2016 UK Championship

[PatBlock]

Someone quite in the fold told me that Fergal O'Brien was the only person he knew in Ireland with a Star pro table in his home,I see the raving aspect of this as some leafy mother talking about her gifted pianist child.

Each to their own I suppose.

Sorry trains, I've read this 20 times and I still don't understand what you mean.

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[DeanH]

Didn't Fergal O'Brian get tonked 4-0 by Hawkins in Northern Ireland?

by Mark King, not Hawkins

[jonny66]

Didn't Fergal O'Brian get tonked 4-0 by Hawkins in Northern Ireland?

[daffie]

Steve and Ronnie in a taxi, with Steve driving! ... that was briljant fun!

Ronnie's line about the psychologist was fantastic.

[the lone wolf]

I thought O'Brien had retired!!!
Where did that come from?
40 is the new 30...
Hope he goes on from here and gets himself into the last 4 :snooker:

[jonny66]

The faces Fergal pulls when he's playing a shot are brilliant.

[trains]

Unbelievable performance from Fergal, 5 centuries as you say, 3 of them consecutive to go from 4 - 2 to 4 - 5. Barry's performance wasn't too shabby either, he had 74, 59, 95, 83 and 79. So of 11 frames there was only one with a break lower than 59. No doubt if Fergal had been ROS everyone would have been raving about this record breaking match. what a cracker.

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Someone quite in the fold told me that Fergal O'Brien was the only person he knew in Ireland with a Star pro table in his home,I see the raving aspect of this as some leafy mother talking about her gifted pianist child.

Each to their own I suppose.

[JimMalone]

I'd really like to see Yan Bingtao against Liang Wenbo. But obviously Eurosport shows O'Sullivan vs. Clark.

[Billy]

Here we go.

Here we go indeed. BBC's snooker coverage has its mockers, but this is proper snooker for me. Hazel, John, Steve, Dennis and JV in the commentary box, Rob introducing. I even get a buzz seeing the familiar refs like Yan.

The height of the main table cameras is going to take some getting used to, though. It's almost like a complete top-down view.

[ghost121]

Here we go. Ronnie playing a 12 year old and Ding has come dressed as Rupert the Bear…

[PatBlock]

Barry Hawkings out after losing to Fergal O'Brien 5:6. I think it must have been quite a match considering 5 50+ breaks by Barry and 5 centuries by Brian .... impressive

Unbelievable performance from Fergal, 5 centuries as you say, 3 of them consecutive to go from 4 - 2 to 4 - 5. Barry's performance wasn't too shabby either, he had 74, 59, 95, 83 and 79. So of 11 frames there was only one with a break lower than 59. No doubt if Fergal had been ROS everyone would have been raving about this record breaking match. what a cracker.

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[JimMalone]

It's nice to see some signs of life from Matthew Stevens and also Fergal O'Brien.
And who would have thought the third round would feature a duel between Peter Lines and Liam Highfield, one of them sure of reaching the fourth round.

[JimMalone]

Well, so far there were some surprises, but there are some in most tournaments. Of course you should expect less in bigger tournaments, since these are the ones the favorites are the most motivated and also the longer distances favour the better players. As we saw at the International Championship a few weeks ago, when most of the big names appeared in the later stages of the tournament. But we've also seen the contrary. For example at last years UK Championship, when only 9 players of the Top 16 reached the third round. So far with Bingham, Robertson, Hawkins and Wilson four of this circle are gone.

[Ramon]

As ROS said ,, snooker has become highly unpredictable game and hard to dominait ,, .


I can hardly believe that some of the top players likes Robertson re out so early.

[VillaGuy]

Don't think fergal beating anyone is a shock, he's always a dark horse capable of anything. Won't find that consistency to get to the semis and beyond I don't reckon though