1 more sleep! Genuinely excited. No stand out favourite for me. Could be brilliant https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/68775898.amp ..read more

Fergal starts his final event Tuesday morning 10am. Against an Egyptian ranked 123. On the face of it a winnable match, you'd like to see him get a bit of a run going over the next week or so in Sheffield. Jimmy has a walk over Round One against Martin Gould, who is now dropping off the tour. Martin was competative at the Crucible recently enough, he was top 16 in 2017/2018, but has admitted he suffered from a bit of depression in recent years. Hope the chap is alright, and gets sorted. And Hendry could'ne make it there, after working for ITV all week. No idea why he came back ..read more

Ok we know Ronnie O'Sullivan is the very obvious exception. He managed to get through his health issues and unstable home life to more than fulfilled his potential IMO. I did note that Barry Hearn acted as Ronnie's manager/father figure back in 1993 when he won his first title. Hearn seemed genuinely delighted for O'Sullivan, and he spoke after Ronnie won in the post match. But I was looking up O'Sullivan's long wikipedia page that I noticed a player who I never heard of had taken one of Ronnie's records from him In 2018 Sean Maddocks from Liverpool then aged 15 became the youngster player to ..read more

Hi Has anybody experience in getting tickets to the world championship in the crucible either just a regular ticket or the package tickets, dinner, meeting ex champions etc I am looking to head over next year with maybe a group of 4. Just curious what the process is or can I go through an agent at this end ..read more

https://seniorssnooker.com/goffs-to-host-world-seniors-mr-vegas-snooker-900/ Not mad on that format but good to see snooker at Goffs again ..read more

I happened to watch Jimmy White's 147 in the 1992 WC recently. Besides forgetting how good the break was. I noticed that John Virgo when on commentary just mentioned "side" as did the other commentator. But then I realised how nowadays the mention checkside/check all the time seems. None of the lads in commentary mentioned check/checkside once back in Jimmy's break in 1992. It got me thinking when did phrase 'check'/'checkside' first appear in the common snooker jargon among commentators and pundits ..read more

Just wanted to make a thread to see what other people's views are. There seems in recent years, to be a rewriting of this man's ability and talent. Many point out he made less than 100 centuries, others say he'd be hammered if he played today. To address the centuries point, there was so few tournament to actually rack up official centuries, and it was only when he popularised the game, this actually started to happen, years later. He also played in an era with heavier balls, rubbish cloth etc, and where the aim was to get ahead, and play safe to kill off the frame. We're also told he only won ..read more

Draw bracket by quarter. 1 v 2 in semi final. Judd Trump v Kyren Wilson. Mark Williams v Ali Carter. Mark Selby v Robert Milkins. Mark Allen v John Higgins. Ronnie v Ding. Neil Robertson v Barry Hawkins. Shaun Murphy v Zhang Anda. Luca Brecel v Jack Lisowski. Non ranking, but one of the triple crown events. £250K up top, Judd defending champion. Best of 11 all the way to best of 19 final. Brecel v JackL kicks it off this afternoon. Judd 7/2, Ronnie 4/1, Selby 13/2, 14/1 bar. The Masters Winner Betting Odds | Snooker | Oddschecker ..read more

From rte.ie, Fergal announcing he will retire end of season. A consummate pro, has been on the tour for 33 years. Been enjoying him lately on Eurosport commentary, great he will keep that up. But even more interesting is his plan to work on developing talent in Ireland, and to bring a tournament back to ROI. I wish him well. https://www.rte.ie/sport/snooker/2023/1231/1420032-obrien-to-bring-curtain-down-on-30-year-career ..read more

Any recommendations on where to buy a 6ft table? Its only a starter table but want to buy a decent table the whole family can use. Anywhere in northern Ireland that could be recommended as the prices seem a lot more expensive this side of the country. Thanks in advance ..read more