Trumpster wrote:NNear wrote:Wildey's post sums it up:
Hendry has the dominance and Ronnie has the longevity.
Hendry's not in the same league, just like Higgins and MJW aren't. He's still good because he has the most natural talent ever seen. In a league of his own. But for the bad mental years, he's already have ten world titles. Fact.
Greatest ever. That 147 proves it.
"Greatest ever. That 147 proves it".
Yeah right!.
one frame of snooker proves it,your the BIGGEST joke there is.
Because Ronnie won this welsh open and made a *147*,(which is of course a brilliant feat,especially as it meant he broke Hendrys *147* record),that,that now proves that he,s the greatest.
If anythings proof that Hendrys the GREATEST EVER,then it,s this mate=
Hendry= Ranking event finals: 57 (36 titles, 21 runner-ups),
Ronnie= Ranking event finals: 37 (26 titles, 11 runner-ups)
Hendrys won 10 more ranking titles and has been in 20 more ranking finals than Ronnie has.
Hendrys been in 9 world finals,Ronnies been in 5!.
I think you like many others don,t realise what it takes to win so many tournaments,reach so many finals as Hendry did!.
I,ll say it again,yes,Hendry stopped winning towards the latter part of his carreer,but that was mainly due to him spending more time doing other things,with his family,freinds,golf,poker,etc and due to not practicing as much as he once did.
His main goal was to beat Davises 7 world titles and he indeed managed to snatch that record from him,after that happened,he of course still wanted to win,but for sure not as much as in all the previous years that he dominated,no wonder he did,nt want to practice as much,after all he delivered throughout the 90,s,it,s no wonder he started to run out of steam,winning,dominating the length of time he did it for.
He said it himself that he became a bit lazy in his latter years.
What also some forget is up until Hendry retired,up until that very day at the age of 43,he still managed to produce decent,good,sometimes even very high standard of snooker,along with still being able to knock in BIG breaks,shoot centuries and he still managed to get to the odd latter parts of certain tournaments.
In fact up until he retired at 43,he really only had a problem competing against the top 8,against the rest of the crop he still managed to get the odd good win here n there and at that time the standard was higher that what the standard is at the moment.
The standard at the moment and lately in general apart from Ronnie/Ding has plunged,all this "the standards so high these days",is purre n utter rubbish,it,s said by many players but we all know full well that it just an excuse for when they lose,"i lost,cause it,s so tough out there,the standards so high theeeese daaaays,"
The truth is,the majority of the current crop just aren,t bloody good enough,there so incosistent,Ding and Ronnie have proved that it is possible to win more than 1 tournament theeessse days,it,s not so hard to do because the standards so high theeese days,if you,re good enough you can win,win more than the rest of the crop.
Ronnies full of motivation at present,he knows he has a chance to beat Hendrys amazing World titles and maybe even ranking titles tally,yes,full credit to him that he,s producing also good,very high,at times brilliant standard of snooker at present,but we,ll see how long he can keep it up,will he still be able to play decent,good,very good snooker when he,s into his 40,s,up till 43,like Hendry managed to do?,we,ll just have to wait n see,he,s in great form at present,but every one knows,form in snooker can suddenly plunge dramticaly,especially the older you get,who knows,maybe the form that Ronnies showed lately might plunge and by the time he gets to 40,he,ll start to loose in the 1st,2nd rounds,as i say,well just have to wait n see.
One could go on forever and ever,but i,ve said what i wanted to say and i,m not saying anything else on the matter,i,ve said enough,sure,every ones entitled to there opinions,but at the end of the day,it,s the facts that really do the speaking,here,once again are FACTS,the most important ones,....
Hendry= Ranking event finals: 57 (36 titles, 21 runner-ups),
Ronnie= Ranking event finals: 37 (26 titles, 11 runner-ups)
Hendrys won 10 more ranking titles and has been in 20 more ranking finals than Ronnie has.
Hendrys been in 9 world finals,Ronnies been in 5!.
Over and out.