2016 Northern Ireland Open

[Ronnington]

I wonder if Mark Allen will start whining about living out of a suitcase again when he's just won £75k in the last two weeks ?

This.

Makes me laugh when the top 20 ranked players whinge about earnings. It's a lot better now than compared to 2008-2010

[ghost121]

Just watching Jimmy and Ronnie next to each other on the studio sofa. If they ever retire and need a bob or two they could definitely tour as Steptoe & Son…

[Giggity1984]

Sadly, I can only see this much lauded Ronnie vs Jimmy match going one-way. That's 4-0 to Ronnie.

My Flabber would be well and truly ghasted if it was a close match! lol

[jw147]

My Flabber would be well and truly ghasted if it was a close match! lol

It wont be close, jimmy will win 4-1

[daffie]

Well then...c'mon Mark...Joyce!

[the lone wolf]

Well then...c'mon Mark...Joyce!

What's the beef between him and Allen? :snooker:

[daffie]

What's the beef between him and Allen? :snooker:

Beats me...would like to know though.

[daffie]

Sjeez Mark Allen can be such a twat sometimes

C'mon Mark Joyce!

[jonny66]

Sjeez Mark Allen can be such a twat sometimes

C'mon Mark Joyce!

What's he done now?

[daffie]

Allen was clearly annoyed with Joyce from the start for whatever reason...then berated Joyce at the end of 1st frame on being in his eye line (which he clearly wasn't)...you could see Joyce's reaction of total and utter bewilderment (plus thinking what a complete and utter twat Allen is).

Then onwards throughout the match you could see Allen getting more and more worked up for whatever reason. At winning the 3rd frame Allen did a fistpump and banged the table like he had just won the World Championship...again Joyce with a smirk on his face as if to say 'wtf is this idiot's problem'.

Really...who does Allen think he is... Muhammed Ali...John Gotti?!

[VillaGuy]

If there was one player that I felt certain would be a multiple big tournament winner from the start of seeing him it would have been Maguire, can't believe he's only gone on to being an also ran

[jw147]

Allen's a cheeky wee twat, no wonder his snooker player ex sent him packing, hope he keeps getting fatter!

[VillaGuy]

Allen's a cheeky wee twat, no wonder his snooker player ex sent him packing, hope he keeps getting fatter!

his new missus aint bad though

[jw147]

his new missus aint bad though

Proof that money can buy you love

[VillaGuy]

I agree with a lot of posters on this thread about the intensity of events, I think it's a good thing and the sport isn't something you only want to watch every few months like during the nineties. Tennis is a good example, yeah there still are only 4 major tournaments, then there are 1000 atp point events (masters) are for I guess the average fan and then there are the smaller 500 and 250 events for diehards. I don't think you can water it down by having more events, if anything you maintain the interest, so long as there are the big ones that draw in interest from people that maybe are undecided on whether they want to follow it as a fan or not.