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Can you ellaborate on the one-trick ponies from europe as i do not really agree.

I can not agree with this 100%. I know at least in Finland you have special league for amateurs (not ranked players in the Finnish championships cirquit) and the winners of this league, both individual and teams go to participate at ValleyForge. From history I believe some teams and individuals...

while I agree that the system in Europe is not ideal and there are many countries that have no official organization at all.....you still do have countries in Europe where there are....own tour, organized national teams, financial support, youth programs etc. Now compare that to the US where...

I do not pretend to be an expert on neither the US nor the EU system(s)....but I would like to know your reasoning here? From what I can see, there is a functioning Eurotour, there are functioning governing body for Europe for billiards as well as individual organizations in most countries that...

oh no worries....my comments about gripes were most towards Mr Strickland as I heard him in many cases stating about "easy table" or "easy shots". All this while it was in many cases also them that let the team EU have it by either dogging it at some point or another or lacking the form to take...

just a question in regards to this..... consider the following - EU had easier layouts (at least so is claimed) - most breaks were dry breaks or no shot available after break This means that usually when EU came to the table, it was after US-team had already been on it either breaking or...

create a new tour in the US modelled after Eurotour or the GB9 tour. They seem both be doing quite fine. Then just cold and hard ranking.....top5 in the rolling ranking at the end of October go into Mosconi-team (if Matchroom approves of course....their money, they call the shots).

leave Mosconi-Cup as it is just add an Efren-Cup for the winner of Mosconi to play against the Asian-team :grin:

I do not really see it as hate, but misguided frustration. European team has stepped up ready to do battle, whereas the US team seems to have trusted "we're all great players and we'll wing it...shoot it off the hip". Well there is a saying "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.". The...

just an idea....if it is live on Sky Sports....then should Sopcast or something like that not work? how about running XBMC and there one of the sports add ins that allow to watch sky sports

ouch....sorry to hear that... must be that someone in the US has bought exclusivity for broadcast....

for what it is worth....by default I would recommend giving the livesport.tv first a try. Sure you pay something but I just paid something like 4EUR.....that would be less than 6US$ for the entire tournament! The guys at Matchroom are doing a bang up job giving us a really good entertainment so...

I am still in state of shock!!! :eek: How could anyone question Finland's seed #1???? :D They are the reigning chumps and will remain so as well! :thumbup: Go Finland!!

Has not really played in europe lately

TAR should pick this up! I would pay! Shanelle to rack the balls as well! :)

well done Iulian.....I might not make it there to visit your hall after all now that our company is selling our Romanian operations to another company :(

that is why I said that there is a difference between little spin and a lot of spin. Everyone uses spin at times....most even unwittingly (I include myself in that). Btw...I never claimed I was a better player...I just said better players do not HAVE TO use so much spin as they have the...

I actually do practise at times with a scotchtape over the tip to learn to control the ball with speed rather than spin. If you would use a little common sense you would know that there is a difference between a little spin and a lot of spin. My point is that just because you use more spin it...

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I already disagree with the premise that better players use more spin. Surely the better player leaves the cueball better through speed-control and shot selection that less spin is needed.