Snooker Season 2025/26

Yeah That's pretty common. The qualifiers are warmed up where the seeds are coming in relatively cold. Qualifiers can run out of steam towards the and if they get there too. It's a tricky balance.

I was thinking that and you can’t call him He-man! Maybe “He” works. And his second name is awkward to spell.

If he spends 3 months a year here we can say hes a quarter irish.

(notice the lower case h refering to he - ronnie in the previous post as opposed to He, although if i'd started the sentence with he how can you tell)

JV would of come out with all the puns about Him? He?

2 years ago, I think about half of the qualifiers beat the seeds. There will be a few shocks surely again.

Finally managed to tune in BBC four, ITV4 and the BBC Red button on my satellite thanks to AI . Believe it or not have to turn LG TV network search to off when tuning them in.

All set for the snooker for next year and the WC. If the feckers move the satellites again I will go up in space and move them again 

World Seniors Championship…apart from a couple of Chinese kids is there much difference between that and the regular World Championships thse days?

Oh if you ever watch it, you'll see the difference in quality from the main tour. It's really poor by comparison.

The big players taking part this year will make a big difference, but that's because they'll probably get rid of the Dohertys and Whites early on. So the rest will be higher quality.

Standard should go up now that the world ranking criteria has been waived.

Given the age of actual world finalists recently, you wonder should the age be raised from 40*. But Bingham lost his first match, so we'll see how the others fair.

*I just think it's a bit mad Shaun Murphy is eligible, after just finishing runner-up in the main WCs.

I always assumed it was 50 myself until a few days ago.

It's a bit mad I think the organisers are caught on knowing what to do with the criteria there is likely a lot of quality players ready and willing to play in the seniors. But to me it seemed almost unfair this year Ronnie v the weak field.

Maybe there is a bit of, I am just annoyed that Ronnie became the first player to get this set of world titles - World Championship - World seniors - World u21.

And Ken doesn't look like completing the quadruple of World Championship - World seniors - World u21 - World Amateur these days etc

But I think there should be a ranking limit on it anyone outside the top 32 should be excluded I think. It's didn't seem right that Ronnie just played in the world seniors to gain "confidence".

I remember when David Lilley won it a few years ago he was emotional, even the prize was a massive amount of money for him. He was also allowed to play in the champions of champions etc. To me that is what the Seniors World Championship is ideal for giving players a chance that never "made it" in their younger days.

Shaun Murphy could have played less than a week from the World Final defeat! They might need to introduce a rule to exclude any player that qualifies for the Crucible proper or top 32.