Re: Snooker Island represented at Blackpool
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Wildey - Posts: 64447
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Smart wrote:Not seen enough to make a judgement but anyone who can rate him in top 3 of any polls .....................well I'd like to smoke some of that stuff mister.
Sonny wrote:Tubberlad wrote:Sirius B wrote:Tubberlad wrote:He was a tosser. I'm not a prude, but he was an trumper IMO, and was always destined to be a waste of talent, ban or no ban. I don't dispute he was a good player, he was very good, but I saw him as more of a nuisance than a character to ne honest.
he would be good at power snooker tho
Jesus, I never though of that.
I don't remember him being particularly fast. In fact looking back he was pretty measured and would be around the 23-25 second average shot time?
Wild wrote:what i meant he used the ban as a get out clause so that nobody could say he couldn't hack it at top level.
Wild wrote:and the fact people got the perception of him as this amazing fast player is proof he did the Right thing.
Witz78 wrote:Sirius B wrote:Sonny wrote: and I would hope if he made the effort and showed a bit of maturity and wanted to come back, he would be forgiven and allowed to try for his place back on tour.
yes i agree, i feel he would be forgived also, whrn on form he was a very good player. 10-9 win over hunter at the worlds was class
id have him in my top 3 favourite players of the 00's along with Ronnie and Ebdon.
Smart wrote:I think there is also a misconception here.
He played ROS in I think the grand prix or something and afterwards there is an interview with them both and ROS is singing his praises or is bigging him up. I think some fans have taken this as if to say he is or would of been really cracking player.
Facts are he won nowt and had a terrible attitude a losers attitude.
Witz78 wrote:Witz78 wrote:Sirius B wrote:Sonny wrote: and I would hope if he made the effort and showed a bit of maturity and wanted to come back, he would be forgiven and allowed to try for his place back on tour.
yes i agree, i feel he would be forgived also, whrn on form he was a very good player. 10-9 win over hunter at the worlds was class
id have him in my top 3 favourite players of the 00's along with Ronnie and Ebdon.
get off your high horses folks.
Did i say he was in the top 3 best players of the 00's?
I said he was in my top 3 FAVOURITE players of the 00's.
With a bit more application he could have been in the top 3 0f the 00's on ability too though
Sonny wrote:Witz78 wrote:
get off your high horses folks.
Did i say he was in the top 3 best players of the 00's?
I said he was in my top 3 FAVOURITE players of the 00's.
With a bit more application he could have been in the top 3 0f the 00's on ability too though
You like a bad boy don't you?
Sonny wrote:Witz78 wrote:Witz78 wrote:Sirius B wrote:yes i agree, i feel he would be forgived also, whrn on form he was a very good player. 10-9 win over hunter at the worlds was class
id have him in my top 3 favourite players of the 00's along with Ronnie and Ebdon.
get off your high horses folks.
Did i say he was in the top 3 best players of the 00's?
I said he was in my top 3 FAVOURITE players of the 00's.
With a bit more application he could have been in the top 3 0f the 00's on ability too though
You like a bad boy don't you?
Sirius B wrote:Sonny wrote:Witz78 wrote:
get off your high horses folks.
Did i say he was in the top 3 best players of the 00's?
I said he was in my top 3 FAVOURITE players of the 00's.
With a bit more application he could have been in the top 3 0f the 00's on ability too though
You like a bad boy don't you?
Wild wrote:in the Mita World Masters in 1991 he became the youngest player ever to make a Televised century Break he was 13 at the time.
Witz78 wrote:Whats the difference between him and Higgins?
Nothing apart from 7 and a half years more..............
WHAT AN INJUSTICE, CUTTING OFF THIS GUYS CAREER IN ITS PRIME JUST SO THEY COULD BE RID OF HIM FOR GOOD.
HE WAS GOOD FOR THE GAME IN THE 21ST CENTURY JUST THE WAY ALEX WAS IN THE 70S AND 80S.
Smart wrote:Sirius B wrote:Sonny wrote:Witz78 wrote:
get off your high horses folks.
Did i say he was in the top 3 best players of the 00's?
I said he was in my top 3 FAVOURITE players of the 00's.
With a bit more application he could have been in the top 3 0f the 00's on ability too though
You like a bad boy don't you?
he got a picture of Alex on one wall and one of Drago on the other in his bedroom...................then he steps into the bathroom and he has a full size picture of Hann painted on the tiles
Wild wrote:theres no doubting he was unpredictable you never knew what he would do next but for me he started to play on that bad boy image and when unpredictability becomes predictable theres nowhere to go.
Alex Higgins had Charm as well as that dark side Quinten at the End there was no shinning light just Rape,Match Fixing etc
Witz78 wrote:A truly great character which the sport has never truly recovered from losing.
Witz78 wrote:Getting his nose broke after an argument with a Gaelic football player that Aussie Rules players were tougher
Wild wrote:back to my original Point he doesent want his place back.
its easier for him to have never achieved but that thought he might have still lingering than come back and fail miserably.
Tubberlad wrote:Witz78 wrote:Getting his nose broke after an argument with a Gaelic football player that Aussie Rules players were tougher
Witz78 wrote:Tubberlad wrote:Witz78 wrote:Getting his nose broke after an argument with a Gaelic football player that Aussie Rules players were tougher
Cmon GJ, back me up on this one
A number of times during the match Hann smashed the cue ball into the pack of reds at the beginning of each frame, spreading the reds over the table and consequently making breakbuilding difficult for both players, a tactic which was described by BBC commentator Clive Everton as bringing the sport into disrepute. Although Hann later apologised to Hamilton for his behaviour in the match, he nevertheless continued to use this tactic to slow down faster opponents over the next couple of years.
In the 2005 World Championship Hann was forced to play with a new cue after his original cue was lost after the China Open earlier that year.[12] The original cue was eventually retrieved just before the World Championship but was found to be damaged and unusable. Having borrowed a friend's cue, he decided against practising, and instead went out drinking.[12] He played his first round match against Peter Ebdon hungover, and rather predictably lost the match by 10 frames to 2. When asked about the defeat to Ebdon, Hann said: "I played poorly, but to be honest, that wasn't because of the cue. I was planning to go out the night before the match, drink a couple of beers. When I found out my cue was missing, a couple of beers became a lot of beers. The fact that the first session was a morning session made it worse."