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DERBY CITY CLASSIC DRESS CODE

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JPB2 said:
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They typically have to wear a waistcoat as well. Sorry to disappoint you, but wearing a waistcoat without a jacket is not a good look. I think they have sponsors patches and such as well. That isn’t tasteful nor “ classy”. It is stupid looking. If you have a waistcoat and tie on you can’t take the jacket off in public. If stodgy old guys retire to the billiard room after dinner and take their jackets off while drinking port, the public would not be invited in. The waistcoat and pre- tied bow tie look is not good. It is contrived and a parody of good taste IMO. It takes elements of semi- formal evening wear and applies them to playing a sport. Why? How is that good? It actually degrades the players in a sense because they look like waiters or valet parking attendants or something.
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ALL the snooker players except for maybe shaun murphy want to change the dress code. and the tendency is going in that direction too, with the home nation series, the shootout and the two matchroom produced events not enforcing the waistcoat/bow tie dress code.
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Your favourite Earl Strickland quotes

greyghost
jasonlaus said:
He didn't cure cancer, he played a game. Who gives a shit if he had to sleep under the table, most people are smart enough to get a job. His decision, and its not worthy of praise.

I love Earl but this is a ridiculous take
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Hell I got a good paying job and sometimes I gotta sleep on steel grating because of it….pokes into ya 😆

Every real good to world class player has had their rest under a table anyways lol
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Perfect Stroke = No Stroke?

greyghost
bbb said:
I’m not sure I agree with that
You see many top players today taking full back swings close to the bridge hand and doing well with the tight pockets
Chris Meling and fedor Gorst come to mind
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Yeah imop a long back swing to deliver consistently and easily acceleration with a finish to the stroke (ie hand to chest) making a short penetration through cb is def more accurate an consistent and more compact

Than a long backswing with a long loose elbow dropping stroke where the tip penetrates the cb well past 8-10/12” etc.

Even if you change that last paragraph to a short backswing you now have to contend with building up much more acceleration when needed into a shorter distance…creating way more chance for error due to torque required. Then finishing long
Neither once of those two are really compact at all.

No matter how short a back swing or delivery is, if it’s got lateral sway in it “fishtailing”…is not compact imop. Well at least not the compactness that could be beneficial lol
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Question about Derby cues

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Flakeandrun said:
He spent a long time on social media last year saying "sOmEtHiNg BiG iS cOmInG" While he rubbed off 'Aaron the pool shark'

This is probably it...

Seems a lot of players have figured out how easy it is to pay a Chinese speaking agent to take them to Mordor, like the greedy little hobitses they are.
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ok. well, i don't blame him, and i don't know about "greedy" - he doesn't have any sponsors, and his winnings are sparse. but as i said, he's not exactly fedor. he's won one big event and maybe two satellite events..
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Derby City Bigfoot

Jaden
jay helfert said:
There is a reason they always played the DCC Bigfoot tournament on a 10' table. It's tougher! In the old days (50's-70's) many rooms had a single 10' table. That's where they played the biggest games with the best players. For several years they had one in the backroom at Johnston City. They played the Ten Ball ring games on that table. Only the best need apply. I loved watching them play back there and it was always packed with fans.
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There was a place in st louis?maybe. But anyways you had to walk downstairs to like a basement type area where they had several 9 footers and an old 10 foot brunswick. I loved playing on that table but I've always liked playing on the tightest toughest conditions.
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