The Snooker Thread (Part 1)

Willie Thorne, Steve Walsh, yer man from Kasabianā€¦youā€™re only missing Gary Lineker for a full house.

Englebert Humperdink and Showaddywaddy are also from Leicester. Surprised The Puke hasnā€™t bumped into them yet.

Young welsh debutant Michael White is the first man in the 1/4 finals beating Poomjaeng 13-3. Nice to do it with a session to spare and he plays either Ricky Walden or Robert Milkins.

Trump playing some exhibition stuff as he takes a 6-2 lead after the first session.

This is tremendous stuff from Graeme. Ahead now for the first time in the match 10-9. Heā€™s showing all his usual battling qualities but also starting to show the type of form that made him world champion in 2006.

Barry Hawkins is playing some lovely stuff on the other table, heā€™s very unlucky to be 6-5 behind.

12-11 to Bandage live on Eurosport now

Iā€™ll finish off this zombie bastard shortly.

Dott gave up very easily there - at 42 behind with 27 on the table most players would have at least tried to get the four snookers needed but he immediately conceded. Definitely not a case of ā€œno surrenderā€.

Mark Selby has has a poor record at the Crucible and it could well continue here. 12-10 down to Barry Hawkins and has really played very poorly.

Selby has been beaten 13-10. Should have won the first frame this afternoon to go 10-7 up. Didnā€™t and ended up losing 6 of the 7 frames.

Thereā€™s been a serious cull on the bottom half of the draw. Looking at Robert Milkins, Ricky Walden, Michael White, Barry Hawkins, Mark King or Ding Junhui in the final. It really is a big chance for Ding. Michael White a dark horse.

On the plus side for Selby he has a good chance of meeting forum member chewy louie in the near future.

Could be looking at a repeat of 1984 and a Davis v White final.

Trump was on a red, hit the blue and cannoned into a pile of reds.

A miss was called, and Fu got them replaced.

They have been at it for the last 10 minutes.

This tournament is setting up nicely for Ronnie, would be a hell of achievement if he wins it. Personally, I hope he does.

Great banter with King and Ding here. :smiley: :clap:

I hope a player from Essex who had a parent jailed for life for murder wins it.

That leaves two options - Ronnie Oā€™Sullivan or Mark King.

An excellent session for Mark King - he leads Ding 6-2.

Hazel Irvine would get it

Ding wins 5 straight frames to lead 7-6.