Recent content by Old_York88

I think the most amusing was the "You've only got 1 song, you've only got 1 song...1 song!" after a small outbreak of "USA, USA" :grin:

Very well informed post there... :rolleyes: :grin: North America is a continent too. Want to draft in some Canadians?

Lovely view from the balcony, Bob :smile: Great drawings, agree with most, although a couple of the 9s and Melling's 6 ball were 1/100 shots not totally 'played for'

I thought Jim did well overall. Jerry quite often called the wrong shots or couldn't seem to see the picture of the table too well from the comm box. Not sure if he could have looked at a tv monitor instead to see what was going on better. Would like to see some ex-MC players in there (i.e...

Well, I was there the last 2 days. Other than the odd "idiot" as has been said in general everyone was remarkably well behaved considering a lot of people got through a lot of beer ;). There were stewards from Matchroom on the balconies and near the exits who would warn or kick out people if...

Disagree. It means that every rack is more important and you need to be focussed for every shot as you can't afford to get behind or think that losing 1 rack won't matter. If you were just letting the best player win the match every time then why even bother turning up..?

Johan, the Europe Captain isn't exactly a secret. He's been in multiple MCs now and is still unbeaten. Great guy and always remains calm but is there to support the players at all times. He always seems to get his players to pull out an important win when needed (e.g playing Feijen in singles at...

I was there on the night and didn't hear what was said either and didn't even know anything had happened until afterwards. I assume something was shouted (possibly in jest or not intentionally offensive) in response to Melanie standing up and cheering USA, USA. Johnny Archer dealt with it in...

I think the reason he does get so much grief is because people know now that it can (and usually will) get to him, and influence the level he is going to play at. There is nothing wrong with responding to the crowd, or playing up to it, as long as you maintain control on the table too and that's...

Nobody can or should criticise you for that shot, it's a mistake under the utmost pressures, and one that you probably wouldn't make 99 times out of 100, but for whatever reason, it did happen. You shouldn't feel the need to apologise to anyone but your team-mates, and even then it's only for...