1. Matchroom isn’t great at being transparent with the fan base so they deserve all heat they get from the fan base including being accused of moving the goalposts all the time.
2. Billy is a big boy. Shame on him for not keeping up on the eligibility criteria.
3. This I don’t hear much about. Meucci looks pretty stupid here if you ask me. You’re the primary cue sponsor for a Mosconi-candidate player. A guy that’s been on the team six times and won it twice. We can debate if he should be on the team again but he’s at least a horse in their stable that’s in that conversation.
What is their advertising budget for if not to get his ass to every major tour event playing with their cue, making a stream table, staying in the grease, hopefully improving, thanking his sponsor in interviews after a win, talking about how he trusts his equipment, and even making social posts about his matches.
When he says he’s worried about the expenses of getting to an event, to me it makes them look cheap. I get not everyone gets the SVB or Fedor package. But when you have a Mosconi contender, is it really crazy to expect a sponsor to play a major role in at least enabling a player to get to the events? It’s all a hustle, how is “showing up” and “staying eligible” not the bare minimum of strings attached? Unless they don’t offer a package that even enables that. In which case, they look like a sorry sponsor to me.
