Funny and strange snooker players names

[Peter147]

I was looking at Luca Brecel's website and noticed he played a German player in a junior tournament called Andre Plonka! This is the funniest name I've ever heard. What strange or funny names have you heard in snooker?

[JiangYu]

I may be alone on this but I find it quite immature making fun of people's names. That being said, I don't find anyone's name funny.

Sorry to be a spoil

[RGCirencester]

Bear in mind this will be very nation secific too, the german members from this forum might not even see anything odd about the name Andre Plonka.

[RocketRoy1983]

Then from an Englishmans point of view Barry Pinches always makes me laugh

[1lawyer]

Gareth Potts is a great name for a pool/snooker player.

[Viktortheman]

Gareth Potts is a great name for a pool/snooker player.

or Max(imum) Potts

[Kathrin]

Bear in mind this will be very nation secific too, the german members from this forum might not even see anything odd about the name Andre Plonka.

true, nothing special or funny about this name. is plonka a synonym for something in english?

[PaulTheSoave]

Its cockney for idiot, dipstick hahaha actually spelled plonker!

true, nothing special or funny about this name. is plonka a synonym for something in english?

[spike]

Yeah made famous by the classic sitcom 'only fools & horses.'

[Kathrin]

there are worse names in german, like the f-names

[The Statman]

Its cockney for idiot, dipstick hahaha actually spelled plonker!

Yes, it is used in the same way as other words which, like plonker, originally was a name for a part of the male anatomy.

(If you wish to know exactly which part of the anatomy, I refer you to a Scottish snooker player who entered the World Championship once, in 1998, and lost 5-1 to Colin Bingham: his name was Stevie Dick.)

Barry Bunn and Graham Goose are two snooker players spring to mind whose names I would have rather liked to have!

[rivercard]

there are worse names in german, like the f-names

Speaking of German, there is a player in the PIOS named Jens Wiederkehr. Isn't that name a bit odd? I mean Wiederkehr means something like 'return' if I'm not mistaken.

[noel]

(If you wish to know exactly which part of the anatomy, I refer you to a Scottish snooker player who entered the World Championship once, in 1998, and lost 5-1 to Colin Bingham: his name was Stevie Dick.)

Here in Canada my first snooker mentor/coach and student of George Chenier, the undefeated North American snooker champion for 22 years (beaten by Cliff Thorburn) was a Lancashire gentleman named George Mycock.


=o)

Noel

[khizzy]

LUCKY VATNANI,

check out http://www.worldsnooker.com/news-24932.htm

he sure is lucky,once in a best of 9 match against me he fluked 4 blacks in 4 black ball frames.

p.s.:i still won 5-4,lol.

[noel]

LUCKY VATNANI,

check out http://www.worldsnooker.com/news-24932.htm

he sure is lucky,once in a best of 9 match against me he fluked 4 blacks in 4 black ball frames.

p.s.:i still won 5-4,lol.

That's hilarious! Lucky! LOL

I remember the day my eldest daughter, she was 14, told me about her new boyfriend...
Randy?!?!?!. "I hope that's NOT his nickname!" I blurted out.



=o)

Noel