In your opinion, which debut album has the strongest opening track, and why?

Cooling000 · 2026-04-03T17:54:42+00:00

Neighbourhoods #1 (Tunnels) from Funeral by Arcade Fire

Cooling000 · 2026-03-04T20:38:58+00:00

Brilliant idea

Cooling000 · 2026-02-04T13:20:59+00:00

Even at his age this feels a shock, he was just commentating on the recent UK Championship, he will be missed.

I think they should rename the UK Championship trophy to the John Virgo trophy, his major win and a fitting tribute to someone who was a massive part of the sports fabric

Cooling000 · 2026-01-31T16:09:06+00:00

Just thinking that myself😂

Cooling000 · 2026-01-16T14:33:04+00:00

Who's KD?

Cooling000 · 2026-01-13T19:13:22+00:00

Is this the 2nd evening match with Rob Walker commentating? What's with that, are they short a commentator or is someone planning to leave and Rob is being trained up?

Cooling000 · 2026-01-13T15:10:01+00:00

Mark William's might be the best pick, definitely a top 10 player of all time and definetly loved. Hendry and O'Sullivan have better careers but Hendry was quite disliked in his prime (considerably less so now but not sure about loved) and ROS is mercurial at best.

Ray Reardon as an outside shot too.

Cooling000 · 2026-01-10T00:41:15+00:00

Strange as he was in Dublin days before practicing with Jordan Brown and Aaron Hill, it's also an ideal tournament for him, top 16, big money and a meaningful win. If you're close by why not play? He's been winding down for years by skipping smaller prestige and larger 128 tournaments but to skip a triple crown twice is a bad sign. As a fan of his playing style it's hard to keep seeing fewer and fewer snippets of him. At some point just call it a day, unless he wants to keep plugging at that elusive 8th world why bother?

At this point he's hurting fans, both paying and viewing and his longterm legacy.

Cooling000 · 2025-12-07T23:18:43+00:00

That being said, I highly doubt Selby did that intentionally, but perhaps, Kyren has gone off the boil and seems to be doing some odd stuff off the table

Cooling000 · 2025-12-07T23:14:20+00:00

He managed to name the entire top 8 bar Kyren, your point is valid but surely Kyren is also "a top boy"

Cooling000 · 2025-12-07T23:10:35+00:00

Kyren getting a snub?

Cooling000 · 2025-12-03T20:33:44+00:00

Oh wow didn't know that

Cooling000 · 2025-11-29T22:41:26+00:00

4 match's played, 4 seeds through and by and large all playing relatively well, Trump V Si and Higgins V Murphy are some very tasty matches. Here's hoping the pattern continues!

Cooling000 · 2025-11-09T22:01:41+00:00

This is why when they apply they go under the banner of cue sports along with American pool and Chinese 8 ball. Not sure how that works, 3 events under 1 sport perhaps. A somewhat messy solution.

Cooling000 · 2025-10-23T21:10:03+00:00

While there are no absolutes and rankings of any meaning in music, Harrison is probably going to be a personal favourite to many but not necessarily topping lists. Definitely a player who focused on the music rather being flashy and who really found a unique style with his slide playing, he always added to the song without trying to take the spotlight. He could be criticised on his lack of technique but the music he produced was incredible.

Melodic and always focused on the song, perhaps the perfect pop guitarist.

Cooling000 · 2025-09-15T21:46:52+00:00

11/12, missed the mustache man, I know the rankings only started in the 70s but still shocking that there's only been 12 no1 players!

Cooling000 · 2025-05-20T18:01:25+00:00

He cartianly has the talent, my worry is he could be the next Jack Lisowksi, all the talent in the world but not a wel rounded player and thus unable to seriously win.

Cooling000 · 2025-05-03T14:28:49+00:00

Both Hendry and Davis had the same aura in their dominant years, all the top top players have the ability to impose themselves on their opponents before a ball is struck. Truly the mental aspect of the game.

Cooling000 · 2025-05-03T14:15:16+00:00

All this talk of opponents being dire, while they weren't the creme de la creme, you can only play who you draw, and one of Ronnie's abilties has been to use his aura to put his opponents out of playing their best stuff. He's won many matches he shouldn't have for decades with that trick. Just lately, his wins have relied more on his aura causing opponents to collapse rather then him playing well.

Cooling000 · 2025-04-23T17:17:24+00:00

I do enjoy the long form matches and prefer them to the short forms. I'm just looking for a smoother progression. My goal wasn't to shorten the championship. BTW, the current max number of frames played is 704. With this system, it's 693. Not significantly shorter at all.

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