by csprince » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Alex0paul wrote:csprince wrote:D4P wrote:csprince wrote:there"s never been a decent ranking system in snooker this is a sport that gave us merit points. a points.frame points.and then another great system where someone wins a match and gets 650 points and somebody loses and gets 700 points world snooker would"t know a decent system if it came up and introduced itself
I get the impression that Barry Hearn doesn't think snooker fans are very smart, and that he tries (as a result) to keep the ranking system as simple as possible so that the drunk guys watching snooker in the bar can understand it.
I also think that the more that Ronnie complains about Ranking Points, the more that Hearn will want to keep the system the way it is so that it doesn't look like he was being controlled by what the players want...
i agree. i think hearn won"t change the system cause then he would have to admit that he was wrong and people like him don"t like doing that. and admit that events like the worlds are over weighted i like donaldson and would be happy whoever wins the china but for donaldson to be top16 after the china isn"t right
Why should Murphy be in top 16 but Donaldson, a hypothetical winner of a huge event, not be?
if you look at my rolling 1 year list(previous points system) murphy would be currently no38 and donaldson no26
before the china open so i think a rolling 12 month system would be fairer
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by Alex0paul » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:Murphy is plummeting as he should be given his results.
Nothing about Donaldson's performance bar this event suggests he should be top 16.
best of luck to him though
Quarters of the Welsh Open, Indian Open too as well as Semis of the Paul Hunter Classic
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by Badsnookerplayer » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Alex0paul wrote:Badsnookerplayer wrote:Murphy is plummeting as he should be given his results.
Nothing about Donaldson's performance bar this event suggests he should be top 16.
best of luck to him though
Quarters of the Welsh Open too
Fair point
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by HappyCamper » 05 Apr 2019 Read
this is brecel's first quarter final since nov 17. hardly top 16 form.
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by D4P » 05 Apr 2019 Read
SnookerFan wrote:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y_8RbPqvsMA
I think Ronnie did something similar to that this season, too
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by Godot » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Johnny Bravo wrote:Robbo will win this event, he's the best out of the 4 remaining by far.
He's by far a better player than Rob Milkins too and we know how that turned out at the Crucible around this time last year.
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by Holden Chinaski » 05 Apr 2019 Read
D4P wrote:SnookerFan wrote:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y_8RbPqvsMA
I think Ronnie did something similar to that this season, too
He did.
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by D4P » 05 Apr 2019 Read
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by Dan-cat » 05 Apr 2019 Read
I watched that just now on loop, no way he noticed, he wasn't looking at the cue.
Storm in a teacup.
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by D4P » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Dan-cat wrote:I watched that just now on loop, no way he noticed, he wasn't looking at the cue.
Storm in a teacup.
No one noticed, not even Luo. It was only when the announcers watched the replay that they picked up on it...
The "cheating" meme is just trolling, and Ronnie effectively put the issue to rest (no pun intended) when he lost to Mark Davis on purpose in the following round.
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by Cloud Strife » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Dan-cat wrote:I watched that just now on loop, no way he noticed, he wasn't looking at the cue.
Storm in a teacup.
Yeah, I think you're right. We should give him the benefit of the doubt
He made up for it anyway by forfeiting his next match in that tournament.
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by D4P » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Though I suppose that Ronnie's detractors could accuse him of "cheating" by throwing the match against Davis...
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by Holden Chinaski » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Dan-cat wrote:I watched that just now on loop, no way he noticed, he wasn't looking at the cue.
Storm in a teacup.
Of course he didn't notice. Ronnie has never done anything like that. He always admits to fouls. You can say a lot about him, but he's definitely not the kind that would parakeet. He would hate himself. He was gutted when he saw this foul in the studio afterwards.
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by D4P » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Holden Chinaski wrote:Dan-cat wrote:I watched that just now on loop, no way he noticed, he wasn't looking at the cue.
Storm in a teacup.
Of course he didn't notice. Ronnie has never done anything like that. He always admits to fouls. You can say a lot about him, but he's definitely not the kind that would parakeet. He would hate himself. He was gutted when he saw this foul in the studio afterwards.
I think everyone knows this and believes it to be true. Those who pretend otherwise are just trying to get a rise out of Ronnie fans...
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by Holden Chinaski » 05 Apr 2019 Read
D4P wrote:I think everyone knows this and believes it to be true. Those who pretend otherwise are just trying to get a rise out of Ronnie fans...
I know.
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by Alex0paul » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Donald where’s your trousers
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by hendry_fan » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Well,thats a good semi line up,as far as players i like are concerned,as i like em all.
But my 1st choice is,Aye,you guessed it,= good young Donaldson.
If he were,nt to win,my 2nd preference is Robbo and Jack,i,m 50/50 on them.
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by Iranu » 05 Apr 2019 Read
D4P wrote:Holden Chinaski wrote:Dan-cat wrote:I watched that just now on loop, no way he noticed, he wasn't looking at the cue.
Storm in a teacup.
Of course he didn't notice. Ronnie has never done anything like that. He always admits to fouls. You can say a lot about him, but he's definitely not the kind that would parakeet. He would hate himself. He was gutted when he saw this foul in the studio afterwards.
I think everyone knows this and believes it to be true. Those who pretend otherwise are just trying to get a rise out of Ronnie fans...
I think he knew, and I am a Ronnie fan.
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by Dan-cat » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Watch it again Iranu, he's not looking, and the cue is in the rest so he wouldn't have felt it. If the cue had been out of the rest he would have felt it.
This is the man who after fluking a ridiculous black against Robbo at the Masters, got down quickly and butchered a plant in embarrassment next shot, hardly feathered it. I was there.
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by Iranu » 05 Apr 2019 Read
I wasn’t sure until he went into the studio afterwards. His reaction there makes me think he knew.
I don’t think it’s a huge deal though. He made a mistake in the heat of the moment, I don’t think he cynically failed to tell the ref.
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by Dan-cat » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Shame to take that win away from Markie D but given the furore that surrounded it i wouldn't be surprised if he did throw it, or at least if affected him mentally in the game.
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by Iranu » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Throwing that match would be 100x worse than not admitting to the foul.
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by csprince » 05 Apr 2019 Read
ronnie said he wished somebody had said something if they had seen it also said he would rather have lost than gone through like that not a fan but seemed genuine to me
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by Badsnookerplayer » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Ronnietards still going on about that lol.
You don't know and I don't know if he saw it. Does it matter?
Davis played pretty well to beat him next round to be fair.
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by Vallomas » 05 Apr 2019 Read
It's funny how easily Ronnie fanatics admit that their hero corrupted the rules (by saying that he losed deliberately to Mavis - which is not true, of course).
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by D4P » 05 Apr 2019 Read
Vallomas wrote:It's funny how easily Ronnie fanatics admit that their hero corrupted the rules (by saying that he losed deliberately to Mavis - which is not true, of course).
It was a no-win situation for Ronnie. Had he beaten Mavis, Ronnie-haters would have given him a hard time and said that he cheated and didn't deserve to win.
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