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[gnasher16 31,308]

3 minutes ago, WILF said:

I think characters have always mattered mate, Julian is a good example, his attitude on a football pitch was absolutely what you looked for when you watched that team Play, Frank McAvenie ?......out on the piss with a load of page 3 birds on Friday night then knocking in a hatrick on a Saturday........we all shook our head but loved it really.

People can relate to it.......big sports shows require showmen, I bet Ronnie coming out with all that doubled the viewing figures.

 

I disagree mate....did you go to watch Dicks and Mcavenie or West Ham ?.....did people go to watch George Best because he was a good time charlie or because he was an unbelievable footballer.....im not sure personality plays any part at all in team sports as far as being attractive to fans go,s....but only my opinion of course.

[Greb147 6,809]

7 minutes ago, gnasher16 said:

Ive wiped the floor with lads at pool yet 4 reds and 4 blacks on a snooker table and im over the moon......very difficult game.

Used to love the snooker halls back in the 80,s....proper dens of iniquity round our way 

That's why I can watch it, knowing how difficult it is makes one appreciate the skills involved. 

And remember they are playing on tables with smaller pockets than a club table. 

A few years ago when working nights regularly I had a spell of a few months playing daily down at my local club.

I noticed that a fella who was always playing on the next table was a break building machine, I was gobsmacked at his ability. 

We got talking to him and found out he was an ex-pro called Barry West, he was in the top 16 at one point in the 90's.

Now he looked unbeatable but you have to think he would look terrible against the worlds best competing today. 

Edited August 11, 2020 by Greb147

[bird 10,014]

24 minutes ago, gnasher16 said:

Ronnie lives near me,been in his company a few times and just cant take to the lad,something just a little unpleasant about him that you cant quite put your finger on....but best player of all time without doubt....im not sure Snooker and Darts have died a death....darts is more popular and gets more tv time than any era in the sports history....the golden era of Snooker was without doubt the 80,s but still seems popular i know the Rileys chain have closed a few halls down recently but still has something like 20 across the country and Tv ratings must be high or it wouldnt be on.... all the olduns i know love the game they,ll sit glued to it for days.

talk the words out me mouth Gnash, he been the best  player that ever picked up a snooker cue , good with either right or left hand .But off the table , he comes over a big headed no body . carnt stand anybody in a sport that there are very good at,  but a ego bigger than there own ability  ,  one of my favorite football players was bully = Steve Bull, very down to earth lad  no ego , from the black country = Tipton  , mind  you  not many out side w-ton  where i was born, can understand him or me  lol  

[Daniel cain 48,332]

2 minutes ago, bird said:

talk the words out me mouth Gnash, he been the best  player that ever picked up a snooker cue , good with either right or left hand .But off the table , he comes over a big headed no body . carnt stand anybody in a sport that there are very good at,  but a ego bigger than there own ability  ,  one of my favorite football players was bully = Steve Bull, very down to earth lad  no ego , from the black country = Tipton  , mind  you  not many out side w-ton  where i was born, can understand him or me  lol  

Putting that shit up your nose can turn most folks in to a right big headed cnut

[gnasher16 31,308]

1 minute ago, Greb147 said:

That's why I can watch it, knowing how difficult it is makes one appreciate the skills involved. 

And remember they are playing on tables with smaller pockets than a club table. 

A few years ago when working nights regularly I had a spell of having a few frames down at my local. I noticed a fella who was always playing on the next table was a break building machine, I was gobsmacked. 

We got talking to him and found out he was an ex-pro called Barry West, he was in the top 16 at one point in the 90's.

Now he looked unbeatable but you have to think he would look terrible against the worlds best competing today. 

A pal of mine owned a few clubs years ago it was right at the time they started putting pool tables in clubs and serving food etc its what kept some clubs going....that and big jackpot fruit machines !.....but the issue with most clubs was atmosphere they was always associated with drug dealers and the dodgy deal....my pal being a straight up kind of chap  was one of the first to do away with them nasty great big shades above the tables that added to the mysterious atmosphere and introduced modern lighting,modern decor etc........a lot of people still prefer the old style snooker room with 20 mucky tables with busted cushions tucked away through a door next to the bar but to bring in new punters clubs have had to modernise not just the tables/cloths but the whole premises.....the tobacco legislation knocked a few clubs back but i think its an industry thats doing ok all things considered.

[Greb147 6,809]

8 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

Putting that shit up your nose can turn most folks in to a right big headed cnut

Jimmy White's forehead shrunk with that toupee and he was a raging  bag head. 

Edited August 11, 2020 by Greb147

[Greb147 6,809]

Just now, gnasher16 said:

A pal of mine owned a few clubs years ago it was right at the time they started putting pool tables in clubs and serving food etc its what kept some clubs going....that and big jackpot fruit machines !.....but the issue with most clubs was atmosphere they was always associated with drug dealers and the dodgy deal....my pal being a straight up kind of chap  was one of the first to do away with them nasty great big shades above the tables that added to the mysterious atmosphere and introduced modern lighting,modern decor etc........a lot of people still prefer the old style snooker room with 20 mucky tables with busted cushions tucked away through a door next to the bar but to bring in new punters clubs have had to modernise not just the tables/cloths but the whole premises.....the tobacco legislation knocked a few clubs back but i think its an industry thats doing ok all things considered.

I love clubs like that tbh, that's why I still have a soft spot for  BDO darts. 

There's something about playing snooker or darts in a smoky, vintage decor club.

[Rickshaw swami 4,321]

My earliest memories was going to pool hall with my father.These type are now extinct in Dixie.There was always lessons to be learned.Some made a living hustling pool.There was an old man who sat in the corner with his hat sideways and pretended to be senile until he found a sucker and then he would take their  money.This left an impression on me as a child.I learned more life lessons in a dirty poolroom full of rednecks than I ever did in school

[Greb147 6,809]

1 minute ago, Rickshaw swami said:

My earliest memories was going to pool hall with my father.These type are now extinct in Dixie.There was always lessons to be learned.Some made a living hustling pool.There was an old man who sat in the corner with his hat sideways and pretended to be senile until he found a sucker and then he would take their  money.This left an impression on me as a child.I learned more life lessons in a dirty poolroom full of rednecks than I ever did in school

I once lost a good friend playing 9-ball, the pockets are that big he fell down one never to be seen again.

[gnasher16 31,308]

13 minutes ago, bird said:

talk the words out me mouth Gnash, he been the best  player that ever picked up a snooker cue , good with either right or left hand .But off the table , he comes over a big headed no body . carnt stand anybody in a sport that there are very good at,  but a ego bigger than there own ability  ,  one of my favorite football players was bully = Steve Bull, very down to earth lad  no ego , from the black country = Tipton  , mind  you  not many out side w-ton  where i was born, can understand him or me  lol  

Its one thing coming across arrogant but he just comes across like a spoiled child who looks down his nose at people,other players included i know he,s not particularly well liked amongst his competitors.

Steve Bull... i saw him at a Wolves game once he was getting stuck into the singing/banter with everyone else he came across as a good lad.

[gnasher16 31,308]

6 minutes ago, Rickshaw swami said:

My earliest memories was going to pool hall with my father.These type are now extinct in Dixie.There was always lessons to be learned.Some made a living hustling pool.There was an old man who sat in the corner with his hat sideways and pretended to be senile until he found a sucker and then he would take their  money.This left an impression on me as a child.I learned more life lessons in a dirty poolroom full of rednecks than I ever did in school

Brilliant same here.....we had a lad round our way that was a brilliant player,very rarely lost to other club players he beat Steve Davis in an exhibition at a club called Haydens in Walthamstow i remember it like yesterday.....we used to take him out to different clubs doing the old hustler trick we would come home with what seemed like bundles at the time....South of the river the clubs were full of Chinese mini cab drivers doing nights,they never took it too well and we knocked it on the head when they started putting meat cleavers in their cue box 

[shaaark 11,342]

2 hours ago, maxhardcore said:

Rashmin or who ever the fook it was did Lennox 

Fury still unbeaten

Hasim rahman you mean. And oliver mcall. But then lewis did what a champion does, and beat both of them in the rematches.

Fury still unbeaten because he's fought no-one with any proper world class ability. And he's almost lost a few times to complete outsiders that weren't even proper heavyweights lol, cunningham for example, cruiserweight really, 15 stone, fury 18 1/2 stone. Or even wilder 1st fight 15 stone 2lb, fury 18 1/2 stone lol. 2nd fight wilder 16 1/2 stone fury 19 1/2 stone. Doesn't sound like a world class heavyweight to me, let alone the 'best ever' lol

With the weight advantage he has over everyone he's fought, he should be actively engaging and fighting them, not prancing about away from them trying look as though he's 'untouchable' lol

And just to go one further, if you really think that 2nd fight with wilder showed off fury's 'technical, superior boxing skills, ring iq, and superior footwork' then I give up! He did what he should've done in the 1st fight, against a guy he outweighed by 3 stone. But he wasn't exactly an accurate  sharpshooting puncher with great skills and footwork. It was messy, ragged, he was punching wilder to the back of the head, his arms, was hitting wilder to the side of his head with the inside of the gloves, was leaning on him, holding him, even falling over him, what with his ring iq and masterful footwork! Lol

Wilder, the great 'untested' protected, can't box properly champion, beaten by fury, who now, because of that win, is rated no 1 lol, the mind boggles

Edited August 11, 2020 by shaaark

[Blackmag 6,353]

1 hour ago, maxhardcore said:

FAO BM

Rumors Sartori wants full control of Safc.

Sartori a Billionaire in his own right ' his wife runs AS Monaco FC with her Father a Russian Multi Billionaire .

By a nice touch if he gets full control and brings his family on board down the line as they after selling Monaco .

The Safc Riviera from Roker to Whitburn might just sway it ha ha ha

it's just rumours  max and max he doesn't want total control it's says he looking for investors 

[gnasher16 31,308]

12 minutes ago, maxhardcore said:

Your changing nothing on here Wilfy get out there into them parks and tell them lads what you think of them ' it obviously don't bother you that much

You know its funny you saying that because when i was young i belonged to a not particularly pleasant group of lads who were doing exactly that ( getting out telling them what we thought of them,sometimes with violence unfortunately )......not because it was the right thing to do but because its all we knew,but people like you called us Nazis and knuckle dragging scumbags.......yet now all these years later we are not acting like knuckle dragging scumbags those same people like you are telling us we should be !!!!

Edited August 11, 2020 by gnasher16

[South hams hunter 8,986]

2 minutes ago, gnasher16 said:

You know its funny you saying that because when i was young i belonged to a not particularly pleasant group of lads who were doing exactly that ( getting out telling them what we thought of them,sometimes with violence unfortunately )......not because it was the right thing to do but because its all we knew,but people like you called us Nazis and knuckle dragging scumbags.......yet now all these years later we are not acting like knuckle dragging scumbags those same people like you are telling us we should be !!!!

Exactly right gnash, they didn't see the issue and now are shit scared of it but too cowardly to do anything about it