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2018 World Championship

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  • #572
    Comic Book Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭Comic Book Guy


    Should be over now in 5 mins...


  • #573
    eric hoone
    Registered Users Posts: 485 ✭✭eric hoone


    Curtains now surely


  • #574
    Peter File
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Peter File


    It looks like Higgins could whitewash Lisowski on the other table.
    Looking like the handshake or shove will be coming up for Ronnie and Ali after this frame :(


  • #575
    martyos121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,455 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    The blue ball is hexed this year, I tell ya.


  • #576
    Permabear
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    This post has been deleted.


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  • #577
    Permabear
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #578
    Joe_ Public
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    Great from Carter, very very impressive. Better player and held his nerve. Hats off to the captain.


  • #579
    Peter File
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Peter File


    The journeyman beats Ronnie. What a hateful man he is


  • #580
    martyos121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,455 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    Hopefully Williams or Milkins absolutely batters Carter in the quarters. Cannot stand him.


  • #581
    paulie21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,125 ✭✭✭✭paulie21


    Jaysus Carter giving it large there lol only a 2nd round match


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  • #582
    Comic Book Guy
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    Peter File wrote: »
    The journeyman beats Ronnie. What a hateful man he is

    Fully deserved though, never looked rattled at any stage.


  • #583
    Snake Plisken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,952 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Really don’t like Carter! Ronnie never turned up in that match for whatever reason


  • #584
    zuutroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    On the Hawk train now.


  • #585
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    Peter File wrote: »
    The journeyman beats Ronnie. What a hateful man he is

    Which one?


  • #586
    Permabear
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  • #587
    Peter File
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    Snake Plisken wrote: »
    Really don’t like Carter! Ronnie never turned up in that match for whatever reason

    Seems to have taken Carter for granted. He was very casual at times.


  • #588
    sligeach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,012 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Delighted for Carter and delighted O'Sullivan is out. People talk such nonsense about him and overrate him. O'Sullivan didn't deserve to win in the slightest and really, Maguire should have beaten him.


  • #589
    Brae100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭Brae100


    sligeach wrote: »
    Delighted for Carter and delighted O'Sullivan is out. People talk such nonsense about him and overrate him. O'Sullivan didn't deserve to win in the slightest and really, Maguire should have beaten him.

    People overrate Ronnie? Are you insane? Every top player believes that he is the greatest player ever.


  • #590
    Joe_ Public
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    paulie21 wrote: »
    Jaysus Carter giving it large there lol only a 2nd round match

    Dont know why I’m replying cos this comment doesn’t deserve one.


  • #591
    melon_collie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭melon_collie


    I'd like to see Ding go on and win it now. Although you can bet that williams and Higgins will fancy their chances after that result.


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  • #592
    Spudman_20000
    Registered Users Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Spudman_20000


    sligeach wrote: »
    Delighted for Carter and delighted O'Sullivan is out. People talk such nonsense about him and overrate him. O'Sullivan didn't deserve to win in the slightest and really, Maguire should have beaten him.
    Well done Carter. Beaten cancer, dealing with Crohens disease. Hope he can beat little man syndrome too.


  • #593
    melon_collie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭melon_collie


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Dont know why I’m replying cos this comment doesn’t deserve one.

    The irony


  • #594
    martyos121
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    I’m thinking a Higgins vs. Ding final is on the cards now. Hawkins could very well take the spot of the latter but it’s the most likely outcome IMO.


  • #595
    Joe_ Public
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    I gave Carter little chance this tournament, had him written off virtually as a top player. Got it well wrong and don’t see what’s wrong with over exuberance after beating the fav and a guy he was 0-13 against. Massive, massive win for him in the context of the last few years of his career. Whatever happens from here on in.


  • #596
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,471 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Hope he can get a frame. Don't want to see a whitewash first to 13. Only ever happened once at the Crucible when steady Eddie lost 10-0 in 1992. but he was well past it by then.


  • #597
    Snake Plisken
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    melon_collie wrote: »
    I'd like to see Ding go on and win it now. Although you can bet that williams and Higgins will fancy their chances after that result.

    It would be great for the game in China to see Ding win it, I’m sure Barry Hearn would be delighted if he won it too.


  • #598
    mdwexford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,280 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    Disappointed Ronnie is out.
    He never looked consistent enough over the first two rounds to show he could win the tournament though.

    Really hoping Ding goes and does it now. Selby and Ronnie out should really put some pep in his step.

    Hawkins and Allen will be the other two I'm cheering for.
    Barry is so consistent here and Mark has played the best out of anyone I've seen so far.

    Would disgust me to see Higgins win another. Anyone but him please.


  • #599
    sligeach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,012 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Brae100 wrote: »
    People overrate Ronnie? Are you insane? Every top player believes that he is the greatest player ever.

    I meant overhype and he's not the greatest ever player. Second best... probably.


  • #600
    AnneFrank
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    Barry Hearn is a numptie,just like his son.Pity Ronnie is gone but history tells us not many players past 40 win the worlds


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  • #601
    martyos121
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    Snake Plisken wrote: »
    It would be great for the game in China to see Ding win it, I’m sure Barry Hearn would be delighted if he won it too.

    It’d also make a relocation of the tournament to China more likely though. Not sure if I’d want that myself but I think it’s going to happen in the next ten years, sooner if Ding wins a world title.


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