Snooker - How many re-racks? (World Championships 2009 - 29.04.09)

[Rafael13596]

Yeah, because this is a quarter-final, ductrung3993!

And you were right, dagreatmogul, he is a idiot of a referee and contact with

him at Google!!!!

[dagreatmogul]

One idiot of a referee. If you agree, google Alan Chamberlain and contact him on his site telling him what you really feel about him! I did!

[ductrung3993]

lol they sit next to each other

[rvpnumb]

5:47 come on mark, come on John and in the end come on Ronnie, yea it would be nice for the defending champion be playing there but lost to Mark Allen in the second round :(

[rvpnumb]

Selby is not amazing I can tell you that, poor spormanship towards John Higgins and butter balls

[fas44444]

selby is a pu**y

[julian1471]

It doesn`t matter what you think of Alan Chamberlin ,`cause he`s on the WPBSA.

[gokawi]

who won?

[cupomash2]

It surprises me that Alan Chamberlin is still allowed to ref given the controversy that surrounds him. He once refused to clean a ball for a player saying in his opinion it didn't require cleaning!!! amazing since that is part of his job and not for him to refuse. I think Willie Thorn is commenting here and he rightly said it's nothing to do with the ref if the players want a re-rack which is good to see as most commentators don't speak out enough. Hopefully this idiot ref will retire soon.

[DjMarcward]

two :))

[killekillekille1]

Selby is just fantastic, at the end: ''Re-rack?''

That's just amazing.

[wedgehedge444]

I don't like this ref, he seems unkind

[weebageeba]

that ref has to hate selby,,good god,,

[OnePastMidnight]

Snooker could take a leaf out of pool rule books stipulating that atleast 1 object ball must touch rail on a shot to prevent stuff like that.

[matthewbowers88]

@OnePastMidnight Part of me agrees with you, but wouldn't that lead to smashing them on the break off shot. Consequently spreading the balls and making it easier for the other player to score high? In pool its quite likely for a ball to sink but not in snooker with the table been bigger and the pockets been smaller. I'm happy to be wrong on this one but that was my initial thought to your comment.

[sarbasov]

@OnePastMidnight That's impossible in snooker. Player will try to put cueball near red balls heap and opponent will fail to do anything.

[MAVERICK1SASR]

alan chamberlin is an old hag and a dried up old windbag

[Savior2k5]

"Re-Rack?" xD

[Membersacc]

Like on that safety shot before the second re-rack, he could have put it in the corner of bank with a bit of backspin, and had the whiteball back at the top.

[Membersacc]

I don't get why the always shoot safetys, they have so many avilable shots.

[AnglOsAxOn2]

@Membersacc You dont because your not playing for a title and thousands of pounds

[Membersacc]

@AnglOsAxOn2

Till, at this level I always expected it to run like a normal game, but them actually making all of the bank shots and combination shots we half call and half hope go in.

[andos8888]

chamberlain is a prick about time he retired

[AlexLai816]

what did the ref say and what did the commentator say after 'exactly' in around 9:03?

[TearTheRoofOff]

@AlexLai816 the commentator said 'we'll lets set them up then'. I didn't hear anything from the Ref, I think the crowd were laughing at the situation.

[uNamed2lyfe]

who won?

[DomSezXL]

@uNamed2lyfe Higgins. He went on to win the championship. Doubt he'll play again after all the allegations of match fixing this year though.

[uNamed2lyfe]

@DomSezXL yeh lol i saw the whole match....selby didnt even get a go at it!!

higgins....?? match fixing??? really??

[DomSezXL]

@uNamed2lyfe Yep, just search on TopTellyFan's channel for "higgins suspended" and you'll see all about it.

[ribhkum]

hey where's the red goin, hey where's the white goin , hey where's the sun goin, where's my wife goin?

[Olliguer]

Does anybody like Alan Chamberlain? Even at 9:00, Willie Thorne displays disdain towards him - and Willie Thorne comes across as the sort of person who like everybody!

[HengistTheGreat]

@Olliguer And everyone like Willie Thorn. :)

[tranceinitiative]

the facts of the matter is that chamberlain is refing this match because he is qualified to unlike anybody commenting on this vid,so realy nobody can say anything because you know less than him

[thedudeabides97]

Alan Chamberwank

[edwardfirth49]

The clown chamberlain shows his arrogance again. Who does this fool think he is, he doesnt have the knowledge, skill or credentials to decide when a frame is at a re-rack situation, the players do, thats why they excel at this game.

[atomdragon4]

"Re-rack?.....Yes?" Hahahha

[greatdane90]

world referee? you got to be kidding! why the fuck is this wanker on the circuit! i heard so many bad comments about him and this just proves everything! one word WANKER!

[Busher50]

what a night

[CarpMagic95]

lol the ref refused them another re rack..... But never really, that should be the description.

[straightJO]

@CarpMagic95

I think you must be his grandkid.. i'm just saying, just an opinion..

[CarpMagic95]

He speaks about him like hes abit of shit to, very bad. Jesus the man just said i dont think we are at stale mate yet, thats all!!!!!!! he didnt say your not having one lol and yet apparently hes the one who plays the rule book way to hard. As for this videos description? He refused them another re rack?..... WHEN.

[CarpMagic95]

Omg he blames Alan playing the rules abit to far and yet crys like a fucking baby when Alan simply gave his point of view that he didnt think the time was right for the re rack, Alan wasnt saying dont re rack, or your not having one, he was just giving his opinion incase it helped matters! The guy doesnt like him because of previous things, hes a super ref to have at a game.

[CarpMagic95]

Its the things like chucking the towel up in the air and that being such a big deal that makes snooker seem boring to some i guess. I mean if that was the climax, lol

[ILoveClubbin]

They Rerack if 1 or more red ball is at the top of the table while the pack is closed it saves them wasteing time by roleing up 2 the pack all the time

[Ignigarde]

10:26 Mark "Re-rack?"

lol, nice one Mark. Hahaha

[RyanWatchesNaruto]

why do they re-rack, im pretty new to snooker

[TopTellyFan]

@RyanWatchesNaruto They get to a point of a stalemate where no-one's clearly going to budge and to save time they do a re-rack. It used to be that the ref would give them X number of chances to get out of it, but nowadays they know what's coming and, like here, look at each other... "Re-rack?" "Yep". Job done :)

[pillthepower]

Re-rack is a term that is used to describe the abandonment of a frame so that the balls can be set up again and the frame restarted with no change to the score.

Re-racking is carried out upon agreement between all the players concerned, normally as a result of a situation such as trading of containing safeties, where there is no foreseeable change to the pattern of shots being played, so the frame could go on indefinitely.

[scouserdan3]

they re-rack when a stalemate comes along.. usually when the players keep rolling onto the balls slowly.. this only means the frame begins again

[xFRAGxMOVIESx]

@RyanWatchesNaruto basically if the game is goin no where ..... so they both keep tapping the balls into the other bunch it will go on and on and on so its to save time

[Toolshedful]

I really don't like Alain Chamberlain. He's not a good ref.

[phastasm]

just as the commentator siad "the ref is there to fetch the balls and call fouls", just like a good little doggie

[Season0]

wait, im a noob at snooker. why did they re rack at 4:58?

[tomthecool]

Because of the loose red next to the green, the only safety shot they could play was a tap into the bunch of reds.

[TopTellyFan]

Yep, the frame was just going nowhere. I like the way they don't waste time with X amount of shots each, these days - they just look at each other and "Re-rack?" and then it happens.

[MrEmpirical]

That ref must hate Selby. He's always fucking with him.

[KoivuTheHab]

@MrEmpirical That's because Alain screwed him over royaly when he played Dott some time ago.

[the147break]

suppose there is only 1 red on the table + yellow, green, brown, blue, pink , and black

so i pot the last red and then snooker behind any of these colors?

is it ok or foul?

[dutchieboy80]

Yup, that's okay. You can first pot a red, then play a colour. And if you pot the colour, you can go for the yellow :)

[BaToScAp227]

yes i think that would be ok

[s0ulseek3r]

if you pot the red it's still your turn, d'oh

[sh1monn]

lol 6:50

COME ON MARK... COME ON JOHN....

...

COME ON JOHNNY

[SnookerPlanetPT]

Mark "Re-rack" Selby

[rvpnumb]

@SnookerPlanetPT well your new to me, never seen this one before or did I ? So João deleted antifanboy1, antifanboy2, JoãoES147 and SnookerPlanetPT the snooker planet account on you tube, I got you now son I will expose you in the snooker planet forum and to the Portuguese Billiards Federation. I will like to see the authorities save you ass now !!! lol

[06033970]

alan chamberlain is a right prick proper white tosser

[russelltrigger]

When Mark said re-rack @ 10:30 did the referee dont be silly?

[vStealthv]

yeah it sounds like that actually

[russelltrigger]

oh right cheers

[muggins0]

nah he says "can i just have a look please" to see whether or not selby is snookered

[dani200105]

ok.. its not up to the ref whether to re-rack or not... but he didnt say he wont do it.. he just THINKS it not the time for a re-rack yet... i think the problem was that john wasnt too sure himself :)