by SnookerFan » 07 Apr 2016 Read
Is The Crucible Theatre the greatest sporting arena of all time?
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by Dan-cat » 07 Apr 2016 Read
Yes. But I only really like snooker.
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by Andy Spark » 07 Apr 2016 Read
Which Crucible? The Chinese have built their own now.
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by Dan-cat » 07 Apr 2016 Read
Andy Spark wrote:Which Crucible? The Chinese have built their own now.
That's just some Barry bullocks spin.
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by Andre147 » 07 Apr 2016 Read
For Snooker, yes no doubt it is.
But I love Wimbledon and the Ausgusta Masters too, which is taking place right now by the way. The latter is not an arena of course
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by SnookerFan » 08 Apr 2016 Read
Andre147 wrote: The latter is not an arena of course
Close enough.
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by Andy Spark » 11 Apr 2016 Read
My views on the Crucible are somewhat different!
The Crucible is indeed a great arena if you like the idea of cramped facilities and World Snooker throwing thousands of pounds down the toilet each year. They could move to a venue of double the seating capacity and still sell out most sessions. Mark Williams got it about right when he called it a "shithole", but he forgot to mention the enormous opportunity cost of keeping the World Championship there; it's the most expensive shithole in the country.
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by Pink Ball » 11 Apr 2016 Read
Andy Spark wrote:My views on the Crucible are somewhat different!
The Crucible is indeed a great arena if you like the idea of cramped facilities and World Snooker throwing thousands of pounds down the toilet each year. They could move to a venue of double the seating capacity and still sell out most sessions. Mark Williams got it about right when he called it a "shithole", but he forgot to mention the enormous opportunity cost of keeping the World Championship there; it's the most expensive shithole in the country.
If you survived a plane crash you'd complain about the scar on your bottom.
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by SnookerFan » 11 Apr 2016 Read
Andy Spark wrote:My views on the Crucible are somewhat different!
The Crucible is indeed a great arena if you like the idea of cramped facilities and World Snooker throwing thousands of pounds down the toilet each year. They could move to a venue of double the seating capacity and still sell out most sessions. Mark Williams got it about right when he called it a "shithole", but he forgot to mention the enormous opportunity cost of keeping the World Championship there; it's the most expensive shithole in the country.
People come from all over the world to visit The Crucible because it's The Crucible.
Best atmosphere or any sporting event I've ever been to. Genuine.
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by Andy Spark » 12 Apr 2016 Read
SnookerFan wrote:People come from all over the world to visit The Crucible because it's The Crucible.
Best atmosphere or any sporting event I've ever been to. Genuine.
They come not because it's the Crucible but because it's the World Championship.
What about the people that can't come to sessions because they are sold out? Also, you talk of people "from all over the world", but most overseas snooker fans can't afford to come to Sheffield just to watch live World Championship snooker. Why can't the Chinese hold it every other year? There are about a billion of them and only about 65 million British.
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by SnookerFan » 12 Apr 2016 Read
I did.
I went for the first time because it was The Crucible, not because it was the World Championship. Of all the snooker I go to, it's one of the hardest for me to get to, but I wanted to go for the iconic nature of the venue. I've gone back every year purely for the atmosphere of the venue.
Out of interest, have you ever been? Not that I'm saying you don't have the right to a difference of opinion, I'm just curious.
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by Dan-cat » 12 Apr 2016 Read
Andy - you ever been to the Crucible? For an ugly building made out of what looks like breeze blocks it's magical for Snooker. I've been... 4 times now.
Also - I was wondering - do you like anything about professional snooker? I'm keen to find out
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by SnookerFan » 12 Apr 2016 Read
Dan-cat wrote:Andy - you ever been to the Crucible? For an ugly building made out of what looks like breeze blocks it's magical for Snooker. I've been... 4 times now.
Also - I was wondering - do you like anything about professional snooker? I'm keen to find out
He likes Ronnie.
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by Dan-cat » 12 Apr 2016 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Dan-cat wrote:Andy - you ever been to the Crucible? For an ugly building made out of what looks like breeze blocks it's magical for Snooker. I've been... 4 times now.
Also - I was wondering - do you like anything about professional snooker? I'm keen to find out
He likes Ronnie.
Who doesn't...? er....
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by SnookerFan » 12 Apr 2016 Read
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by Dan-cat » 12 Apr 2016 Read
I love the emoticons on here it's like being back in '95 when the internet took hold. Like the Crucible I hope Snooker Island never changes!!
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by SnookerFan » 12 Apr 2016 Read
Dan-cat wrote:I love the emoticons on here it's like being back in '95 when the internet took hold. Like the Crucible I hope Snooker Island never changes!!
A lot of newer emoticons are marmite, in my opinion.
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by Dan-cat » 12 Apr 2016 Read
Contrary (social role)
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A Contrary was a member of a Native North American tribal group who adopted behavior that was deliberately the opposite of other tribal members. The Contraries were found among the historical Amerindian tribes of the Great Plains. They were a small number of individuals loosely organized into a cult that was devoted to the practice of contrary behavior.
The Contraries are related, in part, to the clown organizations of the Plains Indians, as well as to Plains military societies that contained reverse warriors.[1] The Lakota word heyoka, which translates as clown or opposites, serves as a collective title for these institutionalized forms of contrary behavior of the Plains Indians. When Lakota Indians first saw European clowns, they identified them with their own term for clowns, heyoka.
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by Andy Spark » 12 Apr 2016 Read
I have never been to the Crucible. Touche! I'm sure it has cliché after cliché abounding in the "pressure cooker" or "that unique Crucible atmosphere", (which fewer than a thousand people get to experience each session). However, on matters epistemological, I am a rationalist not an empiricist so I feel no need to go to confirm my belief on the matter. Empiricists will no doubt disagree.
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by Pink Ball » 12 Apr 2016 Read
Andy Spark wrote:I have never been to the Crucible. Touche! I'm sure it has cliché after cliché abounding in the "pressure cooker" or "that unique Crucible atmosphere", (which fewer than a thousand people get to experience each session). However, on matters epistemological, I am a rationalist not an empiricist so I feel no need to go to confirm my belief on the matter. Empiricists will no doubt disagree.
I'm an empiricist then.
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by Andy Spark » 12 Apr 2016 Read
Pink Ball wrote:I'm an empiricist then.
Most people are. Which is one of the reasons my opinions tend to differ from the norm.
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by SnookerFan » 13 Apr 2016 Read
Andy Spark wrote:I have never been to the Crucible. Touche! I'm sure it has cliché after cliché abounding in the "pressure cooker" or "that unique Crucible atmosphere".
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by SnookerFan » 13 Apr 2016 Read
It is my belief that the only people who want The Crucible to move, are the people who have never been there.
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by Master Blaster » 13 Apr 2016 Read
It's a great venue for one table set-up but it's pants with the divider in place and the players have said so. So no, over a whole tournament, it's not the bees knees. It would be better if they took one of the tables somewhere else, or just moved the whole tournament to China so we could have a dedicated snooker theartre
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by SnookerFan » 13 Apr 2016 Read
Master Blaster wrote:It's a great venue for one table set-up but it's pants with the divider in place and the players have said so. So no, over a whole tournament, it's not the bees knees. It would be better if they took one of the tables somewhere else, or just moved the whole tournament to China so we could have a dedicated snooker theartre
Nah, man. The cramped nature of the match is what makes it special. The players could sit on the lap of the people in the front row.
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by Andy Spark » 11 May 2016 Read
I've been thinking and I wish to take back some of my comments. I've reflected and concluded that as I've never actually been there I shouldn't say that it's a rubbish place until I've visited. I'm a rationalist, but I'm also enthusiastic about science and science is empiricism, it's about seeing if something actually works.
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by Ayrshirebhoy » 11 May 2016 Read
Move it! Yes iv never been and couldn't possibly understand but it's far too small. Try moving it about a few years. A wc in Germany would be great.
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by vodkadiet » 11 May 2016 Read
The Assembly rooms in Derby give The Crucible a run for its money...
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by SnookerFan » 11 May 2016 Read
Andy Spark wrote:I've been thinking and I wish to take back some of my comments. I've reflected and concluded that as I've never actually been there I shouldn't say that it's a rubbish place until I've visited. I'm a rationalist, but I'm also enthusiastic about science and science is empiricism, it's about seeing if something actually works.
I'm not going next year. I feel I have suffered from Crucible Fatique the past decade.
Give it a go, if you're able.
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by Lucky » 11 May 2016 Read
Perhaps asking this on a snooker forum is a loaded question. It's a great venue for snooker but looking at sporting venues around the globe....
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