That passion he got for snooker is amazing to watch and hear , and great for the sport !! And hopefully he is the right guy to make it in to the Olympic family, and if he make that vision come through, that will open up the door for pool which would be fantastic for a cue- addict like my self !! Well done Mr Hearn, these steps the game has made under your flag does not come without hard work, so all hats off and thanks for your effort !! Cheers.....
Agree to disagree ? I think he is worth every single penny, and he deserve to have that power! First he has proven time after time that snooker is still growing and heading towards a very good looking future! And its a lot of strings to be drawn the right way to make it happen and work, and thats a big task i can assure you ! So he has to do something right ! Secondly, as long hes not an arse or simular, let him have those privileges alone, once again, he has to do something right that benefits snooker and taking it forward. Why all these lines ? Well its simple pure passion for the games with a cue. Cheers........
I like him too, he's a 'diamond geezer'. (I'm not from Landon 'London') I think Barry has vision, and the executive expertise to push through the right deals to progress the sport. Don't know about the push for digital though, I want to watch it for free, instead of subscribing to some provider or channel.
That'd make Ronnie happy, particularly. I'm all for that. Peeps aren't gonna strive to make breaks if there is no reward, they just might as well just pot enough balls to get passed the snookers-needed stage.
It would be good. In the UK it'd better but you need to first pay the bbc £150 a year to watch live tv. Then you need to subscribe to other services to gets sports. I refuse to pay the bbc so do not watch any live tv. A global snooker on demand service would be great. I would be happy to pay to be able to watch a tournament or pay a yearly fee ect. Would not be wall to wall snooker has I doute they would ever have the content to full 24/7 365 buy even if it only became active when a tournament started that would be cool. A problem might be current deals with the broadcasting people I would be they have stuff in the contract that say it cannot be some other ways
Showing live sport is not really the same as showing old films. You can watch old sport for free on UA-cam! The sponsors; BBC, Eurosport, etc pay huge amounts - the £20m - to show live sport but they won't if someone else can as well!
When he mentioned horse auctions for the venue of the Tour Championship I think that was a reference to Goff's so a good chance that tournament will be held there
Bob Snooker Goffs is an excellent for a ranking tournament. I stopped going to the legends rip off and most of the players just wanted to get it over with and get out of there
The shot clock is like the FA punishing defensive football managers. Not everyone can go out and try and score the most goals, just like not everyone can play a fast game. I prefer the faster players, but it feels like this new rule is pushing every player towards the same mould, which would be less interesting to watch overall.
I think 30 seconds is more than enough (and that's generous) to make a shot unless you're in a really tough snooker or something. No excuses. There needs to be some kind of limit. The game has to be played at a watchable pace.
yeah i agree with billywhitewolf, it's not quite the same as football, in football you can play more of a containing style of play and that would be called defensive play, in snooker defensive play has nothing to do with playing slowly, you can play defensive and not have to take a minute per shot. snooker players have been playing snooker since they were kids, don't tell me that they have to take over a minute to come to the table and see a possible shot on. as billywhitewolf said, unless it's a tough snooker, there's no excuse to take a long time to make a shot. obviously there are exceptions to this rule, several of them, but the argument is that a player just can't be taking longer than 30 seconds to make an average shot. go up to the table, think it though, get on the table, preshot routine and play the shot - this shouldn't take any longer than 30 seconds at most.
@@billywhitewolf then it could be a 60s limit. 30 seconds, from addressing the table, to assessing the (maybe 5 or 6 options) to making the shot. 60s is fair. Think the 30s target is a little to low tbh
Snooker players are in the sports business, Hearn is in the entertainment business. Shot clocks in ANY form whether that be over a match or season is a really bad idea. These are professional snooker player not performing seals. They all have their own style of play and that's what makes them so great. Hearn seems to be trying to turn snooker in to Grand Theft Auto for a younger generation. If the pros don't play the way Hearn wants then he will steal their money .... l hope all the professionals tell him to fuck off because he will get rid of them all if it suits him.
I think Barry is a great man for the snooker. He has done some much, and we all should thank him and the World Snooker for that. I don't think that a shot clock would be beneficial for the game, because of the nature of snooker. In fact, the name "snooker" comes from the situation where one is "snookered" and it takes most propably more than 30 sec. to figure out how to get out of there. Although I think that some players could be more quicker than they are now. We need more applications for streaming matches. Even in the World Championships I found it hard to find a proper stream online to watch the game I want to watch. I mean in every tournament, players play so differently when they are at the tv-tapble, compared to when they're not. For example, it is quite easy to predict Sullivan's game because he will always be playing on the tv-table, and therefor he will feel the same pressure and excitement every time he plays in a tournament. That is not for every player. I think that we need more live coverage from more matches. Then players will feel more meaningful and pressure when they know that people are actually watching them, cheering them, and living the moment with them outside the venue in all around of the world.
The real problem with snooker is there just aren't the characters in the game like there was in the 80's / 90's. People like Jimmy White, Alex Higgins, Dennis Taylor, Steve Davis, Kirk Stevens. The only one worth watching now is Ronnie. I have watched videos on UA-cam of Alex Higgins and the crowd was going crazy for Alex because he was such a showman and personality.
They aren’t going to penalise players that go over 30 seconds for any particular shot. It’s about your averages over an extended period of time, and most frames and most situations aren’t tricky enough to warrant > 30 seconds/shot.
I agree with you, its ridicuolous. naming and shaming players. not everyone can play at ronnies pace. and occassionaly u get situations where u have to take a little longer thinking about the shot just as Mark allen vs highfield match there was a situation where highfield feathered the white and allend didnt know whether to put him back in or take shot himself. took him five mins before he made a decision which paid off. with this new system players may feel presuured into playing a shot quick
Some players take as long as they can to put the other guy to sleep. Making the spectators sleep in the process. Which defeats the entire purpose of sport
on the shoulder barge, yeah it was nothing because they are friends for many years and use to practice together, both Essex boys. now if it were o Sullivan and Selby it might be made out to be more serious then it was.
Not (ONE) tournament in the America's North or South. No tournaments on the continent of Africa! The tour is to Euro-China centralized. Plenty of scope to reach expats + viewers in Canada or South Africa being two examples.
You will be surprised, I think it's going to be some of the lower ranked players and old guys like Nigel bond and those type. Mark selby is not slow, especially when break building.
He rather slows the whole game down by putting balls scrappy and making 40+ min frames out of it. That's a different kind of slow but still annoying as hell.
One second you are saying how great the Shoot-Out - an event with a drunk audience shouting - is; the next you're criticising football shirts as not giving the correct "perception". Make up your mind. Do you want snooker to be like darts, where people can wear what they like, be lairy, and drink? Or do you want snooker to be just watched by people in shirts, talking about how gentlemanly everyone is?
The latter but there can be a Shoo-Out type where its more relaxed and less serious. Shoot-Out should be somewhere between an exhibition and a non-ranking tournament imo though not a ranking one as it is now.
Frustrating for players like O'Sullivan who've maintained the interest in snooker and raised it's watch-ability and popularity, to think they could have nearly tripled their income if it was as of now. - They're responsible for increase in prize money, not Barry Hearn.
Stephen contribute a lot in his Asian tour last three or four year ago , pls view on utube .... can take as a reference... how to run tis for giving an opportunity for retire player and current player for more money support for their life not as u said winning in tournament to get money coz there are few hundred is hunger out there everyday ur plan is juz for the top player but u have to take care others also..... u totally money face and not taking care of ur staff (player)
you should never average over 30 secs a shot, there will be shots that can take over a minute but when in the balls a professional shouldn't take any longer then 15 secs a shot, I agree with barry on a avg no player should be taking over 30 secs a shot.
A shot clock tournament should be introduced. Max 25-30 seconds per shot with 1/2 time outs per frame. Players should be rewarded for speed of thought as much as speed of play and will also make the frames exciting.
Only the Shootout currently has a shot clock, and it is modified rules. Hearn also got rid of the Premier League which had a shot clock. I would personally like to see 1 or 2 tournaments per year with a shot clock, but I don't think it will happen.
There should be a shot clock. You wouldn't know its there because there would be no countdown timer appearing on the screen or anything like that and every player makes almost every shot within the limit so it would rarely run out. If they don't its a foul and miss their turn. The clock is not started in the case of a snooker where the ball is not visable. 30 seconds is plenty of time for a professional to make any shot in almost any situation. This would make players stop slowing down the game on purpose.
YES SHOT CLOCKS! (ahem Mark Selby) You could also publish a "negative shot of the week" every week, where someone refuses frame ball to play snookers for 20min (ahem Selby ahem ahem)
that is the best part of a frame, I just think players like Selby use it as gamesmanship and a psychological tool. there is a difference between good quality safety play and miserable division 5 "put the colours safe" and "slow him down" style snooker, which is what I was getting at.
Buffalo I see what you mean, but I personally love it all. Fergal O'Briens 2 hour frame I watched and loved it haha. But consider you're playing for tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds, why shouldn't you be allowed to slow down the game? I play bowls (as the username suggests) and I'll slow a two hour game down to a four hour game. Yes, it isn't needed, but it's what you do when you're trying to win a tough match.
I remember when Rory Mcleod did it to Trump and won and I was in stitches, the thing is Rory is much lower rated so you can't blame him. My problem with Selby is he's meant to be no1 and world champ and he plays every match as if he's 2nd favourite, putting balls safe and playing mind games instead of just getting in there and doing the business like world no1 should.
Buffalo Selby is one of the greatest break builders in snooker history don’t act like he just plays safe lol he ends frames in one visit more than most players do and his average shot time is 23 seconds witch is at the quicker end of the tour so the shot clock won’t affect him, sounds to me like you are just a Ronnie fan boy that hate on Selby because of his success
30 seconds for the average shot time is reasonable. If a player learned to play the game in a slow fashion - time to change... Other sports discourage time wasters, & it's about time snooker caught up.
Peter Ebdon is playing. He almost made the Crucible this year, lost to Ryan Day in the final qualifying round. He'll be world ranked 55 next season (to start with anyway)
ian b Selby is one of the faster players on the tour his average shot time is 23 seconds so it won’t affect him at all. The only player I can think it will affect is Ebdon who’s average time this season is over 30 seconds but other than that it will really only affect people at the lower end of the rankings.
How about giving the players a share of the gate, the ticket sales. Ronnie for example would earn a lot more, and rightly so, because of his style and personality. Selby the opposite. That's only fair
Hmm - but how would you work out what proportion of the money each player gets; we might all think O'Sullivan is the most popular player but how do you quantify that? But it's an interesting idea - I think at some events top athletes get paid - lots! - just for being there .
Barry don be so money face , if u wan tis sport to be famous , the snooker federation have to create an interesting for more country in many country, this u can take many reference on other sport not only satisfy in china , one day when china ben your game u got nothing like now china ben Korean products and culture u will got nothing. better take a reference on the sport of football how it promote to other country in the world. open more school in other country bring the sinor player to teach at oversea, more money and technic support in other country beside europe and china, open more training academy and help other country to develop in tis sport especially in thailand send more couch to help them build this sport to inference the Asean country create more tour in Asia and Asean south American, US especially, by study how badminton can move more faster than snooker to take place in olympic game, end of season send more player to do exhibition in oversea to promote tis sport like football get more tallent player in young age, and bring them to train in snooker federation dun only think how to get money in first beware one day tis sport will be put in museum. create ppl interest than money will come to u.
Selby's average shot time in last few matches: 24.4 25.5 21.2 25.1 21.7 24.4 23.6 25.2 22.4 24.4 18.5 I couldn't see any over 27 and quite often he was the quicker player. These silly rumours are often quite mistaken see, cuetracker.net/players/mark-selby
Barry Hearn comes up with some bad ideas. He just sees the £ signs and not the talent. Barry is trying to get a 30 second average per shot rule which will ruin the game. Snooker is snooker players livelihood. It would be like telling a football player "You can only kick the ball three times and then you have to pass it".
So now players will be "On the clock" eh? I wonder why 99% of businesses...and Hearn is dead right, thats what this is......always push for more output.....and it always leads to a downgrade in the quality of the product. Trying to force players into making hasty decisions just to please a bunch of impatient idiots is only going to lead to a lower quality of snooker.
That passion he got for snooker is amazing to watch and hear , and great for the sport !! And hopefully he is the right guy to make it in to the Olympic family, and if he make that vision come through, that will open up the door for pool which would be fantastic for a cue- addict like my self !! Well done Mr Hearn, these steps the game has made under your flag does not come without hard work, so all hats off and thanks for your effort !! Cheers.....
Agree to disagree ? I think he is worth every single penny, and he deserve to have that power! First he has proven time after time that snooker is still growing and heading towards a very good looking future! And its a lot of strings to be drawn the right way to make it happen and work, and thats a big task i can assure you ! So he has to do something right ! Secondly, as long hes not an arse or simular, let him have those privileges alone, once again, he has to do something right that benefits snooker and taking it forward. Why all these lines ? Well its simple pure passion for the games with a cue. Cheers........
why 2 spaces between every words? How do you do that?!? it's crazy...
Honestly I like barry hearn he did a lot for snooker,he is a real professional
I like him too, he's a 'diamond geezer'. (I'm not from Landon 'London') I think Barry has vision, and the executive expertise to push through the right deals to progress the sport. Don't know about the push for digital though, I want to watch it for free, instead of subscribing to some provider or channel.
"I won't mention the player, because its rude to mention... Hamilton" Lol, gotta love Barry
I both love and hate this guy in equal measure. Impossible to deny what he's done to lift the sport either way.
Matches broadcast via some form of media in Australia would be greatly appreciated
Jon Wilson Kayo should have it , they dont
Yes Barry he's a doing a better job than anyone else
Put some money into the 147 prize
That'd make Ronnie happy, particularly. I'm all for that. Peeps aren't gonna strive to make breaks if there is no reward, they just might as well just pot enough balls to get passed the snookers-needed stage.
So long Peter Ebdon.
Invest some of 20m into a snooker on demand service. Like netflix but for snooker. Could show all the comps around the world in one place.
100% a global hub for snooker
Lister TV - this is a great idea
Hell yes! Us poor Canadians are relegated to illegal streaming for watching this stuff.
It would be good. In the UK it'd better but you need to first pay the bbc £150 a year to watch live tv. Then you need to subscribe to other services to gets sports. I refuse to pay the bbc so do not watch any live tv.
A global snooker on demand service would be great. I would be happy to pay to be able to watch a tournament or pay a yearly fee ect. Would not be wall to wall snooker has I doute they would ever have the content to full 24/7 365 buy even if it only became active when a tournament started that would be cool.
A problem might be current deals with the broadcasting people I would be they have stuff in the contract that say it cannot be some other ways
Showing live sport is not really the same as showing old films. You can watch old sport for free on UA-cam! The sponsors; BBC, Eurosport, etc pay huge amounts - the £20m - to show live sport but they won't if someone else can as well!
What about a tournament in the Republic of Ireland Goff's is one of the best venues in the world . Maybe part of the home championships.
When he mentioned horse auctions for the venue of the Tour Championship I think that was a reference to Goff's so a good chance that tournament will be held there
Bob Snooker Brilliant Idea Goffs is fantastic venue and players love it
Bob Snooker
Goffs is an excellent for a ranking tournament. I stopped going to the legends rip off and most of the players just wanted to get it over with and get out of there
But your not part of the home nations , your foreigners
15:20 paint drying comes to mind, hilarious
The shot clock is like the FA punishing defensive football managers. Not everyone can go out and try and score the most goals, just like not everyone can play a fast game. I prefer the faster players, but it feels like this new rule is pushing every player towards the same mould, which would be less interesting to watch overall.
I think 30 seconds is more than enough (and that's generous) to make a shot unless you're in a really tough snooker or something. No excuses. There needs to be some kind of limit. The game has to be played at a watchable pace.
yeah i agree with billywhitewolf, it's not quite the same as football, in football you can play more of a containing style of play and that would be called defensive play, in snooker defensive play has nothing to do with playing slowly, you can play defensive and not have to take a minute per shot. snooker players have been playing snooker since they were kids, don't tell me that they have to take over a minute to come to the table and see a possible shot on. as billywhitewolf said, unless it's a tough snooker, there's no excuse to take a long time to make a shot. obviously there are exceptions to this rule, several of them, but the argument is that a player just can't be taking longer than 30 seconds to make an average shot. go up to the table, think it though, get on the table, preshot routine and play the shot - this shouldn't take any longer than 30 seconds at most.
no, these players need to understand they are ENTERTAINERS! I'm not paying money to see them take 5 mins to take a fucking shot!
@@billywhitewolf then it could be a 60s limit. 30 seconds, from addressing the table, to assessing the (maybe 5 or 6 options) to making the shot. 60s is fair. Think the 30s target is a little to low tbh
Great for snooker well done Bazza
I like this guy
AST is already listed on their website. No prizes for guessing who's quickest.
Forgot to add, of the 131 players listed. Only 11 are over 30 seconds AST
Barry earn$
James Adcock fk yeah
6:11 "tough shit" £250 fine heading Barrys way xD
I see his point only top players on point during the event will take the most like any other aoprt
6:24 Now THAT'S a man who knows how to run things. Hey Barry, wanna come work for us? There's a Cheeto in Washington that needs to be put out to stud.
Young Edward will be saying similar things come Thursday when it comes to boxing
Snooker players are in the sports business, Hearn is in the entertainment business. Shot clocks in ANY form whether that be over a match or season is a really bad idea. These are professional snooker player not performing seals. They all have their own style of play and that's what makes them so great. Hearn seems to be trying to turn snooker in to Grand Theft Auto for a younger generation. If the pros don't play the way Hearn wants then he will steal their money .... l hope all the professionals tell him to fuck off because he will get rid of them all if it suits him.
Eddie has a long way to go to match Barry's charisma and chatter
And you?
I think Barry is a great man for the snooker. He has done some much, and we all should thank him and the World Snooker for that. I don't think that a shot clock would be beneficial for the game, because of the nature of snooker. In fact, the name "snooker" comes from the situation where one is "snookered" and it takes most propably more than 30 sec. to figure out how to get out of there. Although I think that some players could be more quicker than they are now. We need more applications for streaming matches. Even in the World Championships I found it hard to find a proper stream online to watch the game I want to watch. I mean in every tournament, players play so differently when they are at the tv-tapble, compared to when they're not. For example, it is quite easy to predict Sullivan's game because he will always be playing on the tv-table, and therefor he will feel the same pressure and excitement every time he plays in a tournament. That is not for every player. I think that we need more live coverage from more matches. Then players will feel more meaningful and pressure when they know that people are actually watching them, cheering them, and living the moment with them outside the venue in all around of the world.
The real problem with snooker is there just aren't the characters in the game like there was in the 80's / 90's. People like Jimmy White, Alex Higgins, Dennis Taylor, Steve Davis, Kirk Stevens. The only one worth watching now is Ronnie.
I have watched videos on UA-cam of Alex Higgins and the crowd was going crazy for Alex because he was such a showman and personality.
Wheres the Wilder vs Joshua Part of the interview?
They should do a Las Vegas tournament!
Shot clock,ball in hand for any foul...show the yanks our beautiful game!
Ball in hand for a foul? This isn't pool
@@logitech2010100 would fasten it up to suit the American taste!
@@TheRagBag it's not like American bowl is fast. Have to stop every 40 seconds for an advert when the ball goes out.
@@logitech2010100 true but 9 ball tends to be fast,no drawn out safety battles, anyway just an idea
@@TheRagBag that's fair bro.
This is not the entertainment business!!! Snooker is a sport. Going over 30 seconds is needed at times
Sport is entertainment! - that's the one and only point of spectator sport - that's why people pay to watch - because it's (hopefully!) entertaining.
I do not think there is a problem with going over 30 sometimes but if your average is 30 you are way to slow.
They aren’t going to penalise players that go over 30 seconds for any particular shot. It’s about your averages over an extended period of time, and most frames and most situations aren’t tricky enough to warrant > 30 seconds/shot.
I agree with you, its ridicuolous. naming and shaming players. not everyone can play at ronnies pace. and occassionaly u get situations where u have to take a little longer thinking about the shot just as Mark allen vs highfield match there was a situation where highfield feathered the white and allend didnt know whether to put him back in or take shot himself. took him five mins before he made a decision which paid off. with this new system players may feel presuured into playing a shot quick
Some players take as long as they can to put the other guy to sleep. Making the spectators sleep in the process. Which defeats the entire purpose of sport
on the shoulder barge, yeah it was nothing because they are friends for many years and use to practice together, both Essex boys. now if it were o Sullivan and Selby it might be made out to be more serious then it was.
Not (ONE) tournament in the America's North or South. No tournaments on the continent of Africa! The tour is to Euro-China centralized.
Plenty of scope to reach expats + viewers in Canada or South Africa being two examples.
Offer one of the Chinese tournaments free for Amazon Prime customers and see what response there is...
I bet even the great Alex Higgins averaged over 30 seconds per shot some years he was playing.
of course not.
I wonder who are the top-ten slowest players and who are the top-ten boring players?
I don't think that even Ronnie O'Sullivan himself, who Barry admires so much, even likes him.
As much as I dislike Barry's ego , I still love his determination.
Good idea to drive down average shot time. But 15 seconds would be a better target than 30. 30 seconds is still soporific.
I don't think so. But perhaps 18 seconds would be more realistic for everyone else.
If the shot time rule goes into effect, Peter Ebdon will be bankrupt in 1 year lol
absobloodylutley 😆😆😆😆
Mark selby is so done when publishing the slowest player .
Drone man from Nepal he’s not slow at all always under 23 seconds
He was instantly the first name I thought of too - he's a Bus Parker!
You will be surprised, I think it's going to be some of the lower ranked players and old guys like Nigel bond and those type. Mark selby is not slow, especially when break building.
He rather slows the whole game down by putting balls scrappy and making 40+ min frames out of it. That's a different kind of slow but still annoying as hell.
Kornhulio18 yes I agree it is sometimes painful but mark Selby is still a class player and 3 times world champion.
One second you are saying how great the Shoot-Out - an event with a drunk audience shouting - is; the next you're criticising football shirts as not giving the correct "perception". Make up your mind. Do you want snooker to be like darts, where people can wear what they like, be lairy, and drink? Or do you want snooker to be just watched by people in shirts, talking about how gentlemanly everyone is?
The latter but there can be a Shoo-Out type where its more relaxed and less serious. Shoot-Out should be somewhere between an exhibition and a non-ranking tournament imo though not a ranking one as it is now.
shoot-out is just one tournament over 30 in a season.
Frustrating for players like O'Sullivan who've maintained the interest in snooker and raised it's watch-ability and popularity, to think they could have nearly tripled their income if it was as of now. - They're responsible for increase in prize money, not Barry Hearn.
I don't like to watch slow players, but for World snooker to name and shame them is pathetic
FreeOnGoal absolutely.
Not at all. It’s called accountability
being named and shamed is the only way they'll be forced to get their shit together.
Stephen contribute a lot in his Asian tour last three or four year ago , pls view on utube .... can take as a reference... how to run tis for giving an opportunity for retire player and current player for more money support for their life not as u said winning in tournament to get money coz there are few hundred is hunger out there everyday ur plan is juz for the top player but u have to take care others also..... u totally money face and not taking care of ur staff (player)
you should never average over 30 secs a shot, there will be shots that can take over a minute but when in the balls a professional shouldn't take any longer then 15 secs a shot, I agree with barry on a avg no player should be taking over 30 secs a shot.
Snooker don't need olympics
A shot clock tournament should be introduced. Max 25-30 seconds per shot with 1/2 time outs per frame. Players should be rewarded for speed of thought as much as speed of play and will also make the frames exciting.
madforit2 The Shoot-Out is a shot clock ranking tournament...
U cant change snooker barry!!!
He already did.
ok though..."we don't wanna be an elitist sport"...2 minutes later: "DRESS CODE!!!!!"
*BRING ON A SHOT CLOCK PLEASE WITH FUCKING SUGAR ON TOP. JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN. SNOOKER ISN'T CALLED A "BORING GAME" BY ACCIDENT IN THE PUBLIC EYE.*
hate hate HATE shot clocks. if they come in full time, im out.
He never once said there would be a shot clock.
MacZidane there has been talk about them, and he has them in other tornaments which i can't watch.
Only the Shootout currently has a shot clock, and it is modified rules. Hearn also got rid of the Premier League which had a shot clock. I would personally like to see 1 or 2 tournaments per year with a shot clock, but I don't think it will happen.
There should be a shot clock. You wouldn't know its there because there would be no countdown timer appearing on the screen or anything like that and every player makes almost every shot within the limit so it would rarely run out. If they don't its a foul and miss their turn. The clock is not started in the case of a snooker where the ball is not visable. 30 seconds is plenty of time for a professional to make any shot in almost any situation. This would make players stop slowing down the game on purpose.
Go back to making the prize money for a 147 to £147,000 if your giving big stacks on how much money there is fans want to see maximums!
YES SHOT CLOCKS! (ahem Mark Selby)
You could also publish a "negative shot of the week" every week, where someone refuses frame ball to play snookers for 20min (ahem Selby ahem ahem)
Buffalo what's more exciting than a player playing on to get a snooker or to steal a frame?
that is the best part of a frame, I just think players like Selby use it as gamesmanship and a psychological tool. there is a difference between good quality safety play and miserable division 5 "put the colours safe" and "slow him down" style snooker, which is what I was getting at.
Buffalo I see what you mean, but I personally love it all. Fergal O'Briens 2 hour frame I watched and loved it haha. But consider you're playing for tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds, why shouldn't you be allowed to slow down the game? I play bowls (as the username suggests) and I'll slow a two hour game down to a four hour game. Yes, it isn't needed, but it's what you do when you're trying to win a tough match.
I remember when Rory Mcleod did it to Trump and won and I was in stitches, the thing is Rory is much lower rated so you can't blame him. My problem with Selby is he's meant to be no1 and world champ and he plays every match as if he's 2nd favourite, putting balls safe and playing mind games instead of just getting in there and doing the business like world no1 should.
Buffalo Selby is one of the greatest break builders in snooker history don’t act like he just plays safe lol he ends frames in one visit more than most players do and his average shot time is 23 seconds witch is at the quicker end of the tour so the shot clock won’t affect him, sounds to me like you are just a Ronnie fan boy that hate on Selby because of his success
You do realise Ronnie is gonna slow the fuck down just to piss you all off
lil huatian lol
Hearns seem like a very intelligent guy.
Sam P he's a chartered accountant!
30 seconds for the average shot time is reasonable. If a player learned to play the game in a slow fashion - time to change...
Other sports discourage time wasters, & it's about time snooker caught up.
Good job Peter Ebdon isn’t playing
Peter Ebdon is playing. He almost made the Crucible this year, lost to Ryan Day in the final qualifying round. He'll be world ranked 55 next season (to start with anyway)
How much would the fine be if u got millions like Selby it's worth just sticking to his game and pay a fine
ian b Selby is one of the faster players on the tour his average shot time is 23 seconds so it won’t affect him at all. The only player I can think it will affect is Ebdon who’s average time this season is over 30 seconds but other than that it will really only affect people at the lower end of the rankings.
How about giving the players a share of the gate, the ticket sales. Ronnie for example would earn a lot more, and rightly so, because of his style and personality. Selby the opposite. That's only fair
It'll also encourage players to play faster, have a personality, and enjoy themselves more out there.
amit77 Selby the second biggest name in Snooker to O’Sullivan idiot
Albert Square yeah if u like watching paint dry. Depends what u like watching.
Hmm - but how would you work out what proportion of the money each player gets; we might all think O'Sullivan is the most popular player but how do you quantify that? But it's an interesting idea - I think at some events top athletes get paid - lots! - just for being there .
lsbrother well you could ask the spectators who they came to see! A simple Survey. Eg Ronnie, Ali or no preference. Simple
Barry don be so money face , if u wan tis sport to be famous , the snooker federation have to create an interesting for more country in many country, this u can take many reference on other sport not only satisfy in china , one day when china ben your game u got nothing like now china ben Korean products and culture u will got nothing.
better take a reference on the sport of football how it promote to other country in the world.
open more school in other country bring the sinor player to teach at oversea, more money and technic support in other country beside europe and china, open more training academy and help other country to develop in tis sport especially in thailand send more couch to help them build this sport to inference the Asean country create more tour in Asia and Asean south American, US especially, by study how badminton can move more faster than snooker to take place in olympic game, end of season send more player to do exhibition in oversea to promote tis sport like football get more tallent player in young age, and bring them to train in snooker federation dun only think how to get money in first beware one day tis sport will be put in museum. create ppl interest than money will come to u.
22:03 bet you saw plenty of those on Epsteins Island bazza
Shot clock, Mark Selby will be over 30 seconds.
23 seconds livescores.worldsnookerdata.com/TourPlayers/Index/14003
Selby's average shot time in last few matches: 24.4 25.5 21.2 25.1 21.7 24.4 23.6 25.2 22.4 24.4 18.5 I couldn't see any over 27 and quite often he was the quicker player. These silly rumours are often quite mistaken
see, cuetracker.net/players/mark-selby
no, actually 23 seconds.
He’s actually 23 seconds and assuming your a O’Sullivan fan who has 21 seconds average for the year
Albert Square
Actually, Ronnie is at 16.99 sec and ranked No1
Fury was robbed
Barry Hearn comes up with some bad ideas. He just sees the £ signs and not the talent. Barry is trying to get a 30 second average per shot rule which will ruin the game. Snooker is snooker players livelihood. It would be like telling a football player "You can only kick the ball three times and then you have to pass it".
For a pro snooker player to take more than 30 seconds to take a shot is like a football player taking 30 seconds to take a free kick. Inexcusable.
Have you watched Barcelona FC?
So now players will be "On the clock" eh? I wonder why 99% of businesses...and Hearn is dead right, thats what this is......always push for more output.....and it always leads to a downgrade in the quality of the product. Trying to force players into making hasty decisions just to please a bunch of impatient idiots is only going to lead to a lower quality of snooker.
snake oil salesman