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What a bloke
Fair play to him, as soon as he got a proper opening he played some really good stuff again. It's always nice to see a new winner of these things as well.
What's the deal with Selby's wife?
Sounds like she's had some bad news health wise.
that was fucking quality
If that's his Missus he's doing great off the table too.
She looks absolute filth. Coke fuck binge on the cards for him tonight.
You just know these guys get up to all sorts with that trophy the night of winning it. I bet it’d look radioactive under a black light.
I don't like to see happy Belgians, but it's hard to not enjoy that. Got to love an underdog. Even if it is a Faux-French one
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Originally Posted by 7om
The snooker thread will have to do for this. And sorry about a TikTok link. But fucking hell.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJCGEtJY/
Your man sitting down does appear to look and gesture slightly in the direction the bottle comes from.
Apparently the player sat down was being heckled throughout and this was one of his guys getting some payback. Now the pot has been held up and there’s chaos.
The biggest disgrace in that video is the fact you can play a ball along the cushion like that and sink it.
Some form he’s in.
Is the UK Championship not on any BBC channel in the evenings?
Seems like it's only iPlayer. Pretty poor form that they can't punt Top Gear re-runs off BBC Three at least. Also it's quite bizarre that they don't deem it worthy of any channel in the evenings when it's in its usual BBC Two slot on an afternoon.
Doris has gone to bed by 7pm.
Snooker really is the perfect background TV.
Feels like continually getting into winning positions to then almost, or perhaps here actually bin them off is all a bit contrived to suit the "I don't care me" narrative Ronnie is always bleating on about.
He's such a fucking bore. Just retire and stop complaining then.
The documentary on Amazon about him is worth a watch. It gets tedious as fuck hearing him saying this every few months but after the doc I have a new understanding of why he's like that.
That's just who he is and anyone who likes snooker and wants him gone needs to give their head a wobble.
EDIT: Exactly that DS.
I'm very pro-Ronnie. Find him completely compelling at all times. After he's gone it'll die off.
Yeah there's nobody left in the game that generates the clicks he does. Game has been dying on its arse for a while. The doc is genuinely one of the best sports based ones I've seen and a real insight into the mental struggles a player has during a match
If you watch any of Hendrys youtube channel, the amount of pros he has on who say "I grew up playing in X club, but it's gone now, so I just have my own table" is quite sad.
The rona killed the last dedicated snooker club we had in this town, with the only thing around now being a guy who took over a Rileys as they were about to tear it down.
We have one still local but its just full of 60+ year old men drinking two bitters all day and knocking some balls about. Massively depressing.
It's possible to both like watching him and then roll your eyes out the back of your head every time the cunt opens his mouth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
I'm not saying all sportsmen have to pretend they love their jobs because of PASHUN (I actually respect when they admit it's just a job) or that money immediately rids you of mental health issues but being very successful does give you more options for how to try and be happy and not just slag off folk who aren't as good as you. By all means talk about your issues but stop bleating about how hard done-by you are. I am very much one of the mid-tier (at best) snooker fans in here though so that possibly explains why I find him less fascinating.
But yeah he is basically the only big draw now I imagine.
We've discussed it in here before so I won't waffle further but if I'd had an affordable pool/snooker place even when I was young I'd have been there all the time. And would be now but, again, it's extortionate.
To be clear on the above: I don't think snooker would be better without him, but it wouldn't lose anything if he'd stop whining either.
Get what you mean.
I'm a big fan of him, but it just feels like the "dunno how I won that I was playing SHIT" act is a bit of, well, an act, which is now being supplemented by managing the games to look that way. I obviously know that's not the case, but there is the feel that that is what is happening.
Might give the documentary a look.
I am possibly a bar barometer those on top of my passing snooker fandom because I generally find a lot of people in a given sport who are "outspoken" and get the "he's calling it like he sees it!!!!" responses, even in sports I like, to just be cunts.
Judd :cool:
Yeah he's just like IBRA in that they are both genuinely astounding sportsmen, massively box office, very charismatic, but ultimately prats with very annoying fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
Whatever one's opinion of him, it's pretty funny that at 47 he can just piss his way into major finals while apparently trying to lose half the games.
Some top quotes after the semi as well.
Good final this
He's just different gravy.
Outrageous.
Those last three frames were incredible, Ding was bang in form.
Thirty years since he first won the UK championship and he wins it again. Incredible.
The youngest winner and the oldest winner of the tournament.
My favourite Ronnie fact is that in the 1992 Grand Prix qualifying rounds, at the age of 17, he played against (and beat 5-1) Fred Davis, who was 79 at the time and had competed in the 1937 World Championship.
Three favourite Ronnie moments for me, excluding the obvious.
One is this 92 clearance, which is the single best break in snooker I've ever seen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLk71tnNxOU
His absolute destruction of Ding in the 2007 Masters final. Think he lost the first 2 frames and won 10-3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcas2TZXLH4
And then this, which I think has to rank up there with one of the most incredible finishes in any sport, when he took the last three frames against Selby to win 17-16 in the Covid World Championship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbVahZgpmeU
It was impressive enough when I thought he'd lost his cool when doing the hitting and hoping stuff, but when I stumbled across an interview he'd done on Stephen Hendry's Youtube channel a few months prior where he said he'd never lose to Selby by being ground down by him again and I realised it was all intentional, it took it to a whole new level.
I rewatch that 92 break every so often. Its probably the best moment I've seen on a snooker table. Incredible.
Likewise, I couldn't resist watching it again then when posting it either. Willie Thorne (RIP) going spastic over him continually taking the lower valued colours just makes it all the more beautiful.
“He’ll do well to get 20 here”
The sport is finished when he is.
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
"What's he going to do now?"
I put on the Mosconi cup, first time I've watched it in maybe 10 years. Team Europe chap has just sunk a ball into the heart of the pocket, it's hit the bottom of the pocket, bounced back up and out onto the table. Could never do it again if he tried.
Any time an extension is called many members of the crowd are scream-clucking the word EXTENSION as loud as they can and we've just had a hearty rendition of Sweet Caroline between frames. This is not the Mosconi cup I remember.
Class 147 from Ding there.
Quite an unusual one, I can't remember seeing many maxes that featured a two-ball plant midway through, and also can't remember one against O'Sullivan. I'm sure it might have happened at some point but I can't remember one.
It also struck me while watching it in the form of a heavily edited 4:40 clip that we will never see the likes of Ronnie's famous five minute one again, not necessarily because no one is capable of it (I'm sure some would be) but because the referees don't go fast enough. The ref in the famous ROS one is racing around like a man possessed.