2017 Snooker-Shoot-Out

[shmeeko69]

what the highest break so far.........

Just been made, 96 by Graeme Dott. Should have been a century though

[finabb]

what the highest break so far.........

[Billy]

watching it with the sound off, the crowd are doing my head in.............

Agreed. The very element I suspect is supposed to be key to all of this, is the one thing that's spoiling what could otherwise be quite a fun event.

I wanted to hate it, then had to admit I quite liked it, but the crowd are becoming very very tiresome indeed. It's not so much the noise, but the fact that it sounds so unfriendly and yobbish. They sound like the kind of crowd you'd avoid when walking home on a Saturday night. I really wouldn't mind the interaction if it was friendly, but these lot sound like they're on the brink of a scrap.

[finabb]

watching it with the sound off, the crowd are doing my head in.............

[narl]

Sounds like the drinks starting to take effect with the constant "duhhh da duuh duuuh duuuh duh duuuuh".

[itsnoteasy]

I think they are plants hired by the hearnster to create the atmosphere he's after. Or they are Ronnie fans on day release.

[narl]

Do they have a special place for the jeering animals at this thing, hidden away from the public gaze? I can't work out where it's all coming from - certainly not from the portion of crowd we get to see.

Probably in the drunken loon section away from the cameras

[Billy]

Do they have a special place for the jeering animals at this thing, hidden away from the public gaze? I can't work out where it's all coming from - certainly not from the portion of crowd we get to see.

[mcmuffin]

Frankly the shootout being a ranking event is a disgrace.

Frankly.... The shootout is a disgrace!!

[DeanH]

2017 Snooker-Shoot-Out

I like both Yan and Vafaei (especially after meeting him at Welsh last week).
Vafaei played a waiting game and got his chance

[DeanH]

Its on the telly , itv4.

Ahh thanks

Also ITV Hub, works on mobile well

[Billy]

He won? I'll mark that down in my diary.

Now how is it players can play in this tournament with noise and crowd movement, yet in the crucible if a mouse farts it "puts them off".

It's weird, innit? I suppose it's because they don't really have a choice and are prepared for it being part and parcel of the *******isation that is Shoot-Out.

And that's not swearing so no one shout at me.

Ah, seems the forum's filter is a little ignorant of our language.

Seriously, though, it's an interesting point. If the way they can play in this isn't proof that pressure is self-imposed I don't know what is.

[two-cues]

Totally bonkers that poobang chap

[jrc750]

Funniest thing ever that

[jrc750]

Frazz up next