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Originally Posted by church66
The famous Final was played out to the final black ball but what the heck,why argue amongst friends.I agree with you that the Chinese will eventually take over the Snooker World but it makes you wonder why Stephen Hendry has decided to go to China & help them promote Pool.If he is successful how will that leave U.S. Pool in a few years time.
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???yes the final ball was the final frame in 85, did i say something incorrect?? If I did i'm sorry-please correct me, i like to learn
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My point was that Epic final was a huge moment for Snooker and IMO a historically significant event. Things like that, the first 147 at the Cruciable by Cliff Thornburn is great, even Hendrys 147 this past 2 weeks just befor he retired are all huge events in Snooker that are 100% credited to the UK/Barry/Modern era snooker. You guys invented the modern game and made it what it is.
IMO Modern snooker is a UK creation will be over showed by China and a notation in the history books. Similar thing for Vegas style gambling. We built it, they own it. China is the future for the world, like it or not.
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As far as the immeadate future, I think some of the UK lad's will follow the $$$ and go to China, that's human nature. Some may retire because they know the competition in 3-5 years will be much difficult to deal with and harder and harder to win enough $$ to cover living in the UK/china at the same time, working a world away from home is a bad option for the older guys with family's. Moving to China to be a pro snooker player is a very tough road and could cost a player and his family $100K USD if things dont work out and they had to return to the UK. For Judd and other young guys China is a great opportunity.
I saw a 20 second video of Ding getting out of his brand new white Ferrari 458. He drives on to the screen, parks gets out-20-30 kids come running to the car. He gets his cue out, signs a few autographs and carries on. End of film. He looked like a rock star, footballer. Many young Chinese kids will see that video and get inspired by it, hell I am and i'm old
. This kind of thing will put more cues in kids hands than anything. they will STOP playing video games if they see their Hero's driving white Ferrari's(Chinese people love white sports cars BTW). That is the future of snooker. Pity that dosent happen with pool else where.