I don’t believe Josh is a cheater. I think he is an upstanding guy. He gets a bad rep due to him being extremely competitive, confident and a great player.
Imagine losing a rack and possibly a match because your finger made a touch so light that it didn't even move the ball and no one even noticed. If a player were to think that the rules are wrong and that a foul should only be called when the ball moves, you could understand that they would not call a foul on themselves. It's just too annoying and if the ball literally doesn't move, to my mind it is disproportionate and unfair to lose a rack and possibly even match for.
@@Sircade I admire sportsmanship. In snooker they always declare fouls. The reason I stopped watching football is because of the lack of sportsmanship. But for me, if the ball doesn't move and thus there's no reason for anything to happen, I can understand a player not declaring if they think the rule is disproportionate.
He is a professional on a precision game for God's sake,think of a pilot being a liiiittle unprofessional about some switch in the cockpit,no big deal right?
This is where the sport needs to man up and improve its rules application post match like the golf PGATOUR. If the ref is asleep and misses incidents like this it goes unpunished. Footballers at Premiership play soft fouls and asshole moves all the time and now get pulled up and penalized cos its on tape var. Pool uses zero playback on this incident so bad officiating. You can sound off all you like on Josh being a cheater etc but at the end of the day its the officials bad non call here. So things have to improve…video feedback post shot needs to come into play. End of discussion.
When there is a ref. There is no expectation to call a foul on yourself. Yes it would have been the right thing to do in my book and Many other players, but the phrase 'ball don't lie' plays well here as he kicked it right in and won the match in the end.
Tournament organizers must hire only well experienced referees, or are we seeing biased officiating by refs when Asians players are matched against Americans or Europeans.
Most of these pool players now have zero integrity. There were plenty of maggots back in the day but most wouldnt outright cheat you but again people had integrity back then
He is in the wrong room wasting the wrong persons time and resources if he wants to touch balls with his fingers.Outside of a Blue Ribbon historical event like this he may do whatever,but in there he is just dirt
This isn't the TV table, it's the RU-vid stream table, so there is no ref looking at the shot. The only way a ref would come over is if the opponents asked to watch the hit. The players are on their own here and a ref comes over to rack. There's also no shot clock on this table. So no, the ref isn't biased... that's such an absurd thing to say.
The immediate reaction of pulling back and standing up on the first touch followed by the immediate reaction of pulling the finger back after the second touch tells me he felt his finger touch the ball. There is no ref at the table watching every shot like you see on the TV tables. Fortunately for Roda it didn’t make any difference in the rack. However, had he missed the kick shot it would have changed the outcome of the rack and possibly the match. For someone of Filler’s ability and status this is unacceptable. It shows a severe lack of integrity, morals and ethics. It is a display of complete disrespect for the sport.
