Snooker World Championship
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Victor McDade said:
anonymous said:
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And now it's as if it never happened. The snooker authorities, ex-players, the bbc team etc still fawn over Higgins as if he's the second coming of Christ.Anyway, he's out . Well done Mark Davis.
The footage was utterly damning, and if they'd rejected his ridiculous excuse, they'd have had to admit that cheating was so very close to the heart (and the top) of the game.
Now they can still say 'there are no cheats in snooker'. However risible that claim might be.
As an aside, I'd quite like to watch a match when two first class players have each, unbeknownst to the other, agreed to throw it.
Watching them each miss increasingly easy shots and get more and more desperate to lose, yet have to pretend to be gutted at their terrible play would be hilarious.
And after that snooker would be dead. Which wouldn't be so hilarious.
Watching them each miss increasingly easy shots and get more and more desperate to lose, yet have to pretend to be gutted at their terrible play would be hilarious.
And after that snooker would be dead. Which wouldn't be so hilarious.
vinopete said:
im glad other folk feel the same way i do about higgins, he's a disgrace. imagine you had placed your hard earned on him for a sports bet. was very happy to see he was knocked out.
Glad to see him out, as you said, he's a disgrace----it's only the BBC commentators who seem to think he is a god.Bedazzled said:
Watching the Robertson game and I just learned a new rule, if it's a touching ball with a red you can just roll the cue ball away and hit nothing, but if it's a touching ball with a colour (and you're playing a colour) you can nominate another colour and pot it.
I always assumed you were hitting the touching colour first (as with the red)!
Them's the rules I always assumed you were hitting the touching colour first (as with the red)!
You can also nominate the colour you're touching and roll away without hitting anything else or hit any other ball providing you don't pot it.
That's how we play anyway.
Bedazzled said:
bigandclever said:
...providing you don't pot it.
Presumably it's not allowed to move at all?After potting a red if the cue ball is touching a colour, you can nominate that colour and play away from it (it can't move, otherwise that's a push shot) and hit anything you like (or nothing) - it doesn't matter, you've already hit your nominated colour. As always, the only ball you could legitimately pot would be the nominated colour.
Poomjaeng out. How the hell did he miss this THREE times in a row, it was right in front of him!
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