Robertson doing his best to emulate the other antipodean snooker player, Eddie Charlton. Never seen a modern player take so painfully long over his shots, terrible to watch.
Just took over 4 minutes on his last shot, half hearted apology to Trump.
Half an hour gone, four reds potted so far. Sod this, Iām going to bed. Probably catch the last couple of shots when I wake up in the morning, at this rate theyāll still be playing
Anyone else watch Higgins beat Zhao last night? Really strange end to the match. Higgins steamed back from the dead, Zhao lost all confidence. But those last two frames, I swear he didnāt realise he could ask Higgins to try again after failing to escape from a snooker. Especially the last one, he needed three snookers,laid an absolute corker which Higgins missed. So the obvious thing to do was put him back in. Instead, he took on a very difficult shot and tried to lay another snooker as if he didnāt know he could just make him play it again from the same position. Very strange.
Iām now genuinely confused about this. Opening frame of OāSullivan vs Williams, 2 snookers required. Gets one, a beauty, Williams misses the blue from the snooker. Instead of having the cue ball replaced, OāSullivan plays from where it was left, very difficult position to lay another snooker from, fails to do so and leaves a straightforward blue for Williams to clinch the frame.
Have the rules changed recently? Replacing the white and making Williams replay the shot would very likely have won OāSullivan the frame. Itās commonly done, I donāt get why in two games running two pro players have declined to do it and lost out as a result.
I think they can only replace the white if the referee calls a miss, I may be wrong
Essentially the player has to attempt to hit the ball whether they are snookered or not. If the target ball is missed by the player then the referee calls āfoul and a missā and the shot is replayed if the opposition player chooses it.
According to the sportās official rule book: āA miss is when the cue ball fails to first contact a ball on and the referee considers that the striker has not made a good enough attempt to hit a ball on.ā
I think youāre right. Whatās throwing me is that refs always called a miss if a player didnāt escape from a relatively simple snooker, and erred on the side of safety. They seem to have stopped calling the miss now,either of the ones I mentioned should have been straightforward for a pro to hit unless they didnāt wish to for tactical reasons. In the past,they would have been called as a miss.
Yeah, Iāve been looking around to see if theyāve relaxed the miss rule, which is entirely up to the refereeās discretion, and I canāt see anything.
Wait 'til Mike Dean becomes a snooker ref, even then I doubt if heāll be able to keep up with play.
Notice that at least twice the ref called a miss after a snooker? Neither of those were any harder to escape from than the ones I mentioned in the other two games, I canāt understand it. Ronnie put Mark Williams back in position three times on one of them.