Recent content by Bertie Wooster

A few potential youngsters of the future to look out for who all won a game or two at Q School... Moldova's Vladislav Gradinari is one that's been about for a couple of years now - he's currently 15. Shaun Liu of Hong Kong is only 13. He's named after Shaun Murphy as his mum is a huge fan of...

The four Q School winners for event 2 were: Farakh Ajaib, Chris Totten, Antoni Kowalski, Mitchell Mann. Fairly uninspiring bunch for me. Was hoping Iulian Boiko would get through from the start, and even more so against Ajaib, but he's missed out once again! Chris Totten is a 25 year old from...

I woke up today thinking how much different it felt to last Saturday - when I didn't give us a hope in hell of winning the FA Cup! And now, here we are, with another Manchester Derby kicking off at nearly the same time! Not quite so different after all. :) A lot less nerve wracking of course...

Tomorrow's final round matches are: Iulian Boiko v Farakh Ajaib Chris Totten v Lewis Ullah Antoni Kowalski v Simon Blackwell Mitchell Mann v Joshua Thomond The first of those is the one I'm most bothered about, as Boiko is the one of the eight that I'm most eager to see on the tour, and Ajaib...

Sounds a promising signing. We needed a RB at U16/18 level and nice to see that he was wanted by a number of clubs.

Thanks for the links. :+1: Looking forward to seeing some of those U15 players.

Great win for Iulian Boiko, beating Mark Joyce 4-0. So into tonight's 5th (penultimate) round. Elsewhere, there must be an undercurrent between Anton Kazakov and Andres Petrov? In the second frame, Kazakov carried on looking for snookers on the colours a little longer than I'd have expected...

Getting close to the end of the second Q School event. Round's 4 and 5 today, with the final round tomorrow to decide which four players get on the Main Tour. After the first 4th round games today, we already know that it's going to be James Cahill / Antoni Kowalski v Simon Blackwell / Hamim...

Anyone watching the second series of the Australian show? So far it looks a decent enough series, as was the first one. But it's not as good as the NZ or UK versions. The Taskmaster is a little better than the NZ version, but the assistant is the worst of the three. Paul Williams in the NZ...

Really? Up until the 10th series, I'd always heard of every contestant each series - normally from one panel show or another as many of the early series ones were regulars on those. From series 10 onwards, there's almost always been one or two that I've never heard of before. In this series...

Yeah, I posted similar when they had the child with dwarfism on this New Year's episode. I said then that it can work for a one off, where they can tweak just the 3 or 4 tasks to deal with the handicap - but I can't see how they can do it for a full series for the likes of Rosie Jones or Chris...

Saves me posting it and getting stick, whereas you obviously won't, so thanks for that. :+1:

Just watching the opening episode of the second series of Australia Taskmaster... ...Looks a promising start. Series 1 was decent. Not as good as the NZ or English versions, but very watchable.

Thanks for that. I've just looked it up and it's series 7, isn't it? I'll definitely check it out.

That's interesting. I may give it another go at some point. I did want to like it as I love Seinfeld so much, but everything about the early series that I watched just felt so inferior to Seinfeld in every way and so I gave up on it. I guess I should have learned from the first couple of series...