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We're doomed then. No one ever listens to me!

He can do both. Super mega clown power!

Again, only if you assume that the manufacturers will produce the same rubber in multiple bright variations. Which they may do, but it's also possible that, e.g., all Rasanters will use Green instead of Red and so there will still be only two colours to pick from. It's the same argument about...

Hahahah nah, I never want him to change! More hand switching, more chop blocks, more two-handed backhands, more fruit-based returns. Love it!

Gauzy is trying a bit of everything.

He got well Pucar'd.

End of an era for Japan...

Pucar giving Dimi some issues. ...never mind. The storm has passed.

Good grief. ML looking like a total monster.

Vladi takes 2nd game from ML. Good going, considering his serve is so disgustingly legal.

I have yet to see prices go down after an equipment rule change - can't argue with that! I find it really hard to predict how this proposal will play out. I do wonder if it will only take off with intro-level equipment. And perhaps I'm just hoping that you're wrong about the vendors losing...

Tony is coming from a position of worry, and he fears the absolute worst will happen. I can understand why - he has a business to run - but it's a really pessimistic view of the situation. I agree with you that the vendors will be aware that flooding the market with colour variants will cause...

This is just whataboutary Tony. These are all good points and should be looked at, but the ITTF can do more than one thing at any one time and having colourful topsheets is hardly going to bring other improvements to a grinding halt. It's hardly the biggest priority I would have wanted either...

Another good point. TT rubbers are consumables (although I do see some very worn sheets of T05 go for mad money on ebay sometimes). Resale value on hyper-expensive fashion items are determined by their original, inflated, sense of worth of course, but if you keep your watch wrapped in cotton...

I agree with what you're saying here, but there's an extra wrinkle added to the fabric when you consider that TT is a sport, rather than (just?) a fashion. Obscenely expensive watches are hard (almost impossible) to justify in objective/practical terms, so we are only left with ostentation...

Tony is assuming the worst with this - that manufacturers will produce the same rubber model in multiple different colours. Which may happen, but it may not. They currently have the ability to do this with sponge colour (Xiom could make Vega Pro with sponge colours other than black, for...

Interesting that Pitchford's profile now has him using T05 Hard and D05. If you have faith in the accuracy of this kind of thing: https://www.butterfly.co.jp/players/detail/pitchford-liam.html

Oh. Well, I feel a bit silly now. Many apologies! At least we can all see how overly sensitive I am now.

Some already have. But they don't have to pay for their rubber so their considerations are different to most of us. And that's without considering the difference in playing standard.

Dan's review was excellent. He didn't mention the price at all, which I felt was something of a small red flag actually rather than "he's leaving it up to us to decide", because he's obviously prepared to give his opinion on the rubber in every other way. I wonder if he paid money for the...