Ronnie O’Sullivan: SPOTY Nominee

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.

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'

Ronnie has about 7 personalities he couldn't be more qualified

Dan-cat wrote:Ronnie has about 7 personalities he couldn't be more qualified

Dan-cat wrote:Ronnie has about 7 personalities he couldn't be more qualified

DECLINE!

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

In other words, overqualified.

NEXT!

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?

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.

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.

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'

Judd Trump deserved a nomination for 2019 no doubt and maybe even this year too so not sure why he's not been considered!

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.

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

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.

Should be Selby. Ronnie’s too disrespectful.

Scooper wrote:Should be Selby. Ronnie’s too disrespectful.

Personality is the first thing that comes to mind when someone brings up Selby.

Andre147 wrote:
But it's good Snooker gets some sort of recognition, but Hamilton will very likely be the winner.

Yay! Go Anthony!

I can hear the sound of spoon against bottom of barrel

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.

Strange year to nominate him. World Championship aside, he was pretty rubbish by his intergalactic standards.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Alex0paul wrote:Broad took 38 wickets at 14 including his 500th which is pretty damn good

Against minnows West Indies and Pakistan.