I hate the snooker because, when it's on, It takes over Top Gear!!!!!! ARGH and Last week, overun The Graham NOrton Show., So instaed of it being on at 11, It was 11:20! It really makes me angry, why cant the show normal programming because, ohh yeah, Top Gear is better on BBC 2 and Snooker on BBCi!?
:-(
A former member
Well... UM other pepel May HATE Top gear but Like Snooker it called A publice Broadcaster!
so it show everyone a programme there like, I get peed as well but I put up with it!
Between 9pm and 10.30pm snooker had an average of 4.4million.
It hit a peak of 5.2 million between 11pm and 11.30pm and the average went down to 2million between 12.45am and 1am. The average for the whole period between 8pm and 1am was 3.9million
Lends credance to the argument for a BBC Sport channel perhaps, but maybe the WSA need to consider starting evening sessions at 7:00pm.
Funny thing is, the last session of the final did indeed start at 7pm the last few years. So last year's epic Graeme Dott victory may have finished a few minutes earlier than this year's, but it did start an hour earlier in the evening.
Lends credance to the argument for a BBC Sport channel perhaps, but maybe the WSA need to consider starting evening sessions at 7:00pm.
And yes it wasn't an interesting final for fans...if Selby had won it would have devalued the World Championship even further, and John Higgins isn't the most charismatic or interesting of players.
Speak for yourself - as a keen snooker follower, it was certainly as entertaining a final as you could have asked for, with a very high level of play (especially safety play). Had Selby won, it would have been a fantastic achievement, rather than devaluing the tournament (not entirely sure how an outsider winning
can
devalue the tournament, to be honest).
My point is that the World Championship is supposed to reward the best player in the game. John Higgins is currently the World #1 so he was justifiably rewarded. However he should at least have had a member of the top 8 in the final too.
Shaun Murphy and Graeme Dott's wins were their first ever ranking tournament wins. These wins were, in my opinion, not representative of the ideal of the tournament.
I appreciate the invitational Masters tournament is perhaps more in touch with my ideal, and that the individual form of the top players who I would expect to be in the World finals precludes them being there, but give me Ronnie, Mark W, Matthew S, Stephen H, Peter Ebdon any day.
