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aarymark

Two articals on the back of the indo sports section have really annoy me today.Their both about the state of the game its lack of charactor and so on.the thing that gets me about is one is writen by a golf writer.
Talk about pot and kettle ffs take mr woods out of the game and where would golf be.Irecently subscribed to setanta for there pga tour coverage what a let down thats been if woods dont play there non avents.snooker is full of charactors but buy the nature of the game ie two people playing each other only the later stages of any tournament is seen on tv last 16 normally 32 for the worlds there aint too many charactors in the top 32 golfers in the world

maybe connie 147 or someone else here with a better grasp of the english than me might drop them a line

rafa no 1

Yeah read the article myself, that's a journalist just jumping on the snooker bandwagon, nothing to right about in golf so he tries his hand at snooker.
Woods out of golf and the audience goes, O'sullivan out of the snooker and BBC will still pull in the millions of viewers.

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Aaron M

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Spot on mate. It really annoys me when I hear O'Sullivan whining on about quitting snooker after every event. Any time he's beaten the O'Sullivan nut-huggers crawl out of the woodwork crying about how the game is dying and without Ronnie no-one will watch. These people aren't snooker fans. No player is bigger than the sport and technically speaking the standard of snooker is higher than it's ever been.

rafa no 1

Well said boys, snooker seems to be in great shape at the moment, this years worlds has the makings of being one of the best yet, 7/8 good players coming into some good form at the right time, come next monday evening when the final is nearing the end o sullivan will be a distant memory.

celticfc

From BBC Sport:

O'Sullivan criticisms anger Allen


Ronnie O'Sullivan's negative comments are bad for snooker according to Mark Allen, who won their World Championship second round clash 13-11 on Saturday.

'The Rocket' recently claimed the sport was "dying", but Allen hit back after beating the world champion, saying snooker had never been healthier.

"The things he says do more damage to the game than what he thinks," he said.

"Ronnie said he's carrying the game on his shoulders. I don't agree. If he believes that he should walk away."

The 23-year-old star from Antrim, Northern Ireland was in the form of his life on Saturday, overcoming O'Sullivan with a stunning performance in the final session in Sheffield.

The world number 16 said: "To play one of your heroes at The Crucible was a dream come true, and that inspired me."

O'Sullivan, 33, said his own game had been "very poor", conceding his opponent had played "brilliantly" and had a "great chance of winning the tournament".

During the UK Masters in January O'Sullivan said snooker was "boring" and on a "downward spiral", suggesting someone like X Factor's Simon Cowell should be brought in to make it more "dynamic".

After ending the Londoner's hopes of retaining the title, Allen said: "I don't believe any of that, and I take what Ronnie says with a pinch of salt.

"There are more than enough players to take the mantle. I don't think the game has ever been in better health player-wise.

"In any sport there should never be one player who runs the sport, and over the last few years it does seem that Ronnie has been doing that.

"He seems to get away with things other players wouldn't."

O'Sullivan was fined and docked ranking points last year for lewd comments at a media conference at the China Open and fined in 2007 after walking out of a match against Stephen Hendry.

He was also banned and fined in 1996 for assaulting a snooker official.

Allen, whose top 16 place is now guaranteed, faces Welshman Ryan Day on Tuesday for a place in the semi-finals and he hoped his career-best victory over O'Sullivan would not prove to be detrimental.

"I don't think I'll let that happen," he said. "Everyone who's left in the tournament is capable of winning it."