World Snooker Championship 2023

[Lionator]

Virgo hates Selby doesn’t he, every non perfect shot is a dreadful mistake.

[Nalis]

1 hour ago, Lionator said:

Virgo hates Selby doesn’t he, every non perfect shot is a dreadful mistake.

He hates everyone it seems. Slates shots all the time. When Hendry does it fair enough as he's won the lot but Virgo was a mediocre player at best.

[Nalis]

BBC ****ed up again earlier. Was hoping to watch the final frame of Milkins Perry during lunch but wasnt available anywhere online on iPlayer, website, BBC2 etc....

[EastAnglianFox]

Selby making hard work of this 

[foxes_rule1978]

Wow Selby pulled off one of my specials on that blue 

[Nalis]

What a brilliant last frame that was in the Murphy Si match.

 

Well done Si, love how he plays and think the game needs a consistently decent young Chinese player to climb up the rankings.

[EastAnglianFox]

There's just something extra satisfying when Murphy gets beat early doors 

[VLC86]

Si looks a player and a half.

[kingfox]

A Crucible classic.

 

Murphy will be seeing Si Jiahui’s face in his sleep tonight 

[Raj]

After all the talk with the Iranian kid and Ronnie im excepting nothing less than a good punch up!!

[RowlattsFox]

Great match between Murphy and Si last night. Drama without it being a slog to watch. 

 

I know a lot don't like Murphy, but I don't mind him. Would like both Ronnie and Vafaei to lose  

[foxfanazer]

Vafaei's heads gone already. That break

[SouthStandUpperTier]

If that break-off is anything to go by Ronnie is living rent free in Vafaei's head.

[purpleronnie]

Just now, foxfanazer said:

Vafaei's heads gone already. That break

Just about to post the exact same thing.  He looked distracted before they even came out.  Maybe he did that as ronnie did it to him in the german qualifiers???

[purpleronnie]

Prefer to listen to Ronnie when he hasn't just finished a match.  Here he is talking about the vafaei situation.

 

 

[foxfanazer]

10 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

Just about to post the exact same thing.  He looked distracted before they even came out.  Maybe he did that as ronnie did it to him in the german qualifiers???

100%. Not the time and place to be making a point though. Yeah he was definitely fidgety before it even started 

[EastAnglianFox]

Absolute suicide comments from Vafaei let's be honest, was likely to get a bit of a tonking over the best of 25 but the last thing you need to be doing is getting Ronnie fired up before it even starts.

 

Fair enough if you have the game to cope with it, I mean Selby still gets in Ronnie's head but he has the talent/temperament to deal with what's coming but Vafaei over this distance? 

 

over confidence maybe because hes had a good 12 months or so??

[foxes_rule1978]

Vafaei is looking the total idiot here, smashing the balls open on the break, and now 6-2 down. 

[Bert]

21 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

Vafaei is looking the total idiot here, smashing the balls open on the break, and now 6-2 down. 

In response to what Ronnie did to him a couple of years back. 

Edited 21 April 2023 by Bert

[Bert]

29 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Absolute suicide comments from Vafaei let's be honest, was likely to get a bit of a tonking over the best of 25 but the last thing you need to be doing is getting Ronnie fired up before it even starts.

 

Fair enough if you have the game to cope with it, I mean Selby still gets in Ronnie's head but he has the talent/temperament to deal with what's coming but Vafaei over this distance? 

 

over confidence maybe because hes had a good 12 months or so??

Vafaei certainly has the talent. But don’t run before you can walk. It’s certainly not paid off for him and it’ll be a big lesson learnt, I’m sure. 

[Nalis]

Wonder if Vafaei is thinking it worked for Carter a few years back and wrongly thinking it will work here for him?

[foxes_rule1978]

1 hour ago, Bert said:

In response to what Ronnie did to him a couple of years back. 

Suppose that makes it better, and losing a frame at the world championship is worth it 

[Lionator]

It’s interesting that the players who truly get into Ronnie’s head are the one’s who do the talking on the table, and grind him into the abyss. Thinking Selby and McGill in particular.

 

HOWEVER, the sport needs a bit of theatre and I’m all for Vaefei showing some personality. It got people interested in this game for example and I find the slagging off of Vaefei an example of why snooker isn’t attracting new fans. 

[foxes_rule1978]

6 minutes ago, Lionator said:

It’s interesting that the players who truly get into Ronnie’s head are the one’s who do the talking on the table, and grind him into the abyss. Thinking Selby and McGill in particular.

 

HOWEVER, the sport needs a bit of theatre and I’m all for Vaefei showing some personality. It got people interested in this game for example and I find the slagging off of Vaefei an example of why snooker isn’t attracting new fans. 

I was just correctly pointing out that it was idiotic and immediately hands Ronnie the advantage from the off. No doubt it makes things more exciting though 

[Bert]

23 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

I was just correctly pointing out that it was idiotic and immediately hands Ronnie the advantage from the off. No doubt it makes things more exciting though 

I think it’s more a point of you “you might be better than me, but I won’t let you bully me”