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

And now the ref's refusing to have another re-rack! He said, "I don't think we've got to the stalemate situation yet", but it's not up to him!

The match was a quarter-final match between Mark Selby and John Higgins.

(C) BBC 2009

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Sports

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• ronnie
• o'sullivan
• sullivan
• ali
• carter
• peter
• ebdon
• mark
• selby
• king
• allen
• sean
• shaun
• maguire
• murphy
• stephen
• hendry
• lee
• marco
• fu
• williams
• neil
• robertson
• graeme
• dott

[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 :)

[Toolshedful]

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

[MrEmpirical]

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

[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]

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[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?

[sarbasov]

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

[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.