'GAGGING' FINES POLICY HAS FALLEN INTO DISREPUTE
http://www.inside-snooker.com/snooke...into-disrepute
If snooker is to thrive and even survive in a fiercely competitive sporting marketplace there has to be a rethink over fining players for relatively innocent comments.
Snooker has to be big enough and thick-skinned enough to take reasonable levels of criticism of the way the game is run, and its leaders, on the chin.
The bigger issue is that if most leading players are so confused about what they can and can’t say without being hit in the pocket they would rather say nothing of real interest, something that clearly harms the long-term future of the sport, then the current disciplinary approach is deeply flawed.