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I love watching the World Championship fortnight but the commentators can drive you mental sometimes
They bring up the same topics and mention the same phrases time and again.
So, I am going to write down as many of them as I can think off and see how many get mentioned:
1-Hawk-eye – never misses
2-There’s Patsy Fagin in the audience (DT)
3-WHERES THE CUEBALL GOING! (JV)
4-Its amazing what can happen on a 12 by 6 foot table (JV)
5-That type of sportsmanship is unique to our sport
6-Stick with me son and I’ll cover you in diamonds (WT)
7-1987 Final
8-He’s blessed with tremendous cuepower
9-Cliff Thorburn – The Grinder!
10-It can’t be easy for these Chinese lads living in England
11-Micheala Tabb – one of our top referees
12-Neil Robertson came to this country with a few pounds in his pocket and nothing else
13-“Angles” McManus
14-Call the police – He’s Missed one! (WT)
15-Ted Pulman – “Mind your work” (DT)
16-Pockets look large but I can assure you they are not
17-Couldn’t have placed it any better if he’d picked it up
18-This is why billiards never caught on (JV)
19-Whatever you do, don’t hit the blue
20-The first shot you see is usually the correct one
21-He’ll be hoping that this isn’t the last time he breaks off
22-This looks like the sort of table you would see down your local snooker club
23- Naughty snooker
Blimey! theres even more than I thought! As I was typing I have put the initials of the likely perpetrator next to some of them:
WT - Willie Thorn
DT - Dennis Taylor
JV - The great JV!
They bring up the same topics and mention the same phrases time and again.
So, I am going to write down as many of them as I can think off and see how many get mentioned:
1-Hawk-eye – never misses
2-There’s Patsy Fagin in the audience (DT)
3-WHERES THE CUEBALL GOING! (JV)
4-Its amazing what can happen on a 12 by 6 foot table (JV)
5-That type of sportsmanship is unique to our sport
6-Stick with me son and I’ll cover you in diamonds (WT)
7-1987 Final
8-He’s blessed with tremendous cuepower
9-Cliff Thorburn – The Grinder!
10-It can’t be easy for these Chinese lads living in England
11-Micheala Tabb – one of our top referees
12-Neil Robertson came to this country with a few pounds in his pocket and nothing else
13-“Angles” McManus
14-Call the police – He’s Missed one! (WT)
15-Ted Pulman – “Mind your work” (DT)
16-Pockets look large but I can assure you they are not
17-Couldn’t have placed it any better if he’d picked it up
18-This is why billiards never caught on (JV)
19-Whatever you do, don’t hit the blue
20-The first shot you see is usually the correct one
21-He’ll be hoping that this isn’t the last time he breaks off
22-This looks like the sort of table you would see down your local snooker club
23- Naughty snooker
Blimey! theres even more than I thought! As I was typing I have put the initials of the likely perpetrator next to some of them:
WT - Willie Thorn
DT - Dennis Taylor
JV - The great JV!
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Any additions?
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Spread on number of mentions:
18-20 |
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Thats what we call a Chinese snooker....
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18 is a classic
 a personal favourite of minehow about... "well, would you believe it" (JV) "the watford's appeared" (WT) |
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All you can ask for is a chance (JV usually, on a deciding frame)
Anything about Seniors snooker (DT) SO and so hasn't been very well lately (DT) |
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Dennis mentions "the great Ray Reardon"
Willie's 147s in practice |
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JV "Purrfekt"
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He may be (e.g. 40) points behind but he's just gone favourite in this frame for me. (WT)
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'85 ( GLASSES TAYLOR )
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2 more classics I forgot, how could I
"has the brown come to his rescue, I think it has" (JV) "betwixt and between" (WT) |
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haven't heard this for a while but when a phone went off in the audience we used to get "the dreaded mobile phone" from JV
absolutely cracks me up |
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Reference to the "knowledgeable Crucible audience" from Dennis when they applaud as a player pots frame ball.
Reference to 'the great South African player Perry Manns' from Dennis again. 'I don't think this red passes the black' - camera angle changes - 'Ooh, it does you know!!' - John Virgo |
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can i buy the spread at 20 please?
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Well he's almost hit that too well.
Would you have a look at this (delivered inexplicably to audience who were all watching anyway) You can't catch your breath out there. And that looks like end of break.....or is there a plant? I think there is you know. He's walking round the table, this must be a plant. No, it's just a safety. Well surely he can't be about to take this one on. Hang on to your hats ladies and gentlemen. I think he's going to play what we call a Masse shot, just watch him get the butt of the cue up in the air. Well this is how you'd set the balls up if you were having a little session on the practice table. I'm afraid they've both lost their way a little bit out there (after an entire session without a break above 20) |
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The standard keeps going up and up. Steve Davis.
Then some plonker trips over the guard rail that health and safety insisted was erected around each pocket. |
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from the great wt
ive had ten grand on bingham to win this and im getting worried |
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Poor old Willie,
If that man had never had a bet he would be very rich and be sitting on a bunch of titles. |
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"There's Ronnie O Sullivan's ex-convict Dad in the audience and because he is the father of a snooker genius who occasionally wears a tea towel on his head and often throws a moody we are supposed to empathise with because he spent 18 years in the shovel"
It's only 50:50 to be used! |
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The great WT on form.
'Always the danger of a double kiss' |
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please get this buffoon taylor off my TV
if I hear "young chinese player" one more time I'm gunna get a chinese flag, roll it up and shove it right where the sun don't shine |
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Not heard Griffiths commentate much before but he does seem to use a variant of "he's been unlucky there" a lot.
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When someone misses a pot DT "thats just a bit of tension"
The atmosphere is electric out there is used by them all. |
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I did laugh at the thread
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I can't believe no-one's mentioned:
"It's all about fractions this game" (WT and JV) |
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1st betwixt and between that I've heard this year, well and truly weighed in
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All you can ask for is a chance (JV usually, on a deciding frame)
WEIGHED IN |
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John Virgo's just said 'It's all about fractions" as well.
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fractions was weighed in before the tournament even started tbf
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hes got some lovely balls today
to be fair i dont think ive heard that in a long time. he'll be disappointed with that |
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that's not the greatest shot he's ever played
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Alan 'Angles' McManus weighed in, Terry Griffiths Selby vs White match
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another betwixt
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Parrott:
"you just wanna get a chance in the final frame" Selby vs White, 9-9 |
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Thankfully not watching it on the BBC this year (cannot stand the commentators) so not sure if we have had that **** DT talking about a little 'snick' yet? Last night on Eurosport we had the 'amazing what can happen on a 6 by 12 foot table'.
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And Eurosport also had 'hawkeye never misses' but followed by 'although he never seems to qualify for the world championship'.
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thin snick been mentioned so many times its nearly trending
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14-Call the police – He’s Missed one! (WT)
Weighed in just now - Fu v Gould |
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17-Couldn’t have placed it any better if he’d picked it up
Said by JV last night (pretty sure it was Selby match) |
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"I've seen everything now" - JV, a shocking omission (at least 10 times each year)
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