Selby answers his critics
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Living Snooker - Posts: 35
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SnookerFan wrote:Good for Selby.
In honesty, he shouldn't listen to people who say he doesn't deserve the World Number 1 spot. He may only have two ranking titles to his name, but consistently getting to semis and finals has put him there. It's not like anybody else is consistently winning titles. People say that it's because he enters more tournaments than other players, but so what? If other players aren't consistently getting to latter stages of tournaments they shouldn't be rewarded for it. Whether that be due to them not playing well, or them not bothering to play.
If other players want the number one spot, it's up to them to turn up to the tournaments and take it off him.
Jewell wrote:Good on Selby for having the confidence to come out and say what he has but he has to prove it on the table.
He is undoubtedly number one on merit, nobody can take that away from him. But being a WORTHY world number one is something completely different. You cannot call someone a worthy number one, worthy world champion or worthy whatever if they have got there through the faults of someone else. This is the point I was making in my initial post.
Jewell wrote:Fighting talk from Selby. Let's see if he can back it up with some titles.
In that blog there, Selby says he has no reason to be worried about turning 30 because Higgins and O'Sullivan have been winning world titles well into their thirties. Well, I've got news for you Mark - You're not in the same class as Higgins and O'Sullivan! To compare himself to those two shows how ill-informed and arrogant he is, when they've won four each whilst he hasn't even looked like winning one.
Is Selby a worthy world number one? In opinion, the answer is no. He has got to that spot by default. If Higgins wasn't suspended for 6 months in 2010 he would be ahead of Selby. If Ronnie hadn't missed so many tournaments in the last two years he too would be ahead Selby in the rankings.
Yes, Selby has accumulated the necessary points to be at number one, and credit to him for that, but the fact remains he is where he is due to what other players have or have not done, as opposed to his own good play. Therefore Selby cannot be regarded as a worthy world number one.
SnookerFan wrote:Jewell wrote:Fighting talk from Selby. Let's see if he can back it up with some titles.
In that blog there, Selby says he has no reason to be worried about turning 30 because Higgins and O'Sullivan have been winning world titles well into their thirties. Well, I've got news for you Mark - You're not in the same class as Higgins and O'Sullivan! To compare himself to those two shows how ill-informed and arrogant he is, when they've won four each whilst he hasn't even looked like winning one.
Is Selby a worthy world number one? In opinion, the answer is no. He has got to that spot by default. If Higgins wasn't suspended for 6 months in 2010 he would be ahead of Selby. If Ronnie hadn't missed so many tournaments in the last two years he too would be ahead Selby in the rankings.
Yes, Selby has accumulated the necessary points to be at number one, and credit to him for that, but the fact remains he is where he is due to what other players have or have not done, as opposed to his own good play. Therefore Selby cannot be regarded as a worthy world number one.
So what? Ronnie deliberately missed those tournaments. If you miss tournaments, your ranking suffers. If Ronnie isn't hungry enough for ranking position he can't be fussed turn up, it's says more about him than it does about the person who is top. Ronnie not entering was completely his decision. He didn't want to enter and couldn't. He chose not to. Can't blame Selby for that.
Sonny wrote:Yep, being WN1 under a money list format will be completely meaningless. Selby will be one of the last proper WN1's ever.
You can see from win %ages above that the likes of Carter would still be behind because as a stay at homer he's still not winning a high enough %age to be as high up the ranks as the provisional money list suggests.
I hate the money list idea! With a passion!
Wild WC wrote:and also Selby did not pay for John Higgins flight to kiev.
obvious point that some with all due respect cant see and furthermore wants a ranking system that rewards players for staying at home.
Sonny wrote:Yep, being WN1 under a money list format will be completely meaningless. Selby will be one of the last proper WN1's ever.
You can see from win %ages above that the likes of Carter would still be behind because as a stay at homer he's still not winning a high enough %age to be as high up the ranks as the provisional money list suggests.
I hate the money list idea! With a passion!
Living Snooker wrote:SnookerFan - if your last post was in response to mine, I was quoting earlier posts that claimed Selby is "bothered" by it. The bottom line is that he wants to win the world title, and he believes he will. Speculation as to whether he's a worthy world No.1 does not "bother" him.