Can somebody please shoot those effing seas gulls?

And while you’re at it, melt down those effing distant church bells and turn them into manhole covers.

There was a sharp frost in North Wales yesterday morning.

Shane Castle beat Jordan Winbourne in a one-frame play-of to take top seeding into the last-32.

Three rounds of the knockout were played. There was quarter-final carnage but Adam Bobat is the last man standing.

It is hoped that a certain World Snooker coach in Andover will recover from the conflicting text messages, phone calls and e-mails as the day’s drama unfolded.

Who could forget two years ago that in-off final black by Rob Jones against Shane Castle on table 13 down in the dungeon.

Could the downstairs tables produce such drama this year?

Full report and all the results in Saturday’s Echo.

Alas, there is one sad piece of news. With Billy Castle failing to escape the group of death, Derek Castle was yet again forced to send his apologies and the reconvened AGM of Snooker Dads Anonymous had to be adjourned until...well, who knows.