1000 career centuries. When will Ronnie make it happen?

Ronnie made this season already 22 centuries while playing only in 3 whole tournaments. He stands on 825 centuries as of today (if I calculated correctly).

I don't think there's much doubt any longer that he will reach the 1000 centuries milestone before retiring. If Ronnie does reach it, I think it will go down as one of the greatest achievements in snooker history (bigger than he 100 tons from Robbo in a season and he all know how crazy everybody got about that).

My question now is: when will it happen? Or maybe you think he won't do it?

We could even make a fun game out of this. Everybody please state a date (day, month, year) and when we'll see who comes closest.

If he carries on with a similar schedule to this season it may take him as much as 10 years to reach it.

I'm not sure he'll get to 1000 centuries. Like Cloud said it will take him ten years or more probably... Ronnie doesn't enter that many tournaments.

If he played in as much as everyone else then yes.

I think it's more likely Judd will be the first to do that.

Well I expect Ronnie to play a bit more again in the next seasons:

CoC and UK
the new home series events
some PTCs

Also Ronnie made 53 and 46 centuries in the seasons before this one.

With the 3 new home series events he wil play more. It will take 5 or 6 years anyway. Trump will eventually get this record as he only 26 and is 400 behind

If Ronnie does reach 1000, it will be marginally better than 999 and marginally worse than 1001.

If he stops at 999 then it doesn't automatically mean it isn't as impressive as Robbo getting a century of centuries in a season. Humans are needlessly obsessed with these numbers.

Hopefully, he makes way more than 1000 centuries, and slightly more than 1083 centuries.

NNear wrote:If Ronnie does reach 1000, it will be marginally better than 999 and marginally worse than 1001.

If he stops at 999 then it doesn't automatically mean it isn't as impressive as Robbo getting a century of centuries in a season. Humans are needlessly obsessed with these numbers.

Hopefully, he makes way more than 1000 centuries, and slightly more than 1083 centuries.

Yes, humans are needlessly obsessed with round numbers. And I think snooker fans are usually the kind of people who're even more obsessed with numbers and stats than most other people... As you say 990 centuries is equaly as impressive, but it doesn't have a nice ring to it of course..

He has the ability to. Depends whether it's something he cares about or now.

Hes already the greatest breakbuilder ever and thats all the counts really. Doesnt really matter how many more he makes.

And the century rate is way more important I think, and Ronnie has always led that.

Even if someone like Judd surpasses him, he will simply never be like Ronnie with cue ball control and such clever cannons in his breaks, Ronnie had always been unique there and nobody will ever touch that skill.

1000 has a nice ring to it, but 999 is equally impressive, just as if Robbo had stalled on 99 instead of 103 two seasons ago.

Yeah, pretty much. It'd be a nice record to have, but at the end of the day I doubt he'll be too concerned if he don't get it.

He's already scored more than anybody.

Does anyone think 100 centuries in a season will ever be equaled?

AC or LT? wrote:Does anyone think 100 centuries in a season will ever be equaled?

Yep - several times.

AC or LT? wrote:Does anyone think 100 centuries in a season will ever be equaled?

I don't see why not, if somebody really goes for it.

Though Neil was trying for it at about halfway through the season. Depends whether anybody can really be bothered to tr, I guess.

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AC or LT? wrote:Does anyone think 100 centuries in a season will ever be equaled?

I don't see why not, if somebody really goes for it.

Though Neil was trying for it at about halfway through the season. Depends whether anybody can really be bothered to tr, I guess.

They'd have to get off to a flier and then consciously aim for it. Eve with so many tournaments these days, it's not an easy feat to do.

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SnookerFan wrote:

AC or LT? wrote:Does anyone think 100 centuries in a season will ever be equaled?

I don't see why not, if somebody really goes for it.

Though Neil was trying for it at about halfway through the season. Depends whether anybody can really be bothered to tr, I guess.

They'd have to get off to a flier and then consciously aim for it. Eve with so many tournaments these days, it's not an easy feat to do.

Someone like Ding or maybe Selby can do it if they have a good year.

Depends whether anybody wants to. Now Robertson has proven it's possible, being the second person to do it wouldn't quite feel as special.

With him play in less and less tournaments every year it could well take him 6-8 years, I just don't see him still playing in 6-8 years so for me he won't reach a 1000 career centuries. First player to do it probably will be Ding or Trump. both in their mid 20's still.

Can Ding still be considered mid 20s? Mid-20s (for me is 24, 25 and 26)
But, he's just a month short of being 29...!

Well, Ronnie will enter the World Grand Prix, so if he goes deep there and at the WSC then he might notch up another 20 centuries for this season anyway.

PoolBoy wrote:Can Ding still be considered mid 20s? Mid-20s (for me is 24, 25 and 26)
But, he's just a month short of being 29...!

No, he can't.

At this moment in time (22 november 2016), Ronnie has 844 tons. He stated he's gonna play in manny events this year, so he'll probably make at least 10-20 more by the end of the season.
I reckon if he continues to play in as manny events in the following years, he'll get to 1000 by 2020.

Johnny Bravo wrote:At this moment in time (22 november 2016), Ronnie has 844 tons. He stated he's gonna play in manny events this year, so he'll probably make at least 10-20 more by the end of the season.
I reckon if he continues to play in as manny events in the following years, he'll get to 1000 by 2020.

It's not that important whether he reaches it or not, but if he plays long enough then he should.

Ronnie's not one to be jumping around though when he reaches the 1000... cough cough Robbo....

Johnny Bravo wrote:At this moment in time (22 november 2016), Ronnie has 844 tons. He stated he's gonna play in manny events this year, so he'll probably make at least 10-20 more by the end of the season.
I reckon if he continues to play in as manny events in the following years, he'll get to 1000 by 2020.

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Johnny Bravo wrote:At this moment in time (22 november 2016), Ronnie has 844 tons. He stated he's gonna play in manny events this year, so he'll probably make at least 10-20 more by the end of the season.
I reckon if he continues to play in as manny events in the following years, he'll get to 1000 by 2020.

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28 centuries so far this season and there's still more snooker to be played.
IMO if he plays in just as manny tournaments, he'll make around 50 this season, maybe even more. So he'll probably have around 870 after the WC.
Looks like he needs to play another 3-4 years, so I maintain my 2020 prediction.