World Championship 2015

barneystinson

martyos121 wrote: »

Snooker doesn't get the coverage it deserves. If anyone was watching by accident tonight, they're more than likely a fan now. Ridiculous that RTE don't show any of it anymore, and the BBC coverage should be a lot wider.

Push the Red button Marty...

MajesticDonkey

Amazing game, delighted for Bingham. Snooker is one of the most enjoyable sports, if not the most enjoyable sport to watch on TV.

case885

Bingham's wife is a looker too, doesn't smile much though

martyos121

barneystinson wrote: »

Push the Red button Marty...

I'm well used of it Barney, but they could do with at least putting it on BBC 3 or 4, easy to miss the red button feature if you're a casual viewer, and it would improve viewership of those channels too.
Also I don't think BBC covers all the tournaments, so people without Eurosport have to settle for just the big ones.

syngindub

Enthralling match, Enjoyed it from start to finish. bit sad it's all over for another year. Well done Stuart, see ye next year defending the title and breaking the Crucible Curse !!

Nadser

Great final. I couldn't decide who I wanted to win. Both would have been worthy but I'm delighted for Stuart.

Birdnuts

Thoroughly enjoyed the whole tournament and delighted to see a new name on the trophy after a cracking final

martyos121

Would be incredible to see Bingham be the man to break the Crucible curse next year, next April can't come soon enough! (Except for all the rugby, football, GAA etc. in between ).

Hotblack Desiato

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Jimmy was in and out after the interval. He popped out for at least a frame there, and looked a bit bolloxed at the end.

I've been a big fan of Jimmy for 30+ years, and he had an immense natural talent, but I don't think he's ever made a single good decision in his life. Booze, drugs, women, 'mates', he's always been too open to distractions, he was runner-up so many times, if he'd applied himself that bit more he'd have had at least one, and probably more, world championships. He would have been grand if everyone had stayed at the early 80s level, he entered the professional game when it was an old boys' drinking club, Davis showed them up, then Hendry moved the game up another notch and showed what professionalism meant. You had to respect his talent even though it was dead boring to watch him win all the time.

MajesticDonkey wrote: »

Amazing game, delighted for Bingham. Snooker is one of the most enjoyable sports, if not the most enjoyable sport to watch on TV.

Well, we know that, the average punter will turn it on for 5 minutes and say it's 'boring'. Their loss.

The Golden Miller

Super from Bingham. No one deserved it more after 20 years of hard graft. From journeyman for most of his career and ending up as world champion, it's a staggering achievement. One of sports greatest infact. Controlled the second half of that game too. Murphy was only really winning frames from Bingham's mistakes, but when Bingham didn't make any he was totally in control. The difference was Bingham seemed to pot every half chance to get into frames first, from long balls behind the baulk line, whereas Murphy was constantly wobbling the jaws from those positions. So Bingham was normally in first and controlling the game from there.

The BBC analysts and commentators are getting a bit annoying though it must be said. Everything is great and the greatest ever seemingly. I know they do it to promote the game, as it struggles compared to the 80's etc, but it's a bit insulting constantly selling people a disingenuous half truth. Ye the standard has gone up for a variety of reasons, just like in every sport, but I'm not so sure the talent has gone up, or that the players are "better". If anything it's been regressing for the last 10 years or so in my opinion. John Parrot slightly touched on this earlier for a bit of balance, but never really went into it

Hotblack Desiato

sligeach wrote: »

Shaun Murphy take a bow. As good a loser and that word is wrong as I've ever seen.

There was no loser tonight.

There was a worthy winner and a dignified runner-up.

syngindub

still waiting on all these chinese to break through giving the sport is so popular over there. Every year bbc are telling us the break though is inevitable.
probably deserves a seperate thread to be honest.

barneystinson

martyos121 wrote: »

I'm well used of it Barney, but they could do with at least putting it on BBC 3 or 4, easy to miss the red button feature if you're a casual viewer, and it would improve viewership of those channels too.
Also I don't think BBC covers all the tournaments, so people without Eurosport have to settle for just the big ones.

Demand and supply Marty. Just because you and I like a thing doesn't mean it would make sense for BBC to schedule it...

martyos121

syngindub wrote: »

still waiting on all these chinese to break through giving the sport is so popular over there. Every year bbc are telling us the break though is inevitable.
probably deserves a seperate thread to be honest.

Th real talent is coming from Europe IMO. Brecel, White and McGill will be future world champions I reckon.

mirrorwall14

So I haven't watched snooker since I was a teenager 15 years ago and caught this yesterday, bloody brilliant snooker. Having completely lost touch with the sport are there any other tournaments aired between now and next year on standard UPC channels?

syngindub

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

So I haven't watched snooker since I was a teenager 15 years ago and caught this yesterday, bloody brilliant snooker. Having completely lost touch with the sport are there any other tournaments aired between now and next year on standard UPC channels?

Eurosport show most if not all if anything is on.

paulie21

Thrilled to see Bingham win. Really meant something to him. Murphy is a class act too and hopefully get the chance to lift that trophy again

mirrorwall14

syngindub wrote: »

Eurosport show most if not all if anything is on.

I think I'm on horizon max so I've got eurosport super. Off to google snooker

Brilliant final. Super play by both players and what a dignified loser!

The Golden Miller

martyos121 wrote: »

Th real talent is coming from Europe IMO. Brecel, White and McGill will be future world champions I reckon.

I dunno if Brecel is all he's cracked up to be

mickdw

syngindub wrote: »

Eurosport show most if not all if anything is on.

Yes, they show pretty much everything but its poor coverage. No content added whatsoever. No studio team or anything. I believe in some cases, the eurosport commentators are not even at the event, they simply talk over the tv feed.

Invincible

Was it 2005 Murphy won it @ 100/1?

paulie21

BBC only show the UK, World's and Masters nowadays, ITV 4 have the Champion of Champions and a couple of other tournaments as well

Eutow

Delighted for Mr Bingham, a class act. Snooker doesn't get enough coverage. The standard of play this year has been excellent.

Passenger

Bingham had probably captured the imagination of most fans throughout the final. He played some fine Snooker and he deserves to be World Champion imho.

dfx-

mickdw wrote: »

Yes, they show pretty much everything but its poor coverage. No content added whatsoever. No studio team or anything. I believe in some cases, the eurosport commentators are not even at the event, they simply talk over the tv feed.

They had a set up in Berlin this year, but there's very little need when there's very fast turnaround/minor tournaments over a weekend.

seanhynes

Couldn't think of a nicer player to win it,all that hard graft the last 3-4 seasons he has come on leaps and bounds as a player,he plays in so many events too the extended calendar has obviously reaped rewards,if someone said to me he'd win a world title 4 years ago Id have leg ought they were insane ,great achievement delighted for him

padd b1975

paulie21 wrote: »

BBC only show the UK, World's and Masters nowadays, ITV 4 have the Champion of Champions and a couple of other tournaments as well

Welsh Open via the red button only on BBC too.

Great final and what a fantastic couple of weeks of snooker. First time in a while I've been able to watch most of it and the standard was just outstanding from so many players.
Great to see someone like Bingham win it, no complaining from him about too many tournaments. :P Not a Murphy fan at all usually but he played some outstanding stuff at times.

syngindub

Next ranking Event in Australia late June.
3 of the last 4 winners semi finalists of world championships.

Cushie Butterfield

Was delighted to see Bingham playing so well & achieving his dream after so many years of hard slog.

Out of curiosity does anyone know or have an inkling what Steve Davis, John Parrott & Hazel Irvine might have meant by saying that ''nice guys CAN win''. By this I mean were their remarks more or less referring to one particular previous winner, or were they merely so delighted for Stuart Bingham & the fact that he's such a nice guy that their remarks were tongue in cheek?

Glenman

Delighted for Stuart. I wonder what were the odd on him winning before the tournament?
You can't beat an underdog story. It's great to see Ronnie/Selby and all the usual suspects playing in the final but the Ball-Run story this year gave us something different and was very enjoyable.

vienne86

I'd forgotten what a good sport snooker is for TV. That was gripping last night and it has me off looking to see when the next snooker will be on TV - great entertainment.

Cushie Butterfield

Glenman wrote: »

Delighted for Stuart. I wonder what were the odd on him winning before the tournament?

100/1

fryup

So Happy for Bingham, for so many years a fringe player that never looked like reaching the top of the tree but now look...an inspiration to other lower ranked players.

GerB40

Cushie Butterfield wrote: »

Was delighted to see Bingham playing so well & achieving his dream after so many years of hard slog.

Out of curiosity does anyone know or have an inkling what Steve Davis, John Parrott & Hazel Irvine might have meant by saying that ''nice guys CAN win''. By this I mean were their remarks more or less referring to one particular previous winner, or were they merely so delighted for Stuart Bingham & the fact that he's such a nice guy that their remarks were tongue in cheek?

I'd say it's just a play on words of the saying "nice guys finish last". I doubt there was any malice intended.

philstar

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Is there something wrong with Jimmy White that he seems to be the only person in the auditorium not standing? (I am/was a huge JW fan btw)

Black Menorca wrote: »

Is he thinking I'm JW, and I don't need to stand up? I hope not.

:rolleyes:

Jimmy sat down cause he saw his face in the big screen was just above Stuart Bingham's during the post match presentation and he didn't want to take any attention away from Stuart...there was no disrespect intended Jimmy isn't that type of person.

Glenman

So Mark Allen claimed that Stuart had no bottle. I think that Allen is the one lacking the bottle!

syngindub

Glenman wrote: »

So Mark Allen claimed that Stuart had no bottle. I think that Allen is the one lacking the bottle!

Mark Allen needs to let his cue do the talking. talks a lot of crap

GeneralC

Cushie Butterfield wrote: »

100/1

50/1

GeneralC

Glenman wrote: »

So Mark Allen claimed that Stuart had no bottle. I think that Allen is the one lacking the bottle!

Allen will never win a World title. I think he lacks the game and the mental side to go with it.

GeneralC

I have heard that Hendry is considering picking up a cue again and he will try to qualify for next year's WCs. Announcement will be made later in the year.

loyatemu

GeneralC wrote: »

I have heard that Hendry is considering picking up a cue again and he will try to qualify for next year's WCs. Announcement will be made later in the year.

Bingham is evidence of how players can improve dramatically through playing more competitive snooker (one of the benefits of the new tour format). I think they said he'd played every tour event this season and had played more frames than any other player.

Hendry is presumably not going to want to slog around a load of minor tour events, I just can't see him showing up cold for the WC qualifying and winning 3 19 frame matches.

mickdw

GeneralC wrote: »

I have heard that Hendry is considering picking up a cue again and he will try to qualify for next year's WCs. Announcement will be made later in the year.

Would be interesting to see but I think he would struggle.

martyos121

mickdw wrote:

Would be interesting to see but I think he would struggle.

Ken Doherty and Steve Davis had good runs in recent years, so it isn't out of the question for him to reach the quarters. I think he needs to play a few tour events first to regain his competitive edge.

robbie02

great final that was, thorougly enjoyed ever bit of it, i was rooting for Bingham cause it was his first chance at the world championship title and worked hard to get there, Shawn Murphy i have massive respect for though, a great player and gracious runner up, i d say he will get his chance again for a second world title.

in fairness i do think BBC do great with the coverage, it is an awful lot of hours to air a sport over 17 days. i might actually go up to my local snooker hall now and have a few games and beat my highest break of 28 haha

mickdw

robbie02 wrote: »

great final that was, thorougly enjoyed ever bit of it, i was rooting for Bingham cause it was his first chance at the world championship title and worked hard to get there, Shawn Murphy i have massive respect for though, a great player and gracious runner up, i d say he will get his chance again for a second world title.

in fairness i do think BBC do great with the coverage, it is an awful lot of hours to air a sport over 17 days. i might actually go up to my local snooker hall now and have a few games and beat my highest break of 28 haha

The BBC coverage has gone to pot in recent years. Very little live snooker shown on main channels. A few years back, you had a number of feeds on the red button. I believe there is only one feed now.
Great coverage of semis onwards though.

Similarly, their formula 1 coverage is a joke nowadays too.

robbie02

mickdw wrote: »

The BBC coverage has gone to pot in recent years. Very little live snooker shown on main channels. A few years back, you had a number of feeds on the red button. I believe there is only one feed now.
Great coverage of semis onwards though.

Similarly, their formula 1 coverage is a joke nowadays too.

I suppose your right. Not meaning to be verring off the subject; but what I would really like to see is the Goffs snooker tournament brought back. whatever happened to it?

mdwexford

BBC coverage is great when it's actually on tv, unfortunately that isn't often enough.

It wouldn't cost much to be able to have two red button feeds like they used to. You should be able to see every shot of every match on the red button.

The 7pm to 8pm in the evening is ridiculous when they are stopping coverage of live quarter and semi finals to show a load of chef crap or similar.

They have no problem clearing the schedule when Wimbledon rolls around, they have non stop coverage every day.

case885

mdwexford wrote:

They have no problem clearing the schedule when Wimbledon rolls around, they have non stop coverage every day.

Its to do with popularity, having snooker on for large portions of the day will not suit the majority of BBC viewers whereas tennis is a more popular event. They cover most of the tournament on the red button which is FTA.

Bruthal

robbie02 wrote: »

I suppose your right. Not meaning to be verring off the subject; but what I would really like to see is the Goffs snooker tournament brought back. whatever happened to it?

It was the benson and hedges Irish Masters, then the tobacco sponsorship was banned. It was then sponsored by the dept of health, and moved to the Citywest hotel.