I never knew these videos of Steve talking with his peers & other legends existed until they began to pop up on my feed recently. Great watches.

This is the forerunner to Hendry’s Cue Tips

best snooker interview ive seen ,what a character willie was ,,,completely self aware and not afraid of calling out his own failings

Has to be one of the best commentators ever!!

Such a smooth voice.

Willie was very knowledgeable and always enjoyable to hear and watch.

WT is very much missed in the snooker world. Was surely a massive character back in the day.

Legend of the game forever

Rip willy always enjoyed when he was on commentary with virgo an taylor

I loved this. Sadly, he's no longer with us but what a character.

Its great listening to Willie thorne what a player

Really like this series, thanks for the upload 👌👍

19:32 Thanks for sharing these videos. It was great to see inside the Willie Thorne Snooker Centre again. Great memories.

Fantastic - thanks so much for the upload, I miss the Great WT.

Huge thanks for uploading this interview. Willie is unnervingly candid in this interview, and the stories and insight into his and Steve Davis’ mindset are fascinating.

Excellent interview

These are great. Thanks so much for posting them. If possible, could you please include the year of broadcast for these? It would be invaluable for those of us new to snooker.

Thanks for getting these interview back on KZfaq ,they are Gold dust.

brilliant vid

Great video. And wow didnt Willie get everything spot on in the early days.

Saying the exact same as Knowles did re the transition from the old tables and the one shot game.

Thorne was both a great player and a great commentator. Just like Davis, Pulman, Spencer, Taylor, Hendry, et al

I was waiting for the Mercentile Classic to be brought up...😂

I cannot believe Willie made over 175 maximum breaks! And 32 v Gary Lineker alone!! 😮 What a privilege for Lineker to witness them first hand. Then Mark Selby comes along and becomes the first player to make a maximum in the World Final. Is there something in the Leicester water? Thanks for the great upload

Good shit

As far as saying there just seems to be more better players because there are more, I’m not so sure re the old conditions because there was Hendry, Ronnie, Higgins, McManus, Ebdon, Williams, Doherty, so there were a cluster of players who mastered the old conditions, so it follows that there would be more than double that amount thriving under the newer conditions and indeed more under the old conditions.

Crazy that willy doesnt think john higgins break building is that good compared to the other top players back then. Fast forward to now and john higgins is one of the heaviest scorers in snooker and an absolute genius at break building.

Maybe it’s a generational change in terms of so many better players now, and if it was all down to conditions why didn’t Davis do better when they improved or did he find the transition too difficult?

Would have been interesting to see 80s version of Davis playing right now.

This is 99 I think and Willy was right then the conditions have made it too easy for the best players and even the lower players can play elite level occasionally

Now that race about Selby it's come full circle again

£38,000 on Doherty. All the bookies suspended the odds nationally coz W.T had lumped on. Back when bookies were bookies taking massive bets no questions asked.

When was this series on TV I can't remember it

Funny that Mountjoy 7-2 Thorne … but Mountjoy wasn’t pro standard, and he won the UK, and was World runner up.

Interesting the talk of betting in the context of the bans just handed out

all of this talk of willie playing for money, it must of led to his huge gambling problems later in life

Willie talks some.....

Shaun Murphy tries to be Willie Thorn 2.0

Nah, only Gary Lineker was "best of friends" with Willie Thorne.

funny story bout parrott 😪😂

And now pockets changed into absolute buckets as well

This is essentially Willie Thorpe coping about why he couldn't go a yard against the modern players. Too many balls on cushions back then. LOL What a clown.

This position nonsense from Willie, i thought he was a great commentator but not a great player. He is suggesting Hendry and those who copied and followed this more risky playing weren't proficient position wise regardless of his unconvincing qualification comment after. Davis and Hendry were truly exceptional what they done in so short a time, O'Sullivan has surpassed their records but it took him an awful long time to do so. These 3 are the players who one after the other exceed what came before but i reckon there is no likelihood given how long Ronnie took to get their despite many more ranking titles every year and now having played many more seasons it can go up a gear again.

hes dead

Willie didn't half talk a load of nonsense? Not mentioning Ronnie in the long shot catagory, plus he failed to mention John higgins. And to mention Mark Wililams and Matthew Stephens as two of the best long potters is laughable. The guy is loopy, honestly as Higgings is one of the best I've ever seen in around the black ball as is Ronnie and Hendry. Matthew Stephens and Mark Williams are okay but were never anywhre near the levels of Hinggins and Ronnie in their prime. Mark Williamns will even laugh at you if you put him in with Higgins and O'Sullivan in regards to long potting and break building. Williams always had limited skill levels, and he'll even admit that himself where as Higgins and Ronnie have every shot in the game.

Mr 147