Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
Annual audit of player ages at the WC is not looking good, unless you're Chinese. In the 16 seeded players the average age is 39.4 with one player (Brecel) under 30, and in the final 32 of qualifying, there are only 7 players under 28: Xu, Pang, Zhou, Page, Si, Wu and Fan.

Barry 'the Hawk' Hawkins misses out for the first time since 2005.
Ronnie is right. The standard of young players is decreasing drastically. Hardly any characters either. 20 years ago there were so many good players and characters. Even Quinten Hann was a good watch in his own bizarre interesting way. Now we've got boring Mark Selby and co. Over the years I've seen quite a few snooker clubs nearby close down. Could be a problem there.