Don't you think his form would have been off, given he hasn't been properly training? He's confirmed for the Masters.
Ronnie is nearly 57 actually. Only 10 years older than Federer haha
Yep, Ronnie got going quick and has been winning at a steady drip. I doubt Trump will ever be as great as Ronnie and he's behind Ronnie at the same age. I too noticed that Ronnie has won TC events for 5 consecutive years, which pleases me greatly.Yeah but other players like Ronnie at the age of 26 had 3 UK champs, 1 World and 1 Master...5 TC events, a foundation to build on while Judd currently just has 1. Tbf Judd did have to play Ronnie a lot in TC events since 2012, if you look at this, Ronnie's kind of created a wedge that hasn't allowed the newer generation like Selby, Judd to dominate.
there are no women fans back there ?
Yep, Ronnie got going quick and has been winning at a steady drip. I doubt Trump will ever be as great as Ronnie and he's behind Ronnie at the same age. I too noticed that Ronnie has won TC events for 5 consecutive years, which pleases me greatly.
Thanks for the graphic.
Now, can he win 2 in one year again (raises eyebrows)?
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The takeaway from those stats is that Ronnie has still been the best player of the last 5 years. Yes, Selby has been the #1, but Ronnie has won the most majors and the most WSCs.
Not in that picture but I've seen some fit birds at these games lol
I think he rushed into that shot thinking that was a Gimme which was a mental mistake. he should have composed himself little more and think about it little more. Preparation is the key to every stroke and he took that shot for granted.
I think he can and will win more Triple Crown events than Hendry did, but beating Hendry's record at the WSC, meaning to win it 8 times, seems highly unlikely to me. Him even equalling it is unlikely but I'm fishing in the dark here because we're in an era where the standard O'Sullivan's generation set hasn't been bettered - only equalled - so if Ronnie cares enough he might still have 10 years of prime left, which should yield 2-3 further WSCs.
And many snooker fans over at the forums felt that would be the beginning of the end for Ronnie, what with him being "old" and everything and not keeping the streak going, with Hendry's record looking out of reach. Since, he's won 2 further Triple Crown events - far from done then. Ronnie can be dangerous at 50 if he manages his life well enough. He's still playing snooker at an incredibly high level, but his recent matches against Trump have concerned me somewhat, and I think he's a guy who could start shutting Ronnie out should he peak. He barely got over the line against Judd Trump at the 2014 UK Champs and he gave Ronnie a good roasting at the 2015 World Grand Prix. Granted, you can't win them all, but when Ronnie's on he has the game to crash through Selby and Robertson, but Trump plays a game that intimidates Ronnie and he can beat him at his own game. I think a lot of what happens over the next 5 years, assuming Ronnie keeps good form, depends on Judd Trump.WSC 2014 against Selby was a big opportunity missed for a 6th WSC title, and that loss still hurts the most ever since I started watching snooker in 2000/2001 when I was 8/9 years old
MAN, I was GUTTED in that final...like, wow.
Hendry couldn't adapt because he had only one style of play-all out attack & when age caught up with him & his levels dropped as he was unable to keep knocking the long balls in & missing easy pots he had nothing to fall back on. Ronnie has for the last few years finally fully adopted the safety game Reardon taught him over a decade back-only thing he lacks is mental strength. I still rate Davis the best because he had the best all-round game & was able to remain a major force in the game into his fifties purely off his tactical game.
It is hard to compare eras because it was a different game back then-the cloths were nowhere near to the standards of the modern era, they were far thicker & slower & so making tons was nowhere near as easy. Thing is with Davis he didn't need to make centuries to win-he just had to make 60 or 70 & then tie his opponent up in knots because he is comfortably the best safety game ever. Even so he is still in tenth place with 355 tons-ahead of the likes of White, Williams, Doherty, Ebdon, which is quite incredible.
And when the cloths changed to close enough to what we see today, Davis improved his scoring, especially to try and keep pace with Hendry and to move with the times, but the changes were too jarring and he never reached anything remotely near the heights of the scoring achieved in the modern day. A player can only reinvent themselves so much after they've learned the game a certain way, which is why in terms of observed level I don't think Davis could just be 'dropped in' to today and be the number 1, but I DO believe that had he been able learned his trade 10-15 years later, that he'd have the talent to be a better scorer and of course he'd still be a great tactician, so I like his chances to be the current best player in an era of well rounded players including Robbo and Selby, and indeed agree that he'd get the better of Hendry in the current landscape. It's cruel on Hendry because in many ways he did change the game but IMO the generation that came after learned to mix a good dose of Davis with a good dose of Hendry and then the following generation (Selby and co.) developed quite total games reasonably early on. Davis couldn't keep pace with Hendry and the old dog couldn't be taught enough new tricks. He was unfortunate to have the paradigm of the game shift away from what he had so thoroughly mastered, and Hendry was the chosen one to first take brutal advantage of what Snooker was to become. So, I can see why many would think Steve Davis is the greatest ever.
Which is also his strength. No wonder he gets along very well with artists, he's certainly the snooker player with the most "artistic" view of the game.
Hendry's also the best long ball potter I've ever seen. Man it used to frustrate me so much how many of those he used to make in his pomp.
The guy was like a machine out there. Merciless and without feeling.
All quoted to the relevant thread.Woaaaaah, I had a little look at that article, scroll down and we have a.. well a story Djokovic could relate too
Ronnie O'Sullivan has claimed he was offered £20,000 to fix a snooker match.
The reigning world champion writes in his new autobiography, Running, that the financial proposal was put to him by a person he knew.
The offer was not recent, with the 37-year-old saying it was made 10 years ago and concerned a match in the Premier League.
'Someone rang me and said he'd like to meet me over in the forest and have a walk through the woods,' O'Sullivan writes. 'I knew the fella, and it was someone you don't want to mess around with.
'What they were offering me, 20 grand, I could get for a couple of nights' work.'
Detailing the offer, O'Sullivan writes: ''You're playing in the Premier League,' he said. 'Yes.'
And we've got people who can put big bets on. If you lose this frame and this frame we can get enough on it to make some money. We'll give you this out of it.'
O'Sullivan turned down the offer.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2453073/Ronnie-OSullivan-accuses-World-Snooker-trying-stop-winning-title.html#ixzz3xlXKqvP8
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I know about Stephen Lee I think.. nah, what happened with Higgins?
Impossible to tell as the NOTW had zero interest in going through with the cash exchange-just a headline story on the day of the WC Final. Higgins was in a position he should have never been in-trying to do what the people running the game should have been doing, trying to take the sport into new markets & create more tournaments for the players who under the Walker regime had an incredibly weak schedule & money making chances as a result.
