Anyone of the middle aged lads watching? I tune in once a year for the worlds and its getting interesting. Who is gonna win?
Snooker
Ronny’s interview last night or so where he was saying him and the other old guard players are still in it and competitive 20 years later because the new players are all rubbish was fucking hilarious.
Check out Ronnie’s rather frank interview lol
Sounded like a wind-up to me
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Had the Snooker on as background noise last night. Ken Doherty waxing lyrical about O’Sullivan being “a great ambassador for the sport” yada yada yada
Cut to Ronnie’s post-match interview, I’m paraphrasing, but essentially it’s a car crash:
- He can’t really be arsed with Snooker, most of the time he’s ‘just slapping the balls around’.
- He’d rather be playing in Crawley, which although shit, on balance isn’t as shit as constantly getting harangued by
sad bastardsfans on his way in and out of the Crucible Theater. - He’s not surprised he’s still playing at the top level, most recent players are shite.
- He’d probably have to lose ‘an arm and a leg’ to fall out of the top 15
Cut back to the studio where Doherty now has to square his previous comments with his disgust at the interview.
Clearly flustered, he finally lands on “he’s a great ambassador when he’s on the table, but his off-the-table comments shouldn’t be taking seriously as he’s probably joking anyway”.
O’Sullivan is a fucking prick and always has been. I’d love it if Williams beat him and I hate that cunt too.
Always been more of a Hendry fan over the years, and consequently not so much of a Ronnie fan, but I’ve warmed to him a lot in recent years
He’s the only player worth watching at the moment. I sat through the Clarke - McGill match last night til gone midnight. Absolute scandalous quality for the last 16 of the world championship. Neither player got higher than a 78 in 25 frames. Snooker is dead if that is an indicator of the future.
Think Ronnie is spot on about the new breed also. They’re not good enough. Some of the lower ranked guys I’ve watched over the years have been woeful. Surprised they can eke out a living doing it
Along_the_Wire Williams was superb earlier
gcw Ronnie can fuck off - if you’re too good for the game, either shut up or get out of it, you arrogant cunt. He’s been wanking on about how boring it is for half my fucking life - get to fuck.
I’d like Selby to win
Saw Hendry and O’Sullivan play up close a couple of times when we got good seats at the Scottish Open. Absolute voodoo shit some of the shots they were knocking out. Had a few beers with John Higgins and Hendry back in the day too.
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He didn’t say he is too good for the game. He responded to a question about why he thinks him, Williams and Higgins are still at the top 25 years on.
A lot of other things he says do annoy though. He hasn’t threatened retirement for a while has he, that was an annual claim a few years back.
gcw I’m not talking about this interview, I’m talking about the last 20-odd years
C_J Hendry used to practice at the snooker club where I lived in Broxburn when he was a kid. It used to annoy my dad, as he got booted off a table now and again when he came in and it was full.
alistair Same, I like him. One of my favourite bets ever was backing him in the final when he was dead at buried at 9/1 - he’d just started showing some form.