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nickd wrote:OK cheat was a bit strong but he took it to the extreme. I'm all for them slowing it down but 5 minutes to pot 4 is beyond slowing.

Good luck to Ebdon though he looked pretty strung in the BBC interview after the game.

Its gamesmanship, its psychology it should be applauded IMO. Especially in the case when a player needs to win all the mental battles to overcome a better opponent.

Ronnie didn't have the mental strength to deal with Ebdons style, simple as that! Peter won faor and square and John Parrot is turning into a bitter old woman!.

stujones wrote:

nickd wrote:OK cheat was a bit strong but he took it to the extreme. I'm all for them slowing it down but 5 minutes to pot 4 is beyond slowing.

Good luck to Ebdon though he looked pretty strung in the BBC interview after the game.

Its gamesmanship, its psychology it should be applauded IMO. Especially in the case when a player needs to win all the mental battles to overcome a better opponent.

Stu, I see your point. But I really, really hate Ebdon. Fair play to him, because he has, as you say, used gamesmanship to beat a far more gifted opponent. And I can't really knock him for that: As O'Sullivan said, he's got a family to feed, and he's there to win.

But I just hate watching guys like Ebdon, or that tosser Hewitt in tennis (best example I could think of in another sport), who win by essentially using the tactic of 'pissing off your opponent'. I know it's not a fair complaint, because sport, of any kind, is essentially about winning. But I prefer to see real talent win out over annoying 'intensity'.

Besides, Ebdon is one lucky bastard as well. Plus, he's from Wellingborough, which is not far from me, so I have to put up with loads of shite about him on the local news. Northamptonshire celebrates any achievement, no matter how piss-poor, as if it's another bloody moon-landing. So Ebdon winning gets all the carrot-crunching tossers talking non-stop.

*note* I live in Northampton, but wasn't born here, and I hate the whole shitty in-bred county. Which is probably why I'm so bitter.

OK, drunken rant over, apologies to the forum.

norhtanption is a shithole, i lived there for 18 months, worked in the thorpeville toby if ya know by the round spinney roundabout.

quit when there was that incident with the kebab skewer on the pool tablke if you were there round 91.. nasty.

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states wrote:
*note* I live in Northampton, but wasn't born here, and I hate the whole shitty in-bred county. Which is probably why I'm so bitter.

OK, drunken rant over, apologies to the forum.

Ebdon wasn't born there either, he's from Islington.

jomothepure wrote:

For further information on the attractions of Northampton, please contact our customer service managers states* or J* c/o Northaptom tourist information centre.

*Joint winners, "Promoting Northampton 2005"

I'm sure the following was brought up at the time, but I can find the thread about it. Anway, Paul Hunter (as in the snooker player, hence putting this on a snooker thread (it's all up here you know 8) )) his cancer is in remmission and he is planning to make a comeback for the UK championship's in December.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 215638.stm

Good news. And with the return of this thread, I'd just like to point out that Northampton is still a shithole. And I do remember that incident at the Thorpeville Toby, J, although I was only a young lad at the time.

good to c some snooker fans in here.

loved it since i was a kid.

always liked matt stevens meself. one day he'll get that world title.

states wrote:Good news. And with the return of this thread, I'd just like to point out that Northampton is still a shithole. And I do remember that incident at the Thorpeville Toby, J, although I was only a young lad at the time.

i had to go to court mate as a witness
was 18 at the time. not good. if wever i meet you ill give the full low down but not here. fornicating grimm it was.

I hear you. I used to run a bar in the town centre, seen plenty of nasty shit myself. Caught more than a few smacks in the head for my troubles as well.

Alex Higgins played in a tournament in Ireland yesterday, losing 5-2. It's long story but I can't give you the actual article myself, but it's on the BBC sport site