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Yeah that was 2 years ago, though! He hasn't had a recent dip in form, he's been consistent. His current seeding of 4th for the WC is reasonably fair, but frankly any of those top 5 could beat each other on their day anyway.

Nothing really, Neil won the most recent comp and then you have the defending champ and world number 1, so 4th on paper is probably correct.

Yep very fair points, especially the last one, I have definitely over estimated the popularity of cue sports!

Yeah, the interview's I've seen scattered around seem to back that up, he's said a few times that because of COVID he didn't get to put in the preparation he had hoped and that this year was too early. So his goal is to return to the Crucible next year. I would suggest his best route to doing...

Its funny isn't it, we sort of have an idea based on the sports we watch, but forget that a huge part of the world may (and seemingly do) have very different viewing trends. It does seem very strange to group Ice Hockey with (field) hockey though, as you say, totally different games, by that...

Not sure about field hockey tbh, but Afghanistan are a decent cricket side on the World Stage now, they have qualified for the World Cup, have beaten top teams and have players in the biggest league on the planet (the Indian Premier League). They massively punch above their weight, however in...

It does seem an odd combo, but I guess it depends how you define popularity perhaps? Both of those (I believe) are popular in India (and definitely cricket too in Pakistan, Bangladesh and now Afghanistan), so that's a large population of potential spectators and participants. Formula 1 on the...

No idea on the model, but the pocket cut doesn't look like a snooker pocket cut. Perhaps its the angle of the photo, but the pockets look more like pool table pockets (just mentioning as if that is the case more people might be able to help)?

Hopefully then it shouldn't be a problem for the others next year (and in any other Matchroom events where there is a conflict).

Covid may fade away, arguing about patches won't...given Matchroom are consistent with their approach in snooker (and have been for years) I suspect that is for the players to think about (people can argue whether thats right or wrong, but its likely to be the case regardless)!

That's an interesting one... I've had that situation and asked my opponent if they saw and what they thought and gone with what they said regardless of whether it was in my favour or not. I think the sporting think if you're unsure is to ask and if they didn't see anything then you play on...

It does seem really odd, but generally when things like this seem odd 99/100 its something to do with expected tv ratings/scheduling or both! *appreciate it won't be on tv in the US, but presumably will be streamed.

https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/players-dropping-out-of-the-matchroom-predator-clp.527571/post-6895310 It is very unlikely with the experience Matchroom have that these rules were not laid out at the start.

Yeah, that's my take on it. Could be wrong of course, but we're in a weird situation so I suspect its at least partially down to that (if not fully).

Its an invitational event and given the global travel restrictions that might stop some of the top Asian male players travelling. Given some of leading female players are probably about as well known (if not more so than lower ranked male players) to the core European target audience, it does...

I suspect its just due to the current situation. Travel in and out of Europe (in particular the UK) is a bit restricted at the moment, it is probably quite difficult and not necessarily financially worthwhile for those players based in Asia to attend this event (I'm speculating here, but a few...

Now I'm from the UK, so sometimes things are lost in translation... Here a drill of course is practice, but I've never once heard of anyone claim they got a break from a drill. Getting a break of x in practice means getting that break in a match situation, not from balls in a line up (its a...

I was just trying to see how snooker resolved their issues and found these, quite interesting as I'm pretty sure some of the players wear betting firm logo's, so not sure how they get them approved! This talks about a big dispute with the players quite a while ago (sounds very similar to this...

(I'm just basing that on what's been said earlier btw, I have no sources myself).

But they can? The players are allowed to wear their own sponsorship patches (1 or 2, depending on the exact terms), they just have to wear a patch with the event sponsor's logo too. Matchroom are pretty consistent on this across all their sports I believe (snooker, darts, tenpin bowling to...