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Topic: Give me a break (Read 181670 times)
RED-DOG
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Re: Give me a break
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Quote from: kukushkin88 on April 29, 2018, 08:51:22 PM
Quote from: RED-DOG on April 29, 2018, 08:39:42 PM
"It came off that cushion faster than it went on and that's a fact".
Imagine if they had two of those cushions facing each other and bounced a ball between them. Eventually it would go faster than the speed of light
Any thoughts on if the ball has a lot of spin on it? It's totally standard imo. I acknowledge the comms are usually talking about plain ball bounce.
You're right.
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I have the greatest respect for Barry Hern, great bloke and fantastic business man IMO, but now he's on about 'encouraging' players to play faster, and publishing lists (name and shame) those at the slow end of the scale.
It's the thin edge of a very ugly wedge as far as I'm concerned. Please let's not go there.
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Quote from: RED-DOG on April 30, 2018, 07:33:50 PM
I have the greatest respect for Barry Hern, great bloke and fantastic business man IMO, but now he's on about 'encouraging' players to play faster, and publishing lists (name and shame) those at the slow end of the scale.
It's the thin edge of a very ugly wedge as far as I'm concerned. Please let's not go there.
He's talking average time taken to play each shot using a large sample-size I believe rather than individual shots.
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Re: Give me a break
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Quote from: Karabiner on April 30, 2018, 07:45:12 PM
Quote from: RED-DOG on April 30, 2018, 07:33:50 PM
I have the greatest respect for Barry Hern, great bloke and fantastic business man IMO, but now he's on about 'encouraging' players to play faster, and publishing lists (name and shame) those at the slow end of the scale.
It's the thin edge of a very ugly wedge as far as I'm concerned. Please let's not go there.
He's talking average time taken to play each shot using a large sample-size I believe rather than individual shots.
So he's saying that the average player should speed up?
It's been fine for the last 200 years Ralph, why mess with it?
Before we know it there will be a clock constantly running on screen and the commentators will harp on about it even more than they do now.
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April 30, 2018, 07:58:55 PM »
Quote from: RED-DOG on April 30, 2018, 07:51:50 PM
Quote from: Karabiner on April 30, 2018, 07:45:12 PM
Quote from: RED-DOG on April 30, 2018, 07:33:50 PM
I have the greatest respect for Barry Hern, great bloke and fantastic business man IMO, but now he's on about 'encouraging' players to play faster, and publishing lists (name and shame) those at the slow end of the scale.
It's the thin edge of a very ugly wedge as far as I'm concerned. Please let's not go there.
He's talking average time taken to play each shot using a large sample-size I believe rather than individual shots.
So he's saying that the average player should speed up?
It's been fine for the last 200 years Ralph, why mess with it?
Before we know it there will be a clock constantly running on screen and the commentators will harp on about it even more than they do now.
I heard the interview and he appears to be targetting the odd scalliwag who deliberately uses very slow play as a tactic.
You and I would be fine though.
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Quote from: Karabiner on April 30, 2018, 07:58:55 PM
Quote from: RED-DOG on April 30, 2018, 07:51:50 PM
Quote from: Karabiner on April 30, 2018, 07:45:12 PM
Quote from: RED-DOG on April 30, 2018, 07:33:50 PM
I have the greatest respect for Barry Hern, great bloke and fantastic business man IMO, but now he's on about 'encouraging' players to play faster, and publishing lists (name and shame) those at the slow end of the scale.
It's the thin edge of a very ugly wedge as far as I'm concerned. Please let's not go there.
He's talking average time taken to play each shot using a large sample-size I believe rather than individual shots.
So he's saying that the average player should speed up?
It's been fine for the last 200 years Ralph, why mess with it?
Before we know it there will be a clock constantly running on screen and the commentators will harp on about it even more than they do now.
I heard the interview and he appears to be targetting the odd scalliwag who deliberately uses very slow play as a tactic.
You and I would be fine though.
If it's only the odd scallywag the ref can sort it, absolutely no need for Barry or people with stopwatches to get involved.
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April 30, 2018, 08:07:38 PM »
BTW I loved Barry's take on the O'Sullivan Carter shoulder clash.
"It was nothing. Snooker players are real men, if they had been professional football players one would have fell down and the other would have been sent off"
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May 01, 2018, 05:10:55 PM »
Higgins can't play much worse than that and is still only 5-3 down. Looks a bet to me at the prices. Trump not impressive at all.
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Quote from: RED-DOG on April 30, 2018, 07:51:50 PM
Quote from: Karabiner on April 30, 2018, 07:45:12 PM
Quote from: RED-DOG on April 30, 2018, 07:33:50 PM
I have the greatest respect for Barry Hern, great bloke and fantastic business man IMO, but now he's on about 'encouraging' players to play faster, and publishing lists (name and shame) those at the slow end of the scale.
It's the thin edge of a very ugly wedge as far as I'm concerned. Please let's not go there.
He's talking average time taken to play each shot using a large sample-size I believe rather than individual shots.
So he's saying that the average player should speed up?
It's been fine for the last 200 years Ralph, why mess with it?
Before we know it there will be a clock constantly running on screen and the commentators will harp on about it even more than they do now.
I think they're concerned that the current demographic for watching Snooker will shuffle off pretty soon. Literally no appeal to anyone under 70, 60 at a push I'd say
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Hawkins must be one of the more underated break builders
Very good to watch
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Quote from: horseplayer on May 01, 2018, 07:37:53 PM
Hawkins must be one of the more underated break builders
Very good to watch
He would have won the world title against anyone in history in 2013 the way he played other than a fully wound up A1 version of Ronnie. I was there for all four sessions of the final and it was one of the best sporting events standard wise i have ever witnessed live. He deserves to be a world champion given his course and distance form over many seasons at this venue.
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Hope he gets one this year
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Snooker stat: Barry Hawkins, who has never won the world title, has won as many matches (17) at the Crucible in the last six years as Mark Selby, who has won it three times in that period
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Hope he gets one this year
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Quote from: TightEnd on May 01, 2018, 08:13:09 PM
Snooker stat: Barry Hawkins, who has never won the world title, has won as many matches (17) at the Crucible in the last six years as Mark Selby, who has won it three times in that period
Amazing stat, that.
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