UK championship match discussion thread

[Valderie]

Really enjoying watching this - very entertaining so far!

tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are. selby once refused to lend me a chalk so mon the rokit

[Semih_Sayginer]

all the best to those going today

hopefully Selby wont be addressing the table as if hes on a ferry. *wobble wobble*

oh and Ja - mon Selby

omg i sooo miss train stations and tourney-goings *sobs*
hope you have loads of fun kellie

mon the rocket!

[kellie-text]

Morning everyone!

Ronnie v Maguire would be a great final but i'd like Selby to be there!

I'm at the train station now ready to head to Telford. Cant wait to be there! Hope today's semi final is good!

[PaulTheSoave]

200 quid for my ticket and your my man.

Stephen Maguire?

[doorag]

I really hope Ronnie wins tomorrow because what a final we would have on our hands! Maguire the perfectionist vs Ronnie the artist.. Mouthwatering to say the least.

[Alex0paul]

And guess whos there?

Stephen Maguire?

[PaulTheSoave]

Its all culminating in a grand spectacle on sunday!! Title and number one spot on the ropes! And guess whos there?

[Alex0paul]

Stephen Maguire is the new provisional number 1 unless Ronnie wins tomorrow. If it is a Ronnie v Stephen final then the winner takes number 1 and the loser takes number 2.

(Before tomorrows semi final)
1. Stephen Maguire 37625*
2. Shaun Murphy 36850
3. Ronnie O'Sullivan 36550**
4. John Higgins 31925
5. Mark Selby 31525**

[matoski]

Stephen Maguire is such a perfectionist, this was a kind of snooker i like. There is so much Stephen Hendries influence in his game.

[dannyd0g]

That all depends on what side of the bed Ronnie wakes up on. If he's playing his best, I think Ronnie will get the better of Maguire, simply because Maguire has a tendency to get the jitters and Ronnie doesn't, but Ronnie might just as well not really turn up (and this goes for tomorrows semifinal as well) and in that case he'll lose. Part of what makes Ronnie so interesting, I guess.

I hope and believe that Ronnie will be 'up for' and interested in playing Selby - so theres a good chance he'll be on form for that one. Then if he wins that one, i think he he has a high opinion of Maguire, so he could play well there too. If any of this guess work is true it could be bad news for his opponents but good news for his fans.

[Martin76]

yeah, but good enough to take out Ronnie at the moment?

That all depends on what side of the bed Ronnie wakes up on. If he's playing his best, I think Ronnie will get the better of Maguire, simply because Maguire has a tendency to get the jitters and Ronnie doesn't, but Ronnie might just as well not really turn up (and this goes for tomorrows semifinal as well) and in that case he'll lose. Part of what makes Ronnie so interesting, I guess.

[Hot.Shot.Not]

yeah, but good enough to take out Ronnie at the moment?

[zombieman]

All in all this was a pretty good performance by Maguire. He upped his game from the Williams match very nicely.