Ronnie O'Sullivan

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So he's in that kind of...

I mean, obviously there's players in the 20s and 30s and Ronnie O'Sullivan in the 40s, but he's sort of in touching distance a little bit.

Certainly of those players I mentioned, Allen, Murphy and Ding.

And time's on his side.

It would have been the shortest gap, the shortest time period in which a player would win the first three ranking events.

John Higgins, back in 94, 95, it was six months.

But some players, I mean, it took Hendry a couple of years, it took Ronnie O'Sullivan three years to win three.

Jack Jones would have done it in three months.

Yeah.

But I suppose the other side of the coin is when the top 16 players do win some games on that one-year ranking list, they don't have to win so many to get really far you know still I was looking at the live one today and Ronnie O'Sullivan is still above Liam Davies on there which may end up being the sort of season illustration of this point because Liam Davies seems to be winning every time I see him and Ronnie seems to be losing every time I see him but Ronnie with a few in the right point and he's still above him but yeah no certainly what Mark made sense what Mark said made sense and he made a good point and this again you could spin this both ways like The qualifiers have to win one, two, three, four games to play the top 16 player, which is hard work.

And then the top 16 player has to win one match to win more money than them.

So you want to be the top 16 player.

Yeah, yeah, really, really strong.

Yeah, I mean, the two that stood out there, Mateusz Bronowski and Chung Ka-Wai, were way down deep in the rankings.

And, yeah, Chung beat Ronnie O'Sullivan and played well to do it.

I spoke to Kyron on the Zoom after the final tonight, and that match came up, and he said he didn't think Ronnie played badly.

Are they the employee of the organization exclusively designed to use up and... grind the player to get the results so they can play for 70 or 80 or 90 minutes depending on the

sport even in snooker like Ronnie O'Sullivan goes off at half time sorry for the 15 minute break and he has a chat with his psychologist and then he comes back on he slaughters his opponent like what's he after what's the magic bullet he's had to take you know what I mean it just

brings him right back down and they probably have the same conversation they have every week that's what it is it's familiarity almost you know

But does it actually help him in the long run? Or is it just to win the match? That's what I'm curious about.

Tart bloke geezer.

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Also, James Ian Powers starts this Saturday.

This is Allen's first tournament back since losing in the semi-final of the World Championships in May.

He becomes the 10th top 16 player to fail to make it past round one, joining the likes of Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mark Selby and Judd Trump.

The 40-year-old admitted after the match that this may have been his final game.

Not good, if I'm honest.

Not that this means anything to you.

I mean, that's when the boys started listening off, like, you know, Ronnie O'Sullivan and Jesper Blomqvist.

I know.

Same, same.