Storing cue extensions during matches

[Tano]

Hi, I always admire how snooker tournament organizations pay attention to every detail regarding playing conditions and equipment - the lighting, temperature of the table, water & hand towels for the players, the referees white gloves. So it kind of bothers me that there isn't a proper place, perhaps a bespoke shelf, for players to keep their cue extensions in while they play. Make it so that they don't have to bend down to grab them. Instead they throw them under the table or over by their seats. It's out of character to the way everything else is so carefully done. Am I being anal, is there some tradition I'm not aware of? Is there a story about it?
Thanks, Tano

[DeanH]

A few years ago, they did try a small shelf, one on each side of the table up at the baulk area - did not last long though, most players just did not bother with it for short extension - I think they were done-away with when players were then allowed to bring their cases to the table, so they had all their own kit in one place
You are not the flirt to ask, I found a letter in Snooker Scene staying the same thing from 2011

[Tano]

So it's the players themselves who like things as they are. The serious players are an eccentric independent lot, me thinks. And yet the game they play has the strictest of protocols and conventions. But it does make watching them almost as entertaining as the match.
Thanks for the info. Hope more will add to the tale.
Tano