tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29605452.post4493306921359347871..comments2024-02-03T12:04:16.336+00:00Comments on SNOOKER SCENE BLOG: TRUMP'S TIME TO SHINEDave Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037719321756898982noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29605452.post-62314749366987571012013-01-15T22:42:46.463+00:002013-01-15T22:42:46.463+00:00Hi David. Great Murphy .V. Walden match.
Murphy ....Hi David. Great Murphy .V. Walden match.<br /><br />Murphy .V. Walden. <br /><br />Frame 1 - Walden is first in, with 34. Murphy replies, with a winning 79 break, to go 1-0 up. <br /><br />Frame 2 - Murphy, with a chance in frame 2, missed. Walden missed a black off the spot. Murphy cleared up. Instead of 1-all, Murphy, is 2-0 up. <br /><br />Frame 3 - Walden responds well, to take this frame. 2-1 to Murphy.<br /><br />Frame 4 - Murphy is in, misses. Walden, with a chance to level, at 2-all, goes in-off. Murphy, From there, does the needful to tak the frame, and lead, 3-1 at the mid-session interval.<br /><br />Frame 5 - Story simply told. Walden makes probably one of the worst break-off hots of his life. From there, Muurphy makes a superb total clearance of 130, to lead, 4-1.<br /><br />Frame 6 - Murphy is first in, with a break in which he frequently loses position. He gives Walden a chance. Walden makess 55 and wins the frame. 4-2 to Murphy.<br /><br />Frame 7 - Both have chances. Walden wins it 4-3 to Murphy. Walden gaining confidance.<br /><br />Frame 8 - Murphy getsa plant, over-cuts a tough black, the following shot. Reds all over the table. Walden wins the frame. 4-all. Level with three to play.<br /><br />Frame 9 -Walden, ahead points-wise, in the frame, lets Murphy in. Murphy makes a battling break of 43. After a safety duel, which Murphy wins, He also wins the frame, to lead 5-4. Murphy is one up with two to play.<br /><br />Frame 10 - Murphy is first in, from a bad walden safety shot. Murphy pots a great long red. From there, he makes 16, misses a black from it's spot, lucky to block the pocket. Walden pots a tricky red, to a middlepocket. from there, he makes 14. Robbed by a kick. Murphy pots a red to a middle pocket, and makes a 40 plus break, to leave Walden needin a snooker. Walden Lays one. Murphy fails to successfully escape from it. Walden, with a chance to tie the scores in the fame, plays bad position from brown to blue. He misses the blue. Aftera safety duel on the blue, walen plays a bad shot, Sportingly declaired a foul on himself, to leave him needing snooker's. How sporting. Murphy pots the blue. Then, it's all over.<br /><br />Murphy wins 6-4, to advance to the Quarter-Final.<br /><br />Great match, and another great day's play, in my view.<br /><br />I can not wait for more, tomorrow.<br /><br />JAMIE O'REILLYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29605452.post-37641697918250384592013-01-15T21:45:39.376+00:002013-01-15T21:45:39.376+00:00Hi David. Congatulations to Jimmy White, on gettin...Hi David. Congatulations to Jimmy White, on getting engaged.JAMIE O'REILLYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29605452.post-31740828476777038652013-01-15T19:43:35.048+00:002013-01-15T19:43:35.048+00:00Hi David. re Trump's great shoes, I meant to s...Hi David. re Trump's great shoes, I meant to say, I wonder if he borrowed them from Joe Johnson.JAMIE O'REILLYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29605452.post-37290176970924008822013-01-15T17:05:46.394+00:002013-01-15T17:05:46.394+00:00Hi David. Great standard in today's first matc...Hi David. Great standard in today's first match. Trump .V. Hawkins.<br /><br />Great pair of shoes Trump was wearing, at the start of the match. I wonder if he borrowe them from our friend and colleague, my snooker coach, Joe Johnson.<br /><br />Good start by Hawkins, to lead10. Trump levels at 1-1. Hawkins goes 2-1 up . Trump replies with 99. 2-all, at the mid-session interval. Trump Leads 3-2, winning frme five. Hawkins wins the next three frames in a row, one, with a century, to go two up, with threeto play, and lead, 5-3. <br /><br />Trump maks a superb 105 break in the ninth. Hawkins, 5-4 up. Frame ten. Trump is in first. Both players have chances. In the end, Trump goes in-off, Hawkins is in, misses a black. Afer a safety duel, Hawkins wins it, but can not capitalise. Trump, unlucky, for the White to drift off-line during this, while playing safe. Hawkins pots a great yellow, superb green, briging over the black, good brown, misses the blue,. Trump, lucky not to go in-off. A good safety, from each player. Then, Hawkins leaves Trump a chance. He pots a great blue, and pink with the rest. Trump wins the frame. It's 5-all. It's all on the decider.<br /><br />In the eleventh and deciding frame, Hawkins makes a bad break-off. First Chance to Trump. He makes a 107 break from it. Trump is delighted to win. Trump claims a great 6-5 victory. It sets up a Quater-Final, between Judd Trump and Graeme Dott.The tourament favorite is through. Fantastic.<br /><br />I can not wait for tonight's match, between Shaun Murphy and Ricky Walden.JAMIE O'REILLYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29605452.post-7131918923967021142013-01-15T16:22:56.585+00:002013-01-15T16:22:56.585+00:00Hi David. I would like to wish Patsy Fagan, a happ...Hi David. I would like to wish Patsy Fagan, a happy 63nd birthday, for today He was born on 15-1-1951. Today is 15-1-2013.JAMIE O'REILLYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29605452.post-73850228855857067642013-01-15T15:44:10.071+00:002013-01-15T15:44:10.071+00:00Any news on the Stephen Lee case?Any news on the Stephen Lee case?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29605452.post-89569864141574327432013-01-15T14:48:51.398+00:002013-01-15T14:48:51.398+00:00Fantastic to watch footage of the '84 semi bet...Fantastic to watch footage of the '84 semi between White and Stevens. Amazing attacking match between two great friends.<br />Not many could upstage a 147. White's 119 in the very next frame which included the final pink and black that defied the laws of physics.<br />Story goes that Donald Sutherland wa in the area a came along to support his countryman. It was the only snooker match he'd ever been to !<br />Great days.<br /><br />Graeme.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29605452.post-90311881315961441572013-01-15T11:11:34.245+00:002013-01-15T11:11:34.245+00:00Talking about Trump ) I truly hope you have a gift...Talking about Trump ) I truly hope you have a gift of prediction))) and it won't let you down.. Because what I've seen at CL... it didn't impress.. I'd say more it was scary )Natalienoreply@blogger.com