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by **god_bless_john_houlding** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:12 pm

the snooker championships at the cruicble is in day 8 now, but i thought it deserved a mention before it got any later.

with higgins, murphy and selby all out already, it's looking taylormade for Ronnie O'Sullivan who's currently winning 5-3 against Mark Williams. Hendry is looking as good as I've seen him for a long time, he's just knocked out Ding Juhui. McGuire who's already won two ranking tournaments this season is leading Neil Robertson (austriallia) 8-0, so maybe McGuire is the best bet. But the young Chinese lad Liang Wenbo can certainly play, and is the real outside bet. Other players like Perry, Bingham, Swail (getting beat to Liang 3-1) are unlikely to win the tournament.

For me it's an O'Sullivan-McGuire final, with Ronnie winning it for his third world championship title.

by **dawson99** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:24 pm

well i agree Hendry is having an absolute blinder, and i think he could really upset the applecart this year. add to it liang who is beating swail 8-2 now i think? and ebdon who you can never count out and we got ourselves a proper tournament

by **god_bless_john_houlding** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:57 pm

robertson just won a frame now getting beat 9-1 by McGuire.

by **The Manhattan Project** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:04 pm

I can't see anyone beating Cliff Thorburn.

by **Number 9** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:13 pm

The Manhattan Project wrote:I can't see anyone beating Cliff Thorburn.

Willy Thorne will thump him!
Easy! :nod

by **dawson99** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:22 pm

bill werbenick

by **clarke90** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:56 pm

Ronnie will turn it on in the latter stages.
He is winning Williams 9-5 while not playing his best, as long as he keeps this up his form will get better and better and no one will stop him.

by **Dundalk** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:39 pm

Ronnie O'Sullivan 9-7 Mark Williams

Williams is still in it!

by **stmichael** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:32 pm

ronnie just made a 147. absolute genius! :bowdown

by **dawson99** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:33 pm

ronnie got 147, the guys awesome!!! his tourney to lose

by **god_bless_john_houlding** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:04 pm

robertson making a fight of it against mcguire, now 11-7 (looks set to be 12-7 though)

ronnie's maximum was one of the best ever. he didn't run out of position once. his tournament

by **andy_g** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:10 pm

dawson99 wrote:bill werbenick

ray reardon

:nod

by **god_bless_john_houlding** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:22 pm

mcguire just beat the aussie robertson (13-7)

by **Big Niall** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:06 pm

Why do you think people who aren't fans can name about 10 players from the 1980s but only Ronnie o'sullivan of the last decade (and even he came around about a decade ago)?

We all loved Davis,Higgins,white,Taylor,Thorburn etc

by **god_bless_john_houlding** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:24 pm

niall, i'm sure those who mention the players from a while back could easily name a few from the modern era as well. i know i could name a lot of current players (more than i could from old because snooker is bigger and more televised nowadays) for example in this tournament there's a lot of good players who haven't made it to sheffield (that I know of anyway, certainly haven't been on the telly), Gerard Greene, Rory McLoud, Ian McCullouch, Dominic Dale all missed the boat to the cruicble. well known players who aren't making it to the biggest tournament and that's because the level of quality is so high, but also these players are so well known because of how popular the sport is nowadays. in years gone by, there wasn't as much coverage so people really only knew the bigger names.

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