Red, Yellow, Green, Brown, Blue, Pink and Black. It's the General Snooker Thread!
Yes, agreed. I like a bit of 9 ball so not opposed to them but not used to seeing it in snooker.
I think Mark Allen tried a maple cue but obviously that doesn’t stand out as much as a carbon cue.
Allen at one point had about 6 or 7 Parris ultimate's in his club in Antrim, he was going through one of those phases with players where the cue is to blame not the player. The maple cue was made by an Italian maker, seemed to stick with that for a season or 2 before going back to ash.
Even with ash he has his peculiarities, when he's using the rest he cues with the grain arrows pointing back to him, and cueing normally he uses the cue with the grain arrows pointing towards the ferrule. Strange but seems to work.
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I had a carbon fibre cue years ago, really couldn't get on with it. Almost stuck to your bridge hand so cueing was really awkward.
Must be why he's using a glove, i tried a glove and its like you feel detached from the cue, be hard to adjust to.
Im not sure how much the cue really matters, Hendry won 7 world titles with a mass produced £40 cue and spent many years crushing players with the worlds best hand made, made to measure custom cues.
I think Ken D also won the world championship with a £2 bent cue lol.
And then i have had three amazing cues and i cant play to save my life, one very similar to Barry Hawkins, one that was made for Dominic Dale and one that a pro snooker coach spent a couple of hours picking out from a rack of high end cues.
Mostly about the feel, Hendry has claimed that cues don't matter yet when his was smashed his performance dropped significantly, he swapped and changed all over the show. Quite a few players like that these days that go through cues, Stephen Maguire, Dominic Dale, Luca Brecel was chopping and changing, John Higgins is always messing with different lengths, tip sizes etc, Mark Allen as mentioned above was going through cues from different makers.
It really is weird in a game where you're in control of what the cue does, most players blame the cue and lose confidence in it, instead of blaming themselves. Snooker just has that effect on people, you can do everything the same and one minute be potting everything and the next hardly able to pot a ball. It really messes with the mind.
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Ronnie the best front runner, Ding needs to settle quickly or this is going to be a 1 sided final.
Ding always strikes me as being a nervous wreck; someone who would rather play without any audience whatsoever.
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Ding looks beat already. Can’t be making a such a mess of the positional play so often.
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Much better now, we have a match.
Can’t believe it ended up 4-4. Could have been 7-1, 8-0 easily.
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Ding was down 5 - 7 and now he's pulled it back to all square at 7 - 7.
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They think it’s all over
Caporegime
GOAT of all GOATS
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Found top clinical form after Ding levelled at 7-7, unplayable.
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To be still playing phenomenal snooker, winning majors and be number one in the world at 48, is just simply amazing.
Doubt we'll see his like again in this lifetime.
Doubt we'll see his like again in this lifetime.