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You know, you're right! About Neil anyway. I've seen it as well. Crazy Australians. If I remember correctly it was against Ken Doherty in the Malta Cup, and he only did it because the frame was 'dead' - it was a group format, I think, and one of the two had already been eliminated. I think this...

It's an interesting approach, and I'm pretty sure it was unique to Hann on the pro tour. If anyone else ever broke the balls that way I haven't heard about it. I'm not sure what the odds of making a ball are but I have seen him do it, missing a difficult black the following shot. If you make a...

What a nice gesture! Rep to you, sir! :p

To be clear about the distinction - in snooker terms the opening break would be the "break-off", and what you would call a "run" would be a "break".:grin: And if we're talking bizarre terms, I think "English" is up there! "Side" makes much more sense to me. And don't get me started on...

Interesting thread! I'd go by where they're leaving the cue ball after each shot, which shots they're choosing and how often they miss. I think looking at the stroke can be an unreliable method in assessing a player's level - you might end up playing Keith McCready or Alex Higgins. I've also...

Definitely. Some pool players might look like their cueing action is a little off, but they are consistently making the necessary compensation on the delivery or they wouldn't be making so many balls! Jimmy White was one of the best potters of his era with his not-quite-textbook technique, and...

I think the point was that very few snooker players' cues visibly go off line during their stroke, which it does a lot more often with pool players. The reason's pretty obvious; if the cue is not in line at the end of the backswing, by the time you hit the cue ball you have to compensate to...

If you think Ronnie couldn't see that shot - with a natural angle into the pocket and to the two ball - I really don't know what to say to that. You'd have to be insanely dense not to see the shot and Ronnie O'Sullivan hardly falls into that category when it comes to balls and sticks. If Ronnie...

Can't you see why someone might think this? The shot could not have been more straightforward, and O'Sullivan won his first UK Championship before he turned 18 - by 21 he could definitely play a little. There is no way in the world that shot took Ronnie by surprise. Isn't Jason Canadian...

Definitely the shot in that video couldn't have been more obvious. As banks go it's really a hanger and the clear shot to play in that situation. That's not to say that if Ronnie crossed over to pool he couldn't do with a banking lesson - with the differences in how the cushions react at...

I like the idea as well, but could it be said that too much is made of beating Mosconi's run? Not in the sense that people are always going on about it - if anything straight pool doesn't get anything like the coverage it deserves - but when people start talking about records. It goes without...

You say this, but my disagreement with you and this dicussion started with you saying that safety was "nowhere near as intricate" in snooker as in games like nine-ball or one pocket. I singled out nine-ball and made a case for snooker that you failed to address, instead stating your opinion as...

I think relatively speaking shots-to-nothing do not feature anywhere near as often in nine-ball as they do in snooker. Over the last couple of days I've been watching the 1996 $100,000 challenge between Strickland and Reyes, and at nearly 200 racks played there have probably been a handful of...

I hope someone else finds this interesting... I'm not too familiar with one pocket (I've seen a little but not really enough to comment here) but I'll go ahead and disagree with you on snooker and nine-ball. I don't see how you could think safety in snooker is 'nowhere near as intricate' as...

Huge thanks to all the guys that posted, it's been really helpful! I'm going to go with the J&J, Ivorine ferrule and phenolic tip. Leaves me the option of switching to a hard leather one if it doesn't feel right. Looking forward to working on the break - there's a lot of room for improvement...

I'm in the UK and started out playing a bit of snooker, but I'm going to be playing mainly American pool starting in the near future - 8 ball, 9 ball, 10 ball and 14.1, which looks very interesting to me indeed. I've played 8 ball and 9 ball with a snooker cue (10mm tip) and although it may not...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYxq72-J-G8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2F O'Sullivan's first match of this new season, finishing his first century clearance of the night with his left hand. I recommend watching the whole match, he made two more in the following frames, alternating between hands the whole...

Alex Higgins is said to have made a century (122 I have read) in 2 minutes 45 seconds in the Irish Professional championships against Patsy Fagan. The fastest total clearance I've ever seen is this one, from Ronnie O'Sullivan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgxWd0djt5I Average shot time is...

It's been a rather clumsy dance so far! Why is it offensive when someone offers the opinion that European players are better than American ones, and why would you take it so personally? Your posts have been very defensive from the start - accusing the original poster of thinking that "...those...

It's silly that people can't evaluate the strength of players from Europe and the USA rationally. Why this 'national pride' crap? You were born where you were born by chance, an accident you had nothing to do with - no reason to be proud of it. I'd take Europe in this one, and I don't think...