Imagine trying to promote your regime through the medium of snooker. The hearts and minds of British pensioners are at stake.World Snooker announces a new event in Saudi Arabia in March “with an innovative new concept, a 23rd ball known as the Riyadh Season ball. This gold ball will be worth 20 points”
Who is getting the first 167 then?
You just wouldn't, would you? Which is why they're not.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
They're literally naming a golden snooker ball after a state-sponsored cultural expo.
Well they needed to give the terrible idea a name.
As long as it stays confined to their shores then so fuck. It'll never get any eyeballs over here but might finance snooker's survival post-Ronnie.
Where is the golden ball going to live?
Maybe one ball per frame should be designated the embassy ball, could even do a bit of tobacco sponsorship, and if you pot that one it doesn't come out of the pocket and you lose the frame and/or your life.
It seems that it only appears in the event of somebody completing a 147 break. If you're going to have a 20 point golden ball, at least have it coming out as a deciding ball any time the frame is closer than 20 points. These guys are rubbish.
Got Ronnie on in the background and after this tournament he could do with putting his cue down and not picking it up again until a week before the World Championships.
This golden ball idea sounds like the impetus snooker needs and I'm going to become a die hard snooker fan with immediate effect.
I want the quiet hush interrupted by sirens, air horns and lazer lighting to announce the golden ball is now in play.
Put a timer on the ball and if its not potted within 30 seconds they're beheaded live on the telly. Would finally rid the world of Ebdon.
If it's anything like the first few WWE Saudi PPVs the silence will be respected but only because everybody there will be bored businessmen playing on their phones.
It'll be interesting to see if Ronnie says the place is filthy and smells this time.
My guess is he'll be overjoyed to be out there.
The Saudis are absolute heathens.
Outside of horse racing, I have a hard time believing Saudis like any sport.
Are there any sports involving birds of prey? They quite like those don't they?
Which I suppose is sort of apt seeing as the guy in charge of all the sportswashing is called turkey.
Once you get past the shock value of the Saudis owning all of sport, I'm not sure what comes next. I mean, what are they going to do with it?
Keep it until it's no longer useful to them then bin it off.
None of it is useful to them, their football league is on the "well supported and long standing" road to ruin already and everything else they have is either owned by the Hearns or historically corrupt as hell.
And OPEC is also losing it's grip on the world in the face of massive increases in North American production, so maybe the Saudi century is going to be even more short-lived than the Chinese one.
Ronnie is absolutely battering Ding on ITV now. 4-1 up and playing sensational stuff.
That final pink, fucking hell.
Good luck living with that.
Four centuries, two other one visit winning breaks. One of the best performances in a short form match I can recall.
Ken Doherty's swallowed the thesaurus.
Ken "you know" Doherty.
If Trump and O'Sullivan a) get on opposite sides of the WC draw and b) both manage not to get ground into the dust by Selby, Gary Wilson or any other slab of granite along the way, there's the potential for an all-time final.
Do you lads reckon Ding has it in him to ever win the big one? I mostly only watch the World Championship and Ding always looks a contender right up until he very suddenly doesn't. What's stopping him d'you thing?
Probably not now, but I'd never say no chance. He was genuinely good when he was young and looked to have the right mentality too, but he came up against Ronnie in that final I posted the highlights of a couple of pages ago, got absolutely humped and was never the same again.
O'Sullivan vs Trump on ITV4 in 10 mins. Seriously looking forward to this.
We’re all Judd Trump.
Looks like Ronnie is too at the moment. Dogshit start.
Doesnt look too arsed at the moment. About to be 3 down.
This will be the one where he comes out afterwards and says "See, I told you I was shit. I don't want to play any more"
Jesus, that was rancid. Gone from up there with the best I've ever seen him play to down there with the worst.
There must have been nearly 10 times the cue ball has gone in-off so far today. Horrid stuff.
If Ronnie wasn't being a dick when it comes to 147s there'd be a decent chance of one happening here. Could not wish for the balls to be better placed.
Felt like he wanted that one but just isn't in the form to make it happen.
Shitshow warming up nicely now.
People clapping every single Ronnie shot is boring as fuck
It's about 3 years away from being like the darts.
Don't know if it's contracted to ensure SPREADEX SPORTS is in every shot but the main table camera is far too low in this.
Last time I checked this was 2-5. Looks as if it could be 7-7 soon. Is this a case of Ronnie upping his game or Trump letting him back in?
Bloody hell he's bottled that.
That was perfect.
Seen that black fucking him over a mile out there. Thought he’d have tried to move it earlier. That’s the game
He should have taken a little bit to steady himself for that. Crazy.
Been hanging around with Jack Lisowski too much
Ronnie's played a lot better and Trump has dropped a bit. It's far from the classic I was expecting still mind.
Ronnie going into god mode for a bit and then missing that red by a mile, particularly when it looked like he'd played for the tougher one down the line was a bit
Trump chucking frames not helping, looked on the verge of tears at one point there.
Fuck me, why has he even attempted that.
3 he’s left hanging over the pocket in the last 20 minutes. Bottle: shot.
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