World Snooker Championship 2023

Up to the ref to pull him up on it if it seems excessive. Also up to the opponent to draw ref's attention to it if the opponent feels it is excessive. Otherwise, no real rules against it unless ref makes the decision.

Shelby one away from the one table set up.

Hopefully with the move overnight, the one table won't be getting that top rail and those black bags from table 2.

Selby was embarrased by that red dropping, like Higgins was with that black on Sunday night.

Posted a message and made two points that got ridiculed that I forgot to reply to. Davis would of beaten O'Sullivan every day at his peak, and Alex Higgins was more naturally talented.

Even since O'Sullivan has got it together mentally, he can always be rattled, by a player who can clear up and drag the game down under pressure. Davis was a robot under pressure, would grind O'Sullivan, slow the game and pick him off. Davis beats O'Sullivan every day, and twice on Sunday, in a World Championship game.

The other point I made was Higgins was the more natural talent, despite many factors holding him back. Someone replied posting the centuries Higgins made, missing the point that with the right coaching and professionalism, Higgins was better. He had the most natural eye for a pot, the mark of raw talent. Pulled off shots no other player was capable off, regularly, not even O'Sullivan. I'd wager, most of the top players would agree.

Obviously he wasn't the best ever, but certainly the greatest raw talent the game has seen. Seen an interview with White today, laughed about his break in 82, White confident he'd miss as knew he was "steamed". Pulled off the greatest break ever, that was the measure of the man, hammered and knocking everything in, working off raw instinct!

Drunk, impatient, terrible posture, did everything technically wrong, constantly losing the cueball as was steamed, yet every frame he saved, required at least 4 impossible shots. The guy had no peers when faced with shots, where all odds against him.

My point was, bring him up to today's professionalism and standards, get him off the drink, show him the right posture and technique from a young age, and make him stop rushing and read the game better, and you'd have a potting machine on your hands, the likes the game has never seen. No one had the natural eye this guy had, no one, not even O'Sullivan

That was myself that posted the Alex Higgins v Terry Griffiths centuries

Come on right coaching and talent? If my granny had balls she would be me uncle. All if's but's and maybe's with Alex Higgins.

I would go as far to say that Alex Higgins is the most overhyped and overrated player in the history of snooker.

The main argument for Alex Higgins seems to be that snooker was stuffy before he turned up. That seems to be the beginning and end of his plus points. He was a circus act with a snooker cue.

I backed MA at 11 to 1 after Trump lost but I think the Jester looks unstoppable now.

I was thinking there, you know the way people almost assume it is a question of when not if for O'Sullivan's 8th title?

If Selby wins this year, he will be on five and suddenly looking like he could get the 8th himself! That would really annoy Ronnie fans if he did that!

In that 2020 semi final that Ronnie pulled the win out of nowhere, If that had of gone the other way, as it easily could have.

Selby would be looking to join Ronnie on 6 this weekend.

The margins are fine at that top, top level.

They were discussing that young fella Si in the BBC studio earlier today. Hazel said he had not being back to China for three years until recently.

I was thinking that really says something about his dedication, most would have given up.

I think pretty much all the pros agree that o Sullivan is the best ever to pick up a cue.

O’Sullivan defo tops Higgins….Higgins may have been the most talented player ever to pick up a Q but he was the biggest w@anker to ever pick one up also……the only one to come close to him in the w@nker stakes would be the toolbox from oz quinten ham/hann

It is intriguing to watch Si and McGill, bits of good and more bad. It's entertaining, and it does remind me of McGill v Wilson in 2020(one of if not the worst WC ever). It was like car crash TV, especially that drawn out frame with all those misses, effectively decided by a fluke.

Nerves are at play here, more so for Si you would think. 11-11, let's see what unfolds.

Hard to know if it's nerves or tiredness getting to Si at times here