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Maz, that was it. Used to love watching him play on the match table in the middle. REALLY good player.

That's where I used to mostly play, Zans! I played a lot of clubs in the Brighton League, but it was only ever Zans that I was actually a member of. How long ago? I used to go there with my mate Harvey - who stayed on playing there many years after I moved away - probably between 1986-92.

Apart from when he threatened to have Dennis Taylor murdered! Oh Alex had his nasty, spiteful side to him, and was so far up his own arse at times that he didn't ever really rate any other player. Jimmy was the exception for me, in that he seemed a genuinely nice fella who was just weak willed...

That's a good point, and one I was thinking about in relation to previous eras just the other day. Has the popularity waned from it's 80's heyday as great dominant players of the game such as Davis and Hendry have gone and a more fluid era of different people winning from one year to another...

Of course, it absolutely CAN work without Ronnie, but it's the risk, because as the game stands right now we are looking at snooker taking a hit in popularity equivalent to Top Gear with Evans at the helm. While, like you, I get frustrated by the preferential treatment he receives, I do...

Yes it does, I like the current series, but I don't know how the BBC are doing with viewing figures, and sales of the programme around the World.

Avid snooker fans will, but plenty will simply stop watching. as it is, the sport has lost a lot of viewers because "it doesn't have the characters it used to have" and he is the last one really bucking that trend. I think the sport has a real problem coming when he goes, and as such they are...

You can see why though. Easy to dismiss players with attitude as "not bigger than the club" or "not bigger than the game" but if ever there was a situation where that's not true it's Ronnie and Snooker. The day he walks away, Snooker will be poorer for it, with interest and viewing figures...