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Cue-Balls with spots!!
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| Lils |
Posted on 26-06-2008 16:23
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Sorry Alex, I got about a third of the way through your post and nodded off. I think the general gist was 'why do the Goodfellas use a spotted cue ball'.
I don't know the answer. Sorry bout that.
As for ridiculing Arthur, that wasn't the intention and can't really see where I've done that, but i'm sure if that's the case, Arthur is a big boy and will let me know himself.
Again, to clarify: I don't know why the Goodfellas use a spotted white ball. But if the CDPL rules state a white has to be a certain size and this is, then I dont see what the fuss is over.
The funniest thing about ALL of this is that everyone is so adamant that it's the spots that are the problem with this ball, that no-one even seems to realise that the spotted white is actually HEAVIER than your plain white ball . . . But hey, you don't need someone like me to tell you that, do you?
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| Fat-Dart |
Posted on 26-06-2008 18:49
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ThePower wrote:
You have missed the point here, like the rest of the Goodfella's team has done (or so they lead us to believe) since this unsavoury affair has arisen. The issue is really not the spotted cue ball but something else. WHY DO THE GOODFELLA'S USE IT?
The legal use of the spotted ball has not been confirmed by Croydon Pool League committee members. Correct me if I am wrong Donna, but were you or was you not on the Croydon Pool League committee and playing for the Goodfella's at the exact time the Goodfella's Captain Mark Stallard (Fat Dart) made an alleged 'telephone' request to Mark Halsey to request and to allegedly ask for a verbal exceptance to use a spotted cue ball under CPDL league conditions (the use of which we are lead to now understand had allegedly 'special' conditions that correct me if I am wrong have failed to ever be mentioned by the committee of the CPDL!!!! PAST members or present).
So ball issue over, we then move onto the next issue. Why do the Goodfella's use the ball? Fuck me do we all know the real answer to that one. Majority of us seem to feel its used to gain an advantage. That debate was killed as early as post three. Why?? Fat Dart answered that question in one of his first posts.............here it comes....
ADVANTAGE GAINED? Mark Stallard: There is none.
Mark Stallard: Other of course than HOME ADVANTAGE!!!
Who Cue Ball looks the TOTAL COCK NOW?
Answers on a text to Mark Stallard 07775 791910
Alex, it is clearly YOU you seems to have missed the point. I did explain why we started using it a few posts before your elongated rant.
We started using it as a novelty, not for our own advantage. The fact we insist on it, as I also previously stated in another post you clearly didn't read, is HOME PREROGATIVE. Since when has the away team dictated anything at matches? We're no more likely to change the ball than if opponents asked to play some frames on a different table to that which we, as the home team had chosen.
Also, please get your facts straight first:
1. I'm the Secretary, not the Captain of Goodfellas
2. I never said I'd 'telephoned' Mark Halsey.
3. GOODFELLAS does NOT have an apostophe, it's a plural.
And please, if you're going to learn one thing, remember IT IS NOT A PRACTICE BALL. Instead of sitting behind your keyboard and firing of essays, try google and you'll find it's a match ball.
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| ThePower |
Posted on 26-06-2008 19:32
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Are you sure you're not Donna Evans in disguise. Seems to me you write posts like her.....
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| Cue_Ball |
Posted on 26-06-2008 21:44
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ThePower wrote:
Who Cue Ball looks the TOTAL COCK NOW?
Still you! Keep trying Cock.  |
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| Fat-Dart |
Posted on 26-06-2008 22:39
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ThePower wrote:
Are you sure you're not Donna Evans in disguise. Seems to me you write posts like her.....
Thanks Alex, I'll take that as a compliment. |
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| Rainbow |
Posted on 27-06-2008 01:31
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Well, this is becomming a bit of a nightmare!
Next weeks rant 'Red Chalk, should it be allowed?'
Lol,
Rainbow
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| Fat-Dart |
Posted on 27-06-2008 02:18
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Rainbow wrote:
Well, this is becomming a bit of a nightmare!
Next weeks rant 'Red Chalk, should it be allowed?'
Lol,
Rainbow
No, someone used it on our nice clean white cue ball and look what happened..
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| andye |
Posted on 28-06-2008 22:06
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i didn't think they were the same weight as an ordinary cue ball, but heavier!
if it's heavier then you can't use it simple as that.
if it's the same weight then whether it's got red spots, leopardskin or a picture of ur mum's jack 'n' danny then it's ok to use!!!
i just did a google for 'pool/cue ball weight' i found nothing except sites for stretching your nads and places prepared to perform a prince albert!!! |
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| Luke |
Posted on 28-06-2008 22:37
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andye wrote:
i just did a google for 'pool/cue ball weight' i found nothing except sites for stretching your nads
Come on Andy, thats what sort u were really looking for...we all have our problems!  |
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| Sass |
Posted on 29-06-2008 00:52
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It is heavier than a standard white ball hence why everyone in JFK's going to the Worlds have been practicing with them for weeks . . .
Guess you can't use it then. |
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Posted on 29-06-2008 01:35
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obviously not then!
can't believe it's took 5 pages of posts to solve that problem!!! |
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Posted on 29-06-2008 19:11
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That photo Sass has got.
Pool balls with Blue spots.
LOOKS GOOD TO ME
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Posted on 29-06-2008 19:28
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We'll be playing with them from now on as all balls are standard weight   |
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Posted on 30-06-2008 01:19
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Plain white ball - 96 grams
Spotted White - 97.2 grams.
Yes, it's FRACTIONALLY heavier. This has never been a secret and was raised when I first questioned its use on this website several seasons ago.
The fact remains, it's a match ball, used in official competitions, so it can't be outlawed just by people on here deciding they can rule it out for whatever reason suits them at the time. The weight difference is so negligible that 99% of pool players would never notice a difference of just over 1% in weight, if it wasn't for the spots.
First people say it's not allowed as 'it's a practice ball' which it isn't.
Next people say it's not allowed as the spots are off-putting.
Now apparently it's all about the weight. Make your minds up.
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| Golden |
Posted on 30-06-2008 16:49
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It's certainly not a practice ball but both the spots and weight have an influence when comparing the two . .
. . what stuck me as odd was that there were 4 pages of arguments and not once was the weight mentioned. IMO that makes more of a difference than the spots as the two balls have different reactions . . |
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Posted on 30-06-2008 16:56
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The weight is much more of an issue than the spots. But having said that there are probably cue balls being used in the league that are heavier or lighter than 96g but other teams haven't drawn attention to it by drawing spots all over them. |
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| Lils |
Posted on 30-06-2008 17:01
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It's so refreshing when someone types a few words of wisdom like Longshanks invariably does.  |
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| Golden |
Posted on 30-06-2008 17:22
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People need to remember that it's a local pool league and not something that remotely matters a jot . .
Kyle was playing at the World Championships a couple of years ago . . Played his 1st Round match with a nomal white . . Turned up in the morning to play his 2nd Round match and they'd changed the whites to the spotted once and told them to crack on with no prior warning or practice opportunity . .
. . I can understand people raising concerns as the World Championships is 'slightly' more important than Div 3 in the CDPL but even then I doubt there was more pissing and whinging there as there is in this thread  |
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| ThePower |
Posted on 30-06-2008 17:53
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Just out of interest, I wonder how many leagues, in say, Surrey allow the ball to be used?
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Posted on 30-06-2008 18:08
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I'd be very surprised if it's ever come about elsewhere . . |
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