Does he have a point?

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I don't think the sport needs buttering up like that. When you take in to  account it's popularity in China, the game isn't ready for going extinct for a good while yet. 

Edited December 19, 2020 by Greb147

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8 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

Some of the nick names are cringe worthy.

"The Jester From Leicester " has to be the most inappropriate name for Selby.

Maybe "Sour Faced Selby" would be more like it !

Cheers.

Lol yes, as far as snooker is concerned. But on the pool circuit he was a bit of a card lol. 

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11 minutes ago, Greb147 said:

I don't think the sport needs buttering up like that. When you take in to  account it's popularity in China, the game isn't ready for going extinct for a good while yet. 

Never mind snooker, have you seen the intensity of concentration on those chinese table tennis players?!

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The gulf between amateur players and the pros is really huge in snooker. I haven't played for years  but when I was at my best I thought I was the bees knees iif I was getting thirty breaks. I've never got over 30 odd. Are there any other sports where when amateurs play its like a different game to the professionals? I  cant think of one.

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4 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Lol yes, as far as snooker is concerned. But on the pool circuit he was a bit of a card lol. 

Strangely enough,  away from the table , "Interesting" Steve Davis is quite funny !

Cheers.

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2 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Lol yes, as far as snooker is concerned. But on the pool circuit he was a bit of a card lol. 

I went to see the late Alex Higgins play in an exhibition. He was a pain in the arse. Insisted on treating  the night as a training session and wouldn't engage with the crowd

one iota. He moaned about the table, moaned about the grub and wouldn't sign autographs. As somebody said a "flawed genius."

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5 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

Strangely enough,  away from the table , "Interesting" Steve Davis is quite funny !

Cheers.

Yes, he is lol. He's a funny guy

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11 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

The gulf between amateur players and the pros is really huge in snooker. I haven't played for years  but when I was at my best I thought I was the bees knees iif I was getting thirty breaks. I've never got over 30 odd. Are there any other sports where when amateurs play its like a different game to the professionals? I  cant think of one.

O'Sullivan caused a bit of a stir not long back when he said he wouldn't do qualifying rounds against "mugs", and that included players in the 128-64 bracket, and a few in the 64-32 bracket !

He suggested a new snooker association with only the top 16 playing.

Who knows ? It worked when the top 16 left the BDO to form what is now the PDC in darts.

The standards improved and the prize money exploded ! So he may have had a point.

Cheers.

Edited December 19, 2020 by chartpolski

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9 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

The gulf between amateur players and the pros is really huge in snooker. I haven't played for years  but when I was at my best I thought I was the bees knees iif I was getting thirty breaks. I've never got over 30 odd. Are there any other sports where when amateurs play its like a different game to the professionals? I  cant think of one.

Pool. To me, it's nothing like snooker, apart from the obvious. I'm a pretty good pool player, but I have never, and I mean NEVER beaten my brother at pool. He used to run the welsh pool league, and has played world champions in pool, and a few top snooker players in their day, tony meo being one of them, just off the top of my head.

We used to go to rob mckenna's, ex pool world champion, for maybe half a day at a time, about 6 or 7 of us, to play fairly regularly. Playing some of those type players is practically pointless, if you expect to win even one game lol.

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23 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

I went to see the late Alex Higgins play in an exhibition. He was a pain in the arse. Insisted on treating  the night as a training session and wouldn't engage with the crowd

one iota. He moaned about the table, moaned about the grub and wouldn't sign autographs. As somebody said a "flawed genius."

Maybe he'd had a few drinks before the exhibition?

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11 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Pool. To me, it's nothing like snooker, apart from the obvious. I'm a pretty good pool player, but I have never, and I mean NEVER beaten my brother at pool. He used to run the welsh pool league, and has played world champions in pool, and a few top snooker players in their day, tony meo being one of them, just off the top of my head.

We used to go to rob mckenna's, ex pool world champion, for maybe half a day at a time, about 6 or 7 of us, to play fairly regularly. Playing some of those type players is practically pointless, if you expect to win even one game lol.

I feel really sorry for you. I would have a major breakdown if one of my brothers was so superior  to me at any sport. We often drew blood when we were kids even playing table football.

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4 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Maybe he'd had a few drinks before the exhibition?

it didn't affect him in a nice way that's for sure. An old school pal of mine gave him a blackeye when  he turned up at the snooker club he owned. He lived above the club and Alex turned up in the early hours the morning pissed up and demanding to be let in so he could practice. You may remember Alex appeared at the world championships the next day with a cracker of a blackeye.

 

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22 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

I feel really sorry for you. I would have a major breakdown if one of my brothers was so superior  to me at any sport. We often drew blood when we were kids even playing table football.

It was only pool he could beat me at lol. After about the age of 7, me, 10, him, he wouldn't risk a confrontation .

Thinking back, about that age was the last time we even had a fairly heated argument

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22 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

it didn't affect him in a nice way that's for sure. An old school pal of mine gave him a blackeye when  he turned up at the snooker club he owned. He lived above the club and Alex turned up in the early hours the morning pissed up and demanding to be let in so he could practice. You may remember Alex appeared at the world championships the next day with a cracker of a blackeye.

 

Lol no, I don't, ........ aah yeah, I do actually, now you mention it! Lol

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20 hours ago, shaaark said:

Pool. To me, it's nothing like snooker, apart from the obvious. I'm a pretty good pool player, but I have never, and I mean NEVER beaten my brother at pool. He used to run the welsh pool league, and has played world champions in pool, and a few top snooker players in their day, tony meo being one of them, just off the top of my head.

We used to go to rob mckenna's, ex pool world champion, for maybe half a day at a time, about 6 or 7 of us, to play fairly regularly. Playing some of those type players is practically pointless, if you expect to win even one game lol.

In July I had ten hours of tuition with German pool player Ralph Eckert in Berlin. We did it over three afternoons in the Bata Bar, a very hip type pool hall set in an old warehousing industrial area of the city.

So on the Friday evening when we’d finished I asked him if we could have a little match. After three afternoons of intensive drills, exercises & slight adjustment to my form my cue action was quite polished & he offered me a second chance on each miss as his handicap, so I felt quite confident. Of course I was too proud to take all the chances, but I took a few
 

....30 minutes later it’s 5-0 to him & I thought I played quite well!