Roland Cox "Nutter"
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yes Roland, perhaps you can Explain to me how a fluke pot is not an unfair advantage, and why a game that allows unfair advantage should not be changed. No? Thought not. Clearly, too many of you love the rules just because they are tradition and have no mind of your own.
Not surprisingly, that is his only come back on the blog, and indeed anyone's come back. None of them can answer why a rule which allows an unfair advantage should be left. Not 1 of them. Even though the rules are flawed they oppose ANY and ALL changes... it is little wonder that I find myself running out of love for the sport... it is because the die hard fanbase is completely closed minded to new ideas. The best thing Hearn could have done is form a break away sport...
Leave these bigots to their then dying traditional sport. You can't reason with these people, get through to them, get any compromises out of them. Nothing.
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OK let me expand just a little bit seeing as I know you’re reading this.
I used the term “nutter” because you are one. You are obsessed with changing the rules of a game you don’t understand. And you don’t understand it. Period. I’ve played a lot of snooker in my lifetime and there is one type of player/person I hate more than anyone, and it’s not the bashers who get flukes when they miss and it’s not the grinders who deliberately mess up the table and knock my rhythm and it’s not the fast attacking players who blast me off the table leaving me no time to think, and it’s not the ones who get distracted and talk a lot when I’m trying to play, it’s the bloody moaners and groaners who focus on luck and can’t accept when they’re beaten fair and square. The ones you out-play and then they won’t shake your hand because you fluked a snooker behind a baulk colour, or fluked a pot which you apologised for at the time, the ones who grumble in the background when you’re trying to get on with your game, making excuses out loud about why they’re losing, the ones who say they're going home just because you’re beating them and who try and put you off when you’re at the table. And you are one of those people. Not only that, those poor people who do play you when you play snooker have to play by your own ridiculous rules. How stupid and up yourself is that?
To top it all off you are a disruptive internet troll intent on causing trouble everywhere you go. You have no love or understanding of the game of snooker, only one player. You only want to “correct the flaws” in the game which only you see because you think your favourite player only loses because of these “flaws”, e.g. the remaining colours being “the easiest” on the table and therefore it's unfair that they're worth 27 points for 6 pots and should be only 6 points. That one is comedy gold by the way, never heard anything so ridiculous in my life.
Ask yourself Daniel – why is it that everyone in the snooker world shuns you once they wise up to you? Is it because you’re entirely on your own when you rabbit on about “traditionalists”? Is it because you’re obnoxious and rude to everyone you come across? Is it because of complete lack of respect you show to most professional snooker players (“boring plodders”)? Is it because you think you’re more intelligent than everyone else when it is pretty obvious you are not? Or is it your ridiculous and at times down right hilarious suggestions for improvements to the game which are not required and would not work?
I think you're right, time for another break from snooker for you
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Edit - time to get the popcorn in folks
http://www.rocketronnie.net/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4426