but still going into tomorrow with a 4-5 deficit.
Close as that, or almost on the other table is Bingham's eventual victory over Ebdon in the 18th. After Ebdon finally gave up on the pursuit of the four snookers he was in need of for the last chunk of the frame. Only the third of the seeded players out so far. Form won't stay like that for long though.
That'd be way too easy for snooker.
Hendry talking about retirement or talking about thinking about retirement or whatever it is he's doing, walking into doors sometimes and winning sometimes other, I guess though possibly not enough, or if so then only just. He must've been the player to have picked the card out of the hat for this tournament that said 'openly ponder retirement, do not pass go, try and collect £250,000', I bet O'Sullivan's glad someone else has finally picked that one, glad or maybe jealous. Judd Trump must've got the one for the tournament's daft haircut complete with not-completely-out-of-the-blue-upset.
Speaking of daft haircuts, Mark Allen and Matthew Stevens were playing today, looking all very sober and sensible. Still with Stevens sticking his feet in the air on his shots, one at a time a'course. Started off scrappy and with the frames shared fairly even. Must be the first time that I can recall where John Virgo wasn't cursing the miss rule for its existance. Terry going to make tea for his player in the interval. Match seems to be running to the make a 50, trip over own feet, watch the other guy win it. Allen with a bit more luck than Stevens at making it over the line in one go.
If I'd been asked for my 'top 10 sports in which the weather is an important factor' snooker would not be on the list, probably not the top 20 either. Maybe the top 50, but probably only because I'd be running out of sports I know the name of. But apparently the weather is too humid/warm/springy outside and is messing up the weight of the cloth or the table. Well. It's a theory, I suppose.
And nobody wants to win the final frame, a bunch of chances on both their parts, and Stevens' long pot success rate is through the floor, or 36%. Has he perhaps considered a blindfold?
Allen has got to be wondering what went wrong there - largest breaks were all his, potted circa one and a half times as many points as Stevens, but still going into tomorrow with a 4-5 deficit.
Close as that, or almost on the other table is Bingham's eventual victory over Ebdon in the 18th. After Ebdon finally gave up on the pursuit of the four snookers he was in need of for the last chunk of the frame. Only the third of the seeded players out so far. Form won't stay like that for long though.
That'd be way too easy for snooker.