Cannonball wrote:Imagine not being able to practice on a broken ankle the week before a tournament against the best the world has to offer, and winning it? If that isn't the definition of the world's greatest play ever, I don't know what is. And the fact that some won't even pay tribute to Ron's efforts is nothing short of disgraceful. It merely reflects on their lack of gentlemanly sportsmanship. Are you men or mice?
One thing i,ll give you,....
,....You,re the greatest ever Snooker Island clown ever,along with bein if not the most disrespectful,one of the most disrespectful snooker fans,Ronnie over the top fan boyz there has ever been.
You expect that some show some tribute,respect,appreciation for Ronnie,but when it comes to eg likes of Hendry,Selby you dish out way over the top disrespectful,horses**t yourself!.
I loved it when he stuffed Ronnie at this years worlds,especially cause of the likes of goofballs like you.
He won it fair n square,had nothin to do with luck,havin the run o the ball,playing negative snooker,what do you expect,or would like Selby to put all the balls over the pocket,sorry,snooker don,t work like that.
No one ever ever bottled a match against Ronnie did they,not in your over the top fan boy eyes they did,nt,nor has any other player bottled a match,it was <only> Jimmy that bottled it,Jimmy was a great player,he would beat the current crop for sure,just think of how good Jimmy would,ve been had,nt Hendry been around,he would,ve for sure been even better,Jimmy can still string a few wins together theeeses days and he,s absolute millllles off his prime.
All of Ronnies opponents have played strong against him,yeah,right,bla blaaaa,wake up out of that dream you,re in.
Ronnies been very,verry,verrrrrry lucky,the amount of times players have bottled matches,frames against him have been unreal,but yeah,you like to shove all of that under the carpet and act as if every match he,s played,he,s had it so tough!.
One thing i,ll agree with you on though,is,yeah,Ronnie played better than Hendry at the latter part of his carreer,but Ronnie has found a real goal to go for,he,s tryin his best to add to his CV,why do u think he,s so keen to do that and play in this UK,he full well knows that if he adds a good few more titles to his CV,especially the BIG ones,that the discussion once n for all will be put to rest as the greatest ever is concerned,but until he adds a few more,(if he even does that is),Hendry should be still regarded as the greatest ever so far.
What many seem,or would like to forget,is that Hendry still played decent snooker right up until the day he retired,at (43),in fact he only really had problems competing against the top 8,and he was country miles off his prime.
Here,thanks for bringing this up again,you just reminded me o somethin i just watched again the other day,....
check it out as from,...7 mins 50,....
http://youtu.be/JlV_kDJWK8kHendry states why he declined,i,m sure if he had,nt of won the worlds for the 7th time in 1999,then he would have continued to practice like he did in the 90,s,but hey,u know what,he won it for a 7th time,when he won it,he had achieved his main goal,anything from then on was a bouns,do you think he was gonna keep practising,goin on the way he did after all that he achieved,aftzer puitting so much hard work into it for over a decade!,he said it himself that his life was changin,and that he did,nt pactice so much,he was,nt workin as hard as he did in the 90,s,and who can blame him,after putting all the effort he put into it for all those years,of course he still wanted to win,but he lost the hunger he had and it did,nt hurt him as much when he lost as to when he lost in the 90,s.
Ronnie on the other hand,now that he,s in the latter part of his carreer is up for it more than he ever was,WHY,well it,s blatanly obvious,he realises that he has a great chance of attacking,threatening Hendrys records,he,s fully motivated,plus he knows full well that the standards these days are not high at all,he knows that most of the players have and still are playing weak against him,if that aint a motivation then what is.
Oh and here,i,ll chuck this in as well,.....
Open your eyes,peel off the tomatos,turn on your pea brain and read,look what Hendry himself quoted just the other day,....
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/gene ... 78951.html
,...."he sees the current standard of play in the professional game as poor".
So stick all o that up your jacksie.
You as well as all of the others players are very lucky that Hendry did,nt keep on practising,givin it his all at the latter part of his carreer,jeez,they,d be throwin there cookies out o there prams and would be spittin out there dummies.
I,ve said my bit and from now on if you keep trying to bring this up,i,ll just keep shoving these FACTS in your sh**ty,pathetic,miserable,sour grape face,.....
Hendry= Ranking event finals: 57 (36 titles, 21 runner-ups)
Ronnie= Ranking event finals: 39 (27 titles, 12 runner-ups)
Ronnies got a good bit o work to do,...he,s <only> got another 20 finals to make + another 11 tourneys to win,including 3 more of the most precious title in snooker,....the World Championships!.
So,i,ve said my bit,how about you showin Hendry,Selby not to mention a few others at least a bit of respect,recognition!.
Your not the only one who does,nt like to show Hendry respect,there,s many more out there who act as if he,s nothin,just look at what the man achieved,the record books,achievements speaks for its self.
Waffler Steve Davis is one of the BIGGEST culprits,he definately has a standards phobia,almost every time he opens his sour,bitter gob,he keeps saying,"the standards so high thesssse days",
he,s brainwashed himself with it,he,ll do almost anything to make the current crop and his Ronnie look better,tryin to hype up today super high standards is just makin him look like a clown,he might have fooled people who have,nt been watchin snooker that long,but he can,t fool snooker dinosaurs like me,the standards at present is as Hendry says,"poor".
He gives,gave Hendry hardly any credit,recognition whatsoever,it really is pathetic how he acts,yes we all know Ronnie an absolute gem of a player,but you rarely hear him say anything positive about the other gem= Hendry.
Hendry= Ranking event finals: 57 (36 titles, 21 runner-ups)
Ronnie= Ranking event finals: 38 (26 titles, 12 runner-ups)
And on a last note till the Masters,.....
Credit to Judd for comin back,but he gave himself faaaaaar too much to do,should have played like that in the first few frames or at least shown bouts of it throughout the match,up until the point that he knocked in the 2 centuries and a 90 odd his highest break was <only> a 56,after 14 frames i think it was,great standard i must say.
Ronnie was over par the whole of the tourney,and it,s probably one of the worst performances he,s served up in a final,but credit to him for comin through and gettin over the line.
Most of his opponents really have to start stepping up,it has to be said,most really have been terribly weak,rubbish against him for a good while now.
But,hey,well done Ronnie though,make the best of it,cause your opponents will step it up sometime.
Nice evening all,c ya all when the Masters starts!.