[Other Sport] Sour Grapes, or does he have a point

[Swansman]

Think he should be lucky someone is even paying for watching snooker post drinking and smoking era.

 

[MJsGhost]

Would he be making the same point if Si had played John Higgins and knocked him out instead?

Boo hoo.

 

[GT49er]

He came second in a snooker match! Blimey, what a whinge.

 

[DJ NOBO]

Think he should be lucky someone is even paying for watching snooker post drinking and smoking era.

Can’t agree with this.
Snooker should be boring, on the face of it, but it’s often engrossing to watch with the tension, tactics and different characters. Ronnie O’Sullivan matches especially.

 

[father_and_son]

What a scumbag!! Based on both his own Golfing history and the fact that it's not like Si snuck into the tournament with faked credentials - he was an invited amateur competitor.
He should be reprimanded by the governing body for bringing the sport into disrepute. Absolute sour grapes from what appears to be a very unprofessional, unsporting, professional sportsman!

 

[Bold Seagull]

You are better off making a point like this after a win rather than a defeat.

He's making a comment about the structure of professional snooker, something I, or I doubt many on this thread know much about which maybe valid and is backed up by fellow pros like Robertson, but making it after a defeat is going to sound like sour grapes. Why not say it all the times you have beaten an amateur and want to make a point.

 

[schmunk]

He came second in a snooker match! Blimey, what a whinge.

Made it onto the podium! Not too shabby.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Vinegar grapes.

 

[Elbow750]

Wiki says he's won over £4 million in prize money, and no doubt had a load more of endorsements and paid exhibition matches. So I don't think he can play the putting the bread table card! Then there's the entering the open golf championship. What a foolish man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Murphy

 

[crodonilson]

Tellingly many senior pro's agree with the magician. The Thunder from Down Under, Jester from Leicester and the Welsh Potting Machine have all come out in support of his statement.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/snooker/59407192

 

[Frutos]

Neil Robertson has now also been knocked out by an amateur.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/59423307

 

[dsr-burnley]

Perhaps the complaint shouldn't so much be that amateurs are allowed to spoil the professionals' closed shop. Perhaps he should be complaining that there is a closed shop that denies obviously good players the chance to compete.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Tellingly many senior pro's agree with the magician. The Thunder from Down Under, Jester from Leicester and the Welsh Potting Machine have all come out in support of his statement.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/snooker/59407192

You forgot the **** with a Hat, the Moron from Boron, and the Gump with the Hump.

Losers all.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen_v_Players

.....is the answer.

 

[A1X]

Tellingly many senior pro's agree with the magician. The Thunder from Down Under, Jester from Leicester and the Welsh Potting Machine have all come out in support of his statement.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/snooker/59407192

It’s a disgrace that these lesser players are allowed to mix with the big boys.

BTW, anyone know when the European Super League kicks off?

 

[ATFC Seagull]

I don't really understand the argument.

Surely this amateur lad who wants to make it as a pro is also under a lot of pressure, as he needs to win these matches (and is earning nothing from snooker in the meantime). Unless he's actually a very wealthy man just having a laugh.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

These amateurs just want it more. The closed shop needs opening

 

[drew]

He's competing in a sport, it's not an employment contract.

 

[Robinjakarta]

The sourest grapes I can recall.

 

[lost in london]

I don't really understand the argument.

Surely this amateur lad who wants to make it as a pro is also under a lot of pressure, as he needs to win these matches (and is earning nothing from snooker in the meantime). Unless he's actually a very wealthy man just having a laugh.

That was my thought as well - the amateur isn't just there for a laugh, presumably he's scrapping to try and get on the pro tour.