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Sigh! Musical walk-on's!!! wtf!!!!

they cant be struggling that much for viewers?

what's next they turn the arena into a giant pub and everyone gets pissed whilst they play music inbetween each frame scream "OI OI" between shots.......

LOL its so com.

What about the old fella that used to call them in to the arena, redundant ?

Big swathes of empty seats as well.

Coming straight after a great month of darts it shows that Barry Hearn has a huge job on his hands to get snooker going again.

I was gonna get tickets and go up for a day but when I went on the website the £130 option didn't seem so appealing.

So many of the top 16 players seem to lack any personality, which makes Hearn's job harder. Hence putting Jimmy White in to the Masters, shame he flopped. Ronnie of course is box office but could storm off at any moment so its tricky to build a strategy around him.

That said, Hearn's a very canny man, lots of new formats are on the way too (single frame shotouts, shot clocks, team events etc) and he wants to replace bow tie/waistcoat and silence with sparkles and noise.

Should be fun to watch him try to revitalise it

The problem with snooker is that it's like Test cricket, in that the tense exciting moments come interspersed with long periods which casual viewers would find boring. Test cricket gets round this because it has more devotees to begin with and the very fact that viewers will generally be supporting one team generates the interest.

With snooker, unless someone like Jimmy or Ronnie are playing, most of the audience couldn't care less who wins, so they're left with two dullards knocking balls around for a few hours.

Darts doesn't have this problem as the very nature of the game means it builds to a climax every 3 or 4 minutes.

My local snooker club is like 1/4 the size it was 3 or 4 years ago, with the manager raving that the smoking ban will really hurt the game.

Ryan Day wearing a 'Stars logo, wonder how much thatss worth...

pretty much all of them have been wearing stars logo's

The whole tournament is sponsored by Pokerstars, though you'd hardly know it from watching the BBC

Stars agreed to sponsor the event, via Hearn, at the last minute

Hearn is a genius, comes in and gets a new sponsor never before associated with the sport straight away



Ryan Day and Maguire are best friends and keen poker players. They turned up together for the first Sky event on the current tour and Day final tabled. Nice guys.

They got bladdered at the spt event!!!


Stars rule, I likes snoookers!!!

During the break between frames yesterday the TV cut to the wide shot of Wembley from the camera up in the ceiling.

The place couldn't have been more than a quarter full yet this was for a match involving Ronnie O'Sullivan.

For a bonus point, name 3 teams you would associate with his brother?

Man C was where he started

Oxford now


Somewhere in between in the conference.......

Mansfield & Aldershot...

Another fact, him and his old are married to sisters!!!!

great match between ronnie and williams

+1

lol listening to ronnies post match interview you wouldnt back him with a fiver(or someone else's fiver)!!!

Him and Rafa make a right pair LOL

It's one thing i've never understood,how can someone be one of the greatest players to ever play snooker yet he has no confidence ???.Footballers aren't too disimilar with confidence,strange to me

im not sure how much he believes it, he just chirps complete shit

I'm pretty sure he does constantly doubt his own ability,maybe it's that he strives perfection and anything less is not good enough,he's a strange fellow

Good standard Final this.
Just goes to show how far ahead Darts is of Snooker in popularity with the lack of post on here and even the volume of Betting compared to the last couple of Dart Tournaments.

Just means Dave doesn't like snooker tbf

lol

Haha, would love to see the viewing figures for both Finals.

Excellent break from selby there,o'sullivan to win 10-9

O'sullivans a sick sick man played some amazing shots in this frame

One of the most disgusting shots i've ever seen, can't believe Ronnie's going to lose this frame

lol at the commentary

willie thorne - 'we've seen some great comebacks, i remember stephen hendry doing it to the great jimmy white'

aye, and hendry wasnt 'great' was he, ya fuckin bellend.

what exactly have virgo and thorne won between them ?

Think Willie Thorne came second in Celebrity Poker Club tbf

I put that before the green,disgustings a bit strong though he decided to go for it, fair enough really

probably better than his only career win in the lada classic tbf

Sorry i meant disgusting as in sick. I meant the snooker also.

The green was just classic Ronnie.

LOL, misread again, sigh

Virgo was 1979 Uk Champion!!

did willie thorne hold his cue ?

So the english comm's didnt big up the scottish crater face Hendry and you need to find out about Thornes career and Virgo's Wtf?

No Willie would of missed several easy balls for the world, so Virgo was better off ,just, holding his own cue.

RONNIE baout to complete a 147 in the welsh open, be quick!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/7661693.stm

lol too late!!

Fancy missing that!!!!!!

holy shit just watched the replay how just HOW!!! ;gobsmacked;

My bokking the only reason you think Bolt?

This not on TV?

It was some top quality bokking,

Interesting sidenote i was reading a gambling book of short racing stories a few months ago(it was terrible) the guy that wrote it was a cab driver ex bookie/pro punter part time author anyhow he spelled bokk, "boche" and that was from like 20 odd years ago.

BBC2 Wales Rooks, be channel 802 or something like that

Weee, got it, ty mate

Havent seen the stats, but Ronnie's shot time must be about 13/14 seconds, abs flying...  Pulled off some stupendous shots before he missed that green on 122, cant figure if hes in doesnt care mode/absolutely flying mode... 

Perhaps they're one and the same thing...

hahaha that was com

If anyone gets the chance to see Higgins' shot at 3-1,  64-51 ahead on the pink you'll piss yourself!

he missed a 147 the frame before as well. 11 reds and blacks potted, colours on their spots, remaining reds open and he missed a simple 12th red

lol yeah was com, crowd didnt know what to do either

Williams v Maguire anyone views on this game tonight?

I've taken black as first colour potted first frame @ 2.62

scooooop. easy game