2016 World Championship discussion

[Hal]

I think Michael White is another player with incredible talent but temperament issues .... Well done Sam Baird, played some good frames to finish the match off.
The other match is pretty poor so far, not suprise for me, as far as I recall, this is the way that most of the R. Williams matches are like, he is great longer potter, but his break building is not on par with that and Ricky Walden seems to be out of sorts also ....

[Rane]

10 - 7 and Sam Baird wins. A deserved win, he really took control in the last part of the evening.

[Tommykiid]

Baird has slowed right down now

[Tim65]

Typical Walden match - turgid.

[Rane]

9 - 7 for Sam Baird. He looks very confident now.

[gmg]

Great Championship so far. As an 80's throwback my favourite moments have been Steve's emotional retirement yesterday and Ronnie's inspired choice of Monkey Magic for his walk on music. Not to mention the excellent Crucible Classics series in the insomniacs slot.

Great to see Ronnie, Higgins and Mark J all looking sharp and Ronnie throwing a bit of his usual controversy into the mix as well. Exciting finishes between Bingham v Carter and McGill v Murphy (esp enjoyable w/Murphy losing), enjoyable BBC coverage from Hazel, Steve, JP & co in the Winter Gardens w/Eurosport as a back up on the odd occasion when its needed. The WC never fails to remind me why I still love snooker and this one has all the makings of one of the best in years.

[spike]

It certainly seems the case in the Walden v R Williams match that it'll be the person who makes the fewest mistakes who gets over the line

And the way those two have played tonight we could be looking at a 3am finish.

[PaddyLowson]

White - Baird have decider written all over it. 7 - 7 now.

Get the feeling both might go 10-9 tonight. It certainly seems the case in the Walden v R Williams match that it'll be the person who makes the fewest mistakes who gets over the line

[DeanH]

2016 World Championship discussion

see back a few posts


"who are ya, who are ya"

[stephenm2682]

who's george riley?

[spike]

who's commentating on the walden match?

Stephen Hendry and George Riley

[stephenm2682]

who's commentating on the walden match?

[Rane]

That post didn´t give much meaning. I meant that he lost position and played save, that way you don´t miss but you won´t get over the line either.

[Rane]

Yes and I read somewhere that Dott had a 90% pot success overall in the match, and was superior to Williams's long pot success too. I didn't see much of either session but got the impression that Williams must have been on very good form.

Dotts problem has always been breakbuilding and it was once again. You can´t really call a man with 183 centuries a bad breakbuilder, but he often needs two or three visits to get over the line.

[Rane]

White - Baird have decider written all over it. 7 - 7 now.