It’s a psychological technique he’s mastered over the last 3 decades. He knows how to get himself fired up and how to break his opponents. He doesn’t have any interest in being a Tim Henman or David Beckham like squeaky clean classy professional because he knows that isn’t what drives him and gets the best out of him. He needs to be the villain.
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He's been really ill
Now I feel bad for kind of rooting for Carter now.
What a dick!
What a dick!
Why, he's bang average.
Yeah, telling someone who suffered from testicular cancer that he needs to "grow some balls" is top draw banter.
He's a miserable, prickly, sulky bastard but I think life's given him reasons. The bloke's struggled with various bouts of cancer and has Crohn's disease. I think it might've taught him to be bloody minded and combative. He's not exactly brilliant at his main profession either. He seems to have had to battle hard for everything he's got.
He’s MAGA who believes the election was stolen and every other conspiracy going
Ask the GOAT, he rates him.
Couldn't care less tbh.
I love Ronnie as a snooker player but a silent, cue-wielding genius snooker player. No sooner does he speak, I switch off, says nothing of value tbh.
Every single one of his interviews is an absolute trainwreck.
He also looks like that nonce who was in the green mile.
I thought this was a joke until I googled
Meh. We used to have Alex Higgins, now his behavior was really outrageous.
I thought this was a joke until I googled
fecking hell, turns out he is an absolute bellend of the highest order.
No wonder Ronnie has been saying for years that he's an angry little twat
gwan Ronnie tear him a new oneI think we all know what this means about the anti-Ronnie brigade! Our boy knows the secrets.
Also: Judd Trump rounds on Ali Carter's 'childish' behaviour after defeat | World Snooker Championship | The Guardian
Once again Ronnie was right, they all know.
Also: Judd Trump rounds on Ali Carter's 'childish' behaviour after defeat | World Snooker Championship | The Guardian
Once again Ronnie was right, they all know.
I thought this was a joke until I googled
Same ffs
Gets worse with his anti vax nonsense during the pandemic with him being a 2 time cancer survivor as well. He woke up one morning and thought feck the doctors
Snooker? He’s literally one of the best in the world
Comes across like a knob here today too - cracking pot on the brown though.
https://x.com/wearewst/status/1747329279107453371?s=46&t=3cSPEXx54yOkvLX_Hq8XPw
https://x.com/wearewst/status/1747329279107453371?s=46&t=3cSPEXx54yOkvLX_Hq8XPw
To be fair he has a right to be frustrated there because it's very similar to a shot he faced during the Masters when he was forced in to a foul behind the baulk line, so I think he was just cursing his luck.
As you say though, great pot in the end!
As you say though, great pot in the end!
That's quite funny. Wasn't expecting the article to be 11 years old.
I was just looking up Ali Carter and this thing about being a right-wing conspiracy prick (which he is) and that popped up
Did anyone see the incident with William and Vafaei last night?
Vafaei walked off (lost) and didn't shake Williams' hand, so Williams tracked him down backstage and asked what it was about.
Apparently it was because when Williams missed the pink which ended up being the last shot of the match, he slapped his thigh in frustration because he thought Vafaei would come back and play for snookers so it was a bit careless.
Vafaei shook the ref's hand and walked off, god knows how he interpreted the gesture but in terms of overreactions it's right up there.
And I don't like defending Williams because he's far from my favourite player and we had a bit of a social media exchange a few years ago
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There was also a bizarre incident in the same frame where the balls were being replaced after a miss had been called. Williams picked up the white as a joke so the ref couldn't find it when he went back to baulk after replacing the pink and reds.
I think it was Olivier Marteel the ref, he got the white off Williams and told him that players aren't allowed to pick up any balls other than when it's their shot from the D. Cost him 7 penalty points!
Vafaei walked off (lost) and didn't shake Williams' hand, so Williams tracked him down backstage and asked what it was about.
Apparently it was because when Williams missed the pink which ended up being the last shot of the match, he slapped his thigh in frustration because he thought Vafaei would come back and play for snookers so it was a bit careless.
Vafaei shook the ref's hand and walked off, god knows how he interpreted the gesture but in terms of overreactions it's right up there.
And I don't like defending Williams because he's far from my favourite player and we had a bit of a social media exchange a few years ago
.There was also a bizarre incident in the same frame where the balls were being replaced after a miss had been called. Williams picked up the white as a joke so the ref couldn't find it when he went back to baulk after replacing the pink and reds.
I think it was Olivier Marteel the ref, he got the white off Williams and told him that players aren't allowed to pick up any balls other than when it's their shot from the D. Cost him 7 penalty points!
Yeah, both strange moments.Did anyone see the incident with William and Vafaei last night?
Vafaei walked off (lost) and didn't shake Williams' hand, so Williams tracked him down backstage and asked what it was about.
Apparently it was because when Williams missed the pink which ended up being the last shot of the match, he slapped his thigh in frustration because he thought Vafaei would come back and play for snookers so it was a bit careless.
Vafaei shook the ref's hand and walked off, god knows how he interpreted the gesture but in terms of overreactions it's right up there.
And I don't like defending Williams because he's far from my favourite player and we had a bit of a social media exchange a few years ago
There was also a bizarre incident in the same frame where the balls were being replaced after a miss had been called. Williams picked up the white as a joke so the ref couldn't find it when he went back to baulk after replacing the pink and reds.
I think it was Olivier Marteel the ref, he got the white off Williams and told him that players aren't allowed to pick up any balls other than when it's their shot from the D. Cost him 7 penalty points!
And there was another one in the second frame when Vafaei miscounted and 'completed' his break by just potting the pink without making an effort to get on the black - but as scores had been level then the pink only put him 6 in front and it was still a black ball game! He ended up losing that frame as well.
I think that frustration (only himself to blame!) maybe played a part in his over reaction at the end. Though he's a bit of a temperamental player anyway, often either very upbeat or quite outspoken.
Yes I forgot the miscount! Unforgiveable really as a professional snooker player and why not just pot the black anyway, the crowd are there to see you pot balls!
The ticketholders will be hoping for a Trump v Ronnie final but there's still a chance Ronnie will lose before the final and come out with his usual car crash press conference.
New tournament in Saudi announced with a golden ball allowing players to reach a 167 break.
Just been reading about that... massive sigh!!
They just continue to bulldozer their way through everything with cash, very sad and if you're looking to innovate snooker in some form, that's a rubbish idea to start with!
They just continue to bulldozer their way through everything with cash, very sad and if you're looking to innovate snooker in some form, that's a rubbish idea to start with!
Yeah, that gimmick sounds awful.
Similar to The Hundred at Cricket, I know there's 'a need for things to adjust to a changing audience and to introduce new fans', etc - but the unnecessarily corny gimmicks need to be kept to a minimum in order not to alienate existing fans.
It feels like everything that I like is just being changed (which invariably means it being dumbed down) to pander to this 'new, young, modern audience' and that I'm just about clinging onto some of them for now. Snooker is one of those. But the money from Asia, and the player power wanting to latch onto it, is really speeding up that change.
Similar to The Hundred at Cricket, I know there's 'a need for things to adjust to a changing audience and to introduce new fans', etc - but the unnecessarily corny gimmicks need to be kept to a minimum in order not to alienate existing fans.
It feels like everything that I like is just being changed (which invariably means it being dumbed down) to pander to this 'new, young, modern audience' and that I'm just about clinging onto some of them for now. Snooker is one of those. But the money from Asia, and the player power wanting to latch onto it, is really speeding up that change.
Also a tricky semi final for Trump. It looks easier on paper, but Cao Yupeng already beaten Hawkins, Murphy and Mark Williams so far so Judd can't take him lightly.
To be fair Murphy didn't turn up at all (hence the scoreline) but his win over Williams from 0-3 was impressive.
Bazza is having a fair enough season, won his first ranker for seven seasons at the European Masters but the match against Trump will be his biggest challenge by far, he's already won three rankers this season (in succession) and reached the semi-finals of the UK and lost in the final of the above mentioned European Masters.
Ronnie already over halfway to the semi-finals, leads Gary Wilson 3-1 and Zhang leads Ding 2-1 in the battle of China - good match that, Ding the first Asian player on many people's minds but Zhang has had a great last 18 months.
What an absolutely ridiculous frame Ronnie has just had with that 128. I know some people don't get it when he says his cueing is off, but this is clearly what it's like when it's on.
Great start to the match from both, Ding needs to keep up the break building from every opportunity and this could be a classic.
Great start to the match from both, Ding needs to keep up the break building from every opportunity and this could be a classic.
Ronnie proper back on it now playing some quality stuff tonight can't stop winning atm.
Rockets gone into orbit.
Unbelievable standard and Ding not done much wrong.
Unbelievable standard and Ding not done much wrong.
Ronnie’s level today is just unplayable. Near perfection.
Ronnie in fecking sublime form.
Nothing any player of any time could do against that.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Absolutely ridiculous.
What channel is this on?
4 centuries, a 79 and a 90 in 7 frames
"I'm not queing well"
Gwan Ronnie, say the line!
Gwan Ronnie, say the line!