Thorburn?
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Yes! That's him! Cool dude.
I think he is on this site, screen name "I Rolled Murray"...
Cliff Thorburn perhaps ? 5x10 is my favourite size table. You can play a good game of billiards or snooker on it or 8ball and 9ball . Great all rounder. Like Axe said the other end of a 12 footer doesn’t look as close as it used to , lol.
Saw him play an exhibition match against Kenny Shay at the Cue and Cushion in Halifax many years ago. He was world champion at the time. Hell of a player. He played a 147 in the world championship one time , I believe he may have been the first to ever do it. Shay won the Maritime Championship just about every year, no slouch but not in Thorburn’s class.
Strangest 147 ever lol...
Por que ?
The 3 or 4 missed shots after break, then Thorburn's missed pocket come back opposite pocket...
First player from outside of the British Isles to win the World Championship and the only player from the Americas to ever win it. Thanks for digging that up . Haven’t seen it for a long long time. I did watch a lot of this years Championship. It was all on BBC i-player .
Yes I just watched it again. Jesus, just stands up and knocks them in. Crazy. Cliff hosted a show on TSN in the 90's I believe when I was a teen and just discovered Billiards...
I was knocking a few around yesterday actually. Just a minute now…that just sunk in. Hmmm…a teen in the 90’s , lol.
Also just noticed that the twins haven’t been posting ……..
It's the internet. Who would embellish the facts...
It is awesome to own an inside joke...
Thanks for the support...
AxeZ06
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He usually showed up to tournaments at Celeberty (centre mall).
Been a Sony TV fan all my life… have never bought any other brand…
As Murray pointed out LG manufacture all of the large OLED panels so it comes down to the software/interface and the image processing. And you are right, Sony is generally the highest rated in that department. But all OLED’s are beautiful.
The OLED TV brand with the best processing in 2025 is generally considered to be Sony, particularly their Bravia A95L model, which excels in video processing, upscaling non-4K content, and color accuracy. Sony’s OLEDs are known for superior color-temperature accuracy and advanced image processing functions.
Oh, we are done with the Snooker talk? I have a Sony Bravia...
Great for watching snooker……..
Arguably the greatest player of all time. In what they call the “ modern era “ , Ronnie O’Sullivan .Back in the twenties Joe Davis was the man . Only player to never lose a match in the World Championships. Friggin amazing. I bought his book “ How I Play Snooker “ many years ago. It will improve your game for sure. Hard to find now and quite expensive because of that. This is O’Sullivan making a perfect break of 147 in the World Championship. The fastest ever.
Joe Davis was the world snooker champion for 15 consecutive years, winning every World Snooker Championship from its inception in 1927 until his retirement in 1946. He remains the only player to have never lost a match in the World Snooker Championship history.
He won the championship annually from 1927 to 1940, and then again in 1946 after World War II caused a hiatus in the tournament. After his 1946 victory, he retired from the World Snooker Championship but continued to play professionally in other events until 1964.
Joe Davis was the world snooker champion for 15 consecutive years, winning every World Snooker Championship from its inception in 1927 until his retirement in 1946. He remains the only player to have never lost a match in the World Snooker Championship history.
He won the championship annually from 1927 to 1940, and then again in 1946 after World War II caused a hiatus in the tournament. After his 1946 victory, he retired from the World Snooker Championship but continued to play professionally in other events until 1964.