LSM Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Pork Pie said:  O'sullivan has been nominated for the BBC sports personality of the year award. As much as I'd like to see him win I think it'll be Beth Mead who totally deserves it as well. Agreed. I'd like to see him win it more for an acknowledgment of a career but Ronnie himself has come out and said he's not bothered if he wins it. Whether he truly means it is anyone's guess though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pork Pie Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Mead won which I can't disagree with. Totally deserving of it. O'sullivan does deserve all the praise he gets though. I know snooker isn't a physical sport but not many sports people can say they're still at the top and winning world titles 30 years after turning professional. January and February are looking good. Loads of decent tournaments coming up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted December 29, 2022 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 29, 2022 Indeed one of the reasons O'Sullivan has been able to stay at the top of the profession for three decades is on the count of his physical health - his running and keeping in shape has benefitted him massively both physically and mentally. Players like Neil Robertson have also adopted different physical-fitness approaches to keep in shape, which has several mental benefits including increased concentration around the table. Judd Trump is an avid gym goer too as I understand it. Mark Allen's physical transformation and weight loss has inspired some of the best form of his career of late. There's definitely something to be said for looking after yourself off the table physically and translating that into success in what's deemed a non-physical sport. ...I'd still like to see more characters like Big Bill Werbeniuk necking 20 pints a session though, or a non-cheating Stephen Lee spanking the cue ball with the immense power of his weighty mass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted December 29, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted December 29, 2022 We still have counterpoints though. Mark Williams subsists entirely on kebabs, beer and McDonalds and Rob Milkins finally notched a tournament win under his belt immediately after getting shitfaced and insulting a bunch of Turkish promoters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Ronnie tells a story in his first autobiography on how the absoloute best snooker either him or Jimmy White have ever played was in Ronnie Wood's gaf completely off their nut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted December 29, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted December 29, 2022 Ronnie would have won 12 world titles if he was still on the gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted December 29, 2022 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 29, 2022 I take it all back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted December 29, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted December 29, 2022 John Higgins has won fuck all since getting off the pies too. Hopefully he's put the Christmas break to good use and put on 3 stone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pork Pie Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Zhao has been suspended now. Crazy stuff. I really hope it turns out they're not guilty but something big has gone on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted January 3, 2023 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 3, 2023 Awful news again. Most of the players are based at the same facility, so clearly something rife within. Why can't these young gunslingers get involved with something else, like drugs, or steroids, or both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted January 4, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted January 4, 2023 It's so shit. Cream of the young players potentially done before really starting. We're left with "youngsters" like Hossein who is pushing 30, plus that Welsh lad who looks like he smokes 40 Rothmans every day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Gaffer Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Excruciating first afternoon of the Masters for Robertson. He played some truly horrible shots, seemed to be having cue issues, a fly had a go at him at one point, and all after driving halfway to the venue without his cue! He done well to fight back at the end. It's still funny watching Murphy try really hard to be snooker's weird Derren Brown/John Cena hybrid but I've typically decided on a whim now that I'm quite fond of him. If I was a snooker player I'd absolutely be commentating some of my own good shots. Fair fucks to the fella. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted January 8, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted January 8, 2023 I'm glad he's through just so I get to hear Ken Doherty say 'Shoiyne Moiyphy' on comms a few more times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted January 8, 2023 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 8, 2023 He's an absolute enigma. But unlike John Cena who I think at least had some self-awareness of why he could be deemed a bit cringeworthy, I genuinely think Shaun loves himself to the point where he'd surgically remove his ribcage in order to self-fellate. Mark Selby told a great story about meeting him for the first time when they played in the same youth set up. He was impeccably dressed and they used to call him the Prime Minister because of how well spoken he was. You can see it now - a suited and booted Shaun Murphy rocking up for practice pulling those silly faces he makes when he's looking for a path out of a snooker. And yet when he pieces it all together, he's really good to watch. He's also a fierce competitor at heart, and you occasionally see this when he lets his guard down. He wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire in the middle of a match - he'd through petrol on you and tell you that snooker is a sport, it's theatre, and his opponents would do well to remember that. An animal. Watch him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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