If people don’t think hendry was entertaining when he was at his pomp they are watching the wrong game. Basically no safety. Long red into the pack clear up

@@michaelmulhall5007 Hendry was one of the most boring players to watch along with Davis, If being delusional makes you happy. Keep at it!

Davis was to snooker as Thatcher was to politics. Made people tune in just to hope that they'd lose.@@user-jv9oy7vg5r

​@michaelmulhall5007 It's not that Hendry wasn't entertaining, but that he didn't care about being entertaining. He wasn't bothered about whether audiences were having a good time, as he was there to win. As a comparison, think about when Andre Agassi played tennis at around the same time as Hendry was playing snooker. Agassi was a showman, who did care about entertaining (though not at the expense of winning).

@@kwilson5832 LMFAO

This channel is one of the best things to happen for the sport. Snooker in the 2032 Brisbane Olympics yeah? Yeah?

but some people just wanna play snooker and are good at it and don't want interaction with strangers.

There is a snooker podcast on BBC sounds.

Just to add to that. Snooker is regarded as an “old school” sport. Seemingly popular with the old generation of people than the modern. Only those in the sport would know if this is accurate or not. That being said I know about 10 old boys, they all have their fav players they follow.. none of them have KZfaq etc. maybe a smart phone.. but I doubt they’d go out their way to watch videos such as these as it’s not considered easy access to them. Repeatedly, they all have their players they follow… but they rely on live TV snooker to watch them.. how rare is that… once every 4-5 months? even then their favourite players are on screen playing the game in the silence… my point being, some of these older generation supporters… which is probably a higher percentage of the demographic, they’ve never even heard their favourite players speak… because there is nothing out there that gets them involved on a personal level. (Despite maybe a 2 minute documentary pre match that may appear before a big game on tv). The snooker world is a silent sport.

This channel brought me back to watching snooker after 10 year hiatus

Good Lord I get such a kick out of Shaun Murphy. He is such a lovely chap and doesn't pull any punches. 😅😅😅

All facts too

at this rate, Sean's going to get kneecapped one day....

He also said Stephen had no competition. Bit of a bell end really

@@christopherrichardson5352 Smurphy turned me when the players were moaning about money and he said "We get good money for what we do. If you think you are being hard done by. Go and spend a few weeks on the bins in bad weather! Then you may have something to moan about. We have it good." A superb comment.

yeahhh

Yes please! it's fascinating to hear how he thinks about the game.

Can’t see that he’d be interested

@@KeithJawahir I guess? He seems really basic to me. And his opinion of whether the World Championship should ditch The Crucible has no value whatsoever, he is 100% biased as he lives in China and no doubt is also getting bungs to always say it should move to China.

Need a Ray Reardon full episode ❤❤❤

I prefer Murphy Vs usyk

Both would beat John Fury

@@Jim-so3zm lol

Bull-hard would claim he already knocked out 10 people

Murphy would need 3 sets of gloves.

Also most overrated player of all time competition. Mark Selby v Ronnie O'Sullivan! O'Sullivan probably win!

@@user-gg1cg6uz6v so you think Selby and ronnie are overrated ? What a joker 😂😂

@@user-gg1cg6uz6v Don't like this boring channel. But LOVE THE True GOAT Ronnie O'Sullivan 🐐 Love from Blackpool ♥🏳🌈🌈💞🥰💕🌈🏳🌈🍀🍀🍀♥♥♥♥♥♥

@@user-gg1cg6uz6v Melt.

@@user-gg1cg6uz6v Most overrated player of all time Judd Trump worst loss was at the World Championships 2022 VS THE UNDISPUTED GOAT RONNIE O"SULLIVAN.🐐Ronnie took his soul that day and mine 👍

Ding wants World championship in China .Keep it here in England.Also China is not a democracy so why should we help them .

I remember the ponytail Ebdon, he was quite fast. He used slow play as a tactic to beat Ronnie, but that's not breaking the rules and was quite entertaining. Ronnie eventually worked out how to combat that, all part of what made him a great player.

You could be onto something there...

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You're not gonna believe this

Mystic Meg here

Great prediction from 21 hours ago. Absolute melt

I like it at times but he goes too far with it, if he knew when to reign it in, people would like him more. He could get away with it if he was a comedian, but many people take him too literally. At times, he sticks by a statement that he then has to apologise for, that's not doing him any good.

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man, so agree with this, as someone else said in the comments, this channel got me back into watching the game, after seeing the personalties of the players that this channel shows, made me love the game again.

Since VAR, I have preferred snooker.

People don't realise the physical effort required to keep dead still to play a shot and not miss. I'm in my 50s now, but even when I was in my 20s I'd play a best of 9 frame match and was knackered and ached afterwards! Same for Darts - need to keep still to provide the platform to deliver the dart accurately with minute margins of error. That's why I say snooker and darts are still sports and not 'games'. Formula 1 is classed as a sport and they're sitting on their backsides all day!

​​@@SotonCueMan If you think car racing is just sitting around, then you are really out of touch.

@@SotonCueMan If you were aching after a best of 9 frames in your 20's that's worrying!

I agree but I get why some people don't like him, it's because he likes to be a bit pompous and over-the-top and that can seem snobbish to some people. But I think a lot of people wrongly mistake his pompousness for arrogance when I really don't think he is honestly arrogant. He likes to be cocky at times but to me, it's pretty obviously just joking around. Whenever he talks seriously about his own game and his place in the history of the sport, you can see that he's very humble and self-reflective.

because he's an echo chamber for the WST and thinks the authorities can do no wrong. also if he had his way then we wouldn't have seen the emergence of Si Jiahui which is ironic considering he's one of the precious few young talents who can reach the very top of the game

The reason I don't like Shaun, is because he said some things about mental health years ago. He comes across as a pompous pr**k. Then he kick off about losing to an amateur, then had to pretend he was sorry. He seems like a too faced, lying piece of sh*t. But that's my honest opinion, people are entitled to disagree and have a completely different opinion. I didn't like Stephen much when he was playing, but maybe that was because I loved Jimmy White. I was definitely wrong about Stephen and maybe I'm wrong again. I know I'm rambling but I don't want to come across as a troll because I don't like Shaun

Oh come on it's ok to like him but charismatic is not a word I would use to describe Murphy.

I love watching Murphy. He's a great player and up there with the best. And he makes the best faces.

A great channel and terrific videos. So much more informative and watchable than the lazy BBC coverage.

Ding wants to move the world championship to China we need to keep it here in England. And government needs to support up and coming talent which they don't this is the reason we don't see any World class British prospects .

yeah only took him 20+ years to start stringing some semi-coherent sentences

@@nitnesto9195 How is your Mandarin coming on? Knocked in any 147’s lately?

@@smarterproperty6378 i don't live and work in china so why the fuck would i speak mandarin? Nor do i play snooker for money. You make 0 sense, your logic is kindergarten level

Also reads better than Ronnie O'Sullivan who struggles with words. Especially on a screen. Almost positive the Irish guy will arrive here when he spends his life stalking people on KZfaq!

I think the point is that China would love to take over snooker and they are doing everything to grow young talent and encourage people to play. Whereas we maybe the leaders in snooker at the moment but there is a huge shortage of clubs to play in and even when you find one you have the travel, cost and hope there is a table free. It is just not as accessible in the UK. So if we do nothing to help the young then we risk losing our domination to China in future years.

Yes 😆 spot on.

I considered buying a warehouse flat, just to put a snooker table in and save on the club fees. The wife doesn't quite see it the same way though.

a 147 challenge only using the rest.

@juchetony1910 bit extreme lol I was thinking more of a 10 shot challenge with different aims to each shot and whoever is closest with each shot gets a point.

I like this as an option! I hadn't thought of that... Perhaps just as an option to evaluate.

I've been saying myself it needs to be rotated. If it's a WORLD Championship it doesn't seem right having it in England all the time.

Maybe the World Championships should be held in the country of the previous winner? If China wants it, they would have to produce a winner first. Seems fair.

if they actually taught Snooker I would have spent more time in school

Agree

He's only a former World snooker champion & multiple ranking event winner so what do you know. Seriously how are these guys allowed on Cue Tips? 🤔🏳️‍🌈

@@user-uc6vs9wf5b He's also an one hit wonder like Judd Trump. Both will never win a world title again. Keep posting pride flags,and be happy PuffWah Haha! Sado

@@user-uc6vs9wf5b LUCA, THE FRAUDULENT ONE TRICK PONY THAT FLUKED A WORLD TITLE

One of the best.. not the best, so ok to me..😊

He does,but the questions are for both him and the guests. They both have to say if they agree or not

@@davidmellish3295 I agree 👍🏻 but at least he should let the player answer first…

Actually he does, but most of them dont talk much.

I think he is trying to make players feel comfortable

I agree…he cuts them off and is desperate to shout his answer over them

as if Murphy's opinion on P.E. was relevant

How about every player that gets a 147 in a three-year stretch gets an invite to a tournament just for 147 winners and on top of that if you make a 147 in that tournament you get half a million?

I'd like to see a £1m 147 prize fund, with an award to all the players who made one, after the WC final, and split the money.

can we have a weigh in too, with Stephen Lee?

The much bigger problem with snooker in schools is the table requirements. To properly teach a class of 20, you probably need 5 tables, so that each student gets appropriate table time. And the space that is dedicated to snooker is a snooker only space. You can't do anything else with the space. That is a gigantic problem for the vast majority of schools.

He has an abrasive personality and I think he knows that, and leans in to it. Which I respect. But yeah he's a twat. A cool twat.

Bullard takes the piss out of people as well.

@@Kissmikerotch yeah I know. But this just seemed a bit dickish. Nothing wrong with a bit of bantz, and I suppose if Murphy is pals with Bullard then it puts a different spin on it. Just seemed a bit unnecessary.