# Talk:1976 World Snooker Championship

The results appear to be incomplete. Willie Thorne and Jackie Rea win their matches in the second qualifying round yet don't appear in the tournament proper.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcclh (talk • contribs) 20:25, 1 May 2011 (UTC) 

Well nice catch. It's either, that there was a third qualifying round (for which the results are missing) or they had to withdraw for the tournament for some reason. According to Snooker Scene, the last 16 was the first round. Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 20:50, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
There was a third qualifying round according to the records I have:
David Taylor beat Jack Rea 8-7 and Jim Meadowcroft beat Willie Thorne 8-5  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.29.8.15 (talk) 23:48, 1 May 2013 (UTC) 

Source? Armbrust The Homunculus 17:54, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello I was disallowed from editing in this talk section for until 24th May for reasons I'm not yet sure of - did I breach any copyright in some way? - so it's only now that I'm able to reply. I've as yet been unable to ascertain my source for the above because I have held much of this information for so long that the origin of a few earliest items are lost in the mists of time. I did ascertain that the qualifying competition for the 1976 World Championship took place at the end of March and start of April that year,and the championship itself ran from 13th to 23rd April,with the final taking up the last 4 days of that (source: The Times). The 2 results do appear in the 1982 Guinness Book of Snooker and in the 1990 Rothmans annual but are not in the 1991 Rothmans annual (the last of the series to be published)! At the moment the only ways I can think of checking it out are it's possible that one of the national newspapers (probably broadsheet most likely) from the time may have carried it,and it may be in the back issue for the respective edition of Snooker Scene magazine which can probably be ordered.
Although I posted the qualifiers from up to and including 2004 I do also have the ones for all the years since as well as well as full results of all major tournaments.
I hadn't had any specific plans to put anything up online unless asked but my posting of all these qualifying rounds results on these pages was that I was exactly intended as a FYI move for anyone who wanted to know anything about this because I wasn't aware of the information being available anywhere on the Web,although it is obtainable in the Cuesport Book of Snooker from 2004. I have since found it online on a site called CueTracker![Ralph]  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.29.8.247 (talk) 23:43, 24 May 2013 (UTC)