the king of the crucible is in round 2

there's no denying that zhang has skills (some lovely long shots, but exciting? no). im probably predisposed to be snide about anyone playing hendry. so here's what i think...he's slow. like old person slow. he walks slow. he makes the balls move slow. would i have liked him more if he was playing say doherty? probably.

anyway hendry won it (10-9), to my deep deep satisfaction. i was visualising being devastated. man u losing to arsenal in a penalty shootout level devastation. but stephen made it work...he was just...i actually 'wow'ed at one long red.

today's been a good day for my guys i say :D

button won and selby's through to round 2 beating ken doherty 10-4.

ah selby selby. i caught a couple of frames at the end there...ever the jester (he had a bit of a struggle with sitting on the table for one shot XD and rolled his eyes and everything). and just supremely smooth today. loving the form he's on (in?) ..also black on black with purple waistcoat back - very vampyrchic!

masters snooker - predictions!

ok so ronnie beat ebdon, and williams beat murphy :) alls well in the world. todays matches are:

• maguire v day
• selby v allen

...the first match i really dont care. didnt watch either of their matches in the first round and so have no idea what sort of form they're in. so im saying nothing. either.

selby's got to win i think.. because really allen only won cause higgins was off his game. and he knows it too. but selby, now he's a man in the zone. gorjuss long potting. gorjuss everything.

im rooting for a final between williams and selby. which means i think mark's going to beat ronnie. setting up a final where im going to torn between.. the marks! lol just realised they have the same first name! allen's a mark too XD

ps. i dont really know why iv taken ronnie out of the equation. its probably cause him being so down on himself is catching. really he's got every chance of beating williams. i must be realistic about this.

turned out steve davis was right it was rocket vs jester in the final and mark won :) so happy.

th'masters

quality snooker today. shaun murphy and stephen hendry both. final score 6 - 4 (best of 11). it almost went to 5 - 5 with a decider. murphy took the 10th frame with 3 balls on the table. potted the blue and that was it. wrenching stuff. the commentators kept using the words 'top drawer' to describe the play and form of the 2. wonder where that comes from... there was also a load of reference to 'leicester rhyming slang' like.. 'forrest' as in forrest gump... think it had something to do with being a in world of trouble... i dont really know.

they also did a flashback to 2003 doherty vs hunter. was i sad. so sad.

anyway now all my hopes rest on selby. selby ftw!

dont know about the 'leicester' kind, acc to cockney rhyming slang forrest means shit. the verb.

Mince Pies

Eyes

She got beatiful minces.

they used this one when talking about hendry "nothing wrong with his mince pies"

forrest gump was also to do with hendry...

Forrest Gump

Dump (shit)

"Off out in 10 minutes?" "Yeah, just got to have a Forrest first".

...i dont know. i need to be reminded of the context.

NOT selby's day

meh. day won (5-4) decider was super devastating. selby made a come back and made it 4-4 after being like 3-0 down or something...:'( i is heartbroken. corny jokes come to mind about the vampyr beaten by the day n shite. but am not in the mood. anyways, tomorrow:

trump vs. ronnie
day vs. cope
higgins vs. ding
carter vs. davis

all of which r much less tension than today. cause honestly i dont want any of em to win as much as i was rooting for selby. (id love for trump to win...but really does anyone see it happening? despite the genius of trump that is) the only one which am not sure bout is the higgins/ding one. but u never know. i was so sure about today too.

x_x

update! tomorrow's matches!
who i think will win/who i want to win

trump vs. higgins
(so happy! i so was not ready for him to beat ronnie. at the mid session interval, they were asking whether he'd missed the boat, letting ronnie level at 2-2 n all that...deciding frame was much excitement and tension tho. booti!)
and
carter vs. day (because carter is de-growing on me...when contrasted with trump who just small smiled after winning...the drama-ness of carter pains me...of course the real drama queen was peter ebdon :/)

snooker 5

pfft. now that stephen hendry is out of the grand prix (that century was bootiful tho), i have a personal top 5 who am all for:

1. mark selby (the vampyr)


2. john higgins


3. judd trump (the hair)


4. ronnie o'sullivan


5. ali carter

judd trump is my new boi. he's 19! watched him beat joe perry yesterday. awesomeness. the long potting. the genius. wow.