Minimum Break wrote:Doc wrote:I have been an occasional lurker here for quite a while. But today I just had the urge to join up - so I did.
I played snooker for 35 years before I gave up about 10 years ago due to arthritis. I wonder if anyone here will recognise my from my introduction. I'm not famous, but I was a decent player in my day. Not good enough to be a professional, or even a top amateur. But I played for many years at County level.
I have had two 147 breaks in practice, but my highest match break is 136, which I made in a pro-am in Bristol. My highest break in a one frame league match is 101, which I made in 1987 in the Mining Snooker League.
I have won the Cornwall County Snooker Championship once.
Hardly anyone ever called me by my real name. Instead I was known as either 'Doc' or 'The Doctor'.
If anyone does actually know me, they will identify me immediately from what I have written.
Will anyone identify me? I doubt it. I was a decent player, but I never exactly set the snooker world on fire.
Welcome Doc.
Are you still based in Cornwall? If so, you might have heard of a promising snooker talent from down that way named Bobby something. Just turned 17 and already knocking in centuries.
I live in Cornwall, but I don't know him. However, from looking at recent responses in this thread and another thread about looking up to America, it's obvious that some people here think that I am him, or possibly someone else who may have had an account here. (Remind me, are you 17 or 70 on this one?)
I searched the forum for 'Bobby' and it wasn't difficult to figure out that Bobby's handle was YanFan here. And, unlike my grandson and his friends, it seems that young YanFan has a vaguely similar, let's call it conservative, viewpoint on world affairs as me.
I basically stated that I didn't think the level of racism in America was as bad as it is being portrayed by certain left wing factions, and I was immediately personally attacked and then accused of being a sock puppet account.
And now I have received an email from a moderator to submit a form of ID to me to continue use of Snooker Island.
I was going to ignore it and just never visit the forum again. But than I thought, buck it, I may as well prove the accusers wrong and submit some ID. And, from reading some of YanFan's posts, it seems that here, if you ever said you have made century breaks, then YOU HAVE TO PROVE IT. So I will submit proof of that as well.
But does it really matter if someone has made century breaks or not? I don't think so. It doesn't make them a better person than anyone else. It just makes them a bit better than most people at poking balls around with a bit of wood.
Finally, this is all pretty pathetic. This is a bucking snooker forum, not a bone marrow doner's forum. This forum is just a bit of amusement, nothing more. I was hoping I would enjoy my time here. Just making the odd contribution. But now I'm not convinced that I will.
However, I'm not going to be called a liar, even by a bunch of anonymous internet users.
So watch what happens when the moderator receives my information.