by The_Abbott » 11 Oct 2018 Read
Stupid boy.
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by Lucky » 11 Oct 2018 Read
Players not able to make a living. This is the result. I'd imagine it's absolutely rife.
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by Andre147 » 11 Oct 2018 Read
Another one?
Jeez....
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by chengdufan » 11 Oct 2018 Read
Jones' current ranking points are 132325. He's won over £130000 from ranking tournaments alone over the past 2 years.
By my reckoning, anyone in the top 80 can make enough from ranking tournaments alone to focus solely on snooker, never mind invitationals, exhibitions and sponsorship.
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by Deewee » 11 Oct 2018 Read
According to his mate on twitter (see snookerbacker's twitter account), he admitted to knowing that John was up to something and didn't come forward with the information at the time. If that's all there is to it, shouldn't be a long ban.
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by SnookerFan » 11 Oct 2018 Read
Deewee wrote:According to his mate on twitter (see snookerbacker's twitter account), he admitted to knowing that John was up to something and didn't come forward with the information at the time. If that's all there is to it, shouldn't be a long ban.
Hopefully that's all there is to it.
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by Wildey » 11 Oct 2018 Read
chengdufan wrote:Jones' current ranking points are 132325. He's won over £130000 from ranking tournaments alone over the past 2 years.
By my reckoning, anyone in the top 80 can make enough from ranking tournaments alone to focus solely on snooker, never mind invitationals, exhibitions and sponsorship.
The thing is John or someone has landed him in it.
He was mentioned at the hearing by someone and immediately hes been suspended pending ferther enuieries.
in short he didnt have to have known anything just that someone has said he did. WPBSA had to act what hes been accused of is in breach of WPBSA Rules.
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by Cloud Strife » 11 Oct 2018 Read
Good lad, Jamie. Nice one.
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by SnookerFan » 11 Oct 2018 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:What about Cao and Yu?
they have been waiting ages
Line for the men's room?
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by The_Abbott » 12 Oct 2018 Read
Has Bingham returned yet?
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by Cloud Strife » 12 Oct 2018 Read
The_Abbott wrote:Has Bingham returned yet?
From where? The men's room?
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by SteveJJ » 12 Jan 2019 Read
So pretty much the same charge as Higgins? Wonder how many of those who continue to call Higgins a match fixer will now do the same to Jones despite neither being found guilty of it. (Or if not, why not?)
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by HappyCamper » 12 Jan 2019 Read
SteveJJ wrote:So pretty much the same charge as Higgins? Wonder how many of those who continue to call Higgins a match fixer will now do the same to Jones despite neither being found guilty of it. (Or if not, why not?)
Not quite.
Higgins was approached about the possibility of fixing matches himself, appeared to agree to do so, then failed to report the approach. The match-fixing in the end never actually happened.
Here Jones has been proven only to have been aware of John's intention to loose to Dott, which he failed to report. So he was aware of an actual match being fixed.
Though John alleges that Jones had greater involvement in the arrangement, setting John up with the party who was looking to pay players to throw matches - but these were not proven in the opinion of the disciplinary committee.
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by SteveJJ » 12 Jan 2019 Read
HappyCamper wrote:SteveJJ wrote:So pretty much the same charge as Higgins? Wonder how many of those who continue to call Higgins a match fixer will now do the same to Jones despite neither being found guilty of it. (Or if not, why not?)
Not quite.
Higgins was approached about the possibility of fixing matches himself, appeared to agree to do so, then failed to report the approach. The match-fixing in the end never actually happened.
Here Jones has been proven only to have been aware of John's intention to loose to Dott, which he failed to report. So he was aware of an actual match being fixed.
Though John alleges that Jones had greater involvement in the arrangement, setting John up with the party who was looking to pay players to throw matches - but these were not proven in the opinion of the disciplinary committee.
Thanks for the extra detail!
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by The_Abbott » 08 Feb 2019 Read
Maybe John will really have a think in those 5 and a half years how to actually win a snooker match on the tour.
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by gallantrabbit » 09 Feb 2019 Read
Jones will be tainted. More than capable of earning a living from the game, the fool.
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by motorhead » 14 Oct 2019 Read
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