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RunningSide wrote:

D4P wrote:

RunningSide wrote:His time at the top is coming to an end and trying to squeeze every pay day to the max.Snooker will survive after osullivan, it did after Hendry and Davis.

Yeah, but a big part of why snooker survived after Hendry and Davis is that it had Ronnie...

Someone will follow Ronnie, may be already playing, could have been Brecel????.

RunningSide wrote:His time at the top is coming to an end and trying to squeeze every pay day to the max.

D4P wrote:

RunningSide wrote:His time at the top is coming to an end and trying to squeeze every pay day to the max.

I think the same can be said to some extent about WorldSnooker. They seem more interested in squeezing as much as they can out of the old stars than in promoting and building up new ones. I think Hearn would be perfectly happy maximizing profits while Ronnie's still around and then letting the snooker tour fall apart or re-locate to China, while Barry himself then fully steps away from the game (or dies).

RunningSide wrote:Time for wst to take steps, it's not the O'Sullivan tour . He's not interested in the game or fellow pros.Lost all respect, hope he goes to China and stays there.

D4P wrote:It's worth noting that we don't know all of the details behind Ronnie withdrawing from minor events. For one thing, it's entirely possible that WorldSnooker doesn't want anyone to know that Ronnie is withdrawing until the last minute, so that they can sell more tickets than they would sell if his withdrawals were announced farther ahead of the events.

For all we know, the Snooker bosses might ask Ronnie not to announce his withdrawals (on social media) until shortly before the events begin. It would certainly be in their financial interest to make such a request of him...

Womble wrote:All that money and adulation. And he simply has to play snooker to get it. And he's never happy.

You have to be a special kind of spoiled brat to be unhappy all the time in the position he's in.

There's happier people living on the streets than Ronnie O'Sullivan is.

Pretty pathetic, isn't it, really?

Oh well. I'm glad I'm not him. It must be horrible being unhappy all the time.

Iranu wrote:I also create legions of fake personas online because I’m so happy.

HappyCamper wrote:joe o'connor done a maximum.

D4P wrote:It's worth noting that we don't know all of the details behind Ronnie withdrawing from minor events. For one thing, it's entirely possible that WorldSnooker doesn't want anyone to know that Ronnie is withdrawing until the last minute, so that they can sell more tickets than they would sell if his withdrawals were announced farther ahead of the events.

For all we know, the Snooker bosses might ask Ronnie not to announce his withdrawals (on social media) until shortly before the events begin. It would certainly be in their financial interest to make such a request of him...

carayip wrote:I doubt Ronnie cares about the ticket sales by the World Snooker. Also if he has made up his mind to not play certain events well in advance, he can simply not enter them at all instead of entering them, letting them make draws and then withdrawing.

D4P wrote:

carayip wrote:I doubt Ronnie cares about the ticket sales by the World Snooker. Also if he has made up his mind to not play certain events well in advance, he can simply not enter them at all instead of entering them, letting them make draws and then withdrawing.

I doubt Ronnie cares about ticket sales, either, but it's a given that any event will sell more tickets if fans are under the impression that Ronnie will be playing in it. It is therefore clearly in WST's interest to give fans the impression that Ronnie will be playing in an event, rather than for it to be widely-publicized months before the event that Ronnie won't be playing. This financial incentive might be enough for WST to ask Ronnie to hold off on announcing his withdrawals until right before the event starts.

Whether or not there is some kind of collusion between WST and Ronnie with respect to his late withdrawals is unclear, but it's not unreasonable to think that there might be. The fact that WST doesn't punish Ronnie would seem to suggest that they're not too upset...

Iranu wrote:I also create legions of fake personas online because I’m so happy.

Womble wrote:Is Holden Chinasdki Iranu's sidekick or is Iranu Holden Chinaski's sidekick.

I've never been able to work it out.

Womble wrote:Is Holden Chinasdki Iranu's sidekick or is Iranu Holden Chinaski's sidekick.

I've never been able to work it out.

Iranu wrote:

Womble wrote:Is Holden Chinasdki Iranu's sidekick or is Iranu Holden Chinaski's sidekick.

I've never been able to work it out.

We’re lovers.

It’s hot as hell.

SnookerFan wrote:

HappyCamper wrote:joe o'connor done a maximum.

The 200th, apparently.

And the first to be made on the 29th February, apparently.