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Welcome to the Crucible Theatre. Some top seeds have crashed out | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
already. Today the second round get under way, but there are still two | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
places up for grabs. Neil Robertson has yet to book his place in the | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
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We are looking forward to seeing Neil Robertson take on Robert | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Milkins. It is packed to the rafters here today and here is what | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
is coming up. He won the world title three years ago, but Neil | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
Robertson only made the quarter- finals last year. He is the only | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
top four C not into the second round yet. He is 5-4 up against | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
Robert Milkins. They play to have finished this afternoon. This | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
second round gets under way with Shaun Murphy taking on Graeme Dott. | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
That is on Table 1. Graeme Dott has made the headlines this week in the | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
debate over slow play. We will ask if there should be a shotclock. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Steve Davis continues our look at their history of snooker. Today it | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
is the turn of the tables. So, plenty to look forward to this | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
afternoon. The match we are focusing on his Dale Robertson | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
about -- against Robert Milkins. Can the man they called the milkman | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
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delivered this afternoon? A couple of years ago I had a few years when | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
I disrespected the game. In the end, it probably cost me four or five | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
years. I was virtually homeless. I had nothing. I had to knuckle down. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
I was really lucky because I had a couple of really good friends are | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
rightly. I met a girl at the same time and she helped me out. I met | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
my manager. He has been brilliant as well. A combination of the few | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
things turned my life around. There was a lot of times when I felt like | :03:57. | :04:05. | |
giving up. It was silly, really. I knew that I was good enough to win | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
a tournament, even when I was going through a bad spell. It has taken | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
me a couple of years to get back on track. I have started knuckling | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
down. I have got to nice young kids and they have taken the pressure | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
off, because they come first, not snooker. I have started performing. | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
Like a lot of the players have. A lot of the players that they have | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
got older, their games have matured and they have started to play well. | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
I wouldn't turn it around. I have done what I have done. I just look | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
forward to the future and I want to try and win a tournament. But there | :04:48. | :04:58. | |
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That was a stunning long shot. Not happy. | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
Robert Milkins never had a chance in that frame. | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
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A tester of a blue. Robert Milkins shakes his head. | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
Neil Robertson did what he had to do, and make a good start. Robert | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
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That was an excellent pot on the pink, and that gets him a frame | :05:50. | :06:00. | |
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That was a fabulous shot. When he was under threat, he just changed | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
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years. Will 143 be enough? An Robert Milkins has closed the gap. | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
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He trails by two frames now at 5-3. They handshake will come. Neil | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
Robertson waves to the crowd, but he will be disappointed to only be | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
leading by a 5-4. A I will be enjoying the company of | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
John Parrott. In the context of this match, how important was it | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
that Robert Milkins got those two frames in the final session? To win | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
the last two frames is massive for him. Make no mistake, the | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Australian is in a match today. What I find fascinating in that | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
interview was that he was so honest. He seems to have overcome his | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
issues. K E is improving all the time. I always thought he was a | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
great break-builder and a good potter. He has been improving. When | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
he can score quickly, the scoreline will change quickly. Neil Robertson | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
got off to a flyer. How impressed Riggi yesterday with his | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
temperament? Back goes without question. Today he has to start | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
again and really focus. This is a dangerous opponent today. I was in | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
the practice run a few minutes ago and he is putting well. He looks | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
remarkably relaxed. What is it like when you are former world champion | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
and you are not in the second drawing jet and you're still | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
involved in a tussle? It is horrible. John Higgins has gone | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
home, Mark Allen, Stephen Maguire, it is not nice to go home. Hard you | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
conscious of bats when the top players are falling? You tell | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
everybody you're not, but you are. Well, with Terry Griffiths and | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
Dennis Taylor is Ken Doherty. A I am delighted to be joined by | :08:34. | :08:44. | |
:08:44. | :08:45. | ||
two former world champions. Terry, you have been at his corner with | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
Robert Milkins, what have you been saying to him? He played very well | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
to come back yesterday. Robert Milkins is the kind of player who | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
can reach great heights, but he has been known to go walkabout for a | :09:00. | :09:09. | |
few frames. He is a tremendous player. No matter how many time to | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
play here, the first round can be a banana skin. He certainly can be. | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
You feel the World Championship really start in the second rounds. | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
He looks really well. He hasn't won it since 2010. Neil Robertson wants | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
another world title. The crowd are ready, the players are ready and so | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
is RMC, Rob Walker. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. We are | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
cranking up the drama here. Just two places left in the second round, | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
which also gets under way today. Papac does here at the Crucible. | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
The stage is set with three world champions. Please welcome a player | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
who sometimes doesn't gets the respect his achievements deserve. | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
He has contested three up and act - - last nine world finals. Bidding | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
for a fit Crucible quarter-final, be only Scottish person left in the | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
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His opponent, also a world champion in 2005, this man is a class act on | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
and off the table. Producing an excellent second session in the | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
first round, he also won the UK title in 2000 inmates. One of the | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
most consistent players, ready to make an impact once again, he is | :10:58. | :11:08. | |
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Here on Table two, please welcome a player making his first appearance | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
for eight years. Producing some of the best snooker of his career in | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
the last two years. He won the last two frames yesterday and he is | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
right back in the hunt. He likes his cider, but we call him the | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
:11:51. | :12:04. | ||
MUSIC: "I Am A Cider Drinker" by Please welcome one of the best long | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
potters in the game. He came over from Australia a decade ago with | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
hardly a penny in his pocket. Winner here in 2010, he has offered | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
to buy a pint for every Australian who comes to support him in | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
Sheffield this year. Winner of the China Open this month, he is the | :12:24. | :12:34. | |
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thunder from Down Under, he is Neil MUSIC: "Heart Of Courage" by Two | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
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So, live coverage. If you want Shaun Murphy against Graeme Dott in | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
the second rounds, the first of three sessions, hit your red button | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
now. We're concentrating on this fascinating first-round match. Let | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
me hang due to our dynamic duo, Dennis Taylor and Terry Griffiths. | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
VENICE: What a fabulous atmosphere again at the Crucible. While the | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
players got terrific receptions. Robert Milkins with his walk on | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
music had the crowd clapping here. You think they ever get the cue | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
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Did you can get a little bit sticky I t when the conditions are fairly | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
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Neil Robertson gets the tenth frame under way. He looked very | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
impressive. That little file is just to make sure the tip of the | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
cue doesn't get too shiny. He played very well yesterday. He had | :14:21. | :14:30. | |
a magnificent 143, which is the contender for the high break. We | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
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have had three breaks over 140. Judd Trump had a magnificent break | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
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of 142. That was superseded by Neil Robert Milkins will be very pleased | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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with the 5-4 results. You never know when you get up in the morning | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
and you face a session in the Crucible how you're going to feel. | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
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His thoughts will be dominated by how many frames he wins today. | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :16:16. | :17:15. | |
Could we see an early Neil Robert Milkins has the safety game | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
to hold Neil Robertson. He didn't score as heavily as him yesterday, | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
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though. He did make any 88, that There is deceit the success rate, | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
so Robert is well ahead of Neil Robertson in that department. He | :17:53. | :18:02. | |
might lose a percentage for that safety shot! He has not left | :18:02. | :18:12. | |
anything on, I think. She has a choice, he could put it back, which | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
she has. He could have made him play it from where the cue ball had | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
finished. Not a difficult shot. He just doesn't want to hit it thickly, | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
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that is all. He has hit it too thickly this time, but he got a | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
result because it's went round the other side of the blue. He will | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
take that. He might have a patch round the bat -- round the back of | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
:18:54. | :19:14. | ||
the black here that is near us to He did not fancy trying to swing it | :19:14. | :19:24. | |
:19:24. | :19:35. | ||
around the ankles in case he called There is an indication of the fact | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
:19:45. | :19:57. | ||
One good positional shot here and he has a decent opportunity. Robert | :19:57. | :20:07. | |
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is pushing for a top 16 spots. He is pushing very close. He plays at | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
the south-west snooker academy at Gloucester. I think that opening up | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
there has helped him with it career he has had in the last few years. | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
:20:27. | :20:32. | ||
You go down there wanted was a month don't you, Terry? Yes. I do | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
some coaching there and a few other things. I go around some schools | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
and different things. Am really enjoying it. Polmont is the man | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
there you put it all together. -- Paul mounts. The way the reds are | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
situated, things should improve the problem. He looks so good when he | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
is amongst the balls. He is so fluent. The pink looks like it is | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
:21:13. | :21:40. | ||
available, so he has a straight red He has a swagger about him, Robert. | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
He always has when he is walking wounded table. He fancies the job, | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
and here I am, mate! If you don't have any confidence, there is no | :21:53. | :22:03. | |
point playing this game, I can tell He does have a habit of just | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
shaking his head every now and again. He just went a little bit | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
further than he intended there. Been straighter on the plea would | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
have been ideal. He is reluctant to play a little cannon here and messy | :22:18. | :22:28. | |
:22:28. | :22:35. | ||
slips out of position. He could I thought he would hate them a | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
little bit harder than that. It was the right idea, but he needed to | :22:41. | :22:51. | |
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hit it a little bit firmer. That will be disappointing. This will be | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
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thing, this one. That is a great recovery shot! Especially when he | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
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He can't quite get the cue ball under control at the moment. He has | :23:31. | :23:41. | |
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stopped short of his intended position. You have to rely on your | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
instincts for the feel of the shot. Sometimes it doesn't come. Perhaps | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
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he is a little bit tense. It is the A well, well, well. It looked in. | :24:01. | :24:11. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :24:11. | :24:57. | |
He has left that on. This a good I think he's just OK. He almost put | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
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himself out of position, but he has Those for reds were just blocking | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
themselves into the corner pocket, so he might play a cannon on to the | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
one between the black and the pink. They seem to be covering each other. | :25:44. | :25:54. | |
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Now everything is in the open. Just the one sea of red. -- see it read. | :26:14. | :26:24. | |
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There are five Easy reds, but he will need that difficult red to | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
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His break-building has improved in the last few years. He is a really | :27:02. | :27:12. | |
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strong favourite to win here this All you have to do is to cut his | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
statistics. He has had 44 centuries this season, 54 centuries last | :27:19. | :27:29. | |
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I think Judd Trump had 54 as well. His safety is brilliant, his | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
temperament is brilliant. He was just debating their whether or not | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
to bring that difficult read into play. It is always risky to play | :27:48. | :27:58. | |
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He has lots of options. He is already concerned about that | :28:03. | :28:13. | |
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Those two reds are perfectly placed to bring the difficult one into | :28:23. | :28:32. | |
play. He is the type of player that wouldn't be bothered, his putting | :28:32. | :28:41. | |
is so good. He always has been an exceptional potter. Over the years | :28:41. | :28:51. | |
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he has added a lot more to his game Well, I'm surprised he played back | :28:54. | :29:02. | |
for the blue. Why did he have to hit it that harder? He could have | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
played for the black or the pink, but he decided to come back for the | :29:07. | :29:14. | |
blue and hit it very hard. What a reprieve for Robert. He was trying | :29:14. | :29:20. | |
to lead an ankle on the black to cannon out that typical red. He is | :29:20. | :29:30. | |
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to straight on the black. So, a So, a little bit of tension in this | :29:45. | :29:52. | |
opening frame. It is such an important frame. To get back all | :29:52. | :30:00. | |
square, he had the chance there. Two unexpected misses, one from | :30:00. | :30:10. | |
:30:10. | :30:10. | ||
each player. Robert did not look at the pink. The pink was just a | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
natural roll in any would have definitely been on that red into | :30:13. | :30:23. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :30:23. | :31:13. | |
That was a pretty good shot from I can see why he played that shot, | :31:13. | :31:23. | |
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but it does leave the possibility I am not sure if he can hit this | :31:44. | :31:50. | |
red, he might be able to catch the edge of it. If he plays the safety | :31:50. | :32:00. | |
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This was the black that Robert played. He did not even look at the | :32:05. | :32:14. | |
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pink. He never even then gave it a He was close to the brown. He felt | :32:32. | :32:42. | |
he could see enough of it. Worth the risk along the cushion here? If | :32:42. | :32:52. | |
:32:52. | :33:05. | ||
the red goes in then he can put He did not play the best safety, I | :33:05. | :33:12. | |
was with you there. I thought he could have played for the blue or | :33:12. | :33:19. | |
brown or the yellow. But out there you get different thoughts. Some | :33:19. | :33:29. | |
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people like that had. -- shot and Knocking that green safe has | :33:48. | :33:58. | |
:33:58. | :34:24. | ||
changed the complexion of this He is going to try and land on this | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
red near the cushion. Not a lot else he can play, he could not risk | :34:29. | :34:39. | |
:34:39. | :35:09. | ||
Just a little delicate one to come He played that so well, he hasn't | :35:09. | :35:19. | |
:35:19. | :35:28. | ||
left and shot four or Robert Sometimes you have just got to keep | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
the ball safe in Asif do shot, it is not always trying to get it safe | :35:34. | :35:44. | |
:35:44. | :36:05. | ||
It is always difficult for the players when the reds are earth | :36:05. | :36:15. | |
:36:15. | :36:30. | ||
were they are now. He has to be The he did not want that kiss. Is | :36:30. | :36:38. | |
Robert to up to it? He has just spotted something on the cue ball | :36:39. | :36:48. | |
:36:49. | :36:52. | ||
The referee from Alton is just making sure it is nice and clean. | :36:52. | :37:02. | |
:37:02. | :37:09. | ||
He certainly did. Good cueing there. If he tries to get close to the red, | :37:09. | :37:17. | |
he had to go round the angles. There he goes. This looks pretty | :37:17. | :37:27. | |
:37:27. | :38:01. | ||
good. Not quite as he intended, but This first frame often dictates how | :38:01. | :38:11. | |
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the match can span out. The players He might be able to swerve around | :38:20. | :38:30. | |
:38:30. | :38:47. | ||
that, and if he does swerve around He has played the safety shot, so | :38:47. | :38:57. | |
:38:57. | :38:57. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :38:57. | :39:43. | |
There is a chance to get behind I do not understand why he played | :39:43. | :39:53. | |
:39:53. | :40:11. | ||
it that way. Perhaps he just mishit Well, he will have to play the | :40:11. | :40:21. | |
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snooker now. And bring the green into a better position. He is | :40:26. | :40:36. | |
:40:36. | :41:03. | ||
looking at the St blue. -- the He chaired the scoreboard, he was | :41:03. | :41:08. | |
four in front. Now if Neil Robertson gets a chance, he will | :41:08. | :41:18. | |
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The if that had gone in, what a What you would call, half in the | :41:28. | :41:38. | |
:41:38. | :41:51. | ||
Could have been worse for Robert Milkins there. I am not sure if | :41:51. | :41:57. | |
Neil can play this shot into the centre, over the brown and to in | :41:57. | :42:03. | |
the way. He is a very good shot maker, a very strong player towards | :42:03. | :42:13. | |
:42:13. | :42:22. | ||
Clever shot there. He has brought the pink back into play and he has | :42:23. | :42:32. | |
:42:33. | :42:38. | ||
I don't think he played the snooker, he just played the cannon. He was | :42:38. | :42:48. | |
:42:48. | :42:49. | ||
hoping to get the yellow between He will be in trouble with that | :42:49. | :42:59. | |
:42:59. | :42:59. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :42:59. | :43:47. | |
I think he can get enough side on The last time he had a shock like | :43:47. | :43:57. | |
:43:57. | :44:07. | ||
this, he pushed the red it over the In that situation you have got to | :44:07. | :44:17. | |
:44:17. | :44:25. | ||
make sure you keep the object ball He caught but a little bit thin. He | :44:25. | :44:31. | |
was trying to push the yellow away from the pocket a little bit. | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
wondering if you can miss the through and come back towards the | :44:35. | :44:45. | |
:44:45. | :44:55. | ||
It has not bounced enough. He will have to come back up towards the | :44:55. | :45:05. | |
:45:05. | :45:37. | ||
A little thin one, but once again That was not the best safety shot I | :45:37. | :45:46. | |
have ever seen from Neil Robertson. The robber to is a dynamic potter | :45:46. | :45:56. | |
:45:56. | :46:02. | ||
The that is pretty clever because that pink is blocking the pocket. | :46:02. | :46:08. | |
He has got a good safety game, as Terry was saying at the start of | :46:08. | :46:15. | |
the frame. Affray which has been going for just over 32 minutes. -- | :46:15. | :46:25. | |
:46:25. | :46:26. | ||
a frame. They are both good safety players, that is why the frame is | :46:26. | :46:33. | |
going 32 minutes! Almost a chance he could get in behind the pink, if | :46:33. | :46:43. | |
:46:43. | :46:45. | ||
the white had been a little further He would have to leave the greener | :46:46. | :46:55. | |
:46:56. | :47:12. | ||
Worth a try, but he overhit it Most of the frames have been fairly | :47:12. | :47:22. | |
:47:22. | :47:22. | ||
quiet, a couple of slow ones. He did not get into that. He did not | :47:22. | :47:32. | |
:47:32. | :47:39. | ||
He will automatically finish on the ground -- on the brown if he takes | :47:39. | :47:44. | |
a chance. It will be a frame weather. That is what he is | :47:44. | :47:54. | |
:47:54. | :47:59. | ||
thinking about. Make your mind at Once again, he thought long and | :47:59. | :48:09. | |
:48:09. | :48:14. | ||
hard and decided not to risk of the Already the longest frame of the | :48:14. | :48:24. | |
:48:24. | :48:28. | ||
match so far, coming up to 35 He is just looking to see if he | :48:28. | :48:33. | |
could hit it from behind, when you're playing that sort of shot | :48:33. | :48:43. | |
:48:43. | :48:50. | ||
you can always send the green up And that is what he has done. He | :48:50. | :48:58. | |
might be able to take the pot on and cannon of brown. If the pot | :48:58. | :49:07. | |
goes and, it looks to be a natural to cannon into the ground. -- into | :49:07. | :49:14. | |
the brown. He has gone for the safety and he has hit it a little | :49:14. | :49:24. | |
:49:24. | :49:36. | ||
too full. Can Neil Robertson get If you played at the normal way | :49:36. | :49:46. | |
:49:46. | :49:51. | ||
with top spin he may collide into That is exactly the reason he | :49:51. | :50:00. | |
refused to pot. But he has played a good safety here. Neil having a | :50:01. | :50:10. | |
:50:11. | :50:20. | ||
glance up at the monitor to see if They are not giving an inch in the | :50:20. | :50:30. | |
:50:30. | :50:35. | ||
safety belt. -- bout. It looked like the for him would be open | :50:35. | :50:40. | |
quickly, and then Robert made a mistake and Neil came back with a | :50:40. | :50:50. | |
:50:50. | :51:01. | ||
44 Greek and it is a fascinating Everything went wrong with that | :51:01. | :51:08. | |
shot. And if it is a full ball snooker he can put him back in | :51:08. | :51:18. | |
:51:18. | :51:26. | ||
again. The black is there for the It wobbled and it is going to be | :51:26. | :51:36. | |
:51:36. | :51:42. | ||
awkward. He did not pot the black cleanly. So, it is all happening. | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
If he tries to drop this in he can cover the green with the brown | :51:47. | :51:57. | |
:51:57. | :52:28. | ||
He has more of the cover. -- he has That was a good shot, very well | :52:28. | :52:35. | |
controlled. It looks to be a full ball snooker. He cannot get in | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
behind the green, it is too close to the cushion. He may have to come | :52:40. | :52:50. | |
:52:50. | :52:51. | ||
off the side cushion and hope for a little run of the ball. All he can | :52:51. | :53:01. | |
do is hit it and hope for the best. That is OK, he will settle for that. | :53:01. | :53:11. | |
:53:11. | :53:38. | ||
This is quite an exciting opening It looked for one second like it | :53:38. | :53:44. | |
was going to go past the brown, then it went behind it. Still, a | :53:44. | :53:54. | |
:53:54. | :54:15. | ||
He got away with that, but he could Did he hit it hard enough? Well, | :54:15. | :54:19. | |
the pink has no could him, so in behind the black would have been | :54:19. | :54:29. | |
:54:29. | :54:33. | ||
even better. -- snookered him. Can he get it safer game? He needs good | :54:33. | :54:43. | |
:54:43. | :54:50. | ||
fortune and they do not think he Neil Robertson could take this one | :54:50. | :55:00. | |
:55:00. | :55:11. | ||
He is going to be doing one of He has plenty of options, we know | :55:11. | :55:17. | |
the green that will pass the blue. If he cuts the green, he might calm | :55:17. | :55:22. | |
and the pink, and that is what he is worried about. -- he might | :55:22. | :55:32. | |
:55:32. | :55:36. | ||
He is one of the best potters in the game. And that is tight, to go | :55:36. | :55:46. | |
in that corner pocket. He cannot make his mind doubts. He is a good | :55:46. | :55:56. | |
:55:56. | :56:00. | ||
judge of the deflection off the There's plenty of room to go past | :56:00. | :56:10. | |
:56:10. | :56:33. | ||
He is certainly giving it plenty of He is back looking at it, past the | :56:33. | :56:42. | |
blue. It will go, if you are in behind it. If he tries and in the | :56:42. | :56:48. | |
corner to get on the brown and he misses it, there is always a chance | :56:48. | :56:58. | |
:56:58. | :57:23. | ||
In the end, he made a complete mess of it and try to pot it past the | :57:23. | :57:33. | |
:57:33. | :57:39. | ||
It has turned out not too bad for Neil Robertson. If he pots this, | :57:39. | :57:45. | |
the brown is only available in one corner. He refused a few pots | :57:46. | :57:51. | |
earlier, then suddenly goes for one of which was quite difficult and | :57:51. | :58:01. | |
:58:01. | :58:28. | ||
He only needs the pink, so no problem if he gets nicely on the | :58:28. | :58:38. | |
:58:38. | :58:44. | ||
You do not like losing any frames, but it is the long frames that you | :58:44. | :58:54. | |
:58:54. | :59:15. | ||
want to win. From a confidence He is still a bit worried about it. | :59:15. | :59:21. | |
If you have to hit it with more pace, you just lose the natural | :59:21. | :59:31. | |
:59:31. | :59:49. | ||
It is 61 points all. There is a possible shot on here, he could | :59:49. | :59:59. | |
:59:59. | :00:03. | ||
finish on the pink. He might do He put so much into the double, he | :00:03. | :00:13. | |
:00:13. | :00:23. | ||
just did not hit it hard enough to Neil, as does Robert. Where is that | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
:00:33. | :00:34. | ||
cue ball? It is safe! What a frame for Robert Milkins to take! Lasted | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
nearly 47 minutes but didn't this Crucible crowd enjoy that? Robert | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
Milkins is all square with Neil Robertson and it is five each. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Well, that is the longest frame of the match so far and you were | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
talking about just how tense this matches. Well, we've seen it from | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
that frame. I can't believe how long Neil Robertson has taken on some of | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
those shots. It looks as though he is going a bit fuzzy upstairs. You | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
can see it from both players, lots of nerves going on. Normally he is a | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
very quick player but he took over to a half minutes on one shot. You | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
knew the importance of the shot itself but sometimes you can | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
overcomplicate things. Your first instinct is normally your best and | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
that's normally the best shot you play. And you can overcomplicate. | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
Not even on just the green, but even on the blue, he eventually Mister | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
blue by quite some distance, going off in the green pocket. -- missed | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
the blue. And then of course the blue was a fantastic shot. He took a | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
long time over the shot. And he has been very, very edgy, Neil | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
:01:59. | :01:59. | ||
Robertson, hasn't he? Yes. He hasn't got the cue ball on the Borg rail. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Where he left it was most awkward. The harder you hit that, the wider | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
the angle of the ball. So he was a bit tentative and it was one of | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
those where sometimes you just land there, and it's hard to steal | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
yourself and not just play the shot. Robert hauled himself back into this | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
and now it is 5-5. How is he feeling? When you're playing a | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
player who plays the way he plays, he gets on a roll and plays faster | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
and faster. You could be sitting in your chair, pouring your water into | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
your glass and you are 50 or 60 points down before you have finished | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
pouring your water! Once he gets on a run it can upset the opponent | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
because you are thrown out of your rhythm a bit. The commentary said | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Robert Milkins have this certain swagger, the way he goes around the | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
table choosing his shots. Yes, you've got to look confident and | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
feel confident and play confidently. I've seen him for a long time on the | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
circuit and always thought he was a good pot and breaker but there is | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
more to him than that. Fascinating stuff. | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
TERRY GRIFFITHS: Yes, on the circuit for eight years. A great practice | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
based now in Gloucester. At the Snooker Academy. And all of the | :03:26. | :03:36. | |
:03:36. | :04:05. | ||
covered this red up to the right corner. The black is tied up. So a | :04:05. | :04:15. | |
:04:15. | :04:18. | ||
bit for the former world champion playing is he doesn't mind the open | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
game, the scraps. He doesn't mind anything. It seems he can adapt to | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
whatever happens out there. Yes, that's why he was a world champion | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
and is one of the favourites for this year. His all-round game is | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
superb. Up there with the greatest potters we've ever had, if not the | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
:04:46. | :05:22. | ||
dropped it in across the nap of the cloth. You wouldn't think it would | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
be his favourite shot but I think sometimes all pot is, the same to | :05:25. | :05:35. | |
:05:35. | :06:05. | ||
blue. He will need that bunch in a leave a possible red and then bring | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
the black interplay. He's got a bit of angle to work with there but not | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
:06:20. | :06:47. | ||
blue and there is a red to the right of the bunch available but... | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
There's no way he can get nicely onto it. As you can see, absolutely | :06:53. | :07:03. | |
:07:03. | :07:29. | ||
really is. The potting power of this Australian... Has he got an angle on | :07:29. | :07:39. | |
:07:39. | :07:39. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :07:39. | :09:42. | |
the back of the pack but they are pocket but that's very thin. -- one | :09:42. | :09:51. | |
red. Yes, those read Terry mentioned, you can find the gap and | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
:10:01. | :10:13. | ||
get back down the table for those. still got back down the table. That | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
almost went wrong. Now, there's a big pocket here. Not whether cue | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
ball is sitting at the moment, but Robert will have to be careful | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
because the red near the pocket is in such a position that if he got a | :10:26. | :10:36. | |
:10:36. | :10:59. | ||
chance, he could send in one of the good as you will get. I think he | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
showed in the first frame this session he could hold the safety | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
play of Neil Robertson, which, let's be honest, is very good, because | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
it's not just the safety shots. If you're long potting is as good as | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
your safety you will be a difficult player to beat and Robertson is up | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
:11:25. | :11:25. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :11:25. | :12:06. | |
there with the very best in the Mind you, it's not easy to get onto | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
:12:16. | :12:26. | ||
the black if he was to put the red corner, there are a couple of reds | :12:26. | :12:34. | |
blocking the position. He could get nicely onto the black. He might be | :12:34. | :12:44. | |
:12:44. | :12:58. | ||
able to cut the one in right over much pace. Difficult to see here in | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
the commentary box. Plenty of room for it to pot into the right corner, | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
:13:15. | :13:32. | ||
but as I say, those to reds are in moment, he's looking to play a | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
safety shot. Looks to me as if he could take the yellow on, and should | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
he pot that, a minimum of eight to ten being a left-hander. Perhaps his | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
philosophy at the moment is to keep things tight a little bit. He's been | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
here enough times, Neil Robertson, to know what it takes to win. If you | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
keep your opponent on the chair long enough, you will knock his | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
:14:14. | :14:21. | ||
first visit. He was a long way down and came back but lost 10-7 in the | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
:14:31. | :14:48. | ||
in. And he's flicked the pink. Everything turned out very nice with | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
:14:58. | :15:26. | ||
up to the reds but they are all just stunned it in. Because if he | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
:15:36. | :15:39. | ||
had rolled it, they would have been might not be available into that | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
:15:49. | :16:06. | ||
corner. He just nudged the black black for the same pocket. He is let | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
:16:16. | :16:23. | ||
a good chance slip away. Didn't get Can deserve a good kiss! That's what | :16:23. | :16:33. | |
Eddie Chaplin would have said. remember you for looking a few balls | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
:16:43. | :17:05. | ||
and clearing the table, Terry! some of his tactical and safety | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
play. We know he is a great elder and potter but he has a great safety | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
:17:19. | :17:27. | ||
shown why the game is going on in this session. Neil got a chance in | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
the last session and so did Robert. And then they started on a good | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
safety bout again because they are stopping each other playing, getting | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
:17:46. | :18:08. | ||
another chance for a while. Not this it has. He's got some movement in | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
:18:18. | :18:45. | ||
that cue ball. Very little angle on role the red like that and go off to | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
:18:55. | :18:55. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :18:55. | :19:36. | |
the middle pocket. Wasn't unlucky lot more difficult by trying to | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
screw back. But he's been a little bit lucky to cover with the pink | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
:19:52. | :19:52. | ||
there. He may be able to get past the cue ball, sorry, the pink to the | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
:20:02. | :20:34. | ||
applause from the other table put Neil Robertson off then. But he | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
caught that much too thin. Now, how often would you see this in a frame? | :20:41. | :20:51. | |
:20:51. | :20:53. | ||
Six left. And not one colour on its spot. And he might get a colour back | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
on its spot now. The black is out of commission. If he puts the pink and | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
:21:09. | :21:35. | ||
gets it on its spot, he is in pretty an angle in the middle of the reds | :21:35. | :21:44. | |
there. He might just take the chance here of potting this and bringing | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
:21:54. | :21:54. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :21:54. | :22:38. | |
time but if he sticks on the cushion to develop those two he might get | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
out of position. Just looking to see what would happen... A key shot | :22:45. | :22:55. | |
:22:55. | :23:03. | ||
You're not guaranteed to be nicely on a colour. The red up to the right | :23:03. | :23:13. | |
:23:13. | :23:31. | ||
of the blue would be available but was the only problem with moving the | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
two reds. It was Eddie Charlton who used to say, don't move the reds | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
when you're potting a red. Move a colour. A good risk but it didn't | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
:23:51. | :23:59. | ||
is the first pot Robert Milkins has missed. When the colour has been on | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
its spot. And of course when he missed that pink also, he brought | :24:03. | :24:13. | |
:24:13. | :24:51. | ||
the yellow into play, which was safe that and by a long way, which is a | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
worrying sign for Neil Robertson because it is so unlike him to miss | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
:25:04. | :25:05. | ||
a pot like that by so far. So here's a little tense out there. -- so he | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
:25:15. | :25:33. | ||
again! In the previous frame it was the blue he backed double to get | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
:25:43. | :25:57. | ||
onto the pink. -- he did a back and pot the pink as well. Only 16 in | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
:26:07. | :26:18. | ||
yesterday. But the black was on the opposite side and he stunned behind | :26:18. | :26:28. | |
:26:28. | :26:49. | ||
have choices there. Well, he had a take the cart on, Terry, because | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
:26:59. | :27:10. | ||
there's always a chance of going in got to be careful because you don't | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
:27:20. | :27:27. | ||
want the white running around the first time, 6-5. Yes, so that the | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
first time in the match, Robert goes into the lead. Neil Robertson did a | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
real battle there. Not playing well at the mid-dash-mack at the minute. | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
What is he doing? He's got cue action like a laser. | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
When you look at the stats, his long pot success rate is only 63%. | :27:54. | :28:02. | |
and that is one of the strong parts of Neil's game. He may have played a | :28:02. | :28:10. | |
big part because now he has won four in a row. Neil Robertson looks under | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
pressure, very edgy with uncharacteristic misses. And even | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
when he's getting chances, he is not scoring like you normally does. | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
as you said at the top of the programme, the fact Robert Milkins | :28:23. | :28:31. | |
won those two sessions yesterday, that has had an influence? Yes, you | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
go back to your hotel as though you are in front and he has carried on | :28:34. | :28:42. | |
today. Neil has got to get sharper because he is in trouble today. | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
And Robert Milkins has never beaten Neil Robertson. | :28:46. | :28:56. | |
DENNIS TAYLOR: He might start off with a nice, long pot here. Ooh... | :28:56. | :29:06. | |
:29:06. | :29:16. | ||
Has he got away with it? You might black. Doesn't look as if he can | :29:16. | :29:26. | |
:29:26. | :29:34. | ||
don't think he was all that confident about it, because look | :29:34. | :29:44. | |
:29:44. | :30:00. | ||
where he has put the cue ball. Maybe at the red by a long way. He was a | :30:00. | :30:10. | |
:30:10. | :30:42. | ||
lot better at that one, wasn't he? It is so disappointing for Robert, | :30:42. | :30:49. | |
he played such a good long pot to get in. So easy to take the next | :30:50. | :30:59. | |
:31:00. | :31:03. | ||
shot for granted, but there is no It has worked out very nice for | :31:03. | :31:13. | |
:31:13. | :31:30. | ||
Neil. Guaranteed at least one red, I think Neil could do with | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
quickening up his pace a little bit. There has been a lot of tactical | :31:35. | :31:45. | |
:31:45. | :31:45. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :31:45. | :32:37. | |
stuff and he has had to think long That is OK, but he is closer to the | :32:37. | :32:47. | |
:32:47. | :32:47. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :32:47. | :33:34. | |
There are a two reds there to the left, but he has to be careful when | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
the pink comes back on to that spot that he does not cover the red he | :33:40. | :33:50. | |
:33:50. | :34:09. | ||
He knows he is going to cannon the other red, he is just making sure | :34:09. | :34:17. | |
he doesn't slip out of position. He has avoided the cannon but he has | :34:17. | :34:22. | |
left himself the wrong side of the blue and he is looking at that red | :34:22. | :34:32. | |
:34:32. | :34:38. | ||
near the middle pocket to see if he If he screws back he can get | :34:38. | :34:48. | |
:34:48. | :34:55. | ||
He could not have left it any better, he just has to drop this in | :34:55. | :35:05. | |
:35:05. | :35:12. | ||
He gives the impression he is in a world of his own when he is out | :35:12. | :35:19. | |
there, Neil. Even when he is missing balls, he does not react to | :35:19. | :35:29. | |
:35:29. | :35:30. | ||
things. This is a big visit because he struggled a bit and he knows the | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
Robert Milkins will have to sit in his chair and stew after missing | :35:34. | :35:44. | |
:35:44. | :35:50. | ||
When you have one four frames in a row, that was a bad miss. He was | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
putting the former world champion under a bit of pressure and he has | :35:54. | :36:04. | |
:36:04. | :36:05. | ||
let him off the hook a little bit Still not putting them in the | :36:05. | :36:15. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :36:15. | :37:05. | |
centre of the pocket. That one That is the frame safe. It was not | :37:05. | :37:10. | |
it imperative that he got nicely on the blue, but he can still take it | :37:10. | :37:20. | |
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He has had 15 centuries so far this Not easy for a left-hander to give | :37:54. | :38:04. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :38:04. | :39:38. | |
Neil Robertson will be very pleased A terrible break off from Robert | :39:38. | :39:48. | |
:39:48. | :40:11. | ||
We might just seen Neil Robertson settle down now. That break he had | :40:11. | :40:15. | |
done the previous game at might have given him a confidence boost. | :40:15. | :40:25. | |
:40:25. | :40:59. | ||
And nice little cannon here will He felt the cue ball came off too | :40:59. | :41:07. | |
fast. It has left him a different type of shot. He may have been | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
hoping to pot that red into the right hand corner and retain | :41:11. | :41:21. | |
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position on the black, but he Mid-session interval coming up | :41:34. | :41:40. | |
after this frames. Can Neil Robertson get his nose back in | :41:40. | :41:50. | |
:41:50. | :42:03. | ||
If you had have said before the start of the match it would be six | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
frames all with the former world champion and tournament favourite, | :42:07. | :42:17. | |
:42:17. | :42:22. | ||
I think Robert would have taken Neil Robertson is such a good match | :42:22. | :42:32. | |
:42:32. | :42:35. | ||
player. He has recognised the time Robert has not potted a ball for 12 | :42:35. | :42:45. | |
:42:45. | :43:15. | ||
It is a thin one. I do not think he can see enough of the pink. If he | :43:15. | :43:21. | |
does not fancy the blue, he will come off the side cushion and | :43:21. | :43:31. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :43:31. | :44:29. | |
Hawkeye tells you there is no way Amazing what you can do on these | :44:29. | :44:39. | |
:44:39. | :44:58. | ||
The black may going to the left corner pocket but it will be a | :44:58. | :45:08. | |
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tight positional shot. The angle on He could not have finished better. | :45:12. | :45:21. | |
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He must make sure he does not stick on that pink. He is 45 in front. It | :45:28. | :45:38. | |
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Absolutely amazing. He has took his eye off the pot and concentrated so | :45:47. | :45:54. | |
much on the cannon. He cannot believe he has missed this. The | :45:54. | :46:02. | |
number of times you see a player do that. They forget about the pot. | :46:02. | :46:12. | |
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Did that pink pass the blue? He will take it on, but it is a tough | :46:26. | :46:36. | |
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He has been starved of table time for a while. Neil Robertson has | :46:58. | :47:08. | |
:47:08. | :47:13. | ||
dominated for the last frame and a Very nicely played. A good chance | :47:13. | :47:23. | |
:47:23. | :47:41. | ||
You play Little, many sessions when you play the long matches. There | :47:41. | :47:51. | |
:47:51. | :48:04. | ||
are a couple of awkward reds to be It would have helped if the black | :48:04. | :48:14. | |
:48:14. | :48:28. | ||
I think the red that is behind the black would be available into one | :48:28. | :48:38. | |
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of the corner pockets, you would Difficult to get on it for that | :48:39. | :48:48. | |
pocket. But maybe the other pocket. If it does, he can pot the pink and | :48:48. | :48:55. | |
leave that red for the right corner. He is coming round to have a look. | :48:55. | :49:05. | |
:49:05. | :49:33. | ||
He feels as though he got a bit of a bounce off the back mission here. | :49:33. | :49:42. | |
If he is touching the pink, the referee might have told him | :49:42. | :49:47. | |
technically you're hitting the pink but you cannot play away. So he has | :49:47. | :49:57. | |
:49:57. | :50:05. | ||
nominated for Black. -- he has He has left himself a horrible shot | :50:05. | :50:13. | |
because of that bounce off the cushion. He has got to commit | :50:13. | :50:23. | |
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Very often have done, hires his luck today? -- very optimistic, Hal | :50:29. | :50:39. | |
:50:39. | :50:46. | ||
Id is a very aggressive approach to the position on the table, but he | :50:46. | :50:56. | |
:50:56. | :51:05. | ||
knew if he played it successfully After moving the two reds he has | :51:05. | :51:15. | |
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It is a little awkward here and will stop he could send the red | :51:26. | :51:36. | |
:51:36. | :51:37. | ||
into the green, so it is a change He has hit the pink, that was | :51:37. | :51:47. | |
:51:47. | :51:51. | ||
careless. I wonder if he will try aback double here? If it goes in, | :51:51. | :52:01. | |
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He is not turning things down, he Look at this. Part I thought that | :52:24. | :52:34. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :52:34. | :53:36. | |
Not the best. He has hit it six. -- That is just tensions. He has got | :53:36. | :53:46. | |
:53:46. | :54:08. | ||
away with that. They are always Not sure if he can get to the left- | :54:08. | :54:17. | |
hand side of the red. If he can, Beatty's uneasy safety shot. -- if | :54:17. | :54:27. | |
:54:27. | :54:55. | ||
The normal shot here would be to Can he get enough side? Difficult | :54:55. | :55:04. | |
to stop the a white. But that is pretty good. Green blocking the | :55:04. | :55:10. | |
path from the red that Robert can see. He is faced with a very | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
difficult safety shot because he cannot just play off the side of | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
the red because he would hit the brown with the cue ball. He will | :55:19. | :55:29. | |
:55:29. | :55:30. | ||
have to think long and hard about this. But it is a bit awkward. He | :55:30. | :55:40. | |
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did well to miss the brown, where His manager told me has some sort | :56:04. | :56:14. | |
:56:14. | :56:22. | ||
of knowledge of safety, his safety He was not intending to cannon into | :56:22. | :56:32. | |
:56:32. | :56:33. | ||
the yellow, and he has finished perfectly on to the brown. He | :56:33. | :56:43. | |
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needed to screw that back a little bit further. Neil is quite tall, | :56:44. | :56:49. | |
but I do not know if he can reach right round. That is quite a | :56:49. | :56:59. | |
:56:59. | :57:04. | ||
Totally different shot when you have to use the rest and an | :57:04. | :57:13. | |
extension. These shots are all right when you're 17 in front, but | :57:13. | :57:23. | |
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when they are vital, it sows the He has potters nine out of mind in | :57:35. | :57:45. | |
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the rest, but this is the most Make it ten out of ten for Neil | :57:55. | :58:00. | |
Robertson. He has a nice angle on the green to get himself on to the | :58:00. | :58:08. | |
yellow. If he could pick the cue ball up and put it on to the pink | :58:08. | :58:14. | |
spot, he would love to do that. Anywhere near the pink spot and he | :58:14. | :58:22. | |
would be nicely on that yellow. And once again he concentrated so much | :58:22. | :58:28. | |
on the green, he took his eye off the pot. He is certainly feeling | :58:28. | :58:38. | |
the pressure out there. Well, what a golden opportunity for Robert | :58:38. | :58:48. | |
:58:48. | :58:56. | ||
I'd do not think I have ever seen Neil Robertson miss so many | :58:56. | :59:06. | |
:59:06. | :59:15. | ||
pressure balls. That is from this, And the easiest of pinks for Robert | :59:15. | :59:25. | |
:59:25. | :59:26. | ||
He will be absolutely delighted. He goes to the mid-session interval | :59:26. | :59:36. | |
:59:36. | :59:44. | ||
He will be absolutely delighted I do not know what is happening | :59:44. | :59:49. | |
with Neil Robertson. This is so unusual for him. You would not | :59:49. | :59:55. | |
expect him to miss that. I have not seen him miss so many pressure | :59:55. | :00:01. | |
balls. It is quite unlike him and shows you how nervous years. He is | :00:01. | :00:07. | |
coming in as a second favourite to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has had a | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
really good season and has been consistent on the circuit. You boys | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
know what it is like, all week I have been hearing how difficult it | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
is to play out there. He has just taken his eye off the ball and | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
lacked that look of concentration. It is unforced errors. Have the | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
time it is Neil's own errors. running out of position, getting | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
chances and not scoring. He is probably one of the most prolific | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
scorers, but his scoring has been pitiful in the last four or five | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
frames. You have to praise Robert Milkins for hanging on in there, | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
suddenly he goes into this interval and he is leading. Yes, but he will | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
never have a better time at beating Neil Robertson. Robert Milkins has | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
a great opportunity. What will Neil Robertson do now? Does he go to the | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
practice room are his dressing room? If I was in his corner I | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
would say get in the practice room. He is not striking the cue ball. He | :01:28. | :01:37. | |
is not getting a nice reaction. He is not getting through the balls. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
When you screw the brown back to come to the side cushion, which is | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
perfect for Neil, he had turned use the long rest. He is not timing of | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
the ball. Just get a nice free- flowing cue action that he normally | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
has. Neil Robertson has it all to do. All this week Steve Davis has | :02:00. | :02:10. | |
:02:10. | :02:27. | ||
been entertaining us with his history takes us to Liverpool, to a | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
venerable old table manufacturer and host to a veritable treasure trove | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
:02:41. | :02:45. | ||
have played on a table in a club or private room where you needed a | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
short cue to play a certain shot. Perhaps there was a pillar in the | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
way or even a fireplace. Effectively, the room was too small | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
for the table. But there is another solution. Don't chop a bit of the | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
cue, chopped a bit off the table. And here we've got an octagonal | :03:01. | :03:11. | |
:03:11. | :03:14. | ||
table. Wow X -- wow! An Aladdin's cave of snooker memorabilia. I know | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
you've got a special table to tell me about, Peter. This table is | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
rumoured to have been used by the Duke of Wellington. It is a folding | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
table so it can be moved around and the story goes the Duke of | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Wellington may have played on it during his campaigns. It is of the | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
right age. We understand that in the first Afghan war, they actually took | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
Billy tables would then strapped to their camels, so it is possible but | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Mac and 8-foot table here would have been strapped onto a camel and | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
:03:56. | :03:58. | ||
carted around! -- it is possible... I'm going to make myself sound very | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
silly. It's got a wooden slate! It has a wooden bed in it but I'll tell | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
you about that later. But the really important developments were things | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
like oceans and we can go on and have a look at those. -- cushions. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
According to the legend we've got, it would fit into a bay window. | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
:04:32. | :04:33. | ||
Perfect! So cushions are a very important part of the game. Indeed. | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Prior to using rubber in the cushions, this is what a traditional | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
:04:47. | :04:53. | ||
it, so basically it was there to stop the ball rolling off the table. | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
So no bouncing? Peter Ebdon would be upset with that! The next thing was | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
the introduction of natural rubber into the cushions in about 1835. And | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
this was something similar to what it would have looked like. | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
laminated? Yes. From then, you went to a vulcanised rubber. When you and | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
I might have been going to play, with the ladies playing cards and we | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
would have gone to the drawing room to have our pot and brandy, you | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
would have had one of these which was a long steel Chewbacca with hot | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
water... To soften the rubber up?It is essentially like a hot water | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
bottle. Marvellous!And then you would get your response. So then it | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
would bounce out of the middle of the table. This early rubber wasn't | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
up to much so when did it get to the stage where you could play and it | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
would bounce off a length? People used to promote the fact that they | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
were low frost proof cushions because the vulcanised rubber wasn't | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
affected by the cold. So that was really what a traditional, and still | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
looks like today on most tables, cushion looks like. You have the | :06:18. | :06:28. | |
:06:28. | :06:28. | ||
block and then the body of the table. Because we have to refer | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
back, they came up with things like steel blocks and that goes back. And | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
then you have a big piece of steel on this one. Here it is only a piece | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
of wood but the steel is bolted on to the bed of the table and then | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
this piece of wood is the mask that goes on. And that makes it more | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
solid. And we have blocks today and we still consider those to be the | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
fastest response cushions there. What is this? This is a replica of | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
the first match table. The legendary match table. It was chosen as a | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
standard table full-size in 1832 so we got to 12 foot 6' as the playing | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
:07:24. | :07:27. | ||
area for the table. -- 12 feet it by six feet. And it would have been for | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
the best players of the day. Prior to that, you would have had a table | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
which was four feet wide and 14 feet long. Of course, Peter, at top-class | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
level, the players moan like crazy if the tables on level, so over the | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
years, it must have been a massive problem. Yes. If you follow me, I | :07:50. | :08:00. | |
:08:00. | :08:06. | ||
will show you some beds that they the slate. So, again, this is | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
pre-1826. You can see it is made into a frame and each of these | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
blocks, the grain runs in the opposite direction, trying to keep | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
the bed level. Somewhere in our legend, we have found that they | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
talked about "flogging the bed", which was to take over the high | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
spots that they moaned about. look at the gaps! That is a crevice! | :08:33. | :08:42. | |
Look at that! If you are trying to roll up slowly to the yellow... | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
would give you some side on! This is about an inch thick and the original | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
slate beds were made so they just replaced the wooden beds, so they | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
were not very thick. This is actually in three sections and I | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
think the early lightweight heads in slate were in three sections. But | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
has we developed and you wanted a better surface, because a thin slate | :09:04. | :09:14. | |
will warp, and it could go round, depending how it is supported, so | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
this is how you made it level. We are now going to the standard | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
:09:29. | :09:32. | ||
hipness inch and three quarters. -- thickness. This is a concrete one | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
from about 1860. Five sections?Two reasons for that. One, it is a size, | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
given the thickness, that people can carry and deliver two places. And | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
also, rather than having it in four sections, where a joint would | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
probably hit the pocket, slate is obviously... It is easy to break up | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
a bit so rather than have a problem with the middle pocket they made it | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
into five. And then you can carry these. Two people could just about | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
do it but with a full table, it was about three or four. When we had the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
snooker boom in the 80s, they try to use resin mixed with granite and | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
slate dust and they even tried glass, but slate is easy to work, | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
you can level it, and with five sections, if we had this laid up on | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
a table and set up before we put the cloth on, and I got you to close | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
your eyes and run your fingers over the length of the table, you | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
wouldn't be able to feel it. The old Welsh slate mines are gone now. | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
Where does it come from? The new tables will have Italian and now the | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
very new tables will have Chinese slate. I've just spotted something | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
over your head! What is this? It runs all the way along... Yes, this | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
was for billiards, so that when you are practising at home you didn't | :10:59. | :11:07. | |
have to walk all the way down. is wonderful. I haven't seen one of | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
these for years. And I tell you what else - the coin-operated... 5p in | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
the meter? It probably would have been 6p. They were properly doing it | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
on bits of paper in those days. Fantastic! Feeding the meter, it | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
used to be called. Keeping the light on. Stephen Hendry has never put any | :11:32. | :11:42. | |
:11:42. | :11:43. | ||
money in one of those metres in his life! I bet! | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
I hope you are enjoying those lessons from Steve Davis. It is just | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
under road from Goodison Park so you can pot down the road and have a | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
look. As Steve said, it is like an Aladdin 's cave. Yes. I asked a | :12:01. | :12:10. | |
couple of questions a few days ago in three hours later I came out! | :12:10. | :12:19. | |
started on six by three tables. Ireland are getting my first. It was | :12:19. | :12:29. | |
:12:29. | :12:29. | ||
at the bottom of the bunkbeds. -- I remember. We had the metres as well. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
You're absolutely right that in the 80s, they were commercially | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
available. We had one where I was growing up in Cardiff and it drove | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
my mother nuts. It was in the corner of the room and we moved all the | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
:12:52. | :12:52. | ||
furniture and called it into the middle. They -- we drove her mad! | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
Yes! I would come in every day after school when it was dragged in. I | :13:01. | :13:10. | |
would pretend I do my homework but be playing. So now 12' x 6' were | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
introduced in 1892. Before that it could be whatever size worked for | :13:13. | :13:21. | |
the purchaser. I didn't know that. Who's going to play on that? | :13:21. | :13:29. | |
probably need a rest to break off! -- I would probably need. We are now | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
back with live coverage of Neil Robertson against Robert Milkins. | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Neil Robertson is in a bit of a pickle, so before the tournament, we | :13:36. | :13:46. | |
:13:46. | :13:57. | ||
grown up a lot in the last 20, 30 years, and the game has become a lot | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
more professional, so if you have your night out with the top players | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
I'm sure you will have a pretty good time. Definitely the case three | :14:07. | :14:17. | |
years ago but now it is properly a bit too much of a job! -- probably. | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
In terms of the hours of practice, I've probably practised less than | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
anyone in the top 20 in the world. I concentrate on doing quality | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
practice. No, definitely something I don't do. I don't moan about | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
:14:42. | :14:45. | ||
travelling at all. I've just got a gym and treadmill installed in my | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
house so one of my goals for the new season is to be as fit as any other | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
player on the tour, if not more fit. Yes, used to be absolutely | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
terrible, the amount of matches I've just got through. But I now try to | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
get to my matches early. It's either you were watching DVDs or playing | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
computer games, so it's important to keep it under control and play in | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
:15:26. | :15:27. | ||
moderation. No, I've never said anything like that. I want to win | :15:27. | :15:37. | |
:15:37. | :15:38. | ||
another two or three world titles, Well, he's in a right old battle | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
here, Neil Robertson. Let's hand you back to our commentary team of | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
Dennis Taylor and Terry Griffiths. TERRY GRIFFITHS: Yes, he's got a lot | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
to do, Neil Robertson. He's missed few pressure pots before the | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
interval. That's unusual for him. -- he's missed a few. Ten is the number | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
they are both looking for in frames. Doesn't matter how you get there. As | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
long as you get there before your opponent! Interesting listening to | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
Neil on the spot there. He said he wants to win another two or three | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
titles, so he had better shape up here because he's taken his eye off | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
:16:35. | :16:58. | ||
But not too bad. I think Rob might be able to take the left onto the | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
:17:08. | :17:37. | ||
you're taking the pot on you need to avoid cannon -- the cannon into | :17:37. | :17:47. | |
:17:47. | :18:03. | ||
position there. I think the pink might pass into the left corner. The | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
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blue is definitely available anyway. well. Could have been worse. After | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
he got the cannon on the yellow. He's got a red to go for and the | :18:37. | :18:46. | |
:18:47. | :19:25. | ||
back looking at it again. Normally he would get down and pot that. But | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
that is more like it. Better cueing from Neil Robertson. He changed his | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
:19:42. | :20:16. | ||
played it well. And that's much more choice and he's given himself a | :20:16. | :20:26. | |
:20:26. | :20:59. | ||
far. He's pulled off some good pots pot the red into the left corner, | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
:21:09. | :21:29. | ||
question of the former world champion in taking that last frame | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
and he's played very well, but he knows Neil Robertson can move up a | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
gear. It's an act that some of the top players have when they are put | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
under pressure. That's when they come into their own. It remains to | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
be seen what happens here. But already he is looking much more | :21:47. | :21:57. | |
:21:57. | :22:21. | ||
It flew off that cushion. And of course Neil Robertson, I think you | :22:21. | :22:31. | |
:22:31. | :22:31. | ||
won in 2010, this Championship. -- he won. He was a long way down | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
against Martin Gould in the second round at 11-5 and went on to win | :22:35. | :22:45. | |
:22:45. | :23:17. | ||
faced adversity here and they know mentioned Martin Gould there. He | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
lost to Shaun Murphy in the first round and I've been watching the | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
boys in the studio, and in the background, he's playing on the | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
table with the youngsters and the people who come along to accuse own. | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
So he likes to stay around, Martin Gould. There are few who do and they | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
normally had back home. But he's been entertaining them and keeping | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
:23:51. | :23:51. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :23:51. | :24:31. | |
goes, he will take that. If not, we red and then the colour. And then | :24:32. | :24:41. | |
:24:42. | :24:53. | ||
one more red to make Robert need a would you believe it! He was | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
starting to look comfortable and that was frame ball and he missed | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
:25:07. | :25:17. | ||
the black and just disturb those reds he could get right back into | :25:17. | :25:27. | |
:25:27. | :25:37. | ||
There's a bit of distance between them but this could open things up. | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
:25:47. | :26:01. | ||
They are not dead set in line for could see the plant and he was | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
hoping to split the reds up but he needed a bit more pace. He is now | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
very restricted with his position. I don't think he's going to be on | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
another red if he drops it in. because the pink would come back | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
:26:34. | :26:43. | ||
onto its spot and block the path of Just trying to get the snooker here. | :26:43. | :26:53. | |
:26:53. | :26:55. | ||
And he hasn't. His left Neil a free pot, although having said that, if | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
he takes the cut on to the right corner he's got to make sure he | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
:27:09. | :27:19. | ||
misses the pink on the way back down then, if Robert Milkins has a look | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
here, there's a possibility he could take this red down the cushion and | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
he likes this type of shot, because it doesn't look from here as if any | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
of those reds would go in the left centre. He's had one chance and he | :27:31. | :27:41. | |
might not get another. He's 52 points behind with 51 left. He's | :27:41. | :27:49. | |
looking at it. Yes, you walked around the table and spotted what | :27:49. | :27:59. | |
:27:59. | :28:26. | ||
looks to have played that perfectly. Beautiful shop there and a great | :28:26. | :28:36. | |
:28:36. | :28:46. | ||
virtually game ball and then it went safe so it might come to Neil's | :28:46. | :28:56. | |
:28:56. | :29:36. | ||
ball. I think the yellow passes the potted that pink in the middle and | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
gone up to the baulk area and into the pack of reds when he took that | :29:39. | :29:49. | |
:29:49. | :30:20. | ||
onto it. The referee was putting the brown on the blue spot but quickly | :30:20. | :30:30. | |
:30:30. | :30:38. | ||
play. He was trying to macro shots in one there, trying to pot the | :30:38. | :30:48. | |
:30:48. | :31:19. | ||
The black is close to the middle pocket. Great chance for Neil | :31:19. | :31:27. | |
Robertson to get back to all square again. He played that too slow, | :31:27. | :31:37. | |
:31:37. | :31:47. | ||
deliver the cued to slow. Deliver I have never seen Neil miss so many | :31:47. | :31:53. | |
balls, he is under pressure for some reason. His opponent has | :31:53. | :31:59. | |
played well, maybe that has put him under pressure. But why has he | :31:59. | :32:09. | |
:32:09. | :32:16. | ||
I felt he should have got that save us first. That black is in a very | :32:16. | :32:26. | |
:32:26. | :32:59. | ||
favourable positions. It may be all And if he does get a chance to pot | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
the brown, he can then get in behind the black as you mentioned. | :33:04. | :33:12. | |
Neil cannot afford to leave the brownout on. -- leave the brownout | :33:12. | :33:21. | |
on. Because of where they are it is a big target area to play snooker. | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
If he can get his cue ball on the right-hand side of the table and | :33:26. | :33:34. | |
the object ball on the same side. He doesn't look to have a shot on | :33:34. | :33:44. | |
:33:44. | :34:03. | ||
here. He has got to get his brown He has got to be careful, the angle | :34:03. | :34:13. | |
:34:13. | :34:14. | ||
the cue ball will take. He should not play with any pace. That was a | :34:14. | :34:24. | |
:34:24. | :34:40. | ||
Neil Robertson has set the foundations for his winner. He is | :34:40. | :34:46. | |
playing an exhibition shot here, that is unusual for Neil. He has | :34:46. | :34:56. | |
:34:56. | :35:00. | ||
Robertson made a break of 61, but he is not giving himself many | :35:00. | :35:10. | |
:35:10. | :35:10. | ||
He took the blue one, which you would ordinarily expect him to get, | :35:10. | :35:17. | |
but at the moment though shots are not really happening for him. | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
think he needs a good break to really settle him down and get that | :35:21. | :35:28. | |
confidence. I know he is 26 points ahead, but he has missed a | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
straightforward green into the pocket. He is very on edge. Nobody | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
wants to go out on the first round. The factory is one of the | :35:38. | :35:48. | |
:35:48. | :35:48. | ||
favourites as pressure. It is the Crucible pressure, isn't it? | :35:48. | :35:54. | |
have all been there. The first round is absolutely horrible, but | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
Robert Milkins has got to keep doing what he has been doing. He is | :35:59. | :36:07. | |
in with a big chance. Let's see what happens. Neil Robertson was | :36:07. | :36:17. | |
:36:17. | :36:22. | ||
Robert some might possibly have left a path for a red into the | :36:22. | :36:32. | |
:36:32. | :36:37. | ||
It must be tight because he is having a look at it from both ends. | :36:37. | :36:47. | |
:36:47. | :37:04. | ||
If he takes it on, he has got a pot Let's have a look. That looks a bit | :37:04. | :37:14. | |
:37:14. | :37:21. | ||
tight to get to the potting angle, He was indicating he is going to | :37:21. | :37:31. | |
:37:31. | :37:31. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :37:31. | :38:47. | |
leave the white up at the black He thought he was going to go round | :38:47. | :38:53. | |
the back of the black and red, and he scattered the reds all over the | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
table. He has finished in a position where there is one | :38:56. | :39:03. | |
possible pot and may be that it is not even on. What a result of Neil | :39:03. | :39:13. | |
:39:13. | :39:20. | ||
He is shaking his head, that tells Robert just have to forget about it | :39:20. | :39:27. | |
and play a safety shot. That is an amazing result when you think of | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
where the cue ball finished and where the reds did, you would think | :39:32. | :39:42. | |
:39:42. | :39:47. | ||
you are bound to have walked -- Do you think he can get to that red | :39:47. | :39:55. | |
for safety? Yes, it just get as close to the cushioned... You would | :39:55. | :40:04. | |
at least one to a shot where you can trap him, the ball has run. He | :40:04. | :40:10. | |
cannot do much about it. In one respect to should be thinking how | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
lucky he is because he missed the pot. He should not have left the | :40:16. | :40:22. | |
white where he did because he left Neil an easy shot to snooker him. | :40:22. | :40:28. | |
pretty poor safety from Robert. He should not have left the white in | :40:28. | :40:38. | |
:40:38. | :40:54. | ||
that position. He has got a bit of Maybe that is OK because they are | :40:54. | :41:04. | |
:41:04. | :41:12. | ||
covering each other. It wasn't If he can find a nice spot for the | :41:12. | :41:18. | |
cue ball up near where he is standing, not on the carpet, on the | :41:18. | :41:24. | |
table. And cover that red, on the left-hand side of the table, he | :41:24. | :41:34. | |
:41:34. | :41:53. | ||
Robert has a few choices, another defence of safety, push it off the | :41:53. | :42:03. | |
:42:03. | :42:06. | ||
He could even hit the red on the right cushion and bring the cue | :42:06. | :42:16. | |
:42:16. | :42:26. | ||
ball down here, but he has not There you go, I do not know which | :42:26. | :42:36. | |
:42:36. | :42:37. | ||
side of the red he played, I think he caught at two sec. -- icing he | :42:37. | :42:47. | |
:42:47. | :42:47. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :42:47. | :44:19. | |
caught it to -- I think he caught Be looked pretty straightforward | :44:19. | :44:27. | |
pick-up -- but they are not really. You have got to be a little bit | :44:27. | :44:37. | |
:44:37. | :44:47. | ||
A lot of them are blocking each He is just looking to see if the | :44:47. | :44:53. | |
red will pass the black into the opposite corner pocket. He has got | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
an angle on the black, he does not necessarily have to play for that | :44:58. | :45:08. | |
:45:08. | :45:33. | ||
If he is not absolutely sure, play Sometimes in this situation it is | :45:33. | :45:38. | |
all plain sailing, other times a fraction can make all the | :45:38. | :45:48. | |
:45:48. | :45:51. | ||
He has flipped it. The he might have put himself right out of | :45:51. | :46:01. | |
:46:01. | :46:11. | ||
It will not go now. It would have before he'd just nudged it. What is | :46:11. | :46:16. | |
a mistake that has turned out to be false stop he potted the black dead | :46:16. | :46:25. | |
centre of the pocket, he just misjudged position. That is what he | :46:25. | :46:32. | |
is faced with. I know Neil is under pressure, but he is taking a long | :46:32. | :46:38. | |
time. I would like to see him pick the pace up. He is giving the | :46:38. | :46:43. | |
message to his opponent that he is not feeling great. When he is | :46:43. | :46:52. | |
feeling good out there, he is very fluid. In this situation, you do | :46:52. | :46:58. | |
not mind him taking as much time as he likes. But when he is in the | :46:58. | :47:05. | |
balls, just play your normal games. It is a devastating came that he | :47:05. | :47:15. | |
:47:15. | :47:31. | ||
I'm just wondering if this red to the right of the black, the two | :47:31. | :47:39. | |
reds, it might go. There are other options. Robert had a look at that, | :47:39. | :47:49. | |
:47:49. | :47:54. | ||
but obviously cannot see enough of He is back having a look after it. | :47:54. | :48:01. | |
But if it does not go, it does not go. It does not matter how I am on | :48:01. | :48:11. | |
:48:11. | :48:27. | ||
That is a cracking the opening red. And it has to be said, Robert | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
Milkins is looking a more relaxed than the former world champion is | :48:31. | :48:39. | |
at the moment. He is a pretty cool customer. He has only won one match, | :48:39. | :48:45. | |
he has been here so many times, played here five times but has only | :48:45. | :48:55. | |
:48:55. | :48:59. | ||
As John Parrott said in the studio, make no mistake, this man could | :48:59. | :49:09. | |
:49:09. | :49:11. | ||
The opinion amongst a lot of the professional players is that Neil | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
Robertson is the favourite to win the title this year. Not quite sure | :49:16. | :49:22. | |
what the odds are, but he has been showing some great form. He has | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
good history, and because of that you can understand why there is so | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
much pressure on him. Robert Milkins, on the other hand, will | :49:32. | :49:42. | |
:49:42. | :49:46. | ||
just be glad to win this match. It He totally misjudged that once and | :49:46. | :49:56. | |
:49:56. | :49:58. | ||
If he was playing a cannon on that, those two reds together do not look | :49:58. | :50:04. | |
like they would go. Anyway, there is a long pot on which might be | :50:04. | :50:14. | |
:50:14. | :50:18. | ||
He is a long way out of position. He has gone further up the table | :50:18. | :50:28. | |
:50:28. | :50:41. | ||
I think his bridge is awkward, you can see how much cue is out there. | :50:41. | :50:51. | |
:50:51. | :50:54. | ||
The red has come across and left Neil a chance. Both players have | :50:54. | :51:04. | |
:51:04. | :51:24. | ||
If he takes this red to the centre pocket, the natural angle taken up | :51:24. | :51:34. | |
:51:34. | :51:46. | ||
the right-hand side of the reds. A Well, he has had a good look around | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
and he may have to play a cannon now. They all look to be blocking | :51:50. | :51:58. | |
each other. He does not necessarily have to hit the pink this time, but | :51:58. | :52:08. | |
:52:08. | :52:24. | ||
It all depends on the angle. He He is looking to see if he can get | :52:25. | :52:34. | |
:52:35. | :52:43. | ||
He is stuck on the red, that is what I thought might happen. Can he | :52:43. | :52:53. | |
see the black? He cannot, it is fractions. He is looking a bit | :52:53. | :52:57. | |
unlucky there. Because he was striking down and trying to make an | :52:57. | :53:07. | |
:53:07. | :53:13. | ||
angle, he was just fractionally to The match has gone over five hours. | :53:13. | :53:23. | |
:53:23. | :53:50. | ||
Five hours and 15 minutes. It is He Neelie played a very clever shot | :53:50. | :54:00. | |
:54:00. | :54:03. | ||
there, he tried to put the white on the blues. -- he Neelie played. -- | :54:03. | :54:13. | |
:54:13. | :54:23. | ||
Very unusual to see a player, playing a safety shot and leaving | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
the white in the middle of the table beside the blue, but that is | :54:28. | :54:38. | |
:54:38. | :54:38. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :54:38. | :55:18. | |
A little bit of noise from the other side of the arena. Play has | :55:18. | :55:24. | |
finished, I think, on the other side. The players in a little while | :55:24. | :55:34. | |
:55:34. | :55:42. | ||
it will have the whole arena to That white just flew off the | :55:42. | :55:52. | |
:55:52. | :56:03. | ||
It went wrong. I do not know if he had a bad contract or not. Robert | :56:03. | :56:11. | |
is having the cue ball cleaned, so maybe he did. Difficult to detect a | :56:11. | :56:21. | |
:56:21. | :56:21. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :56:21. | :57:12. | |
This will help. And nice angle here to get up to the reds. It is not | :57:12. | :57:19. | |
going to be easy. The black is awkward, pink is up the other end | :57:19. | :57:29. | |
:57:29. | :57:35. | ||
It is even more difficult it now that he is the wrong side of the | :57:35. | :57:41. | |
blue and there is no red available. This would only give him an extra 5 | :57:41. | :57:47. | |
points, so there is not a great deal of value. He is looking at the | :57:47. | :57:54. | |
score, it is still early days. A safety might be better than taking | :57:54. | :58:04. | |
:58:04. | :58:12. | ||
He has not got the snooker. He wanted to hit the pink slightly on | :58:12. | :58:21. | |
the right side. Playing very gently like that, there is a good chance | :58:21. | :58:31. | |
:58:31. | :58:55. | ||
He has pushed the red over the Another two inches and that would | :58:55. | :59:05. | |
:59:05. | :59:08. | ||
have been possible. He will have to If he had gone a fraction further | :59:08. | :59:17. | |
he could have brought the reds into There should not be too much danger | :59:17. | :59:27. | |
:59:27. | :59:38. | ||
He did not mean to hit it that hard. Maybe not, I can see Robert shaking | :59:39. | :59:48. | |
:59:49. | :59:57. | ||
his head. Neil almost left him in He thinks you can pot at, and he | :59:57. | :00:07. | |
:00:07. | :00:14. | ||
could. The -- he thinks he can have Can he can and the two reds? It is | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
:00:24. | :00:40. | ||
He knew this one was always going that's the one that gets you. When | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
you get a few to porters there going, go on, Neil! And you have | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
nothing to have a go at! -- you get a few supporters. There's a good | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
:01:04. | :01:15. | ||
crucial times not playing shots up to their usual standard. And that's | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
not a good one either for Neil. Didn't hit it hard enough. So an | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
easy safety from Robert to leave the white tight to the cushion. -- for | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
:01:36. | :01:53. | ||
DENNIS TAYLOR: Well, this next shot will open the table up. There is the | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
straightforward safety down of the two reds. He can just see the single | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
red. Then get past the blue to play down the left side of the table of | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
:02:14. | :02:41. | ||
was trying to be ultra-careful bounce. He could have played the | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
:02:52. | :02:58. | ||
pink and disturb the reds but now he old two-cushion escape. Try to | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
:03:08. | :03:23. | ||
glance of those roads to get back up with lots of left-hand side. And | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
:03:33. | :03:45. | ||
well played. Excellent shot! And occurs he should have played off | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
those two reds in the previous safety shot. He played a very | :03:50. | :04:00. | |
:04:00. | :04:00. | ||
defensive shot. OK, this hasn't been the greatest friends for Neil. -- | :04:01. | :04:10. | |
:04:11. | :04:33. | ||
about that! This time he is on the Championship so far and it might | :04:33. | :04:43. | |
:04:43. | :04:54. | ||
which makes it a bit awkward. So he will take the yellow and the yellow | :04:54. | :05:04. | |
:05:04. | :05:33. | ||
Milkins? He is in their battling away and making life tough. -- | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
:05:43. | :06:06. | ||
doesn't really matter. He's just rolling it in anyway. Robert Milkins | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
leads the former world champion, Neil Robertson, 8-7. | :06:12. | :06:20. | |
Wow! What a frame! And Neil Robertson is in some trouble, Ken? | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Probably the shot of the Championship so far. He's played a | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
great escape. Also soft trouble. He is not only hit it, but look at the | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
position. Perfect on the pink. And that was going to win any frame. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
you agree, John? Was that one of the shots of the Championship so far? | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Neil Robertson could not play the shop before that any better and you | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
must have been sitting in his chair thinking, I've got a right chance. A | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
magnificent shot, really well thought out. And he's grown in | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
confidence? Yes. Neil Robertson is a shadow today of what he normally is. | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
He has a great chance of winning this match, Robert Milkins, and I | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
firmly believe that because his opponent is not at speed today. | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
is absolutely right. He looks on edge. We have talked about some of | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
the top seeds coming in and he is maybe the second favourite to win | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
this after Ronnie O'Sullivan. A couple of big seeds have gone out - | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
Mark Williams is one of them. Sometimes that can play a part | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
because it always makes you a bit more edgy. You want to get into the | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
first match and get into the tournament and think it is open for | :07:45. | :07:54. | |
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you. I'm nitpicking editor bit but sometimes players do look at the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
draw and if the two big seeds have gone out of your quarter, you think, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
well, this is handy. Get over this first one and I could be in the | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
semi-final. Do you buy the argument that he is also looking, thinking, | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
I'm one of the top four seeds and I'm not into the second round yet? | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
You should be thinking any of that. You go back to your hotel and think, | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
he has got knocked out, and he has got knocked out. You would expect | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
Stephen Maguire to have come through and Williams as well. But you have | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
to blank that because if you don't get this match, you won't be playing | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
anybody in the next round! Robert Milkins said he feels confident | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
going into the game but because he has not been here for some time, he | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
was terrified, but he seems to be growing and growing into the game as | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
it progresses. Yes, it gives you confidence. When you see your | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
opponent missing big breaks and not punishing you, you can get the | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
frame. But Robert Milkins is not afraid of playing anybody. Not Neil | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
Robertson or anybody. He has been growing confidence and is up to | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
number 19, provisionally, in the world. Almost breaking the top 16. A | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
win like this would give him a tremendous boost. And he dropped -- | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
knocked Jimmy White out in a qualifying round as well. What will | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
be interesting is that Robert Milkins is getting near the winning | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
posts now. He was the pretournament favourite before anything started. | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
He's thinking, I am 8-7, I have the best chance to beat him. He hasn't | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
had much experience at The Crucible whereas Neil Robertson house. And he | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
has got to the end and lifted the trophy and that could play a factor | :09:39. | :09:48. | |
as well. -- Neil Robertson has. is going to happen in this? We know | :09:48. | :09:58. | |
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he lost to Wally O'Sullivan 13-2. -- TERRY GRIFFITHS: You still have to | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
think Neil Robertson would be the favourite even with what has gone on | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
before. Because he's had quite a lot of success at The Crucible where | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Robert Milkins hasn't. But of course Milkins is playing a lot better | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
now. His temperament is a lot better than it used to be and he has been | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
getting a lot of wins in the last few years, which makes you | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
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would be a bonus if the two reds were on for the centre pocket. And | :10:47. | :10:56. | |
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see a player that takes a plant on and forgets about the cue ball. He | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
is on the yellow but... We might just have to see the cue power of | :11:29. | :11:38. | |
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And, you know, we've been feeling for the last couple of friends Neil | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Robertson just has to move up through the gears. Cash Mac couple | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
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opponent, Robert Milkins, looks more relaxed than Neil does. A pretty | :12:37. | :12:47. | |
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the snooker. I've been so impressed good tactical player but Robert | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
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Milkins at 82% with his safety consider both these players are | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
really good long potters and you have to take that into account when | :13:33. | :13:43. | |
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played there. Just tapping the table. To control that swerve shot | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
and just glance off the red. Because if he had missed the red going up | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
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and left the red on. He had to be so might be a red that pops into the | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
corner, just to the left and behind the pink. He could take that on. But | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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it is a free shot for Neil Robert Milkins. He will have to hit | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
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the side of the pack and hit it Crucible Theatre to themselves now, | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
with play finished on the other side of the table. No distractions. This | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
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reckless but he wanted to get the cue ball around the table. I thought | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
he had fluked it! No, he hasn't. Has he covered it? And if he's covered | :16:47. | :16:57. | |
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that, has he covered the other red? Or can Neil not one onto the other? | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
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around the table when he took the pot on. You never know where the | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
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reds are going to go when you take this pot. But once the two reds can | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
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and the blue, they could go be available to the left-hand | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
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to pot the pink... Hmm... Maybe if it goes back onto its own spot, it | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
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might be tied up somewhat. He might know if it's available once it goes | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
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score. 913 against 700 finials Robertson. -- for Neil Robertson. | :19:19. | :19:29. | |
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And he's losing. It's not always the this pink to the right corner | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
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pocket. It's not even on the red. So he's out of position. He still looks | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
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goes but he's had a long, hard look bit quick with the delivery of the | :20:32. | :20:41. | |
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cue there, which is very unlike Neil as you say, is not the fluke. When | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
you miss and don't leave your opponent anything, it can be quite | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
upsetting for your opponent because he feels he deserves to have | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
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with that black being knocked over to send the black over the corner | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
pocket. Last time he was going to wobble the red and knock the black | :22:01. | :22:11. | |
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he should, because he's been taking too long, I feel. Once he's in | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
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amongst the balls, he has a very you how a little bit of a run of the | :23:58. | :24:07. | |
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ball can help. Neil missed that red frame and get himself back all | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
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comfortable now, Neil Robertson. But break is enough, and once again, we | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
are back level at 8-8. Well, we will discuss that frame in | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
a moment but we thought we'd entertain you with a little game as | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
we wait. Spot the real John Parrott! How many have we got? Five of them! | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
In fact, the best looking one is in the checked shirt! We were going to | :25:58. | :26:08. | |
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get a Ken asked but it would have frightened the kids! -- mask. | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
21 today. Happy birthday! That picture must have been taken quite a | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
while ago! Actually, you can take your mask off now! Anyway, let's go | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
back to the serious business -8 - eight. Yes, all to play for. They | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
will just be looking for a really good chance here. It's in the | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
balance. Experience may tell apart but it may not. It's a bit better | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
from Neil Robertson, playing a bit better in that frame, but still a | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
long way to go yet. DENNIS TAYLOR: Yes, a long way to go | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
yet, but who is going to get themselves at 9-8 and just need the | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
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one frame to get through to the Once again, he has had a great run | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
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Crucible. Might be able to take the pot on. They are loving every minute | :27:47. | :27:57. | |
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cushion by the black spot area. The way Neil reacted there. Just come | :29:34. | :29:44. | |
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off the cushions so much quicker magic figure of ten is coming close | :30:06. | :30:16. | |
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best frame in the last one, so he points. Talking about the more | :30:54. | :31:01. | |
experienced player, and that is Neil Robertson, who has won more matches. | :31:01. | :31:11. | |
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21 here at The Crucible and he has -- shot. And at first glance, a bit | :31:21. | :31:31. | |
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of a problem for Robert Milkins Not quite as he intended. This red | :32:15. | :32:22. | |
does not pass the blue. It will pot into the right middle Pottle -- | :32:22. | :32:32. | |
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It is a similar situation for Robert. He has got to give it could | :33:11. | :33:17. | |
cue ball, or he could lead some on. That was a bit thick. He didn't | :33:17. | :33:27. | |
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want to hit the job. He can get on He didn't like the ankle to hold | :33:45. | :33:55. | |
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He has a slight angle to work with He could get on the black this time. | :34:20. | :34:25. | |
He is coming round once again to have a look to see if he can leave | :34:25. | :34:35. | |
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Neil Robertson doesn't make a lot of mistakes, that is what he has | :34:50. | :35:00. | |
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The black cannot go back on its own spots, which will put it out of | :35:13. | :35:23. | |
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Has he left himself on this read? He can't stand it in, get a nice | :35:43. | :35:53. | |
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angle on the blue and then play the If he gets on the blue in such a | :36:19. | :36:29. | |
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way, he can get the pink, black and I think he had a bad contact on | :36:48. | :36:58. | |
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that plants. He didn't get the I don't know about you, Dennis, but | :37:11. | :37:17. | |
I'm getting sick and tired of talking about it kicks, people must | :37:17. | :37:23. | |
think it is an excuse, but, no, it is happening. Some people say it is | :37:23. | :37:28. | |
chalk on the ball, some people say it is static. No one has come up | :37:28. | :37:38. | |
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The Bulls were slightly heavier in the old days and it didn't happen. | :37:45. | :37:51. | |
-- the balls. Now they're playing with brand-new balls all the time. | :37:51. | :37:56. | |
That is something that didn't happen years ago, Terry. The balls | :37:56. | :38:01. | |
were played with for quite some time. The tables never got | :38:01. | :38:11. | |
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Robert has gone a bit ragged at the moment. He can play at a very high | :38:20. | :38:30. | |
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standard, but he does go missing Neil Robertson is starting to grind | :38:49. | :38:59. | |
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him down at its. 29 minutes since That was what we call a basic error, | :39:42. | :39:52. | |
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He may have an angle, a slight angle. The table seems to be a | :40:02. | :40:08. | |
little bit slower than usual. We always talk about how fast these | :40:08. | :40:12. | |
tables play. I will have to have a word with the players, but they | :40:12. | :40:22. | |
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don't seem to be as quick as normal. That seems to have jumped a little | :40:26. | :40:33. | |
bit. If he had got on the blue bear in such a way, he could have gone | :40:33. | :40:39. | |
into the pink, black and reds. He had at kick which didn't help the | :40:39. | :40:49. | |
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He didn't feel comfortable on that, Going back to the kicks, the only | :41:17. | :41:25. | |
thing that has changed at the Crucible this year are the balls. | :41:25. | :41:31. | |
The Crucible never changes. Sometimes the atmosphere can change | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
slightly, but they have the table he does with that thermostats, so | :41:36. | :41:46. | |
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There is the thermostats, which I know they changed the clock last | :42:13. | :42:19. | |
night. They changed the three practice tables and these two match | :42:19. | :42:29. | |
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tables. The truth of the days, it is costing players out there. Or | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
would it be like if you're playing football and it took a penalty and | :42:39. | :42:49. | |
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a football burst? That would soon That is a Neil Robertson special! | :43:29. | :43:39. | |
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With the reds as they are, he can I can't see a path through to the | :43:56. | :44:06. | |
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red nearest the left corner. He has There might be a way around three | :44:29. | :44:39. | |
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cushions, but even that is so risky. The blue is in the way it goes into | :44:45. | :44:55. | |
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So, you can see that escape is not available to him because of the | :45:13. | :45:23. | |
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blue. Brilliant it! What an escape He made a mess of that one, and the | :45:53. | :46:03. | |
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Robert, if you can hold yourself Am not sure if he wants the thing | :46:52. | :47:02. | |
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to go back on its spots. It might The referee is looking to see if it | :47:16. | :47:26. | |
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It looks as it goes for reds were not in a straight for position, | :47:58. | :48:08. | |
otherwise he would have been in amongst them. He has had another | :48:08. | :48:16. | |
kick. Both players have had a lot of kicks today. It is very | :48:16. | :48:21. | |
difficult to play out there. You get so tense you almost frightened | :48:21. | :48:31. | |
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to hit the ball. Sometimes I think the way you cued the ball. Some of | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
the great American pool players reckon you can actually create a | :48:36. | :48:44. | |
kick with the way you cued the ball. That is a beautifully controlled | :48:44. | :48:54. | |
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cannon. Where does the black go? On Does it pot into the red middle | :49:08. | :49:18. | |
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pocket? Maybe it dulls. -- it does. Even the pinkos! -- pink goes. What | :49:25. | :49:35. | |
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He was 14 points behind when he came to the table. He still has a | :49:47. | :49:57. | |
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Well, well, well. He took his eye off the pots and he gave an sup the | :50:30. | :50:40. | |
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good rap on their heads. -- he gave I tell you what, he is under | :50:49. | :50:56. | |
pressure, Neil Robertson. I have never seen him miss so many pots. | :50:56. | :51:06. | |
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Not for one of the best potters we RobertHett -- Robert knows he has | :51:17. | :51:27. | |
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Neil Robertson under all sorts of Red and black would be enough. | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
Playing for the pink means he would mean -- you would need that read, | :52:16. | :52:26. | |
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Things are really hotting up here at the Crucible. It has been a | :52:34. | :52:44. | |
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fascinating match. We have had all sorts. We had the magnificent 143 | :52:45. | :52:48. | |
break from Neil Robertson. We have also had an awful lot of misses | :52:49. | :52:58. | |
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from him. We have had brother 48 the difference with 35 on the | :53:13. | :53:23. | |
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That is one of the snookers. That Robert will be feeling very | :56:15. | :56:25. | |
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confident, but this will be slowing Maybe Neil Robertson is thinking, | :57:08. | :57:13. | |
three stickers, it has been -- it has been done before, but maybe he | :57:13. | :57:23. | |
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is giving Robert something to think He is giving Robert more time to | :57:32. | :57:41. | |
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think about what he has achieved so Make no mistake, this will be the | :58:00. | :58:07. | |
biggest win of his career, a career that has spanned over 18 years. He | :58:07. | :58:17. | |
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Another good shot. Very good. I could just hear Robert saying, good | :58:28. | :58:38. | |
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But brown is in the way. The black is in the way of getting round the | :58:42. | :58:51. | |
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back of the yellow. Is there a gap between the pink and the black. He | :58:53. | :59:03. | |
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could swerve around the yellow, but Neil Robertson has played some | :59:30. | :59:40. | |
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He was never going to get that. should have given that a bit more | :59:53. | :00:03. | |
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thought. Now, just two stickers required. Just use because! -- just | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
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another chance. I was felt you should try to snooker your opponent | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
when you are in this position so Robert should be thinking about | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
snookering Neil rather than going for a pot, unless, of course, it is | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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That's probably why some of your games lasted so long, Terry! If you | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
were snookering and your opponent was snookering... It is the name of | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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think. When you've got to go, you've got to go! So both players leaving | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
the arena. I think it happened yesterday with Neil Robertson so we | :01:45. | :01:54. | |
That's what happens when the pressure mounts! I tell you what I | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
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want to pick up on. Do you think Neil Robertson has a problem with | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
the tip of his cue? I don't know about you, but sometimes you can | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
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miss long balls with my bash back by miles with a new tip. -- by miles. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
He's been looking at his tip quite a bit and maybe he feels there might | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
be a bit of a gap. Sometimes you hear a clink as well. But the way | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
he's been striking the ball. We are just going to see some of the misses | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
he has had during this second session. Some that you would never | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
expect Neil Robertson to miss. this isn't surely down to the tip | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
exclusively? He was taking his eye off the ball as well. Well, it can | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
certainly affect you if it is on your mind. I'm not making excuses... | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
But for him to be playing the way he is today. His long game... It is so | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
unusual for somebody that good because, honestly, he is definitely | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
somebody who could win this World Championship but from today's | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
performance, you wouldn't think so. I've been looking at how would you | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
been studying Robert's performance, but you've been applauding his | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
safety play as well as his potting. I think it has improved. He's got a | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
couple of young children with mouths to feed. That will make you play | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
better! He has always been a good potter, though and a break-builder. | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
And he can score. He doesn't have to turn into Terry in the commentary | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
box. You just got to be competent. And I think he's competent but a bit | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
more now. And I think he's a bit more experienced and a bit battle - | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
hardened as well. We saw a classic example. He was an awful lot of | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
trouble and tried to come off a 2-cushion escape. He clipped to the | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
red and went back up to baulk. Earlier this afternoon, you said | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Neil needs to just get into his rhythm. And if anything, Robert has | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
found his rhythm better than Neil house. Yes. He spotted some good | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
balls and kept his composure. I don't think Robert Milkins is going | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
to bottle it or be afraid of the chance if it comes along. It is just | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
that Robertson has two up his game to what we normally see from him. -- | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
has two. As I say, if Robertson pulls himself together... One thing | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
he would get, you will definitely get chances because that is the way | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
the game has gone all afternoon. He has had chances all along. Could | :05:14. | :05:24. | |
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this be the biggest scalp of the Championship so far if he loses? | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
know Robert Milkins has only been in the second round in the whole of his | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
career in this Championship so that would make play hard, but it remains | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
to be seen. He still has it all to do here, Neil Robertson. You did | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
ruin my gag for the end of the programme! Having said "bottling". | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
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Given he is The Milkman. Let's see DENNIS TAYLOR: I don't know about | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
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bottling it, it looks as though he snooker, as we have seen on some | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
occasions. The green is out of commission and the yellow is | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
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probably best placed. But there's no the table and you see where the | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
pink, black, blue and yellow are, there is huge coverage over the | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
table if you are to get behind. So not just behind one colour. You've | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
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the table. Always the chance of a free ball and having an extra red, | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
so to speak. This time he's decided to put it. And it's going to be | :08:12. | :08:22. | |
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could tie with one snooker. -- pot from the cushion, as we show you | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
this snooker again. But there is enough room to slip around the back | :10:13. | :10:23. | |
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cushions. And if he tries to come four to one. About 15 minutes ago, I | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
thought Robert was thinking, I only need one more frame to get into the | :11:02. | :11:11. | |
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second round and beat the former safe... That's the main thing when | :11:16. | :11:26. | |
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pocket. Can he got in behind the moment. He would have to be very | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
precise with this. If he could push the brown onto the side cushion and | :12:38. | :12:48. | |
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get behind the black, you would do got to get the brown safe. No point | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
taking a high risk at this stage because he has fought his way back | :12:55. | :13:05. | |
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very close. Robert Milkins will put though it was going to be a quick | :14:31. | :14:40. | |
frame. In the end, it was just over 44 minutes! -- in goes the pink. He | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
only needs one more frame, Robert. What a victory this would be. That | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
was a fascinating little parcel there. Robert Milkins thought he had | :14:51. | :15:00. | |
won. Ten, 15 minutes ago! But Neil Robertson has played some fantastic | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
shots. Great snookers. He landed right in behind the black and that | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
was a great effort. It was worth carrying on because I thought he was | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
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going to concede when he needed four Robert Milkins will be delighted. | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
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the other, the crowd will always go for the underdog. That's how it is | :16:12. | :16:20. | |
with the British. And they would love to see a deciding frame but he | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
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might have other ideas, Robert thick. But having said that, the | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
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White has rebounded and he has left at the chance he would have had. -- | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
had he. He played a great aggressive shot, didn't get the run-in. But you | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
can't really complain with that. There's no certainty you will be my | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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last shot opening up the frame and the reds. He wants to get a good cue | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
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ball here. Just working it out and with a safety. You just have to put | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
them in the most difficult position you can. -- you can't trap your | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
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perfect. -- absolutely perfect. The pack of red there. A bit risky but | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
when you look at the shot he has on, it is not easy to go to a single | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
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that cannon, and he played it exactly as he intended. What a | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
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restricted over this side of the table to get the potting angle on | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
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He could play for the pink in the centre but it doesn't look as though | :20:41. | :20:51. | |
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he has an angle to get onto the Very, very good shot. A risky shot | :20:58. | :21:08. | |
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Mean I, that was awkward bridging and he played that to perfection. -- | :21:17. | :21:27. | |
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get it as he intended. -- he has played for cannon. He didn't get it | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
as he intended. It just shows, when playing the cannon you have to be | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
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slightly harder than he intended, think he's just OK. He thought he | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
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but I couple of red is available there. You want to keep close | :23:12. | :23:22. | |
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control of the cue ball under these little triangle is available into | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
the right corner, he's got enough reds to secure this frame without | :23:53. | :24:03. | |
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corner but he would have to work for has taken his eye off the pot. He | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
can't believe the ball he has missed there. He was playing a cannon again | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
and he just hadn't quite made up his mind and took his eye off the pot. | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
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Surely we couldn't have another turn He's got the experience. Can he find | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
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the technique that has been letting 19 blues off the spot. -- has | :26:08. | :26:18. | |
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ported. Missed the most important one. And that's too far. He's going | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
to have to take a long red up into the corner pocket. He is looking to | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
see if the pink would be available. It's a bit of a shot he can take on | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
because he won't leave anything easy. But what an important part, | :26:35. | :26:45. | |
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plant in the centre. It isn't straight but it can be made. So it's | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
not just the pot he's thinking of. He might be thinking about putting | :27:08. | :27:18. | |
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was seeing little problems and looking to see, if I leave the white | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
here, what will I leave in terms of problems? That's not what you got to | :27:32. | :27:42. | |
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be thinking. You got to get it into because you can't guarantee to take | :27:53. | :28:03. | |
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the one he's going to play, I think, play a safety shot down the | :28:35. | :28:43. | |
left-hand side of the table towards the pink. He's going down to have a | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
look now to see where is the best place to leave it. The cue ball, I | :28:47. | :28:57. | |
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two long ones on for Robert Milkins. I can see why now. He might play the | :29:13. | :29:23. | |
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knock it safe but if he did that, doubled it onto the side cushion, | :29:29. | :29:35. | |
and you see where the tip of the cue is, so if you can get the white | :29:35. | :29:45. | |
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played it very well because he had to cover the red up towards the | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
green pocket on the top right. If he had left that on, Neil Robertson | :29:58. | :30:08. | |
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would have gone for it. It's been a one point. Then Robert Milkins came | :30:17. | :30:27. | |
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If he gets this in and get summer colour, it could be the last shot | :31:07. | :31:17. | |
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that Neil Robertson plays in the This will be the biggest win in the | :31:35. | :31:43. | |
career of Robert Milkins. He has been a pro for 18 years. Neil | :31:43. | :31:49. | |
Robertson made the highest break of the tournament at 143, looked good, | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
but he hasn't looked good in this session. He just seemed to get | :31:54. | :32:04. | |
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himself under pressure. It is not going to be his year. That | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
absolutely secures it. Every credit to Robert Milkins. Be still looks | :32:12. | :32:20. | |
as cool as you like. He has played well. He has only won one match | :32:20. | :32:27. | |
here at the Crucible. It is his 5th time here. What a win he has | :32:27. | :32:33. | |
achieved here. He must be so excited. Neil will come and shake | :32:33. | :32:40. | |
his hand. He scratches his head. It is time to shake hands, you feel. | :32:40. | :32:45. | |
64 the difference, 43 on the table. He doesn't want to leave the | :32:45. | :32:55. | |
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He needs 64. Snookers at the moment. Robert be shaking his head. He was | :33:00. | :33:08. | |
expecting the handshake there. never know. Never say never in the | :33:08. | :33:18. | |
Cristobal, that is my saying in the Cristobal now. If Neil Robertson | :33:18. | :33:28. | |
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this could be the end of it keeps on running. He has decided to shake | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
hands with Robert Milkins. Neil Robertson looks so good early on, | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
but in the end it was Robert Milkins who was just too strong for | :34:03. | :34:09. | |
him. What a victory. He beat the current fear for it, he is no | :34:09. | :34:16. | |
longer there. He beaten 10-8. What a win! | :34:16. | :34:21. | |
What a win, given the fact he was 5-2 down yesterday afternoon. The | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
bigger shock of the tournament so far. By far the bigger shock and | :34:26. | :34:33. | |
the biggest day in his career. Neil Robertson, he will probably let us | :34:33. | :34:43. | |
know what his thoughts were. Robert Milkins showed tremendous fighting | :34:43. | :34:53. | |
spirit. He played some great shots and it very cool under pressure. I | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
know few missed the blue when the pressure came on, but I'm delighted | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
for him. The biggest win of her career. I think it was well | :35:00. | :35:06. | |
deserved. Let's hear from him. He is what Rob Walker. Many | :35:06. | :35:12. | |
congratulations! That is the biggest win of your career so far. | :35:12. | :35:16. | |
What a way to come back! Neil played really well first session | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
and I did well to stick with him. The last two frames were vital in | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
the end. Today was a bit scrappy. I think it got him twitching a bit. I | :35:25. | :35:33. | |
was twitching as well. I was maybe luckier or stronger, I don't know. | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
How did you manage to keep yourself together mentally? He is such a | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
strong player and you are never there with him until you're | :35:41. | :35:49. | |
actually over the line. The first session, think he was unlucky, if | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
he had been playing the majority of qualifiers he would have been 8-1 | :35:54. | :36:01. | |
up. We stuck with him. In the end I was gutted to go in 3-1 behind, but | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
when I came out 5-4 behind come at a Likud victory, something to build | :36:06. | :36:14. | |
You have started to put some good snooker together over the last two | :36:14. | :36:21. | |
or three seasons. What has been the key to that? There has been a lot | :36:21. | :36:25. | |
of things. I have turned by lifestyle around. A lot of people | :36:25. | :36:34. | |
have helped me. My manager, good friends, my wife. The last couple | :36:34. | :36:41. | |
of years, Terry has been the main reason why I have turns my game | :36:41. | :36:51. | |
around. Any of the players to work with Terry, they all do well. I | :36:51. | :36:57. | |
would like to say thanks to Terry. Many, many congratulations. We will | :36:57. | :37:00. | |
see you again here on the big stage and will be looking forward to that. | :37:00. | :37:06. | |
Thank you, cheers. Hopefully we will hear from Neil | :37:06. | :37:13. | |
Robertson as well. It is a big story. Very interesting to your | :37:13. | :37:17. | |
Robert Rock about his personal issues. Not only has the snooker | :37:17. | :37:21. | |
improved, but he has turned his life around. It is a game you can | :37:21. | :37:31. | |
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play and has everything upstairs is working properly. Everything you do | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
out there you have got to do yourself. This autumn's up by the | :37:37. | :37:45. | |
way from the table, with young mouths to feed night, that will | :37:45. | :37:48. | |
make a difference! The one thing about snooker, when you're sitting | :37:48. | :37:53. | |
in your chair you have a lot of things that can cloud your minds, a | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
lot of time to think about things. John is right and what he is saying, | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
if you have problems of the table, it is hard to have a clear mind. | :38:02. | :38:08. | |
With other sports, does all instinctive. Neil Robertson won the | :38:08. | :38:18. | |
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China Open, top-class players beaten. Something has come to light | :38:20. | :38:25. | |
to it. That performance today is so far removed from that. I thought we | :38:26. | :38:32. | |
got a monkey off his back against Mark Selby. He turned appear | :38:32. | :38:37. | |
magnificent foreman didn't perform. Let's bring you up to date would -- | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
with what has been happening on the other table. Shaun Murphy to con | :38:42. | :38:45. | |
Graeme Dott. Would join it at the start of the third frame. Graeme | :38:45. | :38:55. | |
:38:55. | :38:58. | ||
Graeme Dott breaks off. We're all square. Both players can relax and | :38:58. | :39:08. | |
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There is an example of Shaun Murphy's cueing. The cue ball needs | :39:24. | :39:34. | |
:39:34. | :39:45. | ||
to slow up, and it has done. He is I assumed the black will go into | :39:45. | :39:55. | |
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'STEPHEN HENDRY: It will be a bit disappointing for him to have to | :40:36. | :40:46. | |
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JOHN VIRGO: he did not catch the pink as well as he did in the last | :41:27. | :41:37. | |
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That was a good shot. He is not out Lots of noise from the other side | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
of the wall. Shaun Murphy did well to pot that red. It just put him | :42:25. | :42:31. | |
off slightly. I think he has run out of position. Maybe he should | :42:31. | :42:40. | |
have just stopped. He is looking to see now it there is the possibility | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
of a plant. There was so much noise in the arena when he was playing | :42:44. | :42:54. | |
:42:54. | :43:15. | ||
He was that concerned about the pot, he has pushed the cue ball through. | :43:15. | :43:25. | |
:43:25. | :43:27. | ||
Well, he was. From all the world it looked as if he had won that | :43:27. | :43:35. | |
fraction too far. I was watching Graeme Dott, you always look at the | :43:36. | :43:45. | |
body language of your opponents. looked at Sean murky's body | :43:45. | :43:53. | |
language and I thought he had run through too far. It is all about | :43:53. | :44:03. | |
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fractions. And the fractions Can Shaun Murphy make this visit | :44:22. | :44:32. | |
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It is hard to see what he can go visit. And this is what he needs to | :47:23. | :47:31. | |
do occurs he is quite an open player, is Shaun. -- because he is. | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
He just needs to open up all the balls at the first opportunity and | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
if he doesn't win the frame in one visit, he leaves himself open for | :47:39. | :47:49. | |
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Shaun Murphy. The 14th of the Championship so far and Shaun the | :48:21. | :48:29. | |
first man to make three. This is more like him. When he gets in, | :48:29. | :48:39. | |
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winning the frame in one visit. But form, then obviously a major player | :48:42. | :48:51. | |
:48:52. | :49:27. | ||
in this year's will Championship. -- long red to get it in and he kept | :49:27. | :49:33. | |
his opponent in his seat thereafter. 2-1, Shaun Murphy. | :49:33. | :49:39. | |
Yes, it was an excellent afternoon's work for the 2005 world | :49:39. | :49:45. | |
champion. Murphy then stretched his lead to 5-2, making breaks of 112 | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
and 99 along the way. And then into frame eight leading with a 6-2 lead | :49:49. | :49:55. | |
over Graeme Dott, and that match is continuing at 10am tomorrow. Just a | :49:55. | :50:00. | |
gentle reminder, it is now the best of 25 frames over three sessions. | :50:00. | :50:10. | |
:50:10. | :50:13. | ||
Excellent performance from Shaun Murphy this afternoon. What we think | :50:13. | :50:23. | |
:50:23. | :50:24. | ||
of this one? He played really excellent against Martin Gould. A | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
big help because Graeme Dott had chances in there and he will be | :50:28. | :50:33. | |
kicking himself. Shaun Murphy will be delighted. Great to watch because | :50:33. | :50:39. | |
he is the best Key West we have on the circuit. Great to watch, | :50:39. | :50:47. | |
fantastic. Could he win it? Absolutely. No reason he couldn't go | :50:48. | :50:53. | |
all the way. And a reminder that another top seed has gone out. Neil | :50:53. | :51:03. | |
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break and the table was really disappointing. You either got a kick | :51:09. | :51:16. | |
or a bounce of the cushioning and it was obvious that everybody to see. | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
With the very good players, it is the clinicalness with the Bulls. | :51:20. | :51:29. | |
They bounced out of position and Robert was too good for me. His | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
safety was fantastic. Some of the best I have seen all season, if not | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
ever. Really good. He put me under pressure and I just lost my with a | :51:37. | :51:45. | |
bit through the match. And midway through today's session, anyway. -- | :51:45. | :51:51. | |
I lost my way. He put me under pressure. It is or was tough for the | :51:51. | :51:57. | |
seeds in the first round and they never feel comfortable until they | :51:58. | :52:07. | |
:52:08. | :52:15. | ||
can play the best of 25. A disappointing ending to an otherwise | :52:15. | :52:24. | |
fantastic seeding. He is blaming the tables? Sometimes you need the heat | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
on the table, nice and quick. I think it is warm enough in The | :52:28. | :52:34. | |
Crucible. They should just shut the heaters off and let them play. | :52:34. | :52:41. | |
were debating whether Robertson had a problem with his tip? But he was | :52:41. | :52:48. | |
talking about the tables. He just didn't you well today. -- he just | :52:48. | :52:54. | |
didn't cue. I just want to look ahead to this evening when we will | :52:54. | :53:03. | |
see Michael White taking on Poomjaeng. He is also known as Jack! | :53:03. | :53:09. | |
It will be worth watching and it won't be boring or quiet! I think | :53:09. | :53:16. | |
you should do what he did the other day. Applaud yourself. A round of | :53:16. | :53:21. | |
applause for this afternoon? Give yourself a clap, Jason. And, Ken, | :53:21. | :53:26. |