Ronnie O'Sullivan turns down a 147

[TightEnd]

snooker definitely struggling a bit in the home market

this week is the welsh open. where can you watch it? bbc red buton or online only. bbc2 is showing old films and repeats etc all afternoon

odd that it wouldn't be on bbc2 with all the resources there to show it on red button, and unlike Hearn not to get the deal to get it on the main channel

the format isnt too great though. best of sevens to the final, lots of variance over short matches and a visibly sulky ronnie o winning matches while going through the motions

meanwhile the automatons like selby and the rest play fairly standard snooker.

which is why something like the snooker shootout is interesting. a bit like t20 in cricket, brng new markets to snooker viewing figures 

[nirvana]

Snooker is one of those parlour games that is so fundamentally crap as a spectator sport its just unjazzuppable.