Badsnookerplayer wrote:Lovely to have you back on for the last sessions Chalk.
HendryFan - you sound like you are no pussycat on the baize. Great to hear you are going to get down the club and show that us old'uns can still mix it up. What you say about enjoying it is so important. So many people in the club get frustrated and I wonder why they bother.
Today in my club two chaps (must be in their seventies) were playing and getting real frustrated. Bearing in mind they must have gone because it was something they wanted to do. Anyway, one of them flukes a snooker and the other calls him a f***king c**t. The first one went and complained to Kat (the girl behind the bar - probably 23 years old). She came in and solved it all but really - if you can't enjoy it why bother.
I got beat today in a best of 11 on the last blue and it cost me a score but I enjoyed every minute.
I feel sorry for the people that never discovered our beautiful game.
Many mannnny years ago,in the 90,s to be more exact,i fully admit,i hated losing,probably got influenced from Hendry.
I had a spell where i played 4,5 times a week over about a 2 year period and it was very rare i lost.
I then discovered discos,partys,bars and got caught up in that,i in fact although i kept watching snooker regularly,i totally stopped playing for a good few years,i fell outta love with the game.
The main reason i started playin again was cause the partying started to get boring and i needed to find something new to fill time,kill time so to speak.
Because i did,nt find anything new that got a grip on me,i decided to give the snooker a go again,since then,as i wrote i, d go for a few weeks then vanish for a few weeks,i,ve been totall on n off for a long time now.
These days,of course,just like in the old days,i wanna win,tbh,deep down who does,nt,but if i lose,then it,s not a BIG deal anymore.
What sometimes bugs me now is,that there are a good few players in my club who are very bad losers and it annoys me tbh,maybe i,m too old now,but i just can,t put up with there rubbish.
There are a good few players i really don,t like playin against,jeez!,you should see how some o them react if you pot a cracker,or get a lucky snooker,make a biggish break,they start to mumble,shake there heads,even bang there cues n do other silly antics n throw their toys outta their prams,i just canny be doin with it anymore.
But i,m sure every club has them.