Some great up and coming players including debuts for Xiao Guodong Michael Wasley Robbie Williams
Also Robin Hull who appeared at The Crucible in 2002 and retired in 2008 due to health concerns is back and has made it this year.
Would also like to make a few more points: Ding Junhui equaled Stephen Hendry's record of 5 ranking titles in 1 season and is looking on form Kyren Wilson and Michael White are also promising youngsters Ken Doherty and Alan McManus are there and doing it for the oldies
and Dafabet will be donating £100 for every century to the official charity of World Snooker Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice in Sheffield, The record is 83 but with the way some of these players are playing I would not be surprised to see that go past 100 this year.
IMO it will be well worth watching, more than happy to update people on here if enough people say it will be worth my time
Ronnie O'Sullivan V Robin Hull on Table 1 Stuart Bingham V Ken Doherty on Table 2
Really hope Hull has learnt something from beating Ebdon in final round of qualifying, Ebdon really knows how to annoy O'Sullivan, which is the best way to stop him
Hi would appreciate the updates. Big snooker fan, even had some lessons a year or so ago. Never got that much better.
Used to follow Ray Reardon...god that shows my age! Wouldn't it be great if the old timers had a competition...Davis, White, Griffiths, Reardon, Taylor, Throburn etc. guess the game has moved on quite a bit.
Paulie, a question for you. Do you know much about functional snooker? I work as a Deputy Head in a primary school and would be interested in promoting school in schools. Don't know much about it apart from the fact that it promotes Maths and English skills.
Hi would appreciate the updates. Big snooker fan, even had some lessons a year or so ago. Never got that much better.
Used to follow Ray Reardon...god that shows my age! Wouldn't it be great if the old timers had a competition...Davis, White, Griffiths, Reardon, Taylor, Throburn etc. guess the game has moved on quite a bit.
Paulie, a question for you. Do you know much about functional snooker? I work as a Deputy Head in a primary school and would be interested in promoting school in schools. Don't know much about it apart from the fact that it promotes Maths and English skills.
Any info appreciated.
They do its The World Senior Championships Dene O’Kane v Nigel Bond Tony Knowles v Darren Morgan Tony Drago v Dave Harold Steve Davis v Dennis Taylor Doug Mountjoy v Jimmy White Alain Robidoux v Tony Chappel Cliff Thorburn v Philip Williams Joe Johnson v Stephen Hendry
Hi would appreciate the updates. Big snooker fan, even had some lessons a year or so ago. Never got that much better.
Used to follow Ray Reardon...god that shows my age! Wouldn't it be great if the old timers had a competition...Davis, White, Griffiths, Reardon, Taylor, Throburn etc. guess the game has moved on quite a bit.
Paulie, a question for you. Do you know much about functional snooker? I work as a Deputy Head in a primary school and would be interested in promoting school in schools. Don't know much about it apart from the fact that it promotes Maths and English skills.
Any info appreciated.
if you email chris.lovell@nltg.co.uk he can give you information on how to get your school involved with cue zone which is getting stronger and stronger all the time
End of the opening sessions of this years Dafabet World Championship
Ronnie O'Sullivan 7-2 Robin Hull will finish tonight session starts at 19:00 Stuart Bingham 5-4 Ken Doherty will finish tomorrow morning session starts at 10:00
Next matches are underway at 14:30 this afternoon Shaun Murphy V Jamie Cope-Murphy has struggled this season but picked it up over the last month(My outsider to win the tournament) Stephen Maguire V Ryan Day-Maguire normally does very well early on in tournaments but when it gets to Semi's and Final's he bottles it.
Paulie I hope you are right in your predictions as regards the total centuries during the tournament as ive bought at 68 on the spreads.Only bets so far today is over 15.5 frames in the Bingham v Doherty match and S.Maguire to win.O'Sullivan looks like the overall winner to me and have opposed D.Junhui.
Paulie I hope you are right in your predictions as regards the total centuries during the tournament as ive bought at 68 on the spreads.Only bets so far today is over 15.5 frames in the Bingham v Doherty match and S.Maguire to win.O'Sullivan looks like the overall winner to me and have opposed D.Junhui.
Not looking good, Maguire been complaining about a bad back for a few weeks now seems to be affecting him today 5-2 behind
TeacherAddick said: Hi would appreciate the updates. Big snooker fan, even had some lessons a year or so ago. Never got that much better.
Used to follow Ray Reardon...god that shows my age! Wouldn't it be great if the old timers had a competition...Davis, White, Griffiths, Reardon, Taylor, Throburn etc. guess the game has moved on quite a bit.
Paulie, a question for you. Do you know much about functional snooker? I work as a Deputy Head in a primary school and would be interested in promoting school in schools. Don't know much about it apart from the fact that it promotes Maths and English skills.
Any info appreciated.
if you email chris.lovell@nltg.co.uk he can give you information on how to get your school involved with cue zone which is getting stronger and stronger all the time
TeacherAddick said: Hi would appreciate the updates. Big snooker fan, even had some lessons a year or so ago. Never got that much better.
Used to follow Ray Reardon...god that shows my age! Wouldn't it be great if the old timers had a competition...Davis, White, Griffiths, Reardon, Taylor, Throburn etc. guess the game has moved on quite a bit.
Paulie, a question for you. Do you know much about functional snooker? I work as a Deputy Head in a primary school and would be interested in promoting school in schools. Don't know much about it apart from the fact that it promotes Maths and English skills.
Any info appreciated.
if you email chris.lovell@nltg.co.uk he can give you information on how to get your school involved with cue zone which is getting stronger and stronger all the time
Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-4 Robin Hull Ali Carter 5-4 Xiao Guodong
So to recap on the opening day:
O'Sullivan beat Robin Hull 10-4 to advance to the 2nd round, which as its not till Thursday means he will probably go home for a couple of days, expect to see Robin Hull start to get to the later stages of tournaments, seem to be playing well considering he has had a 8 year absence due to his health. Jamie Cope looked very good in the opening session taking a 5-4 lead into tomorrow against Shaun Murphy Ken Doherty came from 3-0 down to only 1 behind as Stuart Bingham takes a 5-4 lead into tomorrow Xiao Guodong making his Crucible debut is 5-4 behind to the Captain Ali Carter
The shock of the day tho was Ryan Day taking a 6-3 lead into tomorrow against Stephen Maguire(who has been complaining of a bad back)
Centuries have been a bit disappointing only seeing 4 so far Ryan Day getting the highest break with a 130
So that ends the first of 17 days at Sheffield for the Dafabet World Championship onto tomorrow I say
The morning Session starting at 10:00
Stuart Bingham 5-4 Ken Doherty to play to a finish Joe Perry V Jamie Burnett(A nice England V Scotland battle there, and Joe Perry is one of the nicest players on the circuit, Jamie Burnett is probably most famous among snooker fans for being the first player to get over 147 in a professional match when he got a 148 in Qualifying for the 2004 UK Championship)
Day 2 Morning session and what a session it was for Crafty Ken Doherty
Stuart Bingham 5-10 Ken Doherty (Remember it started 5-4 to Bingham today) Joe Perry 3-6 Jamie Burnett- (Will finish tomorrow morning starting at 10:00)
No century breaks this morning, I think I might of cursed the century breaks by saying there would be a lot.
The afternoon session will see: Ding Junhui V Michael Wasley (A 5 time ranking winner this season against a player making his Crucible debut) Ali Carter 5-4 Xiao Guodong (It was very close yesterday, I expect a final frame decider in this one)
Comments
Xiao Guodong
Michael Wasley
Robbie Williams
Also Robin Hull who appeared at The Crucible in 2002 and retired in 2008 due to health concerns is back and has made it this year.
Would also like to make a few more points:
Ding Junhui equaled Stephen Hendry's record of 5 ranking titles in 1 season and is looking on form
Kyren Wilson and Michael White are also promising youngsters
Ken Doherty and Alan McManus are there and doing it for the oldies
and Dafabet will be donating £100 for every century to the official charity of World Snooker Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice in Sheffield, The record is 83 but with the way some of these players are playing I would not be surprised to see that go past 100 this year.
IMO it will be well worth watching, more than happy to update people on here if enough people say it will be worth my time
O'Sullivan minus 6.5 and Bingham minus 4.5 as a double on paddy power is around 4/1
Cant see betting for centuries but if you can find it anywhere I would say at least 5 in both games
1 more and I am happy to do it
And nothing from my Brother yet
Reckon Ding won't reach semis.
Ronnie O'Sullivan V Robin Hull on Table 1
Stuart Bingham V Ken Doherty on Table 2
Really hope Hull has learnt something from beating Ebdon in final round of qualifying, Ebdon really knows how to annoy O'Sullivan, which is the best way to stop him
Ronnie O'Sullivan 3-1 Robin Hull
Stuart Bingham 3-1 Ken Doherty
Used to follow Ray Reardon...god that shows my age! Wouldn't it be great if the old timers had a competition...Davis, White, Griffiths, Reardon, Taylor, Throburn etc. guess the game has moved on quite a bit.
Paulie, a question for you. Do you know much about functional snooker? I work as a Deputy Head in a primary school and would be interested in promoting school in schools. Don't know much about it apart from the fact that it promotes Maths and English skills.
Any info appreciated.
Dene O’Kane v Nigel Bond
Tony Knowles v Darren Morgan
Tony Drago v Dave Harold
Steve Davis v Dennis Taylor
Doug Mountjoy v Jimmy White
Alain Robidoux v Tony Chappel
Cliff Thorburn v Philip Williams
Joe Johnson v Stephen Hendry
that was the first round draw last year
Current champion is Steve Davis
which is getting stronger and stronger all the time
http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/CueZoneIntoSchools
if you click that link it will give you some more information including case studies and a video
Ronnie O'Sullivan 7-2 Robin Hull will finish tonight session starts at 19:00
Stuart Bingham 5-4 Ken Doherty will finish tomorrow morning session starts at 10:00
Next matches are underway at 14:30 this afternoon
Shaun Murphy V Jamie Cope-Murphy has struggled this season but picked it up over the last month(My outsider to win the tournament)
Stephen Maguire V Ryan Day-Maguire normally does very well early on in tournaments but when it gets to Semi's and Final's he bottles it.
Stephen Maguire 3-6 Ryan Day
Shaun Murphy 4-5 Jamie Cope
Both matches finish in the Evening Session tomorrow starting at 19:00
The Evening Session
Ronnie O'Sullivan 7-2 Robin Hull to play to a finish
Ali Carter V Xiao Guodong(Xiao Guodong making his crucible debut)
Hi would appreciate the updates. Big snooker fan, even had some lessons a year or so ago. Never got that much better.
Used to follow Ray Reardon...god that shows my age! Wouldn't it be great if the old timers had a competition...Davis, White, Griffiths, Reardon, Taylor, Throburn etc. guess the game has moved on quite a bit.
Paulie, a question for you. Do you know much about functional snooker? I work as a Deputy Head in a primary school and would be interested in promoting school in schools. Don't know much about it apart from the fact that it promotes Maths and English skills.
Any info appreciated.
if you email chris.lovell@nltg.co.uk he can give you information on how to get your school involved with cue zone
which is getting stronger and stronger all the time
http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/CueZoneIntoSchools
if you click that link it will give you some more information including case studies and a video
Thanks for that information. Really appreciate it.
Does Ray Reardon not play in the seniors any more....guess he is too old!
Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-4 Robin Hull
Ali Carter 5-4 Xiao Guodong
So to recap on the opening day:
O'Sullivan beat Robin Hull 10-4 to advance to the 2nd round, which as its not till Thursday means he will probably go home for a couple of days, expect to see Robin Hull start to get to the later stages of tournaments, seem to be playing well considering he has had a 8 year absence due to his health.
Jamie Cope looked very good in the opening session taking a 5-4 lead into tomorrow against Shaun Murphy
Ken Doherty came from 3-0 down to only 1 behind as Stuart Bingham takes a 5-4 lead into tomorrow
Xiao Guodong making his Crucible debut is 5-4 behind to the Captain Ali Carter
The shock of the day tho was Ryan Day taking a 6-3 lead into tomorrow against Stephen Maguire(who has been complaining of a bad back)
Centuries have been a bit disappointing only seeing 4 so far Ryan Day getting the highest break with a 130
So that ends the first of 17 days at Sheffield for the Dafabet World Championship onto tomorrow I say
The morning Session starting at 10:00
Stuart Bingham 5-4 Ken Doherty to play to a finish
Joe Perry V Jamie Burnett(A nice England V Scotland battle there, and Joe Perry is one of the nicest players on the circuit, Jamie Burnett is probably most famous among snooker fans for being the first player to get over 147 in a professional match when he got a 148 in Qualifying for the 2004 UK Championship)
Stuart Bingham 5-10 Ken Doherty (Remember it started 5-4 to Bingham today)
Joe Perry 3-6 Jamie Burnett- (Will finish tomorrow morning starting at 10:00)
No century breaks this morning, I think I might of cursed the century breaks by saying there would be a lot.
The afternoon session will see:
Ding Junhui V Michael Wasley (A 5 time ranking winner this season against a player making his Crucible debut)
Ali Carter 5-4 Xiao Guodong (It was very close yesterday, I expect a final frame decider in this one)