Ronnie O'Sullivan: Help or Hindrance to snooker?

Wildey wrote:am i in the minority here.


id like to see Ronnie play snooker.


His fans prefer never to see Ronnie play it seems

Sonny wrote:I was disappointed he didn't enter the Indian (and was quite vocal about it) but then once I saw it was best of 7s and the relatively poor prize money I didn't blame him for skipping. It's just a shame he doesn't feel a duty as World Champion to be an ambassador for the game because I can only think of Carter and Allen as realistic WC contenders who would do the same and skip a lot of events that don't suit them personally. But Ronnie expressed regret at not entering Shanghai and seems gupping to get playing again so I think he'll turn up to most of the remaining big events this season and try and get in the PTC finals.

Regarding the crowd, it's just the ones who have a blatant disregard for the other players and have to shout "GO ON RONNIE" whenever his opponent misses that get on my tits but the problem is there are usually several of them at any one time. At the Crucible this year there was an Irish hammer in the row in front of me who kept having to shout "DIFFERENT CLASS RONNIE" and things like that constantly, totally not giving a rubbish how those around him wanted to hammer him one. And of course you had the Ronnie fan who brought the fart machine in and kept using it when Judd was down on his shot. It's only his fans that do things like that. I'm not tarring all his fans with the same brush but let's just say there are a vocal few who really get my back up and over the years they grind you down so that you end up wanting Ronnie to lose even though he's a joy to watch.

Sonny wrote:Andre you and others are not the type of fan I'm on about. And Grumpy Davros I didn't realise we disagreed so much

That poster Trumpster, he's the type, talking about Ronnie taking on World Snooker and winning and setting up a breakaway tour. Some people are so delusional.

Wildey wrote:

Ronnie O'Sullivan ‏@ronnieo147 12m

Any snooker players up for challenge match on tv if tv company wanna screen it? I'm bored and fancy a challenge

has it ever occurred to him there's plenty of challenges being put his way in the form of flying to Australia and India and he doesn't take up the challenge.

Jewell wrote:

vodkadiet wrote:

Wildey wrote:

Ronnie O'Sullivan ‏@ronnieo147 12m

Any snooker players up for challenge match on tv if tv company wanna screen it? I'm bored and fancy a challenge

has it ever occurred to him there's plenty of challenges being put his way in the form of flying to Australia and India and he doesn't take up the challenge.

O'Sullivan's bored. Now there's a surprise. Why doesn't he just play Grand Theft Auto all day. That is right up his street, or better still he could learn to read. I suggest he starts with 'The adventures of Noddy and Big Ears'.

I'm playing Grand Theft Auto 5 right now. Superb Game. Lots of killing, shooting things and mowing people over...

snooker_loopy wrote:His new comments could be serious:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-spo ... ts-2289212

Hmm, seems he's touched a raw nerve!If his comments make future sponsors think twice about investing in the sport then he could be trouble. A large fine perhaps for the classic offense of: "bringing the game into disrepute."

Weren't the snooker players told to behave when they use social media? I think they were. I can't remember if there were new rules about online conduct.

vodkadiet wrote:

snooker_loopy wrote:His new comments could be serious:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-spo ... ts-2289212

Hmm, seems he's touched a raw nerve!If his comments make future sponsors think twice about investing in the sport then he could be trouble. A large fine perhaps for the classic offense of: "bringing the game into disrepute."

Weren't the snooker players told to behave when they use social media? I think they were. I can't remember if there were new rules about online conduct.

O'Sullivan wouldn't care what damage he has done to the sport. He has made his money. Aside from getting people watching because of his style of play(which is just incidental), he has almost gone out of his way to damage the game. He just wants to make as much money as he can and then disappear, not caring what state the game is in when he leaves.

snooky147 wrote:

vodkadiet wrote:

snooker_loopy wrote:His new comments could be serious:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-spo ... ts-2289212

Hmm, seems he's touched a raw nerve!If his comments make future sponsors think twice about investing in the sport then he could be trouble. A large fine perhaps for the classic offense of: "bringing the game into disrepute."

Weren't the snooker players told to behave when they use social media? I think they were. I can't remember if there were new rules about online conduct.

O'Sullivan wouldn't care what damage he has done to the sport. He has made his money. Aside from getting people watching because of his style of play(which is just incidental), he has almost gone out of his way to damage the game. He just wants to make as much money as he can and then disappear, not caring what state the game is in when he leaves.

Not often I agree with you mate but I think your spot on there.

Sonny wrote:I've just been visiting relatives who are staying up here for a couple of days. Two of my uncles obviously know I'm into snooker (they've known me all my life so they know I've been obsessed from an early age) and all they wanted to talk about was what Ronnie said and saying the game is corrupt because of gambling sponsorship and that players are throwing matches all over the place. So there is first hand experience of people with a passing interest at best and how they view the game thanks to Ronnie's outburst on Twitter.

It's stupid because you could say the same about every sport, particularly head to head sports like tennis, darts, badminton, boxing or whatever else. Except you don't hear about it, only snooker. If it's going on in snooker then it's going on everywhere else because every other sport is contested by humans.

Jewell wrote:

vodkadiet wrote:

Sonny wrote:I've just been visiting relatives who are staying up here for a couple of days. Two of my uncles obviously know I'm into snooker (they've known me all my life so they know I've been obsessed from an early age) and all they wanted to talk about was what Ronnie said and saying the game is corrupt because of gambling sponsorship and that players are throwing matches all over the place. So there is first hand experience of people with a passing interest at best and how they view the game thanks to Ronnie's outburst on Twitter.

It's stupid because you could say the same about every sport, particularly head to head sports like tennis, darts, badminton, boxing or whatever else. Except you don't hear about it, only snooker. If it's going on in snooker then it's going on everywhere else because every other sport is contested by humans.

You are right there. O'Sullivan by typing a few ill thought out thoughts on his keyboard he sent the sport back a decade. As I say, he just wants to ruin the sport and then disappear from it with fortunes in his bank account.

I still say he should have been banned for throwing that match against Tian Pengfei. I don't care if he got money out of it or not, he still threw the match. After what he did in that match he has no right to talk about others throwing matches.

Even if he had accepted money for losing to Tian Pengfei he wouldn't have been banned. Snooker, at that point in time, wasn't in a position to be able to make do without Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Ronnie O'Sullivan was the owner of snooker in all but name.

Jewell wrote:

Wildey wrote:In your dreams jewell when the time is right and Ronnie oversteps his mark good and proper he will be banned. make no mistake about that one at the moment the misdemeanors have been kids stuff but Barry Hearn would not think twice of throwing him out of the game. the problem is with Ronnie would that be a punishment or just a way of quitting the sport without having to make the decision for himself

Whoever bans Ronnie will forever be known as the man that helped kill snooker.

Jewell wrote:
Whoever bans Ronnie will forever be known as the man that helped kill snooker.

Jewell wrote:

Sickpotter wrote:For those who don't grasp.the damage ROS can do/does with his ill thought out statements have a read

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/snooker/24186728

I wonder if sponsors really are worried or if Fergie is just trying to use scare tactics.

Jewell wrote:

Wildey wrote:

Jewell wrote:

Sickpotter wrote:For those who don't grasp.the damage ROS can do/does with his ill thought out statements have a read

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/snooker/24186728

I wonder if sponsors really are worried or if Fergie is just trying to use scare tactics.

why would he want to use scare tactics if there's no problem?


just let players tourist everything off and create media interests.


Sponsors do not under any circumstance want their product to be mentioned in the same breath as corruption.

Most of the sponsors happen to be bookmakers, probably why the regime have been getting so uppity about Ronnie's comments.

Fergie and Hearn clearly are worried about the well of bookie cash drying up, at least that's how these comments from Fergie come across to me.

Instead of doing their jobs they are trying the silence the one man the general public give a monkeys about.