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I admit I have said in the past Judd isn't capable of being a world champion because the difference with the WC over any other tournament is the distance. Best of 19 is the first round and that is the final for a lot of other tournaments so you can never really know how it's going to pan out. You have a lot of frames to play to get over the winning line and need to play the percentage game and play the right shots. Even players like Ronnie and Robertson have the percentage game going on in the background and don't get sucked in to risky pots. I've been shouting at the TV for years when Judd chooses the wrong shot and misses sending balls all over the table and wondering why he doesn't tighten up his safety game. He did that this year and won. I don't recall seeing a single shot he played that wasn't overdoing the risks. He got the pots anyway and never seemed like missing. I don't think I've ever seen a player breeze through the final like that and not let the occasion get the better of them. He really gave it everything and it was nice to see him with his family and manager during the photos. Judd now knows for certain that when he plays like that he is the best in the world so I will be interested to see how this affects his future seasons. He seems like a genuine lad who never complains and is always respectful of other players so I've never disliked him but I always knew he could be devastating if he stopped with the flash shots. Granted he has amazing cue power and it helped him a few times in the final but the fact is you very rarely need such cue power to be able to make frame winning breaks and he showed in the final just how good he is with the soft stuns and run throughs.
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Originally Posted by snookerball View PostTo those criticising the hyperbole around Judd, at the end of the day flair players like him are the games selling point to the outside world. Of course the BBC and Eurosport, who have a vested interest in increased ratings for the sport are going to tout him as the best things like spliced bread. Ronnie isn't getting any younger and World Snooker need someone to sell tickets to events. I'm sure he will win several more titles to be honest.
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Originally Posted by snookerball View PostTo those criticising the hyperbole around Judd, at the end of the day flair players like him are the games selling point to the outside world. Of course the BBC and Eurosport, who have a vested interest in increased ratings for the sport are going to tout him as the best things like spliced bread. Ronnie isn't getting any younger and World Snooker need someone to sell tickets to events. I'm sure he will win several more titles to be honest.
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To those criticising the hyperbole around Judd, at the end of the day flair players like him are the games selling point to the outside world. Of course the BBC and Eurosport, who have a vested interest in increased ratings for the sport are going to tout him as the best things like spliced bread. Ronnie isn't getting any younger and World Snooker need someone to sell tickets to events. I'm sure he will win several more titles to be honest.
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Originally Posted by gavpowell View PostThis is getting silly now:
"The Crucible has seen and entertained all sorts of have-a-go heroes in 43 years of hosting the annual potting jamboree, but has never witnessed a talent like Trump. Stephen Hendry, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Higgins, with 16 world gongs between them, were and remain exceptional players, but they do not come near to what Trump can produce when he is fully loaded."
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There is only one title in snooker that means anything, and only one place where the legend of snooker players are forged and celebrated. It is what you do at the World Championship that dictates legacy, nothing else even comes close.
- Desmond Kane on the Eurosport website.
Trump's an incredible potter who's now got a very good safety game, but to suggest O'Sullivan can't get near his standard?? And none of the other titles matter? Barry Hearn will be pleased.
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Not my favourite player, but it takes some doing to beat up the rest of the world over 17 days!
Well done and congratulations JT!!!
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This is getting silly now:
"The Crucible has seen and entertained all sorts of have-a-go heroes in 43 years of hosting the annual potting jamboree, but has never witnessed a talent like Trump. Stephen Hendry, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Higgins, with 16 world gongs between them, were and remain exceptional players, but they do not come near to what Trump can produce when he is fully loaded."
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There is only one title in snooker that means anything, and only one place where the legend of snooker players are forged and celebrated. It is what you do at the World Championship that dictates legacy, nothing else even comes close.
- Desmond Kane on the Eurosport website.
Trump's an incredible potter who's now got a very good safety game, but to suggest O'Sullivan can't get near his standard?? And none of the other titles matter? Barry Hearn will be pleased.Last edited by gavpowell; 7 May 2019, 06:23 PM.
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Originally Posted by crocodile View PostSame here. If you think about it Trump had quite a bit of jam on it. He just about scraped through against Un-Nooh and from then onwards, due to the above-mentioned unfortunate circumstances, didn't exactly have to contend with the cream of world snooker on the way. Just a thought ....
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Originally Posted by Odrl View Post
I guess the biggest disappointment this year was that so many of the big favourites were completely out of sorts, particularly O'Sullivan and Allen who had been playing really well this season, and also Selby and Ding of course. As much as people love the underdogs, they can't quite fill the gap when so many top players go out early, especially if all the surprises happen in the same half of the draw, as was the case here. Trump was left as the one and only big favourite in the bottom half fairly early in the event, so most of the excitement was limited to the top half, at least for me.
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There is always a line on just about any decent table where a ball down/near the rail will go in even at pace. The pace just reduces the tolerance and at high pace, it may need to be millimetre perfect
Practice just shooting the cueball straight into pockets from near the cushion at speed and it's amazing how hard they can be hitLast edited by peterpackage; 7 May 2019, 01:50 PM.
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Originally Posted by Mark187187 View PostI'd say yes. That was accurate enough to go in at that speed. Pocket would have spat it out any harder though.
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This will be the first match for a long long time i'm going to rewatch. I watched on Eurosport. I'll rewatch the BBC broadcast for different commentating
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The whole pocket size thing comes up EVERY year. It can't always be correct, because with all those incremental changes, they'd be the size of 9 ball table pockets by now.
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Originally Posted by Odrl View Posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqFDlCmsBtY
Check out the pot Trump takes on into the green pocket at 1:51:00 in the video. Would that have gone in on most tables this season?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqFDlCmsBtY
Check out the pot Trump takes on into the green pocket at 1:51:00 in the video. Would that have gone in on most tables this season?
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