Which player has/had the most cue power?

Which current or former player do you think has/had the most cue power?

Stephen Lee?

Why is Selby not on this list?

Stephen lee

Yeah - can't separate Lee, Trump or Robertson.

The others are all good but a class beneath

Badsnookerplayer wrote:Why is Selby not on this list?

Why would he be? He possesses a good amount of cue power, but no where near the amount of the players included in the poll.

Ash147 wrote:

Badsnookerplayer wrote:Why is Selby not on this list?

Why would he be? He possesses a good amount of cue power, but no where near the amount of the players included in the poll.

Well he topped the boring list despite not being boring so he might top this one too.

Superb vid Rocket.

I might include White on a par with Judd etc.

Think I was guilt of Time Eroded Memory.

Surprised that vid did not have the shot where he stops the white dead on the black in an exhibition

Yeah I agree BSP. The shot with the white dead on the black should have been included as well.

It should also be mentioned that White made all those shots on a thicker cloth. Today its much easier to make those deep screw shots. At least on most tables. Even though it has to be said in China there are still heavy conditions sometimes.

But White imo is not inferior to Judd or Robertson. When a guy is known for playing crazy exhibition shots you just know he must have a huge amount of cue power.

Yeah - I should not have excluded White.

This is the shot I was talking about but I am sure I have seen it in better quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-91ZCBVUes

Badsnookerplayer wrote:Yeah - I should not have excluded White.

This is the shot I was talking about but I am sure I have seen it in better quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-91ZCBVUes

Brilliant!

Loads of topspin On the White so it Turns into backspin after bouncing of the cushion i guess

rekoons wrote:Loads of topspin On the White so it Turns into backspin after bouncing of the cushion i guess

Yeah - I can play it now but not to that level.

Lots and lots of top - push the cue right through and don't hit it too hard.

Lovely

Ronnie has the cue power, he just chooses not to use it.

A bit like comedian Stewart Lee - he can write jokes, he just chooses not to.

Dan-cat wrote:Ronnie has the cue power, he just chooses not to use it.

A bit like comedian Stewart Lee - he can write jokes, he just chooses not to.

He actually had a lot more cue power in the early 00's. But has declined in that department since then. Probably due to age.

He could never play a shot like this these days. He's become more of a finesse player now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuYBPlmxz58#t=4h06m32s

D4P wrote:

Dan-cat wrote:Ronnie has the cue power, he just chooses not to use it.

1. It's probably also true that the better one's cue ball control, the less one needs to use a lot of cue power in the first place.

2. Ronnie would be #1 on the list of "cue power in the non-dominant hand"

Agree with both points

Judd by 5 country miles.

He used to play those power screw shots in his 20s. He doesn't anymore, because they are not the best shot to play... and that is his obsession these days, playing the correct shot.

I'm actually quite surprised that the knowledgable posters on here don't make this connection.

There is no reason at all why he couldn't play those shots now, if anything he's physically stronger and no-one can argue that his technique is worse.

Dan-cat wrote:He used to play those power screw shots in his 20s. He doesn't anymore, because they are not the best shot to play... and that is his obsession these days, playing the correct shot.

I'm actually quite surprised that the knowledgable posters on here don't make this connection.

There is no reason at all why he couldn't play those shots now, if anything he's physically stronger and no-one can argue that his technique is worse.

Ronnie himself has admitted fairly recently that he lacks cue power. I believe it was in one of the Eurosport mid-session videos where Ronnie and Jimmy try to recreate certain shots.

Dan-cat wrote:He used to play those power screw shots in his 20s. He doesn't anymore, because they are not the best shot to play... and that is his obsession these days, playing the correct shot.

I'm actually quite surprised that the knowledgable posters on here don't make this connection.

There is no reason at all why he couldn't play those shots now, if anything he's physically stronger and no-one can argue that his technique is worse.

He does have great cuepower. However, I don't think it is anything like Judd,Robbo, Lee or White in his prime.

RONNIE IS THE BEST AT EVERYTHING

PATHETIC

Dan-cat wrote:RONNIE IS THE BEST AT EVERYTHING

PATHETIC

I giggled as I posted that imagine if a new lurker was reading this

I think Ronnie was being falsely modest in that segment

He had a lot of cue power in his 20a, that example TR showed plus a deep screw shot he made in 2001 against Swail at the same WC prove that. However, Trump, Robbo and Jimmy are a different league in that individual aspect.

I voted Jimmy because he could play those full lenght deep screw shots on the thicker cloths.