World Snooker Championship 2015

[The Golden Eel]

Maflin 9-8 up

[Acid]

Fantastic last couple of frames. Loving this. Fuck Selby.

[Acid]

Dick move from Selby the celebration before he's won. Fucking love it if Maflin shafted him now with snookers.

[Mendoza]

Maflin bollocksed it up, Selby wins 10-9. 

[Acid]

Ah well. Maflin deserves some applause for that. World number 1? Fuck him.

[Mendoza]

Looks like Maguire is on his way out.

[The Golden Eel]

Looks like Maguire is on his way out.

Or maybe not?

[Mendoza]

Hope not. I like Maguire and the other guy looks like Paul Scholes, so he can fuck off. 

[Joe Strummer]

McGill came on to The Smiths, he has my support solely for that.

[Mendoza]

Maguire always looks like hes had a heavy night and has slept in his clothes. I like that. 

[Mendoza]

Another decider. 

[Mendoza]

Classy 122 break from the ginge to win it 10-9. 

[The Golden Eel]

Well played

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

McGill came on to The Smiths, he has my support solely for that.

Maybe he was just complaining about the 'always on' lighting policy?

[Bjornebye]

Cant stand mcguire. Made up he is out. Mcgill looks a player

[Tom araya]

What's the order of play today?

[The Golden Eel]

What's the order of play today?

http://livescores.worldsnookerdata.com/SessionList/Tournament/13820

[Tom araya]

Thanks DM.

[RobbieOR]

Great getting up on a day off and this is on at 10 o'clock. 

[The Golden Eel]

Another comeback thwarted it seems.  Hawkins was 9-4 up and now likes he's going to win 10-9.

 

That's 3 games like that now.  

[Bjornebye]

I love the snooker but some of their faces wind me up.

 

Bingham looks like he is shitting.

 

Dominic Dale has this constant grin on his fat smug welsh face. like he has just fingered your sister or clocked skids in your boxies and snapchatted it to all your mates.

 

McGuire as has been pointed out looks like he has been on it for 3 days with Shane McGowan.

 

Mark Allen has to have the most punchable face in the entire universe after Adrian Lewis.

 

Hendry's commentating is like hearing a Major Tom post narrated to you.

 

Neil Robertson needs to fucking liven up a bit and all. Serious faced cunt.

[The Golden Eel]

Dale didn't qualify, you'll be glad to hear.  However, here's his face:

 

[Bjornebye]

Horrible twat

[Bjornebye]

mcmanus is taking the piss with that outfit isn't he? 

[Mad Erik]

Used to love the snooker. Probably 10 or even 15 or so years ago, but I loved it. Whenever it was on BBC2 I'd get home from School and stick it straight on.

 

Genuinely don't know if it's my mind playing tricks, or if it's actually the case, but it just seems like snooker's fallen right off the radar.

 

There was the shitty LG Cup in Preston, the UK Open just before Christmas, the Masters in Feb and the you'd get the World Championships at the end of April. I loved it, it seemed like they were events. They'd get a bit of coverage in the papers, a bit on the news.

 

There seemed like players with personalities. In fact, personalities might be the wrong word, but it seemed like they were 'names'. Hendry, Higgins, Docherty, O'Sullivan, Williams, Hunter. I could probably name the top 16 from back then and give you a bit of colour about what the players were like.

 

Now it just doesn't seem the same. I don't know if it is genuinely in the papers less and it's falling off the radar; or if I've got rose-tinted specs on, thinking back to watching the snooker with my brothers when we got home from School, before we had to do shit like 'get jobs'. Though I'm sure I read a year or so ago that the viewing figures on the BBC were as good as they'd been for five or six years and I know Hearn's put a lot of effort into it...

 

Thoughts?