Snooker 2023 - 24

[Throbbing Angel]

Scottish Open started today.

I am just catching up on highlights on Eurosport. Has anyone else seen any?

I hear Ronnie pulled out at the very last minute.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Mark Williams out - Sam Craigie was 3-0 down and won four on the bounce to win the match!

 

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Judd Trump out - lost to Zhang Anda just now

 

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Missed all of yesterday's play due to Manchester.

But this cheered me up



See that Brecel, Carter and Selby went out yesterday BetVictor Scottish Open (2023) - snooker.org

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Gary Wilson is a few balls from winning this...

 

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Gary Wilson is a few balls from winning this...


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Scratch that...

 

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Sad for Noppon after what he managed against Higgins and that it was his first ranking final...

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Sad for Noppon after what he managed against Higgins and that it was his first ranking final...

Aye - he's so good on those long pots. I thought he was going to come back at Gary in the second session, but Wilson really picked up his form compared to some of the matches from earlier in the week.

Good match

 

[stavros]

The Masters kicks off on Sunday afternoon, with everything live on the Beeb. Judd-Kyren is the first match, which has the potential to be very good.

 

[stavros]

Right, darts can now fuck off out of Ally Pally and let a proper sport in.

 

[stavros]

Judd-Kyren is the first match

That was bollocks - it is in fact Brecel-Lisowski.

The full schedule is here.

 

[stavros]

Lisowski looked good, and could go far in the single session matches. However I reckon a patient match player could exploit the occasional errors he makes.

It was interesting watching the brief profile of Zhang Anda. When asked who his inspiration was I fully expected him to say O'Sullivant, Ding or both. He went with John Higgins though.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Where's the 7pm session - iPlayer?

e2a: yes it is - found it via the red button

 

[blairsh]

Where's the 7pm session - iPlayer?

e2a: yes it is - found it via the red button

JUst had this myself

 

[stavros]

Ding's maximum when losing to O'Sullivan is lovely. His cue ball in a break seems to travel far less than anyone else's.

 

[Silas Loom]

Steve Davis is so much more interesting when talking about snooker than any other commentator. It’s bizarre that his early reputation was the opposite.

 

[stavros]

Steve Davis is so much more interesting when talking about snooker than any other commentator. It’s bizarre that his early reputation was the opposite.

Terry Griffiths was very good, although I think he's retired from the mic.

Mark Allen's quite good: he mentioned the other day that he'd missed watching the first session of last year's WC final, as he was hungover from drowning his sorrows after Selby knocked him out in the semis the day before.

 

[blairsh]

Steve Davis is so much more interesting when talking about snooker than any other commentator. It’s bizarre that his early reputation was the opposite.

Its because when everyone was calling him boring he was in actual fact the first really interesting snooker player (off the table) bang into his electronic music and i seem to recall back in the day psychedelics? Could be wrong on the last one...

 

[Silas Loom]

Its because when everyone was calling him boring he was in actual fact the first really interesting snooker player (off the table) bang into his electronic music and i seem to recall back in the day psychedelics? Could be wrong on the last one...

Yes, proper renaissance man. Obsessed with Magma and funded their concerts. DJd at Glastonbury IIRC. His other sport is chess.

 

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Yes, proper renaissance man. Obsessed with Magma and funded their concerts. DJd at Glastonbury IIRC.

Yeh! I'm a fan, proper switched on and like you say, a great pundit/commentator

 

[Silas Loom]

And yet consistently overlooked in the national treasures thread.

 

[two sheds]

I like Ken Docherty but that's the accent as much as anything

Spoiler

Carter did well getting hanging in there to get through

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Snooker on the BBC has a great bunch of commentators. Effortlessly knowledgable about the game. Davis, Stephen Hendry, even John Virgo knows what he's talking about. And Hazel Irvine is the best sports anchor in the UK bar none.

 

[two sheds]

And snooker commentary has to be the best of any sport. Rugby's good when you've got ex players too, but the analysis you get before (and often after) each snooker shot is superb.

Allen vs Selby at the moment.

 

[two sheds]

Allen

 

[Silas Loom]

Lovely.

And a shout for his mad plant in the previous frame too!

( Edit - what I saw as a “mad plant” is now being described as “unmissable” and being recreated by Ally Pally pissed spectators as interval entertainment. Ha.)

 

[two sheds]

Some surprisingly bitty games today, lots of tactical play because they've been missing loads of pots

 

[stavros]

Snooker, perhaps because of its length, also has some classic Colemanballs:

Willie Thorne: "He couldn't have hit that any better... unless it had gone in."

 

[Silas Loom]

Carter looks better than grumpy Ron for tomorrow.

 

[blairsh]

First session of the final absolute class so far, long my it continue