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    I only just found out that Ronnie has been wearing a mic the whole tournament for an upcoming Netflix documentary.

    Not sure how I feel about that.

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    I don't see why Ronnie couldn't get to eight or nine of these, and keep winning well into his fifties.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    I only just found out that Ronnie has been wearing a mic the whole tournament for an upcoming Netflix documentary.

    Not sure how I feel about that.
    Don't worry. The way Netflix edits will make it look as if he's winning the World Championship in Swindon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I don't see why Ronnie couldn't get to eight or nine of these, and keep winning well into his fifties.
    I think he will now - his cue ball positioning somehow keeps getting better. I'll go for 10 before he retires.

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    I’m sure it was Steve Davis that said it’s the eyes that go and that’s what gets you in the end.
    Ronnie seems to be in good shape and hasn’t had one of his meltdowns lately. I see no reason why he hasn’t got another one in him.

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    Did he try wearing glasses?

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    At 46, Ronnie's eyesight should have gone by now if it was going to be a problem. I'm guessing they just get laser surgery these days.

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    Just tuned in to see Trump on the comeback trail, so he instantly played a catastrophic frame ending shot. Time to zone out and hope for a competitive evening session.

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    Very much game on after that. Huge opening frame tonight.

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    So what was the score that session then, 5-2 to Trump or something? Fair play to him either way.

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    6-1.

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    6-2

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    Hell of a showing then. Doing that twice in a row will be hard but who knows?

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    Looking pretty finished now.

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    How does ticketing for this work, do people buy a ticket for only the evening session of the final? Lol if so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Looking pretty finished now.
    Always a chance if your opponent needs two, but if O'Sullivan wins one of these before the interval it's over.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    How does ticketing for this work, do people buy a ticket for only the evening session of the final? Lol if so.
    Think you get both sessions for the final, but they wheel out the old cunts if it finishes early for some exhibition shit.

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    I jinxed it. You're all welcome.

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    If he wins the next one he's got a chance

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    Alright Ronnie, let him go ffs.

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    That hug was atleast 3 hours too long.

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    Trump looked so awkward.

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    I already thought O'Sullivan was a knobhead and I didn't even know his son is called Ronnie Jr.

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    Just spotted this on telly earlier this evening (presumably on because of the snooker being on) that did some big calculation over 50 or so years and had John Higgins as the best player ever. Though I suppose you could come up with a formula to prove anything.

    https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0...r-of-all-time/

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    I like the true respect it shows for Marco Fu.

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    Oh my.


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    Add him to the nonce thread.

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    Especially after that video of him invading Yan Bingtao’s house.

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    Because I wasn't ready for it all to be over so soon I've been watching a bit of the Seniors. In isolation these are clearly some excellent players but after watching the Worlds for the last few weeks every player looks so shit in comparison I'd fancy my chances. It's not helped that some of the seniors are younger than 3/4 of the final four of the big competition either.

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    Maybe snooker goes the way of wrestling and the older guys have longer careers now? Like, you don't hear them having coke and drink binges like they did in the 80s.

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    Really looking forward to this Netflix doc. If they get some archive footage and Last Dance it it could be immense.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/63316258

    I wish he'd just retire and then go and live as a hermit somewhere. He's such a colossal bore.

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    He needs a nemesis to motivate him.

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    Does he not have enough money made by now to jack it in if he's that unhappy?

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    He's fine. He just gets asked questions after every single match he plays and he's bored shitless of that as he's been doing it for nearly 30 years.

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    Just watched quarter of an hour of Milkins Higgins and it might genuinely be the worst bit of professional sport I've seen all year.

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    Judd Trump calling his opponent shit after losing the other night was far worse than anything Ronnie's been up to.

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    They are just underdeveloped weirdos from spending 8 hours a day in dark rooms playing snooker from childhood, it would make anyone deranged

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    Please don't fling such labels at a character like Ronnie. Man's got more personality in his foreskin than all of you combined.

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    Sure, but that combination of charisma, narcissism and talking bollocks is a big case of diminishing returns for me, even from people who are really good at sport. It's why I think you have to be a proper retard to still be going what a legend when "Zlatan" calls some other player a pussy or something.

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    The mistake is with anyone paying much attention to this stuff rather than the people themselves. His comments seem fine and basically what we'd all say if we were forced into analysing our 9-5 every week.

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    I've turned into an unashamed Ronnie fan as I've got older. There's only ever going to be one of him, enjoy him while you still can, before snooker turns into David Bland vs Graham Dull forever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I've turned into an unashamed Ronnie fan as I've got older. There's only ever going to be one of him, enjoy him while you still can, before snooker turns into David Bland vs Graham Dull forever.
    O’Sullivan is blander and duller (off the table as that seems to matter) than anyone these days with the constant playing of the same old lament.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Judd Trump calling his opponent shit after losing the other night was far worse than anything Ronnie's been up to.
    He just insults opponents less directly and if he's having a proper pout slags off an entire generation of players for having the temerity to not also be the best ever.

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    Young Thai woman hit a 147 few weeks ago. Perhaps the first women's 147 ever? At least one caught on camera.


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    Jimmy White (ranked 89, aged 60) has made the UK Championship main rounds.

    Maybe Ronnie has a point about the dozens of pros who he says are crap at snooker.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Jimmy White (ranked 89, aged 60) has made the UK Championship main rounds.

    Maybe Ronnie has a point about the dozens of pros who he says are crap at snooker.
    I addressed it at the time and he was bang on. The two up and coming youngsters Steve Davis put forward as a counter were neither young nor good and have done the square root of fuck all since.

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    Matthew Stevens been very frustrating, Jimmy White told Radzi he "has a miss in him", and it's played out exactly like that.

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    Ding

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    6-0

    I'm really not sure how Ding has managed to fall to number 38, such a good player at his best.

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