GENERAL

[Miss Chigwell]

[Aura]

[Miss Chigwell]

Multumesc, Aura!
Abia astept sa scriu ceva inspirat de pura bucurie. Si sa nu trebuiasca sa astept pana la Grand Prix-ul de la Preston pentru asta. Ceva de genul" 147O'Sullivan. Ronnie O'Sullivan. In Her Majesty's secret service. With a licence to kill."


DRAGILOR!!!NOI CE FACEM DUPA CE SE TERMINA CAMPIONATUL????

Dar pana atunci mai este. Ce este?

Ebdon picks up the pace
Favourite establishes early lead
Staff and agencies
Thursday April 28, 2005

Guardian Unlimited

Peter Ebdon has gained an early advantage over outsider Shaun Murphy in the first of the Embassy World Championship semi-finals.
Ebdon played at express pace compared to his crawl against Ronnie O'Sullivan to go into a 3-1 lead in the first session. He then extended this to 6-2 in the second session.

O'Sullivan had been angered by the pedestrian approach of Ebdon in recovering from 8-2 down to triumph 13-11 and reach the last four.

But the opening frames against Murphy were far more fluent and Ebdon established his two-frame lead in barely 70 minutes of action.

Deci stie sa se si grabeasca... Ugh! Sunt dezgustata!

[Mrs. Hendry]

Sa zic bravo Ian? Nu stiu. E atat de ushor sa te uitzi la un meci in care nu ejti implicat(a) emotzional. Deshi am niscaiva resentimente fatza de Matthew Stevens... Sunt insa convinsa de faptul ca le voi uita destul de repede.

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"Luck is an offensive, abhorrent concept. The idea that there is a force in the universe tilting events in your favor or against it is ridiculous." ~ Sherlock Holmes ~ Elementary

[Clara White]

Plecind de la scenele de aseara ( care ar fi fost comice - de cel mai vulgar comic, e adevarat, dar, ma rog... - daca nu ar fi fost, cel putin pentru mine, triste ), cu circariile lui RONNIE, dar si de la plinsul nervos in care a izbucnit PETER dupa meci, la care se adauga si cuvintele "physical and mental pain" ale celui dintii, psihologul sportiv PAUL DENT, de la Brunel University, a spus : "Success in snooker is 80-90% in the mind at the elite level. Everyone is exceptionally good, the only difference is the mental ability of the players. The ones that can withstand the stress the best are the ones that succeed. Peculiar pressures are the huge time away from the table and the minutest error having huge repercussions. There's very often no second chance. It's how they control those stresses and emotions when they're sitting in the chair that is key. Ebdon's deliberate ploy was to go out and make O'Sullivan feel that he wasn't able to succeed, even though he was playing OK. But Ronnie O'Sullivan is a perfectionist - unless he is pleasing himself, it is not good enough. It's those perfectionist tendencies that are destroying him at this moment."

Profesorul CARY COOPER, de la Lancaster University, da vina instabilitatii nervoase a lui Ronnie pe relatia acestuia cu tata-sau. "Even in victory he doesn't feel the benefit for long, which means his problems are down to something else outside of snooker. He needs to be a success as psychological recompense for his father's behaviour. It is necessary for him to be successful. He may give up because he feels he'll never be able to achieve his goals. But that's possibly only something Ronnie will ever know."

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Laureată a Premiului Oscue - German Masters 2018, German Masters 2019, Masters 2022
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right. ++ Fulton Sheen

[zsolt_tuser]

[Clara White]

[Miss Chigwell]

Multumesc din nou, Zsolt! Asa e, sigur ca da. Such a twit!!
Nu mai functioneaza bine micile celule cenusii in ultima vreme. Giiii...I wonder why (!@#$!@#$ deliberate slow play !@#$5 minute si jumate pentru 12 punce !@#$3 minute pentru o lovitura )

Shaun/Peter 9-7 Go the underdog!! Hai, Shaun, fii ofensiv si curajos! Ca oricum nu ai ce pierde, ti-ai depasit demult conditia. The little boy that could...

[Mrs. Hendry]

[Clara White]

* RAY REARDON despre faimosul meci care indurereaza atitea inimioare : "The audience was bored and I was bored. It was the slowest game of snooker I have ever known. But was it a deliberate tactic by Peter? I don't know. Peter Ebdon is a very nice man. He is a very likeable man, very immaculate in what he does. I personally doubt whether Peter knew what he did. He was probably wrapped up in the game himself."

* NOSTIM ?... "Fathers 4 Justice" e o asociatie a taţilor care se considera nedreptăţiţi in procesele de incredintare a progeniturilor. Doi dintre acesti militanti - altfel, foarte activi ( s-au mai dedat la acte de protest spectaculoase, la Buckingham Palace & in Downing Street 10, pe Catedrala St. Paul ), pe numele lor, Alan Haynes si Mark Baldwin, s-au costumat azi in Batman & Mr Incredible si s-au catarat pe acoperisul Teatrului Crucible, tinind un banner pe care scria "Our kids' lives are not a game" Au zis ca nu se dau jos decit la sfirsitul Campionatului mondial - dar i-a silit politia sa-si schimbe proiectele...

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Laureată a Premiului Oscue - German Masters 2018, German Masters 2019, Masters 2022
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right. ++ Fulton Sheen

[Miss Chigwell]

Deci, in concluzie : mi-am regasit (in mare parte) obiectivitatea de fan al snooker-ului, mi-am pus tichia de gandit, am sapat netul dupa articole de toate culorile si orientarile si am ajuns la bottom line.

Pe de o parte avem declaratiile admirative si pline de sportivitate ale lui Peter Ebdon cu privire la talentul si rolul lui Ronnie in snooker-ul actual, combinate cu acelea ale lui Ray Reardon despre Peter si cu acelea ale lui Ronnie insusi despre desfasurarea jocului. Au fost citate atat la topicul CM-General, de catre Mrs.White, cat si de catre Miss Chigwell, la topicul lui Ronnie, de aceea nu mai revin asupra lor. Buuuuuuun!
Toate aceste declaratii au, in opinia mea, un aer sufocant de “corectitudine politica.” Toata lumea spune ceea ce trebuie sa spuna, invinsul si invingatorul se intrec in gratie si delicatete. Ca exemplu de exprimare eufemistica, iata:”It’s not the way I recommend playing the game. Peter’s snooker is very negative at the moment. I can’t see how he could win the World Championship playing like that and I’ll be very surprised if he goes on to win playing like that.” (Ronnie)
Dar poate ca e numai senzatia mea. Sa revenim la fapte.
Stim cu totii in ce situatie albastra se afla snooker-ul dupa retragerea sponsorizarii Embassy, cat de disperata e nevoia de noi sponsori, de cifre de rating sanatoase si de evenimente captivante. Si inca un aspect: din informatiile pe care le am, contractul cu BBC privind drepturile de difuzare, care aduce anual o suma de [b]3 milioane de lire sterline va expira la finalul acestui sezon si se duc negocieri fioroase pentru noul sezon.Barry Hearn[/b], guru al snooker-ului si fost manager al lui Ronnie, a spus: : “We know the game is never going to be played at 100 miles per hour.” “But the players have to remember that, as well as being sportsmen, they are there to entertain. Otherwise people will get more pleasure watching Party Political Broadcasts.” “: “I want to see snooker regain the mass popularity it enjoyed in the 1980s. I want the whole country to be snooker loopy again and to be singing the song and sending me royalty cheques. But unless we can keep it entertaining then Tony Blair, Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy will seem like Westlife compared to snooker.”
Peter Dyke, consultant pe probleme de sponsorizare al Imperial Tobacco si mare suporter al sportului, a declarat cu franchete si cu pragmatismul omului de afaceri: “Ronnie is the Beckham of snooker. The game has been so much richer with him being involved. “If he carries out what he said then it’s a big loss to snooker. And the powers that be are going to find it difficult to maintain the levels of sponsorship without him. “Snooker is still a great game and can put on a good show. But you have to ask how will it get on without its main actor”

Ce spune Times, editia online de vineri 29 aprilie. (Jurnalistul are o pozitie radicala)

THERE have been close to a maximum 147 euphemisms rolled out to describe Peter Ebdon’s shameless tactics on Wednesday night, when the former world champion recovered from 10-6 to defeat Ronnie O’Sullivan, the champion, 13-11 in the quarter-finals. The one word that has been absent is the one that crossed my mind while tuning in to that session of excruciating snooker: cheating. The facts: Ebdon’s average shot time in the final session was a coma-inducing 40 seconds. In the twentieth frame, he took 5min 30sec to compile a break of 12, ten seconds slower than O’Sullivan took to knock in a maximum 147 at the same venue in 1997. He took 3min 5sec for a single shot in the opening frame of the final session, five seconds longer than it took Tony Drago to win an entire frame in 1988.
Yet snooker referees already have the power to clamp down on slow play. The rule states: “If a referee considers that a player is taking an abnormal amount of time over a stroke or selection of strokes he shall warn the player that he is liable to have the frame awarded to his opponent.” Disgracefully, there was not a peep from Colin Brinded, the jovial referee from Great Yarmouth. There is no suggestion that Brinded was fearful of Ebdon’s position on the board of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, but there is a possible conflict of interest, which needs to be reviewed. O’Sullivan, too, must take his share of responsibility for failing to question the referee’s apparent spinelessness.
You have got to admire Ebdon’s resourcefulness, though. His water-sipping, slow-walking, head-scratching shenanigans were a masterclass in how to waste time. He had the cue-ball cleaned so often it started to shrink. He will be asking for the Crucible carpets to be cleaned between shots should he get through to the final.

Si, pe final, un pasaj fara nici cea mai mica pretentie de obiectivitate, poate chiar rautacios, din The Sun:Ce se mai poate intampla in 3 ½ minute, cat a meditat Peter asupra unei lovituri:1.Parul lui O’Sullivan creste cu0,0001cm.2.Adultul mediu pierde 22 de neuroni.3.Un melc avanseaza cu 26.16cm.4.Lumina calatoreste cu 39.060.000mile.5.Mii de fani adorm.

[Aura]

[Miss Chigwell]

Bravo, mai baiete! Sa vii din calificari si sa ajungi in finala WCH! Felicitari si jos palaria! Nervi de otel, incredere in sine si in"cerul instelat deasupra noastra."
Shaun a zis inainte de semifinala ca mai poate castiga doua meciuri, deci poate deveni campion. Sa vedem.
M-am razgandit. Cred ca totusi o sa ma uit la finala , desi nu prea ma tragea ata inainte. Sa vad spectacol si batalie. Breakuri frumoase. Ritm.

[Mrs. Hendry]

Wow! I'm speechless! Nu pot pricepe cum s-a intamplat asha ceva si mi-e teama sa arunc din nou ideea aia absurda care refuza (din nou!) sa-mi iasa din cap... Oare Shaun...?!?!?! Ei, stitzi voi...

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"Luck is an offensive, abhorrent concept. The idea that there is a force in the universe tilting events in your favor or against it is ridiculous." ~ Sherlock Holmes ~ Elementary

[Aura]