2019 World Snooker Championship

[Billy]

Hazel is getting lazy these days. Either that or her fees have gone up.

[Billy]

Ding’s plant just then - sotc

[jrc750]

You can figure out Trump's mentality by the fact he didnt hire any coach. That is very sad fact and it impacts his career more than he thinks.
Ronnie signed up for that sightright thing, and also has the psychologist. He is going far more smart at the game than Trump.

Look what good it did him !! Ronnie gone home, Trump still here, so your point is rather silly ???

[Mark187187]

You can figure out Trump's mentality by the fact he didnt hire any coach. That is very sad fact and it impacts his career more than he thinks.
Ronnie signed up for that sightright thing, and also has the psychologist. He is going far more smart at the game than Trump.

It's all situational. It's easy to say that after a few dodgy performances, but he still wins plenty of tournaments without a coach, and he's not the only one. He's not stupid, if he thought he had an issue a coach would help with he'd get one.

[Billy]

Right, so it’s Jud vs Ding on BBC 2. Good. So that means when coverage ends at 8:30 the red button channel will switch so that we can continue watching? So why do I get the sinking feeling that on this occasion they’ll stay with the Higgins Bingham match and Ding will get shoved online?

[Billy]

BUSTED!

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Yeah, the first one was a typo. The ‘Don’t’ shouldn’t have been there, and the ‘anyone’ was meant to say ‘everyone ‘

[The Boss]

I don't know the name of Maguire's walk on music but i like it and look forward to hearing it again tomorrow

[kibo]

You can figure out Trump's mentality by the fact he didnt hire any coach. That is very sad fact and it impacts his career more than he thinks.
Ronnie signed up for that sightright thing, and also has the psychologist. He is going far more smart at the game than Trump.

[narl]

Davis talking about Trumps oddball technique.

[vmax]

He has always done it and I guess it proves that if you don't aim properly and you have to adjust on the delivery its going to cost him throughout his career when under pressure, or as I believe, in conditions like this where the cloth is playing heavy. He often struggles in these conditions when a touch of unwanted side is exaggerated on a heavy cloth. This causes bad misses and drains your confidence and its the worst place to suffer as everything is magnified at the crucible. I guess he can't really change it this late in his career as its something he's done as a kid.

It's the super fine cloths that are supposed to show up any unwanted side, problem with Trump, Ding, Maguire, Selby, O'Sullivan is that they've all played on the bad table, tons for fun on the other one.

His pot success is about the same as Ding's and no one mentions his technique. Trump is unconventional, but he's probably hit a million balls. For him, his cueing feels as natural as any other players. He's hit as many centuries as Selby in less time, and will be ahead of Robertson when he gets to that age. He's got a good chance of going passed 1000 like ronnie and will certainly go past Hendry. There's a more fundamental issue- I think his bottle is the problem. Same as Ding yesterday. Both their techiques went to crap.

If you move on the shot and cannot stop yourself then Trumps technique is sound enough, perhaps more players should adopt it. Find out that you move a certain amount and adjust your address to strike centre ball when you move rather than address centre ball and then strike with side when you move.
This is where he gets his power from IMO, putting the body into it as well while everyone else is trying to keep it still and failing.

[PatBlock]

Arrgh!

I don't dislike anyone.

It’s why I can’t watch him. He also reinforced my dislike of him....

BUSTED!

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[plague1973]

He has always done it and I guess it proves that if you don't aim properly and you have to adjust on the delivery its going to cost him throughout his career when under pressure, or as I believe, in conditions like this where the cloth is playing heavy. He often struggles in these conditions when a touch of unwanted side is exaggerated on a heavy cloth. This causes bad misses and drains your confidence and its the worst place to suffer as everything is magnified at the crucible. I guess he can't really change it this late in his career as its something he's done as a kid.

williams started to work sightright
someone with Judds talent would pick it up, quickly
would give him another good ten years....i am a sightright coach and know what it can do for players

thats why he chooses to splatter the reds, so can make a break with many options allover the table

he is a winning player...when confidence is up there but difficult to imagine a desillusion here wouldn't start eating his belief again as it has done for previous seasons

[daffie]

Classic Crucible comeback from Kyren. This has been a cracker of tourney so far. :smile:
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Yes...and yes. 👍

[Billy]

Just watching the wilson match, that is bloody annoying how he goes into the shot. Shuffle shuffle shuffle, stroke stroke stroke....

It’s why I can’t watch him. He also reinforced my dislike of him during his interview after a win at some tournament a while back, when he said, “listen, I’m a Wilson - and all the Wilsons are fighters.” And the feckin parading of his son he does, like he’s some kind of trophy!

Shame Barry couldn’t see him off.

[Odrl]

Fantastic stuff from Wilson today to complete the job. Most players would have cracked very early in that match, including some solid top16 players, but Wilson showed again that he could very well be Selby's successor. Never gave up for a second, and he just got stronger and stronger towards the end of the match. Also, he totally does look like Robert Mitchum. :wink:

A shame these two had to meet this early, because Hawkins would have had a great chance of getting to the final if he was in the bottom half of the draw.

Well played to Carter as well, definitely handled the pressure better than Zhou in the final session. Lots of close frames that could have gone either way though, so Zhou wasn't far away from a good result here. I would expect him to make an even better effort over the next few years as he gains some much-needed experience in these situations. :smile: