Your right Dennis was a great potter im happy to say ive cheerd for Dennis often . To me it was during I985 he was.i didnt see much great about him before that. Saying it how i see it
THis was almost like the 1985 world championship final. Dennis Taylor fought back against Steve Davis in 1985 and he did it against Alex Higgins in 1987.
IN the studio with Hazel Irvine are the 3 time masters finalist John Parrott ( He lost to Stephen Hendry in all of them) and the 2 time finalist Ken Doherty ( He lost to John Higgins in 1999 and he lost to Matthew Stevens in 2000).
I've always liked Dennis, he seems like a nice bloke. I've known so many people like Alex Higgins, they're only charming in short doses. When you've got to spend any amount of time with people like Alex, you quickly find out they're just obnoxious selfish assholes. As a personality I have zero interest in Alex, but on the snooker table? How the fuck he was successful, given how much he was moving on the shot, I'll never understand. If the genius tag fit anybody at snooker, then it was Higgins.
Ive always wondered... there are several videos like this from classic masters finals and also a few world championship matches but why didnt they make one from 1985 worlds final? It would probably be the best one!
I had tickets for some great earlier rounds matches including Alex and Jimmy. I was only 13 and Alex was/is my snooker Hero. I was inconsolable when he threw that way. Feel blessed to have seen his last hurrah though 😍
Alex beat Hendry in the Irish Masters Final in 1989 for a cheque of £32,000 which was really the end of an era of entertaining sports stars . In Stephen Hendry , you had the complete opposite type of person. Completely introverted.
After this match Alex was so disgusted at losing he took it upon himself to tell Dennis he was going to have him shot (I'd imagine a few whiskeys had been sank). Dennis speaks about this very little in respect of Alex's former genius but that kind of stuff sticks hard
bit late but trying to swing round back of black with white with right hand side and end up behind green. the side bit too soon and he hit red too thick
Jeez, what is it with this bloody over the top loud movie music? Doesn't even suit the video, I can't turn it down either because I can only just hear the commentary as it is, terrible job by BBC 😡
Hammer is a bit of a stretch maybe, being that they only played each other 5 times in the 70s. Granted Reardon won all five matches, but he was World Champion five times by the time of their first match and on his way to his sixth. One of those wins was in the one framed Pot Black format, two were first to three frames and one of those he won 3-2, another match he won 7-4 with only the 1976 World QF being anything like a hammering. Reardon was approaching 50 years old by the 80s and Taylor had not long turned 30 by then.
@@ianfortean7808 I would, but am not sure my wife will be too pleased. Why would I need to anyway, to explain things to you? I love how being ill-informed is the new norm these days, yet being informed is somehow looked down on. Next people will be saying that Trump won the election.
Higgins won more than Taylor and has gone down in history as a better player but Taylor won the world championship and the masters which is 2 majors and the 85 final will be remembered forever in snooker history as one of the all time most intense black ball tournament other final that was as tence was the masters final in 99 which came down to the black ball for the tournament when Hendry twitched and Williams won.
Dennis just used those upside down glasses for snooker. He needed the oversized lenses so he could still see when down on the shot, or he'd be peering over the top of normal specs.
I just can't imagine sitting in the audience listening to this music while the players take their shots so why do we have to listen to this music while the players are taking their shot's on this video?,yes the music might be dramatic but watching this level of snooker is dramatic enough without any assistance from background music.
Correct - as he did with Griffiths in the '82 UK - But I think it was alcohol related, as he aged the long matches whilst drinking constant vodkas or lagers all day - took its toll - he'd became more and more deflated and drunk which would impact his game at the final stages of long big finals - he could handle it in his twenties when he'd be potting everything in sight - but into his 30s the all day drinking wore him down and made him tired towards the end of big matches. It is undoubtedly the case that a more sober Higgins would have won two or three times more majors than he won - but still on his day in full flow he was the greatest talent the game has ever seen - and the fact that he won 2 World titles, 2 Masters, the UK and the 1989 Irish Masters - along with dozens of lesser title - all while drinking heavily - is a miracle in itself.
He didn't exactly have a lot of options regarding a route back to baulk with the cue ball. The green was blocking the path to any of the reds to the left of the blue as we look at it and the red on the top cushion (initially hidden by the on-screen writing) is an issue with the cue ball cannoning into it if he doesn't make the right connection, if going for the red just above and to the right of the black as we look. That same red on the cushion was also an issue too if he clipped the red nearest the pink too thinly (the shot the commentator thinks he tried to play) which is why he hit at with pace and with a thick contact to try to miss the red on the cushion but bounce off of the cushion itself, go around the back of the black and take the cue back towards the baulk cushion. He ended up catching the red too thick though (despite what the commentator said, as he was thinking of another shot) and that took all of the pace out of the cue ball.
Thats a rather ignorant assessment. The tables were nowhere near as reactive as the ones today. Modern players would struggle to build good breaks. Back then it was a much harder grittier game.
Abnsdllnnlosnfd yes indeed, 100% agree..only the players know this thing. But the spectacle and show is way under , dont you agree on that? i know that for sure:)
