Snooker Thread

Silly mistake from Ronnie with the in off,bit of left hand side would have avoided it but there was still a lot of work to do,fair play to Hawkins,tournament loses out though when Ronnie leaves.

Nathan Collins - The best Kildare baller since Johnny Doyle!

I really want Ding to win it, he wont get a better chance than this, all the fav are gone.

How the f**k is McManus in the semi final? He was average 20/25 years ago. Has snooker gone that bad

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BigStrongMan wrote:

How the f**k is McManus in the semi final? He was average 20/25 years ago. Has snooker gone that bad

It hasn't really gone bad, tis just stagnated for years. We recognise McManus as one of the now ancient lads playing, but even these 'new' youngish lads like Murphy, Selby, Robertson, Ding etc have been around for ages at this stage, all over 30 bar 29 year old Ding. Even Trump, the great new young talent, is 26 years old. Which is still young, but Stephen Hendry had won 5 world titles by the time he was 27.

For whatever reason, these new tournaments & the amount of them haven't really lead to a load of rising snooker stars, but for some reason, have lead to a resurgence of lads around 40 or older rising up the rankings, M Williams, Bingham, John Higgins (who to be fair to him, never actually slipped down the rankings much at all, very consistent playing level for 20 years now) Marco Fu (38), and McManus for example. Our own Fergal O'Brien (age 44) is still ranked as high as 40.

It has gone a bit like darts, where commentators inevitably describe anyone under 25 who has won a game or beaten one of the high ranking lads is some minor tournament as a 'future world champion' before the actual world championship is usually won by a fella who we have been watching for 10 years or more, like Taylor & Anderson in the darts.

Picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.....

Deise, it's all the smaller ptc events that has lads like Fergal so high. Pick and choose the right tournament's and have a decent run and you'll get a decent amount of ranking points. Mark Allen appears to have the right attitude to the modern ranking system but questionable temperament to fully utilise it, Higgins a big fan of all the eastern european tournament's surprisingly enough

Would love to say Ding will win from the remaining 4 but he's most likely to crumble in the final session of the final imo unfortunately

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Hopefully (and should be ) a selby v ding final.....Selby is the 'jester from Leicester' so is it to be his year?
Wouldn't begrudge either of them winning it - both great players.

Really dislike Higgins so glad he is out.

SByrne has a season ticket for the Crucible.

He used to drink pints with Alan McManus in his local in Glasgow also when he was over watching Celtic

Man Utd to beat Leicester on Sunday

Leicester fan Selby to win the world snooker on Monday night

Chelsea beat Spurs on Monday night and Leicester are champions

Devrozex wrote:

I still can't believe Alan McManus is in the semi finals. Hilarious.

I know absolutely crazy, he was in the semi finals in 92 and 93.

In the last 10 years at the World champions he didn't even qualify for 6 of them and had 3 first round exits.

Haven't really been following but is he having a purple patch or has the standard just dropped?