New Posts For Thread: anyone else fear for snooker?https://community.betfair.com/snooker/go/thread/view/94174/31735417/anyone-else-fear-for-snookerbecause when Ronnie calls it a day the sport will struggle to survive IMO , and i absolutely love the game. It's not the game it used to be anyway with the silly short formats and constant watering down of dress codes and sticking fingers up to the tSomebody doesn't like Xintong today - Massive drift on The Spectrum.I even got a massive £6.84 matched at 1.35https://community.betfair.com/snooker/go/thread/view/94174/31735417/anyone-else-fear-for-snooker?post_id=561679229#561679229Somebody doesn't like Xintong today - Massive drift on The Spectrum.I even got a massive £6.84 matched at 1.35Wed, 01 Dec 2021 07:00:44 -0600need more players like lisowski and xintong to come through to make it watchable as the likes of kyren wilson and yan bingtao at times makes me want turn the tv offhttps://community.betfair.com/snooker/go/thread/view/94174/31735417/anyone-else-fear-for-snooker?post_id=561679199#561679199need more players like lisowski and xintong to come through to make it watchable as the likes of kyren wilson and yan bingtao at times makes me want turn the tv offWed, 01 Dec 2021 06:52:43 -0600I am more a casual observer, but hasn't snooker come through a decline, and now has many more tournaments, and more television coverage? What more do you want?https://community.betfair.com/snooker/go/thread/view/94174/31735417/anyone-else-fear-for-snooker?post_id=561673505#561673505I am more a casual observer, but hasn't snooker come through a decline, and now has many more tournaments, and more television coverage? What more do you want?Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:26:35 -0600Barry Hearn: "In order to save the village, we had to destroy the village."It's a good way of putting it, TM, Hearn did some good things and some very bad things. How you weigh them up.I agree with others on the point about long versus short form snohttps://community.betfair.com/snooker/go/thread/view/94174/31735417/anyone-else-fear-for-snooker?post_id=561656887#561656887Barry Hearn: "In order to save the village, we had to destroy the village."It's a good way of putting it, TM, Hearn did some good things and some very bad things. How you weigh them up.I agree with others on the point about long versus short form snoWed, 24 Nov 2021 03:32:05 -0600Can never quite make up my mind if Hearn has saved the game or ruined it!Not sure if hard core snooker fans will have the attention span for these marathon BO11's that are coming up from York today.https://community.betfair.com/snooker/go/thread/view/94174/31735417/anyone-else-fear-for-snooker?post_id=561653979#561653979Can never quite make up my mind if Hearn has saved the game or ruined it!Not sure if hard core snooker fans will have the attention span for these marathon BO11's that are coming up from York today.Tue, 23 Nov 2021 02:16:12 -0600Snookers doing ok, considering. Would say it bottomed out in terms of popularity maybe 5-10 years ago and it's found its level. Can grow a bit in the uk but probably not that much, big interest now in ukraine and places like that so the long term futhttps://community.betfair.com/snooker/go/thread/view/94174/31735417/anyone-else-fear-for-snooker?post_id=561653831#561653831Snookers doing ok, considering. Would say it bottomed out in terms of popularity maybe 5-10 years ago and it's found its level. Can grow a bit in the uk but probably not that much, big interest now in ukraine and places like that so the long term futMon, 22 Nov 2021 19:10:59 -0600Agree about the short matches. Can be over in an hour.As for Ronnie, the great player he is, he has disrespected snooker for a while now. Can't be arsed to try in most matches, so he won't be a great loss to me when he retires.Think its not only snoohttps://community.betfair.com/snooker/go/thread/view/94174/31735417/anyone-else-fear-for-snooker?post_id=561647945#561647945Agree about the short matches. Can be over in an hour.As for Ronnie, the great player he is, he has disrespected snooker for a while now. Can't be arsed to try in most matches, so he won't be a great loss to me when he retires.Think its not only snooSun, 21 Nov 2021 04:55:44 -0600Cricket has shown that a non-traditional approach can work, but that appears to be the exception rather than the rule.Snooker is of limited appeal to the general public even with Ronnie still in the game. Hardly anyone I know outside of BF land givehttps://community.betfair.com/snooker/go/thread/view/94174/31735417/anyone-else-fear-for-snooker?post_id=561647933#561647933Cricket has shown that a non-traditional approach can work, but that appears to be the exception rather than the rule.Snooker is of limited appeal to the general public even with Ronnie still in the game. Hardly anyone I know outside of BF land giveSun, 21 Nov 2021 04:49:53 -0600because when Ronnie calls it a day the sport will struggle to survive IMO , and i absolutely love the game. It's not the game it used to be anyway with the silly short formats and constant watering down of dress codes and sticking fingers up to the thttps://community.betfair.com/snooker/go/thread/view/94174/31735417/anyone-else-fear-for-snooker?post_id=561647707#561647707because when Ronnie calls it a day the sport will struggle to survive IMO , and i absolutely love the game. It's not the game it used to be anyway with the silly short formats and constant watering down of dress codes and sticking fingers up to the tSun, 21 Nov 2021 02:53:06 -0600