by Iranu » 01 Dec 2020 Read
Ronnie has been confirmed as a BBC Sports Personality of the Year contender for the first time.
As much as SPOTY is little more than a BBC orchestrated circle jerk, it’s nice to see snooker finally get some recognition. This should have happened 7 years ago but better late than never.
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by SnookerEd25 » 01 Dec 2020 Read
My God, is that still going?
Was hoping that had been put out to pasture by now. Ridculous nonsense, usually donated to somebody with very little in the way of 'personality'
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by Dan-cat » 01 Dec 2020 Read
Ronnie has about 7 personalities he couldn't be more qualified
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by Alex0paul » 01 Dec 2020 Read
He won’t win
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by Holden Chinaski » 01 Dec 2020 Read
Dan-cat wrote:Ronnie has about 7 personalities he couldn't be more qualified
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by SnookerEd25 » 01 Dec 2020 Read
Dan-cat wrote:Ronnie has about 7 personalities he couldn't be more qualified
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by Holden Chinaski » 01 Dec 2020 Read
DECLINE!
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by eraserhead » 01 Dec 2020 Read
Ronnie is the definition of sports personalty. You can ignore his off table antics and he still has more charisma with the way he plays than most other sports people.
Won't win it though
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by SnookerEd25 » 01 Dec 2020 Read
In other words, overqualified.
NEXT!
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by SteveJJ » 01 Dec 2020 Read
And nominated in a year in which save for the worlds was pretty unremarkable by his standards. Was it one other final, one semi, one quarter? And losing to Hill, Ursenbacher and Castle?
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by Andre147 » 01 Dec 2020 Read
SteveJJ wrote:And nominated in a year in which save for the worlds was pretty unremarkable by his standards. Was it one other final, one semi, one quarter? And losing to Hill, Ursenbacher and Castle?
He deserved it in 2013, for taking a full year off and coming back to win.
But it's good Snooker gets some sort of recognition, but Hamilton will very likely be the winner.
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by TheRocket » 01 Dec 2020 Read
Andre147 wrote:SteveJJ wrote:And nominated in a year in which save for the worlds was pretty unremarkable by his standards. Was it one other final, one semi, one quarter? And losing to Hill, Ursenbacher and Castle?
He deserved it in 2013, for taking a full year off and coming back to win.
But it's good Snooker gets some sort of recognition, but Hamilton will very likely be the winner.
Agree with this. 2013 was the moment where he should have won. When it comes to this year I cant see anyone else than Hamilton winning it.
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by Dan-cat » 01 Dec 2020 Read
SnookerEd25 wrote:Dan-cat wrote:Ronnie has about 7 personalities he couldn't be more qualified
That quip reminds me of what Keith Richard said when he was asked about Mick Jagger:
'He's a lovely bunch of blokes'
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by Juddernaut88 » 01 Dec 2020 Read
Judd Trump deserved a nomination for 2019 no doubt and maybe even this year too so not sure why he's not been considered!
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by eraserhead » 01 Dec 2020 Read
Juddernaut88 wrote:Judd Trump deserved a nomination for 2019 no doubt and maybe even this year too so not sure why he's not been considered!
If he'd won it in 2011 then maybe, but it was overdue last year.
No one outside the sport cares unless it's the worlds so Judd will have a hard time unless he starts racking up world titles.
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by Iranu » 01 Dec 2020 Read
TheRocket wrote:Andre147 wrote:SteveJJ wrote:And nominated in a year in which save for the worlds was pretty unremarkable by his standards. Was it one other final, one semi, one quarter? And losing to Hill, Ursenbacher and Castle?
He deserved it in 2013, for taking a full year off and coming back to win.
But it's good Snooker gets some sort of recognition, but Hamilton will very likely be the winner.
Agree with this. 2013 was the moment where he should have won. When it comes to this year I cant see anyone else than Hamilton winning it.
Yes, for being brave enough in his principles to withdraw from the Worlds
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by Ck147 » 01 Dec 2020 Read
Juddernaut88 wrote:Judd Trump deserved a nomination for 2019 no doubt and maybe even this year too so not sure why he's not been considered!
His sporting achievements aren't that great [yet] and he's not a household name like Ronnie, them's the rules.
Hammy most likely to win.
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by Scooper » 01 Dec 2020 Read
Should be Selby. Ronnie’s too disrespectful.
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by eraserhead » 01 Dec 2020 Read
Scooper wrote:Should be Selby. Ronnie’s too disrespectful.
Personality is the first thing that comes to mind when someone brings up Selby.
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by SnookerEd25 » 01 Dec 2020 Read
Andre147 wrote:
But it's good Snooker gets some sort of recognition, but Hamilton will very likely be the winner.
Yay! Go Anthony!
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by Cloud Strife » 02 Dec 2020 Read
Juddernaut88 wrote:Judd Trump deserved a nomination for 2019 no doubt and maybe even this year too so not sure why he's not been considered!
You don't get SPOTY nominations for winning the NI Open and Gibraltar Masters. Just thought you should know.
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by Iranu » 02 Dec 2020 Read
Pink Ball wrote:Strange year to nominate him. World Championship aside, he was pretty rubbish by his intergalactic standards.
It’s no coincidence that he’s been nominated during a lean year for sport with the World Championships unusually visible amidst a reduced sporting schedule, the Olympics postponed etc, even something as small as Murray being injured.
Make no mistake, he’s been nominated due to, in the committee’s eyes, a dearth of choices.
Plus, it’s the BBC. As far as they’re concerned he won the biggest of three snooker events during the season.
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by Pink Ball » 02 Dec 2020 Read
Iranu wrote:Pink Ball wrote:Strange year to nominate him. World Championship aside, he was pretty rubbish by his intergalactic standards.
It’s no coincidence that he’s been nominated during a lean year for sport with the World Championships unusually visible amidst a reduced sporting schedule, the Olympics postponed etc, even something as small as Murray being injured.
Make no mistake, he’s been nominated due to, in the committee’s eyes, a dearth of choices.
Yeah, probably, but surely Mo Farah did
something?
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by Cloud Strife » 02 Dec 2020 Read
Iranu wrote:Pink Ball wrote:Strange year to nominate him. World Championship aside, he was pretty rubbish by his intergalactic standards.
It’s no coincidence that he’s been nominated during a lean year for sport with the World Championships unusually visible amidst a reduced sporting schedule, the Olympics postponed etc, even something as small as Murray being injured.
Make no mistake, he’s been nominated due to, in the committee’s eyes, a dearth of choices.
Plus, it’s the BBC. As far as they’re concerned he won the biggest of three snooker events during the season.
You can see that with some of the nominations.
I don't know what Stuart Broad is doing there, he's literally done nothing of any note this year, absolutely nothing. Not sure why Jordan Henderson has been included either. Then you have the token female nominee that nobody has the foggiest clue about.
It's really only between Fury, Hamilton and Ronnie who deserve to be there. I'd like Fury or Ronnie to win it, but I suspect Hamilton will.
There's no real outstanding candidate this year, mainly for the reasons you mentioned.
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by Pink Ball » 02 Dec 2020 Read
Hamilton is an outstanding candidate. I get that he drives by far the best car on the grid, but for the year that's in it and the records he has taken and equalled, probably the two most important records in F1, he'd win even in a vintage year.
O'Sullivan deserved to be nominated at some point. He's different class, and the nature of the win over Selby was jaw-dropping. But I think 2013 should have been the year he got a nod. That was insane.
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by Alex0paul » 02 Dec 2020 Read
Broad took 38 wickets at 14 including his 500th which is pretty damn good
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by Cloud Strife » 02 Dec 2020 Read
Alex0paul wrote:Broad took 38 wickets at 14 including his 500th which is pretty damn good
Against minnows West Indies and Pakistan.
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by Alex0paul » 02 Dec 2020 Read
Cloud Strife wrote:Alex0paul wrote:Broad took 38 wickets at 14 including his 500th which is pretty damn good
Against minnows West Indies and Pakistan.
Most Test sides are minnows outside of England, Australia and India tbf. He also did it after getting dropped for the defeat to West Indies in the first Test of the Summer
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