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Ronnie O'Sullivan - true sporting great

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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    MrLargo said:

    Disgusting. I'm sure there's plenty of charities up and down the country who would have gratefully accepted that £10,000.

    Ali Carter said the same thing to the BBC .. said that all Ronnie ever thinks of is himself
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    Plus the Mercedes thing doesn't make sense, I'd love to walk into a Mercedes garage and they offer me one for £3000.
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    Once again proving what a knob he really is, hurry up and give up the game for good, no sportsmanship or integrity in his game at all.

    What about the fans Ron who pay good money to see you and would love to see a 147
  • Busterblitz
    Busterblitz Posts: 212
    edited February 2016
    I'll definitely be in the minority but I thought it was fantastic, though he was playing pretty poorly overall and then bang. Gutted for the fans?? They saw a 146. When was the last 146? He's wanted to do that for a while, and made it look effortless. He's an entertainer, not a humanitarian. Messi and Suarez's penalty comes to mind. Only Messi won't have made his goal bonus so public. Ronnie has always had a problem with speaking with emotion after a match, good or bad, and that lands him in artificial problems with the press.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,857
    My understanding is the 147 prize rolls over from tournament to tournament so he said 10k is not worth it, let it roll up so someone gets proper reward for doing a maximum.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,976
    Busterblitz said:

    I'll definitely be in the minority but I thought it was fantastic, though he was playing pretty poorly overall and then bang. Gutted for the fans?? They saw a 146. When was the last 146? He's wanted to do that for a while, and made it look effortless. He's an entertainer, not a humanitarian. Messi and Suarez's penalty comes to mind. Only Messi won't have made his goal bonus so public. Ronnie has always had a problem with speaking with emotion after a match, good or bad, and that lands him in artificial problems with the press.

    This.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    Well, at least you can't accuse him of only doing something for the money!
  • killer kish
    killer kish Posts: 2,019
    He only does things for publicity and himself and that's why he will never bea true sporting great
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,736
    Stunning 110 break in the first frame of his match today...
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    It's snooker, not to be taken seriously. Pub game.
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  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Like watching a bit of snooker but......snooker. Bit like Darts. It's a skill rather than a sport.

    Or a game - like poker.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    masicat said:

    It's snooker, not to be taken seriously. Pub game.

    I've been to a few pubs in my time, one or two. Can't say I've ever seen a snooker table in one though. Ever.
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    Willie Thorne has just called him a 'genius'. FFS.....Einstein is a genius you twat.

  • 1eyedtutt
    1eyedtutt Posts: 79
    masicat said:

    Willie Thorne has just called him a 'genius'. FFS.....Einstein is a genius you twat.

    Not at snooker he aint.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    masicat said:

    It's snooker, not to be taken seriously. Pub game.

    Anyone can play snooker - requires no skill. I'm sure you could beat Ronnie.

  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    killer kish said:

    He only does things for publicity and himself and that's why he will never bea true sporting great

    All the other sporting greats are extremely well adjusted - none of them seek publicity.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    1eyedtutt said:

    masicat said:

    Willie Thorne has just called him a 'genius'. FFS.....Einstein is a genius you twat.

    Not at snooker he aint.
    To be fair, Einstein ain't very good at football either. On account of having been dead about 60 years
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    1eyedtutt said:

    masicat said:

    Willie Thorne has just called him a 'genius'. FFS.....Einstein is a genius you twat.

    Not at snooker he aint.
    To be fair, Einstein ain't very good at football either. On account of having been dead about 60 years
    He ain't deaf
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

    masicat said:

    It's snooker, not to be taken seriously. Pub game.

    Anyone can play snooker - requires no skill. I'm sure you could beat Ronnie Corbett.

  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    Off_it said:

    masicat said:

    It's snooker, not to be taken seriously. Pub game.

    I've been to a few pubs in my time, one or two. Can't say I've ever seen a snooker table in one though. Ever.
    The Crooked Billet in Penge used to have one.
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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,792
    JiMMy 85 said:

    It's...not a sport...

    You may not like it, you may not enjoy watching it, you may think it shouldn't be on the telly, but by the definition of a sport (get better by practice, requires skill, involves competition, etc.), it's a sport.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,792
    "True sporting great"

    Probably depends on which definition of "sporting" one is meaning to use when referring to O'Sullivan:

    "Connected with or interested in sport" or "fair and generous in one's behaviour or treatment of others, especially in a contest".
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,813
    love watching Ronnie, about the only reason to watch snooker.

    wouldn't surprise me if the whole thing was cooked up by Barry Hearn to generate media attention on the sport
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    I make Ronnie right, only 116 147s have been made in the sport, so more prize money should be awarded.
    Great publicity as well.
    Is it a sport, for me not in the true sense of the word, no, but I still enjoy watching occasionally.
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    AddicksAddict said:

    JiMMy 85 said:

    It's...not a sport...

    You may not like it, you may not enjoy watching it, you may think it shouldn't be on the telly, but by the definition of a sport (get better by practice, requires skill, involves competition, etc.), it's a sport.
    Under this definition, chess and poker are sports. It could also include investment management as a sport.

    Neither Oxford Dictionary nor Cambridge agrees with your definition.
  • Ben18
    Ben18 Posts: 1,638
    It's only a sport if you have to change your shoes..
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Ben18 said:

    It's only a sport if you have to change your shoes..

    What about swimming (:
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    ricky_otto said:

    Ben18 said:

    It's only a sport if you have to change your shoes..

    What about swimming (:
    what about those verruca slipper things?
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    Steve Davis made the first ever televised 147. And he won a Lada car for his efforts.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    LawrieAbrahams said:

    Steve Davis made the first ever televised 147. And he won a Lada car for his efforts.

    Now there's a reason to pot the pink on the 15th colour.

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