Re: peak Hendry vs peak Selby
Sickpotter wrote:Pink Ball wrote:Hendry was an awesome player. Was he up against much? Not really. Do I think the Hendry of 1988-1997 would have been World Champion in any era? Yes, a multiple world champion. Would he have been the best of any era he played? Not quite, because I don't think he was as good as Sullivan.
Brilliant breakbuilder and potter, bang average safety and tactical player.
You think Hendry wasn't up against much?
Jimmy White, Steve Davis, Ronnie (first major in 92), Higgins (first major 94) and Williams were his competition in the 90s.....hard to see how you can consider that as "not being up against much".
You know very little about our great game.
Jimmy White: correct
Steve Davis: I'll give you that one, although he did regress notably at the turn of the decade.
Ronnie: won his first major in 1993, not 1992. Even then, he was eighteen and about six years shy of anything like his peak self.
Williams: only began making a serious impression in the late nineties.
Higgins: won his first major in 1998, not 1994 as you naively claim. Only began to come into his own from around 1998.
You forgot Parrott, who for a short phase was arguably the strongest of this lot outside of Hendry and White.
Outside of these players, who all hit form at different points, their greatness rarely coinciding, there was little by way of strength in depth like what you had in around the 2002/2003 period.
Hendry is arguably the best of all-time -- I would correctly say at least second -- but your debating game will have come up several notches to face me down.
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