I was thinking for a second about trying to keep 10,000 people quiet but they do that in tennis quite easily. Holding it in the current venues might also give it a false perspective. They're holding more events these days but can they keep larger venues full? At least then, you'd have an idea of where the popularity of the sport is at.
Yes I agree with all of that, good post. I do quite like the heritage of the crucible, but it's not like it's been THERE for ever, either. I wouldn't be against doing that qualies there maybe? Or just the senior championships?Originally Posted by Yevrah
I've never been to the snooker, but isn't there a bit of a technical/logistical issue with being there to watch it if there are 10000 other people and you're fifty rows back? Are we advocating for opera glasses here? I mean, don't the largest indoor arenas usually only hold about 10000 people?
You don't want the audience trained on screens, really. Having them wired into the commentary is good but then they'll just solely react to John Virgo saying, "Oh, he's played that well."
I fucking hate the audience giggling to virgos shit jokes. I do bang on about it a lot, but I find the Eurosport coverage a lot less annoying. I think a lot find Joe Johnson a bit crap, but I really like him. Foulds is great, too.
I suppose the question is how big should the venue be? If you can wrangle a few thousand seats into there with everyone still having a decent view then grand. You'd have to accept that it'd be amazing to have it packed out for Ronnie and co, but there'll be a fair few on-camera empty seats for Gary Wilson v Robert Milkins.
I do feel like snooker is a bit like golf (and controversial one, but cricket too) in that it's infinitely harder to know what the fuck is going on when you watch it live, and that'll be exponentially worse with bigger venues.
I went to the UKs in York in 2019, and aside from the unbridled joy at seeing Marco Fu in the flesh, it was basically a waste of time in our seats.
To be honest, the more I think about it, the more I'm coming back round to sticking with the crucible. Dunno lol
The thing is it's a parlour game that has inexplicably turned into a spectator sport, and like all capitalists Barry Hearn's job is to EXPAND but I'm not sure it actually works.
Same for darts, but, like the cricket, that's more about getting battered.
Si back at it again
Ronnie absolutely spanking some jobber at the moment.
He looks like he’s about to cry
Errrrrrr...
Even if that is a thing they do because his son has ears like taxi doors it's still deeply peculiar behaviour to do it in public. Looks deeply sus.
Saw that earlier. No idea what the fuss is about. A dad bites his young son's ear. What is suspicious or dodgy about that?
You’ve been Vietnam too long.
This Si/Jones match has been hilarious. Literally every frame going down to the final ball. Both players look like a mess.
Casual racism, nice.
No, he's implying you're a nonce.
Yeah, that is proper nonce behaviour.
Weirdos, the lot of you.
You've been in Vietnam too long.
If the kid was an infant I could sort of understand it but that boy’s a young man and there he is, on tv, casually watching the don that is Stephen Hendré drop truth bombs while his Dad leans in and nibbles his ear.
It’s suspect behaviour of the highest order. That he doesn’t even flinch suggests his Dad does it all the time and if he’s happy to do that in public what the fuck is he up to with him at home?
Ronnie very sloppy but I think Ryan Day might be a bit too shit to fully take advantage
Yeah, Ronnie not in good nick, probably playing as badly as he did against Brecel last year.
The standard is shite, idk why they always try make out it’s so much harder to win these days
Watch some of the old stuff and you'll see why. The standard is a million times better among everyone bar the very best.
And despite labouring all night he's suddenly notched up a gear, is 10-4 ahead and the match is, over.
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Cursed that as he lost the last two frames. 10-6.
Why are the Chinese so useless? 13 of them in the last 48, only one made the last 16 and he lost there.
To clarify, you think that this:
Is normal behaviour?
Someone change his name to Gary Arne Glitter immediately.
Ronnie through and given the complete no marks he's come up against impossible to tell whether he's in the right nick to win this.
Trump smacks him silly in the semis.
He's got to defeat the entire population of Wales one by one before he gets to play against Trump. Next up: the comedian, Mark Watson.
Bristol is basically Wales anyway with that dodgy accent
Dyk that he actually put on a pretend Welsh accent at the start of his career because it made him less nervous performing? What a lunatic.
This Allen - Higgins game is good.
This has been a great pair of games, some shot by Higgins just then.
The double to start off and then that last red. Fucking hell. Class.
Shame that game was so early in the tournament.
What a ridiculous break from Higgins. The balls on that double and then the last red
That was mustard.
May have jinxed Trump slightly. He started off well with a century and 60 break as well
11/4 for Jak Jones is great odds. Trump looks off it and is getting dragged into long safety battles every other frame
Trump and Jones are both playing absolute dogshit here.
Trump’s cue ball control has been dreadful majority of the tournament
Only way Jack Jones doesn’t win is if his bottle drops as Trump looks absolutely horrendous. The former should really have already won this if he didn’t throw away multiple frames
Speaking of, the state of that yellow he's just missed.
Both of them.
He’s been fucking dreadful.
I've just discovered you can enlarge the BBC website's picture in picture player. Brilliant.
Assuming Jones clears up here, I don't see anyone left that could stop Ronnie even in not the best of form. As long as he gets through Bingham he should have it.
Ronnie plays at 80%+ of what he can and it's his, maybe 85% for Kyren if I'm being charitable to the latter.
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