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unicorn

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I moved from Cambridge to Sheffield in Christmas 2020 at the height of Lockdown 2. When life returned to "normal" 6 months later I said I'd try a bit of everything (except line dancing) Sheffield had to offer, so tomorrow I'm at the morning session (the cheap one) at the Crucible.

Never seen snooker live, hardly watched it on TV since the days of Thorburn and Davis and Parrot.

Anyone watch ? Who the hell are Anthony McGill and Liam Highfield ?
 
unicorn said:
I moved from Cambridge to Sheffield in Christmas 2020 at the height of Lockdown 2. When life returned to "normal" 6 months later I said I'd try a bit of everything (except line dancing) Sheffield had to offer, so tomorrow I'm at the morning session (the cheap one) at the Crucible.

Never seen snooker live, hardly watched it on TV since the days of Thorburn and Davis and Parrot.

Anyone watch ? Who the hell are Anthony McGill and Liam Highfield ?
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I watch it and I think Judd Trump will win it this year.
 
unicorn said:
I moved from Cambridge to Sheffield in Christmas 2020 at the height of Lockdown 2. When life returned to "normal" 6 months later I said I'd try a bit of everything (except line dancing) Sheffield had to offer, so tomorrow I'm at the morning session (the cheap one) at the Crucible.

Never seen snooker live, hardly watched it on TV since the days of Thorburn and Davis and Parrot.

Anyone watch ? Who the hell are Anthony McGill and Liam Highfield ?
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McGill has been around for years and always in or around the top 32. In fact he's actually ranked 13 for this tournament. Decent player.

Liam Highfield was an excellent amateur but never really pushed on after turning pro. The main reason for that is that he was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease which has effected his career massively.

Past couple of years though he's really pushed on and made the top 40 and qualified for this year's World Championship.

Should be a decent game and if McGill isn't on it Highfield could produce a shock
 
balotellishaircut said:
I watch it and I think Judd Trump will win it this year.
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O'Sullivan is the favourite and on his day even at 46 now he can absolutely wipe the floor with anyone.

The big question with him as always is can he be arsed and has he got the consistency to do it over 17 days? If he starts missing easy shots or starts playing loose that's a sure sign he's not interested.

For consistency it's either Trump or Higgins. Also Robertson has been in great form and he's definitely a contender
 
kippaxwarrior said:
McGill has been around for years and always in or around the top 32. In fact he's actually ranked 13 for this tournament. Decent player.

Liam Highfield was an excellent amateur but never really pushed on after turning pro. The main reason for that is that he was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease which has effected his career massively.

Past couple of years though he's really pushed on and made the top 40 and qualified for this year's World Championship.

Should be a decent game and if McGill isn't on it Highfield could produce a shock
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Cheers, top analysis. I presume I get 3 hours of play to watch with a comfort break. Used to prefer the safety play to the 100 clearances in the '80s.
 
It's a wonderful game, snooker. Me and my dad used to play. He'd always win but he was older and better at it than me. Sometimes I couldn't tell the difference between the red balls and the brown ball and with the way I play the brown ball could be anywhere. Most of his points were due to fouls.
 
Don’t know where to put this but I’m watching Columbo and snooker simultaneously until the Chelsea v Palace game. ;)
 
I watch snooker all the time now, after hardly watching it from about the boring Hendry era to a few years ago. When I finish watching it (around midnight) I think “what a waste of my time, I could have spent it much more productively”. I’ll do the same tonight and the next fortnight.

I was watching Murphy last night and thought Werbeniuk was back.
 
Xhavenjoe said:
Expensive man to go on a pubcrawl with, was our man Bill
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From Wikipedia:
Werbeniuk was noted for the copious amounts of alcohol he consumed before and during matches – at least six pints before a match and then one pint for each frame. In total, he drank between 40 and 50 pints of lager per day.[1][5] Doctors advised Werbeniuk to drink alcohol to counteract a familial benign essential tremor.[6] Later in his career he also took propranolol, a beta blocker, to cope with the effects of his alcohol consumption on his heart.[7]

Werbenuik was reported to have successfully claimed the cost of 6 pints of lager before every match as a tax deductible expense.[2]

Some of Werbeniuk's alleged feats of drinking include: 76 cans of lager during a game with John Spencer in Australia in the 1970s;[1] 43 pints of lager in a snooker match/drinking contest against Scotsman Eddie Sinclair in which, after Sinclair had passed out following his 42nd pint, Werbeniuk was reported to say "I'm away to the bar now for a proper drink";[8] 28 pints of lager and 16 whiskies over the course of 11 frames during a match against Nigel Bond, in January 1990 – after which Werbeniuk then consumed an entire bottle of Scotch to "drown his sorrows" after losing the match.[1]
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
From Wikipedia:
Werbeniuk was noted for the copious amounts of alcohol he consumed before and during matches – at least six pints before a match and then one pint for each frame. In total, he drank between 40 and 50 pints of lager per day.[1][5] Doctors advised Werbeniuk to drink alcohol to counteract a familial benign essential tremor.[6] Later in his career he also took propranolol, a beta blocker, to cope with the effects of his alcohol consumption on his heart.[7]

Werbenuik was reported to have successfully claimed the cost of 6 pints of lager before every match as a tax deductible expense.[2]

Some of Werbeniuk's alleged feats of drinking include: 76 cans of lager during a game with John Spencer in Australia in the 1970s;[1] 43 pints of lager in a snooker match/drinking contest against Scotsman Eddie Sinclair in which, after Sinclair had passed out following his 42nd pint, Werbeniuk was reported to say "I'm away to the bar now for a proper drink";[8] 28 pints of lager and 16 whiskies over the course of 11 frames during a match against Nigel Bond, in January 1990 – after which Werbeniuk then consumed an entire bottle of Scotch to "drown his sorrows" after losing the match.[1]
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And that is why snooker and darts are not a sport
 
MellowJoe said:
It's a wonderful game, snooker. Me and my dad used to play. He'd always win but he was older and better at it than me. Sometimes I couldn't tell the difference between the red balls and the brown ball and with the way I play the brown ball could be anywhere. Most of his points were due to fouls.
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Your dad was older than you? Wow lol
 
Robertson or Zhao Xintong. Zhao could play Ronnie in the Quarters which would be a cracker.
 
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