2019 World Snooker Championship

[Stony152]

Higgins doesnt deserve a 5th world title , he should have banned for life for corruption a few years ago , i still to this day do not understand how he got away with blatant match fixing on camera , but he did , and now they were calling him the best match player in history when a month or so ago they were calling Ronnie the greatest player in history , make your mind up bbc pundits ! Rob Walker calls him into play as Scotlands greatest ever sportsman ???? You are not a sportsman when you accept bribes to lose , thats not a sportsman ! And besides which , surely Hendry must be regarded as better than him , good luck to Trump I hope he kicks his fat arse back to Scotland a loser again , he doesnt even deserve to be playing again !

Let me guess that you're not really a Higgins fan.

[Stony152]

Nope, my fantasy is much more painful to him: Higgins wins with a 10 frames gap making a 147 in the final frame including (1) break-off à la Alex Higgins vs Virgo (rare exhibition out on YouTube), (2) all reds potted right-handed and the first 15 blacks left-handed, (3) the yellow potted with a massé shot from behind the brown, (4) the green potted without bridge like Mark Williams, (5) the brown with an underarm shot that unfortunately leaves the cueball snookered between pink and black, but then he pots (6) the blue with a 5-cushion shot, (7) the pink with a no-look shot leaving the cueball dead-straight on the black, (8) the final black with a double despite being dead-straight on the other pocket.

Let me guess that you're not really a Trump fan.

[bonoman1970]

Like quite few others was hoping for anything but this final so I'll take 18-17 either way, Higgins probably deserves a fifth world champs though and I'm sure Judd will get a world champs one day even if he loses tomorrow, so slightly favouring Higgins.

Higgins doesnt deserve a 5th world title , he should have banned for life for corruption a few years ago , i still to this day do not understand how he got away with blatant match fixing on camera , but he did , and now they were calling him the best match player in history when a month or so ago they were calling Ronnie the greatest player in history , make your mind up bbc pundits ! Rob Walker calls him into play as Scotlands greatest ever sportsman ???? You are not a sportsman when you accept bribes to lose , thats not a sportsman ! And besides which , surely Hendry must be regarded as better than him , good luck to Trump I hope he kicks his fat arse back to Scotland a loser again , he doesnt even deserve to be playing again !

[Zelig]

. My fantasy is that one of his opponents gets out his chair and drops him with a right upercut to the jaw. That would be awesome.

Nope, my fantasy is much more painful to him: Higgins wins with a 10 frames gap making a 147 in the final frame including (1) break-off à la Alex Higgins vs Virgo (rare exhibition out on YouTube), (2) all reds potted right-handed and the first 15 blacks left-handed, (3) the yellow potted with a massé shot from behind the brown, (4) the green potted without bridge like Mark Williams, (5) the brown with an underarm shot that unfortunately leaves the cueball snookered between pink and black, but then he pots (6) the blue with a 5-cushion shot, (7) the pink with a no-look shot leaving the cueball dead-straight on the black, (8) the final black with a double despite being dead-straight on the other pocket.

[bobmikeking]

Great interview, just wondering where do you go to watch these interviews are they up on youtube imediately are broadcast on something else,hope this isnt a daft question

World Snooker have a youtube page that put lots of the interviews up pretty much instantly.
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldSn...fficial/videos

Then sometimes the event sponsor will also put up interviews on youtube as well. So in this case Betfred
https://www.youtube.com/user/betfredsport/videos

[snookerball]

Like quite few others was hoping for anything but this final so I'll take 18-17 either way, Higgins probably deserves a fifth world champs though and I'm sure Judd will get a world champs one day even if he loses tomorrow, so slightly favouring Higgins.

[Billy]

Hoping for a great final over 2 days but I've got a feeling that Trump is going to blast Higgins off the table in the first two sessions leaving too much for him. 18 - 10 to Trump.

He certainly has age (and fitness) on his side.

[ken147]

Hoping for a great final over 2 days but I've got a feeling that Trump is going to blast Higgins off the table in the first two sessions leaving too much for him. 18 - 10 to Trump.

[Billy]

I was hoping for a Gilbert vs Wilson final, so I don't want either of them to win. Higgins probably deserves another WC having made three finals in a row.

Me, too, which means I'm fairly neutral for tomorrow. If forced to choose I'd like to see Judd lift the trophy, if only because it would be his first and I can see how much he wants it.

[993porky]

Great interview, just wondering where do you go to watch these interviews are they up on youtube imediately are broadcast on something else,hope this isnt a daft question

[snookerball]

Johns bang on on the scheduling. 12pm or 1pm start would be right then keep 7pm for the evening.

[cueman]

A world championship semi-final... the FLAGSHIP event.... and they can't even do the job of setting the f*cking table up correctly?....

Personally I think setting up a table on a sprung floor is not easy, they don't get a lot of time to set the table up. They have to take down the two tables, move one to the middle, set up lighting, then get the table setup all overnight.

I also feel this tournament that both tables prior to the final had problems. For the first week the left hand table played poor, the second week the one on the right did. I think its cloth, maybe a bad batch or something. All season mostly conditions been as good as ever, the blame of chalk is ridiculous. Ronnie and Trump won as much as anyone this season and they both use Triangle, I just feel some players are on commission to talk up Taom and every so often conditions will be bad and so they use the excuses again.

Hawkins and Wilson had 3 bad kicks in one session with both using Taom, explain that!

[MrRottweiler]

Judd's game is very loose and he seems to prefer the gasps he gets from the audience with powerhouse shots instead of treating it like the touch sport it is. He's a great potter and one the best ever but other aspects have never quite been where they should be for someone with his talent. Every match I see him play there are always multiple shots that he goes for that commentary agree are plain wrong and he either flukes his way out of it or leaves an easy starter and goes back to his chair with that expression like he was unlucky and can't believe how it happened. He wastes good chances and loses far too many frames from his shot selection and desire to be flamboyant. That said he has got to the final and while I wish him well but I will of course be hoping John takes an early lead and it increases from there.

Busy day for Virgo as well commentating on both semi finals 4th sessions. Has that happened before?

[cueman]

When Judd goes into his "naughty snooker" act at the end of frames it must be really annoying to his opponents. I'm not sure what the rules are in the EPL, but in the NFL in America it's considered to be in very poor taste to celebrate excessively. He's basically rubbing it into the face of his opponent when he does that.

My fantasy is that one of his opponents gets out his chair and drops him with a right upercut to the jaw. That would be awesome.

He's not really celebrating, he's just releasing a bit of tension from the arm and just giving the audience some entertainment. I don't feel its done in anyway to rub it into his opponent, if they take it personally I think they should find another game to play. Snooker is a psychological sport, Jimmy and Alex used to do that stuff all the time and I don't remember anyone saying that was disrespectful!

[snookerball]

Rematch of the 2011 final then.

Following 2017's rematch of the 2007 final.

Higgins to play Ken Doherty in next years final then?