2024 World Championships

Will be at the Crucible a few days this week, hopefully a drink or two at the Graduate and all.

Best make the most of Sheffield in April, in case the loons do move it from 2027

I see Robertson is joining the BBC in the Winter Garden next week for analysis.

And Fergal O'Brien will be commentating on Eurosport, as Dominic Dale has qualified, so Fergal can take over his slots.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/snooker/snooker-world-championship-results-schedule-matches-today-b2531436.html

World Snooker Championship first round schedule

Saturday 20 April

10am

Luca Brecel vs Dave Gilbert

Zhang Anda vs Jak Jones

2.30pm

Ali Carter vs Stephen Maguire

Judd Trump vs Hossein Vafaei

7pm

Luca Brecel vs Dave Gilbert - final session

Tom Ford vs Ricky Walden

Sunday 21 April

10am

Mark Selby vs Joe O’Connor

Zhang Anda vs Jak Jones - final session

2.30pm

Shaun Murphy vs Lyu Haotian

Judd Trump vs Hossein Vafaei - final session

7pm

Ali Carter vs Stephen Maguire - final session

Tom Ford vs Ricky Walden - final session

Monday 22 April

10am

Shaun Murphy vs Lyu Haotian - final session

Gary Wilson vs Stuart Bingham

2.30pm

Mark Selby vs Joe O’Connor - final session

Mark Williams vs Si Jiahui

19.00

Robert Milkins vs Pang Junxu

Gary Wilson vs Stuart Bingham - final session

Tuesday 23 April

10am

Kyren Wilson vs Dominic Dale

Ding Junhui vs Jack Lisowski

2.30pm

Mark Allen vs Robbie Williams

Mark Williams vs Si Jiahui - final session

7pm

Robert Milkins vs Pang Junxu - final session

Barry Hawkins vs Ryan Day

Wednesday 24 April

10am

Kyren Wilson vs Dominic Dale - final session

Ding Junhui vs Jack Lisowski - final session

2.30pm

Mark Allen vs Robbie Williams - final session

Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Jackson Page

7pm

John Higgins vs Jamie Jones

Barry Hawkins vs Ryan Day - final session

Thursday 25 April

1pm

Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Jackson Page - final session

Any chance you could stop banging on about the tables for these two weeks kirk? You've your opinion, may or may not be shared by others. But 10 years of randomly posting 'that red shouldn't have gone in' is pub-bore stuff.

It makes you sound like the auld moany fella who says he could have gone pro in "his day" if he played on tables that were that "easy" now.

It has long been discussed that the pockets are not wider, it is the cloth that is more accepting on the corners (particularly on the cushion). But the middle pockets are definitely playing harder than they ever were. So swings and roundabouts. This has been repeated to you on numerous occasions by numerous posters. But it does not seem to be sinking in.

So I propose a solution once and for all -

What I thought of was a boards snooker meetup. Posters can go to club of your choice and all watch you do the standard `"line up" on a "championship standard" table to see how "easy" it is. If you manage it without missing we will all buy you a few pints and say. "Well done". And your repetitive mantra will be proven. If you miserably fail on the "easy" pockets you can instead "caulk" it up to experience.

Would be great if Maguire gets a run the tournament. Has to be one of the big underachievers in snooker. Loads of talent. Application the issue.

A bit like Carter I suppose, temprement wise.

But Maguire has so much talent, it feels like a real waste. I mean he is capable of winning the thing if he plays like he can for two weeks. To think that Dott has won a WC and the likes of Maguire has not is mad. When you think of it the two of them must have practiced together in Scotland.

I seem to remember he said something similar himself.

Scrappy stuff here from Brecel and Gilbert.

But round one, you just need to get to 10

Brecel packed it in a bit early at the end. Only one snooker needed and 67 available.

Expect him to go through the motions for a few more shots there, under the circumstances, considering that's him done now for the summer, you don't have to play until August if you fancy a long break.

He appears to be suffering from a throat infection or flu, he certainly collapsed badly this evening from a 6-3 lead, and Gilbert was not setting the World on fire either.

Only the 2nd day and there's already no TV coverage 🤔

BBC1 taken up by Marathon. It annoys me they don't just open BBC4 early and it keep all the snooker there for the two weeks. No messing then between red button, BBC1,BBC2, website etc.

I have the red button on the statlite. I retuned everything - strangely I am "snookered" for the ITV4 competitions it has disappeared. I can only get ITV4 +1.

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Just caught the end of Jones v Anda. From the sound of it not much was missed Jones walloped him handy. Session to spare.