vodkadiet1 wrote:Pink Ball wrote:vodkadiet1 wrote:Today emphasised why Hendry is the greatest. Robertson and then Trump bottled their big chance to become a multiple World Champion yet when Hendry was faced with the biggest achievement to be attained in the modern era in 1999 and against the toughest oppostion he stepped forward and claimed the ultimate prize, a record of World Championship victories. That was the greatest achievement in snooker history.
It's just a pity he won his other six titles against the likes of sausage Head and Joe Bloggs, and is therefore, quite rightly, no longer considered the greatest player of all time.
You don't get it. When the pressure was at its greatest and against the toughest competition he succeeded. Today emphasised how difficult that was. Your opinion is just that and a very inaccurate one.
I await your friend O'Sullivan equalling the record. He couldn't take the pressure this year. Playing well and making lots of meaningless breaks in Mickey Mouse events may be a yardstick you use to measure greatness but I have higher standards. But please keep posting your theories as I find them amusing.
You get it but refuse to say it because you don't like it. That is the difference between me, a man of logic, and you, a man of likeable but foolhardy passion.
Hendry did that in 1999, you are correct, and it was a wonderful achievement. To my mind, it was the greatest single world title of them all. But one swallow doesn't make a summer. The record books show that, at his peak, when he and the class of 1992 (and indeed Ebdon and Doherty) were going toe to toe, far more often than not, Hendry failed. And often quite badly, despite continuing to trounce everyone else. O'Sullivan stood up to that pressure far more impressively than Hendry. You know this, but we know that you let your feelings do the talking rather than choosing what is logical.
O'Sullivan, who is neither my friend nor someone I particularly like or dislike, has stood up to greater pressure on a more consistent basis, and his achievements are more impressive. His achievements go far beyond 'mickey mouse' tournaments and century-break records. His greatest achievement is winning six world titles despite having had his peak coincide with the strongest era in snooker history, and that is the greatest achievement any snooker player has had. Hendry's seven titles are far more impressive than Joe Davis's 15. Steve Davis's six titles are more impressive than Ray Reardon's six. Higgins's four are more impressive than Davis's six or Reardon's six. O'Sullivan's six are fairly comfortably more impressive even than Hendry's seven. That was already the case when he had only five. This is the reality, and I know you know it.
You don't find my opinions amusing. If you did, they wouldn't annoy you to the extent that they do. And they annoy you because they smack of nothing but logic and reason that does not play to your misplaced urges.
Remember: the truth shall set you free.
by Holden Chinaski » 28 Apr 2021 Read
