Recent content by Swighey

Interesting question. Less interesting, and ridiculous and not even close, answer by the OP. My answer - no idea. Probably but not necessarily a Filipino.

Amazing game. Zhang missed a couple of fairly easy pots in the 62nd and 63rd racks. Pressure, pressure, pressure.

Yeh, ok. Let's get it on the telly!

Surely the whole point of Banks is that it is actually supposed to be difficult (which is why it is played in the first place) and that a percentage anywhere near 50% is pretty damn special? Why make it a B&R game? We have long sets in 8 and 9 (and 10 ball) for that.

Well they pretty much did.

Snooker is very much an offense oriented game at the top level. The break building nowadays is through the roof. Safety play is important but it is just one small part of the game. In 9 ball, even on slick cloths with 5" pockets, deciding when to go defensive can be trickier than in snooker - it...

But this isn't true. You were going well until this.

Yeh fair enough - that's my own bias making me misread what you wrote. I still think you are overestimating the ability to cross over but I hope to be proved wrong. It is certainly within the realms of possibility and it would be a great story.

SVB was never the keenest of travellers. Now that he has a World Championship in the bag and has probably made enough money from the game to see life out, I'm not surprised if that reluctance to travel has kicked back in.

I don't see the diluted fields (compared to a few years ago) being an issue. The fields are strong, new players are coming through, and there are more and more elite players - the game is way stronger at all levels. It won't be long before the "diluted" fields are stronger than the fields of a...

Maybe you should enter Q school and get on the World Snooker Tour. You would "easily" have beaten Oliver Brown or Craig Steadman in this event with those higher average breaks in tournament play.

The world championship pays 250k to the winner. The US Open 100k. Several other tournaments 10s of 1000s. The top players are now getting 6 figure sponsorships. They can earn more in exhibitions in a day than many people in the first world earn in 2 weeks. It's hardly third world status - maybe...

For sure. When Alex P tried to qualify for the world snooker tour (and he did well but didn't ultimately fell short) he was complimented, by snooker players, for playing safeties that snooker players wouldn't see. There's always something to learn and the cross-pollination (that is happening...

Shaw said afterwards that he played safeties he knew Trump didn't know how to get out of. He also of course is a much better pool player. It is apples and oranges - snooker players who had dabbled in pool have done well in tournaments but probably need to get lucky with layouts/patterns against...

Yep, he doesn't care. It's a bit like me the first time I didn't care about making a break and run at 8 ball after going a little out of shape on my 7th ball and played safe instead 😂. Except it's a million levels above that and then some, and the game is already won. Every other player, even...