Stephen Hendry Debates Snooker’s BIG Questions With Trump, Allen, Milkins & More 

Cider

Stephen is loving his new career as a RU-vidr. Get the sidemen in for a frame 😂

Could be a quick episode, lol. 😅

Great suggestion

Rob is a strange chap. Not the ideal temperament for snooker.

Hope he is dry. Seems like a good guy.

Us lot in the west of the country tend to speak our minds and be very to the point. Honesty is the best policy!

And Stephen's big grin 😂😂😂

Cider

Worked out well for him this year 🤣

He is right though. It's like i'm here trying to win and now you're gonna expect me to take my time to spend it with you. It'd be like having your kid sat there asking you questions all day like why farts smell bad while youre trying to complete a time sensitve project at work

Cider

No

Yes

Cider

Good observation!

and Clive Anderson: "Milks, Pilks and Silks".

Head like a f-ing orange…. 😂 or like a snooker ball perhaps

there's an idea, a team tournament with gingers vs brown hair vs black hair vs bald.@@urbexandoutdooradventures1671

Very down to earth !.

Almost farmer 👨‍🌾 Giles like !.

A seriously unlikable bloke. Basically a knob jockey...

Rob doesn’t give a!

Yes please

Sorry, who is Dom?

​@@sanmiguel4019 Dominic Dale, probably, but he's not here.

@@medved5925 Maybe he meant Tom, god knows!

However I do think Dominic Dale would be great on the channel! He’s a super interesting guy

That's actually amazing, this should be a solid point to be broughtup within snooker broadcasting

Lol nice

Cider

Agree, however, i do think he was approaching the question from a players pov

100% mate, love the channel, young players should be watching this as much as possible to help their game, who maybe dont have access to coaching

He's not thought it through

@@thenazarite2444 yeah, he’s clearly thinking more about the actual physical game and not the broader engagement of the sport

I thought more of this question like "VAR" etc. Personally i'd like to see technology with regards to ball replacement for example an overhead that shines a coloured circle on the table to represent where a ball was so the ref can replace them without the "left a bit.......right a bit.... etc" nonsense. There would be zero ambiguity too. No arguments. What about ball speed sensors to tell us how hard a player is striking the ball and what about cameras that pin point the place a player struck the cue ball so that they can put a white ball on the screen with a marker indicating exactly where the ball was struck. What about more commentator tools so they can describe a shot and then a computerised image shows you the shot they say. For example if they say pot the long red and cannon this red to leave himself on the black they could tell the computer thats what they want and then it does it and we see it and then it goes back to live and we see the player do it too.

I agree, channel is great, more please Mr Hendry

It would take a system designed specifically for it but you'd be able to use a system that utilises red laser dot type markers to quickly get the balls back on their spots. There's a few ways it could be done and id agree that the shouting back n forth is a bit outdated. It does result in the odd amusing moment of confusion though.

They use ball replacement technology in China. Its readily available. The UK broadcasters and events don't want to pay for it. Only the Chinese events use it

i enjoy the occasional replacement debacle. all part of the charm .

Not a chance. This technology would presumably cost Brick Top Hearn not make him money?

​@@Joe-ye5mc Where can this be seen in a video? I've never seen this before

Only Northern Countries participate in the Winter Olympics. Not too many ice skaters from Africa or South America!!!!

Have you not seen Cool Runnings then?? ​@@ronmckay504

It can be done but not with players currently on the world snooker tour, would have to be with players on q tour or wsf tours

​@@ronmckay504maybe, but it's still the US, Canada, most of Europe, China, Korea and Japan at the Winter Olympics. Snooker does not compare, not even close.

@@andrasszabo1570 .....Snooker is popular in th UK, China, India, Thailand, Australia and several other countries in Europe. I think it's because the game is not popular in the US is the main reason it won't be considered.

He was on his way to being the next STEPHEN LEE and got some kids making jokes about it… he decided to drop the weight and get off the journey to becoming STEPHEN LEE

Hendrys turn to lose some chub next

@@uk5g262 then me 🙄

@@uk5g262 Hendry not knocking on the door of STEPHEN LEE size just yet! But he needs to watch it!

Strongly agree.

Yes I've had the same idea. It would be a very interesting variant; 147s would be almost impossible.

Cider

"Stephen" !

It took 15 takes but he got it eventually.

yes there has to be an easy way of electronically saving the position of the balls . I dunno if thats it , but there be a fairly easy way , especially with this "hawkeye" tech already existing

I kind of agree, that mustard shirt that Ronnie had on recently looked good. Not enough experimenting goes on within the current dress code.

@@tacticalchunder1207 The shirt he wore might have been alright if it didn't have a zip pocket on it; that just looked totally wrong with the waistcoat etc.

Most of the players of today just seem like all they want to wear is black (shoes, trousers, shirt and waistcoat). It was much better years ago. If you watch any old Alex Higgins clips, he never seemed to wear the same thing (shirts and waistcoats) twice. Puts all the modern players to shame. Mind you, most of them play snooker that is just as dull as the lack of colour they wear.

Agree - so many players restrict themselves to black. Could at least try some different colours for shirts and waistcoats.