Ronnie O'Sullivan turns down a 147

[scotty77]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/35581281

What's everyones thoughts on this?

Ronnie being Ronnie?

Doing a good thing in highlighting the lack of money in the sport at the moment?

Good to have the sport being talked about rather than just another 147?

[Woodsey]

Jesus who even fucking cares    too many people bitching about sporting 'disrespectful' stuff today that is barely even relevant in the real world.

Some people need a life....

[Marky147]

Look out, Woodsey is out from under his bridge 


He refused to pot the black once before, due to his issues with the prize money for a maximum, but Jan Verhaas remonstrated with him, and he relented.

I can see his point, if nothing has changed, but it does seem rather pointless, as the acting out before hasn't changed anything.

There is a lot more money in the sport now, than ever before. I was reading an article somewhere, and it's possible for many more professionals to earn a living now, than it was back along, before Hearn kicked it up the ass.

[Karabiner]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/35581281

What's everyones thoughts on this?

Ronnie being Ronnie?

Doing a good thing in highlighting the lack of money in the sport at the moment?

Good to have the sport being talked about rather than just another 147?

I honestly don't see what the big deal is here.

He took the easier pink with his 14th red instead of what many purists might call the "wrong" shot in the tougher black, and made a 146.

[arbboy]

I would award £146k now for a 146.  Much harder making a 146 than a 147 nowadays.  Pretty sure that will be Ronnie's first 146.

[aaron1867]

Looks to me as if he's both right and wrong. Seems like greed, but a 147 is a huge ask and surely should be more money. But really would be annoyed personally if I paid for a seat and missed the chance of seeing a player get a maximum.

Wasn't it like £147k for a max in Sheffield years ago and is now £40k?

[Ironside]

Aaron if you were at the snooker you could now say you were there when Ronnie turned down a 147 rather than you saw yet another 147,

[TightEnd]

Who's the real Ronnie O'Sullivan?

His opponents haven't held back in trying to describe him

"very strange" etc

http://bbc.in/215Souz 

[PokerBroker]

Ronnie is quite right to raise this issue.  Obviously as a spectator you want to see 147's just the same way you want to see a 9 darter at Ally Pally. 

Probably more so at the Crucible.  If Barrie Hearn doesn't want to pay the higher prize money, perhaps he should look at ways of making a 147 more difficult.   Say speeding the tables up, reducing the pocket size etc. 

[HutchGF]

12k is 12k.

Surely it's better to win 12k for a 147 and assumably the highest break rather than 2k just for the highest break? The fact that he thinks it should be more is almost irrelevant surely. What he did was akin to setting fire to 10k (mbn).

I don't really understand the issue. He could just flick the 10k over to charity if he feels that strongly about it. If he was that driven by money, surely he'd play more events and bank more prize money. My assessment is he is a petulant, spoilt brat who does not appreciate enough the incredible talent he has been lucky enough to be bestowed with.

[buzzharvey22]

Ronnie couldn't really give a shit about the money. He's spent quite a lot of time playing handicap matches against his mates of complete amateurs for £50 £100 £200 in Gloucester (travelling from London) over the last 9 months when he wasn't on the tour. The game is boring as piss now compared to when Ronnie was growing up watching his idols. And it's even more boring now than it was when he first broke onto the scene.

Think he feels he needs to create a bit of controversy, and thank god he does as he's the only thing remotely interesting in snooker now. All time low when Stuart bloody Bingham won the worlds.

And i'd much rather watch Ronnie make a 146 than have to listen to 146 seconds of his punditry.

[Marky147]

Ronnie couldn't really give a shit about the money. He's spent quite a lot of time playing handicap matches against his mates of complete amateurs for £50 £100 £200 in Gloucester (travelling from London) over the last 9 months when he wasn't on the tour. The game is boring as piss now compared to when Ronnie was growing up watching his idols. And it's even more boring now than it was when he first broke onto the scene.

Think he feels he needs to create a bit of controversy, and thank god he does as he's the only thing remotely interesting in snooker now. All time low when Stuart bloody Bingham won the worlds.

And i'd much rather watch Ronnie make a 146 than have to listen to 146 seconds of his punditry.

Definitely an all time low... Nobody wants to see a career pro, who works his ass off, while keeping his nose clean, getting rewarded for his efforts 

Only low for me was backing him a year too early, lol.

[RED-DOG]

I'm with Mark. Winning the world championship was a far greater feat for Bingham than it ever was for  O'Sullivan.

[buzzharvey22]

Champion.

Lets have Andy Hamilton win the darts world championship and Wes Morgan win the ballon d'or.

Don't know where they'd fit all the knew fans it would drag in to the sports though!

[exstream]

Go on buzz harvey