by Johnny Bravo » 30 Apr 2020 Read
Sickpotter wrote: The thing about these guys is they still have the ability/game, they just lack the confidence.
No they do not, at least not to the level they used to play to.
Sickpotter wrote:If Sight Right fixes Hendrys confidence/yips issue and he starts enjoying the game again look out. :mosh2
If he ever decides to come back, he'll just make a fool of himself and be the laughing stock of the snooker world.
He's not even good enough to be a top 32 player anymore. He's 51 years old, for crying out loud.
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by SnookerEd25 » 30 Apr 2020 Read
Funny that - over the last three days i've been watching John Higgins v Steve Davis from the 2010 World Champs on YouTube, all 8 and a half hours of it (a session a day) and Steve played some of his best ever snooker to oust the defending champ 13-11.
Steve was 52
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by Johnny Bravo » 01 May 2020 Read
SnookerEd25 wrote:Funny that - over the last three days i've been watching John Higgins v Steve Davis from the 2010 World Champs on YouTube, all 8 and a half hours of it (a session a day) and Steve played some of his best ever snooker to oust the defending champ 13-11.
Steve was 52
Yea, but that match took place under special circumstances. The news about Higgins agreeing to parakeet had just came out, so his mind was far more preocupied with that than the actual match.
Plus it's just one match, so it's hardly relevant. He didn't do much for the rest of the season as far as I can remember. Also, due to his style of play, Davis was far more likely to be more successful at an old age.
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by Pink Ball » 01 May 2020 Read
Johnny Bravo wrote:SnookerEd25 wrote:Funny that - over the last three days i've been watching John Higgins v Steve Davis from the 2010 World Champs on YouTube, all 8 and a half hours of it (a session a day) and Steve played some of his best ever snooker to oust the defending champ 13-11.
Steve was 52
Yea, but that match took place under special circumstances.
The news about Higgins agreeing to parakeet had just came out, so his mind was far more preocupied with that than the actual match.Plus it's just one match, so it's hardly relevant. He didn't do much for the rest of the season as far as I can remember. Also, due to his style of play, Davis was far more likely to be more successful at an old age.
The news had not come out. He had not even been to Kiev by then. At least not for that infamous meeting.
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by SnookerFan » 01 May 2020 Read
Pink Ball wrote:Johnny Bravo wrote:SnookerEd25 wrote:Funny that - over the last three days i've been watching John Higgins v Steve Davis from the 2010 World Champs on YouTube, all 8 and a half hours of it (a session a day) and Steve played some of his best ever snooker to oust the defending champ 13-11.
Steve was 52
Yea, but that match took place under special circumstances.
The news about Higgins agreeing to parakeet had just came out, so his mind was far more preocupied with that than the actual match.Plus it's just one match, so it's hardly relevant. He didn't do much for the rest of the season as far as I can remember. Also, due to his style of play, Davis was far more likely to be more successful at an old age.
The news had not come out. He had not even been to Kiev by then. At least not for that infamous meeting.
This.
Lame excuse. Blaming something that hadn't even happened, let alone come out. It was announced during The Crucible final.
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by Holden Chinaski » 01 May 2020 Read
Johnny's talking rubbish again. Shocker.
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by Sauce321 » 01 May 2020 Read
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by Dan-cat » 01 May 2020 Read
Sauce321 wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/snooker/comments/gb5909/hendry_clarifies_comeback_talk/
Reality check from Hendo
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by Holden Chinaski » 01 May 2020 Read
Some laser eye surgery is all the man needs.
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by Iranu » 01 May 2020 Read
Holden Chinaski wrote:Some laser eye surgery is all the man needs.
As John Lennon once wrote.
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by LC » 03 May 2020 Read
Pink Ball wrote:Johnny Bravo wrote:SnookerEd25 wrote:Funny that - over the last three days i've been watching John Higgins v Steve Davis from the 2010 World Champs on YouTube, all 8 and a half hours of it (a session a day) and Steve played some of his best ever snooker to oust the defending champ 13-11.
Steve was 52
Yea, but that match took place under special circumstances.
The news about Higgins agreeing to parakeet had just came out, so his mind was far more preocupied with that than the actual match.Plus it's just one match, so it's hardly relevant. He didn't do much for the rest of the season as far as I can remember. Also, due to his style of play, Davis was far more likely to be more successful at an old age.
The news had not come out. He had not even been to Kiev by then. At least not for that infamous meeting.
The news of the world put the video out of him during the final that year, so Higgins went to Kiev pretty much straight after that defeat? The red he misses to middle in the last frame doesn’t look great either adding to the rumours
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by SnookerFan » 03 May 2020 Read
LC wrote:The news of the world put the video out of him during the final that year, so Higgins went to Kiev pretty much straight after that defeat? The red he misses to middle in the last frame doesn’t look great either adding to the rumours
Yes. That's exactly what happened.
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by Wildey » 03 May 2020 Read
Holden Chinaski wrote:I play acoustic fingerstyle guitar. I play a lot of songs that I've learned a long time ago and I play them without thinking about the structure of the songs or what my fingers are doing. In fingerstyle guitar, the right hand is often doing complicated things. The thumb is playing a bass line pattern while the fingers are playing melody patterns. Sometimes a friend who also plays asks me to show him a certain pattern. Sometimes it happens that I break down a fingering pattern that I've been playing for years without effort, and because I break it down for him I'm thinking about it too much and now I forgot how I played it and I need to learn it again myself! This has happened to me a couple of times.
I think this might be a little similar to the yips. When you think about something you've been doing for years with the help of muscle memory, sometimes the thinking makes you change the way you did it before..
Yea spot on.
Hendry was a complete natural it took him only 4 years from the time he first played on 6 ft table to win his first ranking event he's never been taught or coached his problems started when coaches started to dissect his game from Frank Callen to Chris Henry and Terry Griffiths he should have left all that alone at that time.
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by HappyCamper » 08 Jan 2021 Read
hendry plans to actually play! at the welsh open and the new pro series.
Stephen Hendry says he will “probably” make his sensational return to professional snooker next month.
The seven-times world champion revealed he was looking at February’s Welsh Open as a possible tournament for which to mark his dramatic comeback into the sport.
The news was revealed when Hendry joined Eurosport snooker presenter Andy Goldstein in a live Instagram chat on Wednesday afternoon from his home.
The Welsh Open – one of snooker’s most established ranking events – is due to start on February 15 at a venue to be confirmed.
When asked by a fan when ‘Crucible King’ Hendry was planning to make a comeback, the snooker legend said: “Probably the Welsh Open.”
Hendry also said he was looking at playing the new Pro Series event in March, which World Snooker Tour announced at the end of 2020.
Last year Hendry took the snooker world by storm when he announced he would be coming out of retirement following an impressive semi-final run in the World Seniors Championship in August.
Since then Hendry has been working closely with SightRight coach Stephen Feeney – a man who has coached recent world champions Stuart Bingham, Mark Williams and Ronnie O’Sullivan – to get his game back to a top standard.
However despite the headline announcement, Hendry has not yet featured in the 2020/21 snooker season.
He was planning a return for the UK Championship but announced a delay to his comeback in November because he wanted to play in front of a crowd and not behind closed doors and stated at the time his game was not yet ready.
But the likelihood of fans returning to live snooker events by the time the Welsh Open starts is almost impossible with both England and Wales in lockdown until mid-February at least.
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by Holden Chinaski » 08 Jan 2021 Read
Come on Stephen!
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by TheRocket » 09 Jan 2021 Read
Hendry was my 3rd favourite player in the 00's. After Ronnie and MJW.
Would like to see him doing well.
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by The_Abbott » 10 Jan 2021 Read
He's got Rory Mcleod in his group. Thats a toughen
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by LC » 15 Jan 2021 Read
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by The_Abbott » 16 Jan 2021 Read
LC wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/55680098
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by Alex0paul » 16 Jan 2021 Read
Why are the BBC not calling him out on this
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by SnookerEd25 » 16 Jan 2021 Read
They don’t hold Governments to account, why would they do so for snooker players?
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by Cloud Strife » 16 Jan 2021 Read
Alex0paul wrote:Why are the BBC not calling him out on this
Somebody really ought to call him and Hearn out on this.
If it was Ronnie pulling this sort of stunt he'd get dragged over the coals and we wouldn't hear the end of it, but for some reason Hendry gets a free pass.
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by Prop » 16 Jan 2021 Read
SnookerEd25 wrote:They don’t hold Governments to account, why would they do so for snooker players?
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by SnookerFan » 16 Jan 2021 Read
Cloud Strife wrote:Alex0paul wrote:Why are the BBC not calling him out on this
Somebody really ought to call him and Hearn out on this.
If it was Ronnie pulling this sort of stunt he'd get dragged over the coals and we wouldn't hear the end of it, but for some reason Hendry gets a free pass.
I thought everybody just already accepted that he looked a bit of a bernard because of this.
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by SnookerFan » 16 Jan 2021 Read
Besides, since when do the BBC 'call Ronnie out'? Before his match yesterday they had a group of players do a montage saying how great he was?
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by SnookerEd25 » 16 Jan 2021 Read
And what is ‘a bit of a Bernard’?
Swear-filter strikes again?
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by HappyCamper » 16 Jan 2021 Read
SnookerEd25 wrote:And what is ‘a bit of a Bernard’?
Swear-filter strikes again?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BernardBernardA tall, dark, handsome guy that is strong and brave as a bear. He always makes you laugh, and have a nice personality. He’s pretty much a humbled guy. He’s nice, friendly, cool, unique and a smart person. But usually not too focus at having friends.
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by SnookerEd25 » 16 Jan 2021 Read
Hmmm. I’m struggling to equate that with Stephen Hendry if I’m honest.
More a Mark Williams-type (if he were a bit more handsome but, hey, thats in the eye of the beholder, I guess)
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by SnookerFan » 16 Jan 2021 Read
HappyCamper wrote:SnookerEd25 wrote:And what is ‘a bit of a Bernard’?
Swear-filter strikes again?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BernardBernardA tall, dark, handsome guy that is strong and brave as a bear. He always makes you laugh, and have a nice personality. He’s pretty much a humbled guy. He’s nice, friendly, cool, unique and a smart person. But usually not too focus at having friends.
Yeah, that's not what I meant.
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