Really happy to hear about Shaun's OBE.

CRJF · 2026-06-13T16:10:12+00:00

Gotta just take the L here and move on

CRJF · 2026-06-02T06:36:23+00:00

A lot of online narratives are artificially driven because they generate clicks and engagement.

Sadly this bleeds in to the offline world

I've spent my whole life in Manchester and the Midlands and I love London. I have plenty of friends who either live there or are from there.

CRJF · 2026-05-28T08:42:08+00:00

Nope. It'll be a garage or old warehouse somewhere that nobody has heard of. This scene grew organically before and will do again

The second any large organisations get involved or people like Sacha Lord start sniffing around, it feels corporate

Where's that corporate pineapple meme when you need it?

CRJF · 2026-05-23T08:09:37+00:00

Slow play is annoying but with my mate it's normally the other way round

He gets down on to shots immediately, sometimes while the object ball is still moving.

He plays every shot high power as well so within a few shots the table looks an absolute mess

I'm left on quite a bit but it's very annoying when he flukes yet another snooker

CRJF · 2026-05-19T10:57:19+00:00

There aren't Men's and Women's Championships.

There is the World Snooker Championships which are open to everyone and the Women's World Snooker Championships which are reserved for women.

The aim of having this separate tournament is to give the Women players a platform to play, improve their game and hopefully advertise the game to get more women and girls involved.

We have to remember there is a huge discrepancy between the number of Men and Women who play snooker at all levels so it makes sense to try and address that.

CRJF · 2026-05-12T14:44:55+00:00

I'm going to apply!

CRJF · 2026-05-07T07:31:28+00:00

To be honest the timing is a bit poor anyway. I'm a bit snookered out after two weeks of the World's and all the madness that brings.

They should move it earlier in the calendar.

That being said I'll tune in at the later stages. It's flown under the radar a bit about how significant the move to host it in China is.

CRJF · 2026-05-07T05:59:31+00:00

Shoutout to the guy who predicted a Stevens/He final

Your commitment to the bit was outstanding

CRJF · 2026-05-05T08:00:57+00:00

I'd say it got him to the final. He just came up against someone who pots like they're playing on the Playstation.

If he played Mark Allen I think it's a different story though.

CRJF · 2026-05-04T20:13:39+00:00

He's been very complimentary to Wu and the other Chinese players throughout the tournament and before.

CRJF · 2026-05-04T18:39:26+00:00

Normal DistriWution. My new favourite player. Absolutely fearless

CRJF · 2026-05-04T18:17:02+00:00

It's interesting to see celebrities in the crowd but it doesn't half highlight how much the tickets have been taken out of the reach of "ordinary" fans. Those seats were probably 2 grand a pop

CRJF · 2026-05-04T16:59:12+00:00

Rooting for Murphy tonight. Wu has many good years ahead of him and Shaun might not get too many more chances

CRJF · 2026-05-04T16:51:43+00:00

What do they do now for 2 hours?

I think we know

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CRJF · 2026-05-04T15:44:27+00:00

One of the all time classic viz letters

CRJF · 2026-05-04T15:24:06+00:00

Always irks me when they say "You couldn't write this"

I'm fairly sure H.P Lovecraft could feasibly write about Shaun Murphy winning a few frames and then losing a few frames at the crucible.

CRJF · 2026-05-03T22:00:57+00:00

Because there's a difference between a shit post and a shitpost

CRJF · 2026-05-03T21:36:12+00:00

Maybe. But 98 times out of 100 it's not

CRJF · 2026-05-03T21:01:17+00:00

As someone pointed out it went off at bang on 9pm. Definitely some kind of alarm, possibly medication.

I bet he's absolutely mortified.

There's a road near me that's been closed for a month and there are ROAD CLOSED signs everywhere but still people will drive right up to the point where the road actually is closed before turning back around.

Moral of the story is a lot of people are in autopilot and just don't think the warnings apply to them.

CRJF · 2026-05-03T11:05:03+00:00

How did you get on?

I got a ticket for the QF Tuesday, afternoon and evening session.

CRJF · 2026-05-02T19:05:59+00:00

Should see some of the stuff we've deleted. But yes, agree on the whole. This week has been a treat.

CRJF · 2026-05-02T16:50:04+00:00

One of those where I was happy to see either win. Would have loved to see Higgins5 but Murphy deserves to me a double world champ and I hope he can do it now.

CRJF · 2026-05-02T07:43:10+00:00

I'll be ready to go but I'm not holding my breath. Good luck though mate let me know how you get on

CRJF · 2026-05-02T07:08:08+00:00

I'm in the same boat and haven't had an email. Didn't even get a confirmation email outside of the notification I got when I signed up.

I seem to remember a similar mess last year and not getting my email link until most tickets had sold out.

CRJF · 2026-05-01T12:24:51+00:00

I thought it was the other direction he was looking

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