2019 World Snooker Championship (Mod Note Post One)

Hotblack Desiato

Hard luck on Trump missing out on the last red. One frame away...

sligeach

It's all but over.

kerry37

This is just ridiculous from Trump. Absolutely outrageous stuff. Brilliant to watch

This is it

Unreal. This match is likely the best snooker I've ever seen live. 17-9, as above I can't see this getting to the interval

dublinman1990

This is potentially the last frame of the match on now. Let's watch & await the outcome.

Mental Mickey

Game pretty much up for Higgins

martyos121

That should be that, Trump in now with a great chance.

And I jinxed him.

dublinman1990

This frame is a slow burner but Trump is now beginning to get advantage here to win it.

yermandan

All over now. Never seen anything like this performance

dublinman1990

That tight red looks like to have sealed it but we still need one more colour.

gormdubhgorm

yermandan wrote: »

All over now. Never seen anything like this performance

It is up there with O'Sullivan and Hendry at thier best no doubt about it.

yermandan

It's as clinical as I've ever seen a player win any tournament, never mind the worlds. He is like a fcucking robot

sligeach

It's only taken Trump about 20 minutes this evening to win his first World Championship. Thoroughly deserved, feels almost anticlimactic though, such was the procession. Double scores victory.

This is it

Unbelievable snooker, well deserved. Delighted for Trump

dublinman1990

That is it. He's won it. What an amazing performance. Congratulations to Judd Trump.

nullObjects

Nice touch from Higgins there, "I was lucky I didn't even have to pay for a ticket"

AllForIt

sligeach wrote: »

If we're making predictions, then I guess 18-8 to Trump.

Good call sligeach, almost on the nose.

Dr. Bre

Top Trump

Joe_ Public

Very pleased for Trump. Been a long time coming this. Such a complete performance over the two days, confirmation of how far he's come on this season in terms of keeping his table discipline and respecting the balls. Can it really be two weeks since he nearly lost to Thepchaiya Un Nooh?

sligeach

If Judd keeps levelheaded and dedicated, he could dominate snooker for the next number of years.

eric hoone

Wonder could this register on the Donald's radar for a congratulatory tweet!

jimmii

eric hoone wrote: »

Wonder could this register on the Donald's radar for a congratulatory tweet!

Was thinking he's bound to claim some credit some how!

gormdubhgorm

eric hoone wrote: »

Wonder could this register on the Donald's radar for a congratulatory tweet!

jimmii wrote: »

Was thinking he's bound to claim some credit some how!

Making snooker great again....

Lavinia

No way Judd would give credit to some other snooker player not even as inspiration but his dad

omg such a brat

Lavinia

Worst possible final ever in terms of personalities. Hope sincerely it never repeats again.

sligeach

It was a good Championship when you look back over the highlights there.

Remember, Trump just squeaked through the 1st round after being miles behind. Could easily have been a different story.

This is it

Lavinia wrote: »

No way Judd would give credit to some other snooker player not even as inspiration but his dad

omg such a brat

He used most of his winning speech to do nothing but praise John Higgins. He was asked a question and gave an honest answer, his father was his inspiration. Nothing wrong with that.

Exclamation Marc

cocoman wrote: »

Was it hard to get tickets?

Was in the queue at 5.30am, probably about 150/175 in front of me. Was served at 9.30ish. Was pretty cold.

You're given numbered wristbands and there's toilets and a tea stand if you want to step away.

Much better getting tickets this year (apparently) as they had about 8-10 people serving people on laptops. Last year they only had two and the queues didn't dissipate til about 4pm (a lady in the queue told me).

eric hoone

sligeach wrote: »

It was a good Championship when you look back over the highlights there.

Remember, Trump just squeaked through the 1st round after being miles behind. Could easily have been a different story.

And he was 9-7 down to Ding. He peaked at the right times

Exclamation Marc

Lavinia wrote: »

Worst possible final ever in terms of personalities. Hope sincerely it never repeats again.

F*ck personalities. Great snooker is what matters, it's not a personality contest.

Yesterday was one of the best final days of snooker I've ever seen. And today was brilliant too. Rather that than have two incredible personalities who struggle to hit highs.

I'd have liked it a little closer maybe in terms of frames but I'd take that quality of final again.

Exclamation Marc

sligeach wrote: »

It was a good Championship when you look back over the highlights there.

Remember, Trump just squeaked through the 1st round after being miles behind. Could easily have been a different story.

Such fine margins. Even Higgins v Gilbert was on a knife edge and could have gone either way. Great tournament for drama and what ifs.

Lavinia

This is it wrote: »

He used most of his winning speech to do nothing but praise John Higgins. He was asked a question and gave an honest answer, his father was his inspiration. Nothing wrong with that.

Sure he is ''praising'' the opponent he just beat, makes him even greater yeah



Sorry but no.


And don't get me wrong, I'm following snooker for over 20 years and love the game so I watched this too regardless...

kerry37

Trump just served up some of the best snooker that's ever been seen in a world final and theres people bithciing about him. Suppose you cant keep everyone happy

Exclamation Marc

Lavinia wrote: »

Sure he is ''praising'' the opponent he just beat, makes him even greater yeah



Sorry but no.


And don't get me wrong, I'm following snooker for over 20 years and love the game so I watched this too regardless...

Sounds like you're going to hate Trump no matter what he said or did.

Say Your Number

Was away for the last hour, what am I supposed to do now

Ah it's dissapointing that it's finished early, but the last session of Higgins Gilbert and the session this afternoon are two of the best sessions of Snooker I've ever seen, will a player ever post 5 centuries in a World Final and still be well beaten, players have played worse than that and come closer to winning, the final score definitely doesn't reflect the match, insane standard.

Trump really has come on, even up to a year he was still taking on those brainless shots, he was frightening last night, if he keeps that up he could well be a dominant force for the next decade.

This is it

Lavinia wrote: »

Sure he is ''praising'' the opponent he just beat, makes him even greater yeah



Sorry but no.


And don't get me wrong, I'm following snooker for over 20 years and love the game so I watched this too regardless...

What answer to the question would've been reasonable to you?

Exclamation Marc

Say Your Number wrote: »

Was away for the last hour, what am I supposed to do now

Ah it's dissapointing that it's finished early, but the last session of Higgins Gilbert and the session this afternoon are two of the best sessions of Snooker I've ever seen, will a player ever post 5 centuries in a World Final and still be well beaten, players have played worse than that and come closer to winning, the final score definitely doesn't reflect the match, insane standard.

Trump really has come on, even up to a year he was still taking on those brainless shots, he was frightening last night, if he keeps that up he could well be a dominant force for the next decade.

Mmmm. The extra few seconds he gives himself to think seems to have given him the ability to think about shots better and maybe fully assess the risk. That's an opinion from my armchair anyway!

Elmer Jones

kerry37 wrote: »

Trump just served up some of the best snooker that's ever been seen in a world final and theres people bithciing about him. Suppose you cant keep everyone happy

His surname just draws all the cranks to him.

Say Your Number

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

F*ck personalities. Great snooker is what matters, it's not a personality contest.

Yesterday was one of the best final days of snooker I've ever seen. And today was brilliant too. Rather that than have two incredible personalities who struggle to hit highs.

I'd have liked it a little closer maybe in terms of frames but I'd take that quality of final again.

It gets on my nerves when people lament a lack of "characters", I don't care if they are most boring humans imaginable, if they we see stuff like we've seen the last few days I'll keep watching, do they have to do a dance after every pot or something.

The last few World Championships have been brilliant, but the worrying thing is there doesn't seem to be any young lads coming through, what'll it be like in 10/15 years time.

PauloMN

Congratulations and well done to Trump, a deserved champion. Wanted Higgins to win but no complaints losing against a player like that.

First of many world titles I think, I don't watch any snooker outside of the world championship, but compared to a few years ago his game has come on so much. Fantastic player and his performances over the past week have set down a marker.

Birdnuts

Parrot said he was like Alex Higgins at this best during the final - very good comparison IMO. Hopefully we get many years of this "naughty" snooker:D;)

Scorpion Sting

Well done to Trump. He was on fire and nothing Higgins could do to prevent him from winning comfortably. The first of many World titles for Trump I'd say.

zuutroy

Say Your Number wrote: »

It gets on my nerves when people lament a lack of "characters", I don't care if they are most boring humans imaginable, if they we see stuff like we've seen the last few days I'll keep watching, do they have to do a dance after every pot or something.

The last few World Championships have been brilliant, but the worrying thing is there doesn't seem to be any young lads coming through, what'll it be like in 10/15 years time.

Sport has always been about people and characters, heroes and villains. The thing that originally got me, and a lot of people that grew up in the 80s and 90s, into snooker was the flawed genius against ruthless winning machine storyline. Snooker will fall off a cliff in the west if the fabled Chinese domination ever comes. Not too many over this way are going to be all that interested in 2 emotionless Chinese lads battling it out, both from a city of 10 million people that we've never heard of.

Exclamation Marc

Trump is the first player to amass over £1,000,000 in a single season. I know that's a product of increased prize money too but such a great return on that form.

Joe_ Public

zuutroy wrote: »

Sport has always been about people and characters, heroes and villains. The thing that originally got me, and a lot of people that grew up in the 80s and 90s, into snooker was the flawed genius against ruthless winning machine storyline. Snooker will fall off a cliff in the west if the fabled Chinese domination ever comes. Not too many over this way are going to be all that interested in 2 emotionless Chinese lads battling it out, both from a city of 10 million people that we've never heard of.

That is quite true i think. Its been something lacking in snooker of late that we havent really had a true rivalry develop, like a higgins (alex) v davis or a hendry v white or ronnie v higgins (j) in the noughties. I thought we might get a judd v ronnie sustained rivalry developing over the past few years, but it never really happened for one reason or another. Would be great if some young players did come through and lay down a marker to judd or whoever is on top in a few years. Hard to know how the future pans out.

Snooker in the 80s was definitely built on larger than life characters, not just those at the top either. The Alex-Davis rivalry actually wasnt much of a rivalry at all when you consider how one sided it was, but there was always drama of one sort or another.

I would quibble a bit, though, with the "emotionless" chinese statement. It might refer accurately enough to Ding and fit the basic asian stereotype, but then you have Liang Wenbo, Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong, Yuan Sijun and others i'm sure who are all fairly flamboyant and expressive players around the table. What they lack, i believe, is the kind of safety and tactical play that Trump has shown he excels at and Alex did too back in the day. But hard to say how that whole far east thing is going to play out, a few years of UK dominance left yet i'd say.

Say Your Number

zuutroy wrote: »

Sport has always been about people and characters, heroes and villains. The thing that originally got me, and a lot of people that grew up in the 80s and 90s, into snooker was the flawed genius against ruthless winning machine storyline. Snooker will fall off a cliff in the west if the fabled Chinese domination ever comes. Not too many over this way are going to be all that interested in 2 emotionless Chinese lads battling it out, both from a city of 10 million people that we've never heard of.

If these two emotionless Chinese lads play to the same level we've seen over the last few days then I can't wait to see it.

Hotblack Desiato

Even though Higgins lost by so many frames, the standard of snooker he was playing was very high.

At one point the graphic showed both players with a pot success rate of 92% yet Trump had twice the frames of Higgins. Margins are so fine.

To rack up five centuries and yet still lose, only winning eight frames, shows you what Higgins was up against.

DJIMI TRARORE

Pity there is no Irish players coming through,we always had someone to follow

melon_collie

Say Your Number wrote: »

It gets on my nerves when people lament a lack of "characters", I don't care if they are most boring humans imaginable, if they we see stuff like we've seen the last few days I'll keep watching, do they have to do a dance after every pot or something.

The last few World Championships have been brilliant, but the worrying thing is there doesn't seem to be any young lads coming through, what'll it be like in 10/15 years time.

I agree completely. The last few world champs have been excellent. It annoys though me that the analysists talk about how popular the game is, waiting lists for tickets, popularity at a high, etc

It's all bullsh1t. What the game needs here i.e. in Ireland and UK is people going to clubs and playing the game. The game is going to die here unless that happens. It's the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about. And I don't think that World Snooker and RIBSA are doing enough. It's great that all the prize money is increasing for the pros but how much of that is feeding down to grass roots level to promote the game, fund clubs, etc?? Feck all.

In a few years the majority of players on the tour will be from the East and middle East. The game is thriving in those parts of the world

melon_collie

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

Pity there is no Irish players coming through,we always had someone to follow

Aaron Hill is a very good young player who hopefully will continue to devlop and make it onto the pro tour. Keep any eye out for him