5-2 can be game-changing the way Ronnie can lead from the front. Never give Ronnie the chance tp play without a sense of pressure or it can slip away in an hour or so,
You've not seen the battles I have with my missus over the shares of duvet cover during winter months then. Even when She has 95% of it She manipulates me to share my 5%, 70/30 in her favour, until I basically have a handkerchief covering a fraction of an arse cheek !! Good job I'm not marrying the b*****d, I'd walk away from the house with only the recycling plastics to dash in the wheelie bin on my way out of the garden.
This frame was the definition of unpredictable. With 40 secs left on the video I thought brecel was guaranteed to win the frame with the clearance, did not see the miss on the pink coming
@@DrumsTheWord If you've been monitoring the speed of a snooker referee replacing the balls after being potted on television then you are officially the most bored man on planet earth. It's almost like going to a nursing home and congratulating the carers for their noticeable increased speed of wiping the rear ends of the residents and keeping the toileting fluency 😂 Why not create a series of economical graphs and charts to monitor the fluctuation of the price of baked beans price in the former Yugoslavia? I bet you're that lunatic who invented the Bristol stool scale aren't you to monitor the consistency and solidity of your excrement you absolute legend 😂 I love you, you're as mad as a box of frogs but I don't care, I love you regardless Sir 😂❤❤
Have seen fouls given when Ronnie was on the yellow. The cue ball was that close to the yellow that when he hit it, his cue would be touching both balls at the same time making it a foul. If you listen to the sound it makes you can hear it. Glad it was't given though.
Strictly speaking, that should be classed a 'push shot', but players get away with it when 'playing away from' as opposed to 'through' the object ball. Of course, there is simultaneous contact between the tip and cue-ball and the cue-ball and object ball when playing away from the object ball in a 'touching ball' situation and that is not deemed a foul. I also believe that if you are on a colour, after having potted a red, if the cue-ball ends up in a touching ball situation with one of the colours, say the brown, it's optional for the player to nominate another colour, say the yellow, and pot that in order to continue his break. Or, if he prefers, he could nominate the brown and simply 'play away' from it in order to play a safety shot. He could also nominate the brown and play away but into any other ball, because it would be considered that he had played the brown first. However, if he nominated the brown, which he was touching, but then the cue-ball struck and potted the yellow, that would be a foul stroke. Or, how about this - you've potted a red and you've ended up touching ball on the black, which is in the jaws of the pocket. You could, in theory, nominate the black and play away from it on to a cushion and then back onto the black in order to pot it. Or you could nominate the black and play away from it but then hit a red which you then play off a cushion and onto the black and pot it that way, given that you were deemed to have played the black first. Not that any of that is particularly relevant here, I just found it an interesting subject for 5 minutes. I would love to be corrected by a professional referee if I'm wrong - maybe the rules have changed since my day.
9:10 maybe a fluke but he forced it. Yet he lost focus on the next. Very painful 15:20 to feel the pressure throughout this mistake is incredible. 19:40 looks like the key moment for Brecel, he faced the pressure, somehow lost to it but grew with it. we feel this frame as a game of minds. the winner there left it to his experience. Yet more incredible stuff afterwards... A great display for any newbie
Brecel is a hell of a player but not the greatest under pressure I remember watching him when he was 11 at the European under 16 tournament was smashing 100+ breaks but when things got hard he used to struggle
Kinda agree, a kid genius from age "child" ... but still tbh, he could've matured a lot worse and he will probably grow with the task as he grows older. Still has 15 yrs to go at least, if vices does not ruin him.
How does a professional player fail to clear the colours given _that_ opportunity? Or miss the blue, in the manner he did, earlier in the frame - earning the quip from Neal about division 4 league players. The league only has 3 divisions! I've seen the standard there, the mind boggles at what it would be like in a 4 tier!
Desilusão! Ronnie, número 1 do mundo e meu grande ídolo no Snooker, volta e meia parece estar a jogar contrariado. Depois de ganhar uma grande vantagem 6-2 sobre Lucas Brecel, deixou praticamente de jogar. Isto é o campeonato do mundo. Ronnie O'Sullivan desiludir-me com a sua prestação desinteressada. Agora, Além da muito boa replicada do renovado Mark Allen, Mark Selby, muito melhor táticamente, tem o caminho escancarado para voltar a ser o campeão do mundo de Snooker... Atenção: Jiahis S. Da China de 20 anos está a deixar-me de queixo caído. Joga muito bem...
One of the best games I’ve seen since Davies & Taylor. I’m not even a real snooker fan as I like Ice Hockey best. I Also like darts but I can’t play as my arm hurts
@@martinmcguire9974 And he has said/threatened the same thing every year since then. Hopefully one day he does finally make good on his threats of quitting the game, something that will be applauded by all 'decent' snooker fans.
@@jaysmith2858 If you want Ronnie O'Sullivan to quit snooker then please don't ever refer to yourself as a snooker fan again. The game stinks of corruption. Ronnie O'Sullivan just says it as it is. The only person I wanna see quit snooker is Barry Hearn. He's the only one destroying it.
@@martinmcguire9974 Snooker was fine before O'Scumivan arrived on the scene and it will be fine once he buggers off, hopefully taking the moronic "Come on Ronnie!" brigade with him. What Hossein Vafaei said about O'Scumivan is what many others in the game feel about him, however because the latter puts bums on seats (both figuratively and literally) and makes the likes of Hearn a load of money, he and most of the other players, pundits and presenters do/say nothing to stop O'Scumivans antics and his disrespect for the game, one that may well be the only thing that stopped him from spending his life crawling around in the gutter acting like an even bigger git than he already is. Also what has anything I said got to do with corruption in the game?
@@jaysmith2858 O'Sullivan is the game. He brings the money for the sport. Alex Higgins and Jimmy White were the crowd pullers in the 80s and 90s and they were controversial playing drunk and high on drugs but they're real and not frightened of saying what they think. We don't need a bunch of Shaun Murphys claiming to be gentleman and disrespecting others. We don't need 12 Chinese gamblers fixing games or Mark Kings, Stephen Lees or John Higgins' fronting the sport for the youth. We need talent, characters, controversy to a reasonable extent, publicity, showmen, flair players and big personalities. No wonder snooker is on its arse these days. They're all a bunch of Barry Hearns nodding dogs with nothing to say wandering from venue to venue every week tired and soulless. None of them even have a sense of humour anymore other than Mark Williams. Even the flair players are dull as dirt off the table. They all look miserable, stressed out and the ridiculous number of tournaments with snooker available to watch every week has taken the shine off the triple crown events and decreased the winnings in those events too. How is the prize money less than the 90s in the world's? How is the 147 only £40k now in 2023 when it was £147k in 1996? Why does the game not put any money into grass roots and snooker clubs to generate the next generation? Without Ronnie O'Sullivan they wouldn't get the sponsorships to even fund all the prize money and events. The future of snooker is in China. Once Ronnie O'Sullivan retires the British heritage of snooker dies a death. There's no ideas. Snooker should be creating rivalries and animosities between players even if it's staged to stir interest. They're all hugging and kissing and rubbing each others bottoms. They need someone to say 'i hope I draw 'that arsehole' because I can't stand him, that would be all over the papers, then you have a grudge match. The 'gentlemanly' aspect of snooker was admirable in the past when there were gentleman. In 2023, no youth are interested in middle class men in suits arse licking each other and hugging.
Brecel’s safety play is terrible for a top 16 player. If O’ Sullivan was anywhere near his form against Vafeai he would have a 10 frame lead by now. If he plays like that against Selby or Higgins though there is no chance.
I could honestly see him failing to clear the colour's and Ronnie stealing it at the end which he did, That has got to hurt luca and affect his game and Ronnie knows this plus Ronnie will become much stronger as this continues and by the time Luca gets this frame out of his system he could well be another 3 frames behind which against Ronnie will be catastrophic for Luca.
I'd be investigating that miss on the blue by Brecel tbh. Seems like he intentionally lost that frame to me. No professional snooker player has ever missed that shot ever, 99.9% of human beings couldn't miss that shot and he wasn't exactly fuming with himself for it either. You'd imagine anger to be written all over a pro snooker players face for missing that. Especially after that yellow he potted from 16.7 kilometres away !! I'd be looking into any abnormal betting on that particular frame because that miss on the blue seemed awfully intentional to me.
Ronnie should donate the prize money to a good cause. Because of his arrogant and unsportsmanlike behavior. He's slowly losing all respect for his opponent, the sport and the fans.
That blue luca missed was understandable he had tiny angle on it and to load it with right to force the angle he just forced it too much and not only that any shot becomes missable when you use side spin
If there was any whiff of match fixing I think Ronnie would be the first to call it out. He doesn't need any help or edge out there & it could only ever be a negative for him
Ronnie mouthed "that was so shit" when he was walking off at the end 😂😂
Haha true
Luca Brecel. What a player!!!
It's good to see more people go further that aren't from the British Isles. It's good for the sport.
Unusual for O'Sullivan's 3 opponents all to be from overseas.
It would be better to see more people just go further away from the British Isles tbh 😂
5-2 can be game-changing the way Ronnie can lead from the front. Never give Ronnie the chance tp play without a sense of pressure or it can slip away in an hour or so,
Too late 6-2
Love these type battles
You've not seen the battles I have with my missus over the shares of duvet cover during winter months then.
Even when She has 95% of it She manipulates me to share my 5%, 70/30 in her favour, until I basically have a handkerchief covering a fraction of an arse cheek !!
Good job I'm not marrying the b*****d, I'd walk away from the house with only the recycling plastics to dash in the wheelie bin on my way out of the garden.
That brown before the last red was pure
The world champion lost the frame but still won the tournament! congrats Brecel! At least Selby didnt win the title!
That was exciting.. i enjoy watching Brecel play.
Now that the match is over and done with, I hope Brecel beats Selby, he's more than capable, he thoroughly deserves to win the championship.
Yeah baby!
This is what makes the crucible so special. The drama!!
This frame was the definition of unpredictable. With 40 secs left on the video I thought brecel was guaranteed to win the frame with the clearance, did not see the miss on the pink coming
I'm loving the speed and urgency of this referee. I've said it in past comments, the refs are essential in keeping the momentum going.
lol thats because there's history between him and Ronnie over his speed so he probably doesn't want Ronnie kicking off at him again
@@benjones4900 Maybe..which ref hasn't? :) But I think the refs are speeding up based on what I've watched.
@@DrumsTheWord
If you've been monitoring the speed of a snooker referee replacing the balls after being potted on television then you are officially the most bored man on planet earth.
It's almost like going to a nursing home and congratulating the carers for their noticeable increased speed of wiping the rear ends of the residents and keeping the toileting fluency 😂
Why not create a series of economical graphs and charts to monitor the fluctuation of the price of baked beans price in the former Yugoslavia?
I bet you're that lunatic who invented the Bristol stool scale aren't you to monitor the consistency and solidity of your excrement you absolute legend 😂
I love you, you're as mad as a box of frogs but I don't care, I love you regardless Sir 😂❤❤
Ronnie loves a waistcoat foul
15:22
Carrying a bit too much timber!😂
@@tweedlio2763 he’s incredibly thin, I’ve met him person a couple of months back, he’s much thinner than you would think
Needs a smaller waistcoat. He seems to have been using the same one for years.
@@chazzzztastic i was joking, thing called humour hence the laughing face
What a mental battle!
OMG. What on Earth…
Careless by both.
Could really be a Key-Frame. 4-3 or 5-2 is massive.
Ronnie would’ve steamrollered brecel even if it went to 4-3
@@TheJohnCooperShow hahahahaha
@@l.d.t.6327 he did… 10-6. But collapsed
@@TheJohnCooperShow would've should've.
@@l.d.t.6327 ok captain hindsight
Sick shot from Ronnie of the cushion thou
Where's the full match?
*I’ve never seen a more easier blue missed in all of my life in professional snooker*
@Keef Razak its not her first language duh
Well, you obviously don’t remember Willie Thorne missing the blue from its spot against Steve Davis in the UK final some years ago😂
Have seen fouls given when Ronnie was on the yellow. The cue ball was that close to the yellow that when he hit it, his cue would be touching both balls at the same time making it a foul. If you listen to the sound it makes you can hear it. Glad it was't given though.
Strictly speaking, that should be classed a 'push shot', but players get away with it when 'playing away from' as opposed to 'through' the object ball.
Of course, there is simultaneous contact between the tip and cue-ball and the cue-ball and object ball when playing away from the object ball in a 'touching ball' situation and that is not deemed a foul.
I also believe that if you are on a colour, after having potted a red, if the cue-ball ends up in a touching ball situation with one of the colours, say the brown, it's optional for the player to nominate another colour, say the yellow, and pot that in order to continue his break. Or, if he prefers, he could nominate the brown and simply 'play away' from it in order to play a safety shot. He could also nominate the brown and play away but into any other ball, because it would be considered that he had played the brown first.
However, if he nominated the brown, which he was touching, but then the cue-ball struck and potted the yellow, that would be a foul stroke.
Or, how about this - you've potted a red and you've ended up touching ball on the black, which is in the jaws of the pocket. You could, in theory, nominate the black and play away from it on to a cushion and then back onto the black in order to pot it. Or you could nominate the black and play away from it but then hit a red which you then play off a cushion and onto the black and pot it that way, given that you were deemed to have played the black first.
Not that any of that is particularly relevant here, I just found it an interesting subject for 5 minutes. I would love to be corrected by a professional referee if I'm wrong - maybe the rules have changed since my day.
all knows that ronnie is member of snooker bets mafia 😂
9:10 maybe a fluke but he forced it. Yet he lost focus on the next. Very painful
15:20 to feel the pressure throughout this mistake is incredible.
19:40 looks like the key moment for Brecel, he faced the pressure, somehow lost to it but grew with it.
we feel this frame as a game of minds.
the winner there left it to his experience. Yet more incredible stuff afterwards...
A great display for any newbie
Loved it at the end when when he walks out says that was dogshit
If that's the part you loved he's probably right 😂
Very big luck for ronny. 😆🇸🇮👍
Brecel is a hell of a player but not the greatest under pressure
I remember watching him when he was 11 at the European under 16 tournament was smashing 100+ breaks but when things got hard he used to struggle
Kinda agree, a kid genius from age "child" ... but still tbh, he could've matured a lot worse and he will probably grow with the task as he grows older.
Still has 15 yrs to go at least, if vices does not ruin him.
How does a professional player fail to clear the colours given _that_ opportunity?
Or miss the blue, in the manner he did, earlier in the frame - earning the quip from Neal about division 4 league players.
The league only has 3 divisions!
I've seen the standard there, the mind boggles at what it would be like in a 4 tier!
The results shows ur wrong
no way he can beat dear old Ronnie 😛😛😛😛😛
ha ha, yes, he turned that around...lol
Even i could've potted that blue..I could miss it too!
Ronnie= Genius!
Desilusão! Ronnie, número 1 do mundo e meu grande ídolo no Snooker, volta e meia parece estar a jogar contrariado. Depois de ganhar uma grande vantagem 6-2 sobre Lucas Brecel, deixou praticamente de jogar.
Isto é o campeonato do mundo. Ronnie O'Sullivan desiludir-me com a sua prestação desinteressada.
Agora, Além da muito boa replicada do renovado Mark Allen, Mark Selby, muito melhor táticamente, tem o caminho escancarado para voltar a ser o campeão do mundo de Snooker...
Atenção: Jiahis S. Da China de 20 anos está a deixar-me de queixo caído. Joga muito bem...
One of the best games I’ve seen since Davies & Taylor. I’m not even a real snooker fan as I like Ice Hockey best. I Also like darts but I can’t play as my arm hurts
It’s like a short story a child would write in year 1
@@DrShakamoto9 lol
try jur king off with your other hand instead
@@DrShakamoto9 😂
Like a Ralph Wiggum comment
There was one more frame!
Ronnie won it with an 85 break.
6:2
Is there any player on the tour who does as many waistcoat fouls as Ronnie?
No. I have never even seen one from another player, but seen so many from Ronnie. And often in critical frames and situations,
Not since Stephen Lee got banned 😂
you really should write the year somewhere in your headline or description!
Pressure got to him on that pink. Unlucky
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Could you imagine if Ronnie does this and he goes all out and hands the cue up and says I'm done
He said he was hanging his cue up in 1998 😂
@@martinmcguire9974 And he has said/threatened the same thing every year since then. Hopefully one day he does finally make good on his threats of quitting the game, something that will be applauded by all 'decent' snooker fans.
@@jaysmith2858
If you want Ronnie O'Sullivan to quit snooker then please don't ever refer to yourself as a snooker fan again.
The game stinks of corruption.
Ronnie O'Sullivan just says it as it is.
The only person I wanna see quit snooker is Barry Hearn.
He's the only one destroying it.
@@martinmcguire9974 Snooker was fine before O'Scumivan arrived on the scene and it will be fine once he buggers off, hopefully taking the moronic "Come on Ronnie!" brigade with him.
What Hossein Vafaei said about O'Scumivan is what many others in the game feel about him, however because the latter puts bums on seats (both figuratively and literally) and makes the likes of Hearn a load of money, he and most of the other players, pundits and presenters do/say nothing to stop O'Scumivans antics and his disrespect for the game, one that may well be the only thing that stopped him from spending his life crawling around in the gutter acting like an even bigger git than he already is.
Also what has anything I said got to do with corruption in the game?
@@jaysmith2858
O'Sullivan is the game. He brings the money for the sport.
Alex Higgins and Jimmy White were the crowd pullers in the 80s and 90s and they were controversial playing drunk and high on drugs but they're real and not frightened of saying what they think.
We don't need a bunch of Shaun Murphys claiming to be gentleman and disrespecting others.
We don't need 12 Chinese gamblers fixing games or Mark Kings, Stephen Lees or John Higgins' fronting the sport for the youth.
We need talent, characters, controversy to a reasonable extent, publicity, showmen, flair players and big personalities.
No wonder snooker is on its arse these days.
They're all a bunch of Barry Hearns nodding dogs with nothing to say wandering from venue to venue every week tired and soulless.
None of them even have a sense of humour anymore other than Mark Williams.
Even the flair players are dull as dirt off the table. They all look miserable, stressed out and the ridiculous number of tournaments with snooker available to watch every week has taken the shine off the triple crown events and decreased the winnings in those events too.
How is the prize money less than the 90s in the world's? How is the 147 only £40k now in 2023 when it was £147k in 1996?
Why does the game not put any money into grass roots and snooker clubs to generate the next generation?
Without Ronnie O'Sullivan they wouldn't get the sponsorships to even fund all the prize money and events.
The future of snooker is in China.
Once Ronnie O'Sullivan retires the British heritage of snooker dies a death.
There's no ideas.
Snooker should be creating rivalries and animosities between players even if it's staged to stir interest.
They're all hugging and kissing and rubbing each others bottoms.
They need someone to say 'i hope I draw 'that arsehole' because I can't stand him, that would be all over the papers, then you have a grudge match.
The 'gentlemanly' aspect of snooker was admirable in the past when there were gentleman.
In 2023, no youth are interested in middle class men in suits arse licking each other and hugging.
Think I'd be checking the betting patterns on that one...
They'll be checking the bets that were put on this game!
You rekon ?
And rightly so.
One advice for Brecel! You must be more polite and don’t throw the balls in different directions! Keep calm, it helps you to play better!
Talk about the blue some more, please… 😑
i don't know anything about snooker so i must admit that ronnie hesitates a lot lately and luca finds it hard to keep nerves
You’ve a lot of thoughts on the players for someone who knows nothing about snooker 🤦🏻♂️
Bravo Brecel! 😊👍👍👍
Браво Брессель. Опустил пижона с небес на землю.!!
ronnie is the best and the luckiest . how do you beat such a player . xD
With a very large wet fish.
Of all the bad commentators on Eurosport, Foulds is by far the worst.
Brecel’s safety play is terrible for a top 16 player. If O’ Sullivan was anywhere near his form against Vafeai he would have a 10 frame lead by now. If he plays like that against Selby or Higgins though there is no chance.
Maybe next year lol, he wont be seeing Selby or Higgins
Опыт!
I enjoyed the awkwardness
STEPHEN LEE anyone seen him??
I could honestly see him failing to clear the colour's and Ronnie stealing it at the end which he did, That has got to hurt luca and affect his game and Ronnie knows this plus Ronnie will become much stronger as this continues and by the time Luca gets this frame out of his system he could well be another 3 frames behind which against Ronnie will be catastrophic for Luca.
Two misses, one fluke, one foul. Extraordinary?
like 7 plot twists
Lucky bastard
Maybe it really was bad luck, but tbh these two misses plus some not that good safeties by Brecel sure look fishy to me.
Why didn't you show this match? Shame of Eurosport.
I’m not sure but it’s on BBC.
@@stasyuta No I watched this match on BBC. But not Eurosport.
@@Depresseddonut17 , I am surprised. Did not know.
Cant believe i just waisted all that time. Appropriate title was ronny does a waist coat foul.
I'm sorry to say the great one has lost the love for the game, he hasn't got the killer instinct anymore.
Brecel seems to hate playing well on the blue. He's got the blues.
I'd be investigating that miss on the blue by Brecel tbh. Seems like he intentionally lost that frame to me. No professional snooker player has ever missed that shot ever, 99.9% of human beings couldn't miss that shot and he wasn't exactly fuming with himself for it either. You'd imagine anger to be written all over a pro snooker players face for missing that.
Especially after that yellow he potted from 16.7 kilometres away !!
I'd be looking into any abnormal betting on that particular frame because that miss on the blue seemed awfully intentional to me.
Is there anyone who believes he beat Ronnie ?😂😂😂
Brecel can laugh...of himself. For sure it wasnt a question of luck,, that pink failure
Thumbnail looks like Brecel grabbing Ronnie by the chin
If only.
Pro vs pool player! 😂
He was bloody awful! Didn't seem as if he was even trying 🙄 . The rest of the tournament is over for me ! Might watch some of the final!
Brecel has better tattoos.
That missed blue and then failing to clear up the colours with the position they were in, you have to think about match fixing.
Ronnie should donate the prize money to a good cause.
Because of his arrogant and unsportsmanlike behavior.
He's slowly losing all respect for his opponent, the sport and the fans.
No bottle.
I HAVEN'T SEEN A DUMBER SESSION OF SNOOKER THAN THIS ONE BY LUCA. JUST NAIVE PLAY!
Sure play it for him. Show him how it’s done 🤦🏻♂️
your caps lock, honey. And your chill pill. Don't forget both.
Always great to see an angry Frenchman beaten.
Where's the Frenchmen? He's not even Walloon either. Bye Ronnie!
@@Bamboozlenoodle LOL yes you are right & my mistake.
I never thought of Ronnie looking French, but now you mention it...
@@l.d.t.6327 Roland Au'Soluvain.
Was this evidence of match fixing? Hope not.
Why would you think that?
Both are well of with money especially Ronnie no match fixing here
That blue luca missed was understandable he had tiny angle on it and to load it with right to force the angle he just forced it too much and not only that any shot becomes missable when you use side spin
If there was any whiff of match fixing I think Ronnie would be the first to call it out. He doesn't need any help or edge out there & it could only ever be a negative for him
What a frame?
Who are the 2 in commentary?