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Lucky boy
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The reaction tells you everything
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does make life difficult for himself as that winning line looms up
shame about his proclivity to tighten up as when he's flowing has few peers |
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Very decent final,beat that masters sh1te all day long..
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He really is from the Fergie squeaky bum school of snooker isnt he. Despite myself i'm kind of tempted to add him to my world champs team but 20s seems a fair bit too short for a guy who gets so twitchy at first sight of the jamstick
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Jill's roots are showing, but that matters not a jot.
What a woman. |
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Gentlemen,
Just pray your team don't come up against Ding. I have a dream |
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Good stuff moondan, hope you won big on the hawk, just dont go frittering all your hard earned away on crazy dreams
 Ding could be world champion or be beaten by a qualifier first round.....anything is possible with the chinese enigma wrapped up in a puzzle!! |
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"Ding could be world champion or be beaten by a qualifier first round.....anything is possible with the chinese enigma wrapped up in a puzzle!!"
TBF, you could say that about most of them, which is why the outright prices are so unappealing! |
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That's true Lata. But ding is in a special category all on his own for me, in that the gap between his best snooker and his worst is wider than the grand canyon. I seriously doubt there's ever been a professional snooker player whose form can vary to such wild extremes. There are days he looks god like at the table and days you wonder if he's ever held a snooker cue in his life before.
Trump is prone to it as well, I'd say, but to nowhere near the same extent as ding. |
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Ding is more consistent in his inconsistency, for sure!
I've seen Murphy and Robertson have utter stinkers in recent weeks, far below what we know they're capable of. Guess it all adds to the interest, in a strange sort of way! |
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Gentlemen,
My biggish betting days are over and just as well because this season I am near £300 down on the snooker front even though its just the odd tournament that tempts me. The welsh is one of my favorites because its close to a spiritual home for the game but no lover of the best of 7 format. As you will guess its hard for me to look beyond Ding and while you would be fully justified to call the men in white coats my dream is the Welsh and Worlds double  Stevens is on later and just to compound my obvious madness I have had a punt on him as well, highly talented, extremely annoying and another who has under-achieved but it is about time a welshman won it. Just wish he would stop checking out the angles because if he does not know them by now he never will. |
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The old calendar used to be lovely moondan, one big ranking event around february, then the irish masters and the worlds. I could see scope for an extra tournament there but they've now shoehorned 3 invitational events, an extra ranking event and the rubbish that is the shoot out into that space. Everythhing is diminished as a result.
Just to clarify, you mean Matthew there right, rather than Kirk To be perfectly frank, following up "I am near 300 down on snooker" with "I have had a punt on Stevens" might mean you are even beyond the help of the men in white coats. Next you'll be telling us Jamie Cope is on the verge of a breakthrough I bet less and less on snooker myself nowadays. I find the more i watch the less i understand about the game and these bunch of bottling players. They'd drive you mad even trying to win a few quid off them. I'd do frame betting if there was liquidity and i didnt always have the feeling i was betting against people who know something i dont!!! |
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Gentlemen,
Oh for the old days. Youngsters could be forgiven for getting the impression that there were no tournaments to play pre Hearn. The facts are quite different. It was the big banking crisis in 2007 that decimated all investment in sport and nobody escaped from cricket to snooker. Hearn waited until things were on the up before he made his move. Talking of mad men and snooker I am sinking to new depths and have backed Ronnie and Judd to be homeward bound by later today but not without reasonable reason. Ronnie plays Tom Ford and this guy fears nobody, it was in the uk that Ronnie should have been sent packing but tom had an horrendous kick on a straight blue into the middle bag that cost him the match and probably the uk title and certainly Ronnie would have one less UK title to his name. ( the blue was match ball) Judd plays Andrew Higginson who made a 147 in the Welsh the very year they tried out the thinner cloth around the cushions and a bit like Ford is nobody's fool. Both players can play a bit and in this format they are worth a punt at the prices. A white vehicle has just pulled up outside my house so if |
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Moondan they are actually hovering dangerously close to being smart sensible bets....are you running a temperature today perhaps
I dont remember that Ronnie-Ford match but then i cant remember what i had for dinner yesterday so i wouldnt mind that. I dont really like Ford much but laying ron and judd against any half decent pro strikes me as a worthwhile enterprise these days! |
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Gentlemen,
Just been signed out by Mum, Dad, and Grand parents. Also have to attend G.A and hand in my laptop.  |
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Gentlemen,
Age is doing my head in, Ford missed match ball blue in 2007 because of a kick in the N Ireland trophy when it was 4 frames each. I had good reason to remember it because it cost me several hundred but that does not excuse me getting the tournament wrong. 2007 was a great season for ford and promised much but like so many of these guys they don't have the champions bottle or drive. I see Ding did what he usually does |
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Jeez 2007 moondan....you're only a tad out there lol
For some reason I always think of Ford as one of those young guys hovering around the fringes of the top 30/40 waiting for a breakthrough..but now i'm reminded he's in his 30s and has been around for ages. I think there's a lot of guys there...and Michael White is a prime example..who seem to have the ability but just not the head for top level snooker. First sign of pressure and their brain gets scrambled. I suppose most of these guys can make a reasonable enough living out of the game, maybe they're happy enough. Just the latest example of Dings inscrutability...a guy who could easily go on a run and win consecutive tournaments or get beaten in the first round. He was like this last year too before the worlds wasnt he..so dont lose faith yet! |