Noisy Snooker Fans!!

[piggynose]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/snooker/67978830

Should they be muzzled? Or kicked out ?

[Canary42]

Neither. The need for silence is pretentious.  Sound level high at my local snooker club.

[davebro3]

With such a large audience there's bound to some morons - seems to be getting worse (in all sports).

[davebro3]

canary - your not playing for £150k prize difference at your club!

[Canary42]

So, it's all down to money - again. I've said it before, but it bears repetition, big money is ruining sport.

[ichkeria]

Len Ganley would not have stood for it: one glower from Lurgan Len and any loudmouth would visibly shrink in their seat.

[ichkeria]

"So, it's all down to money - again. I've said it before, but it bears repetition, big money is ruining sport."

I think you are barking ... up the wrong tree: in a quiet environment, if someone shouts out as you are about to take a shot, that is off putting. No mattter the stake. This is a venue with people watching, not a snooker club.

[Canary42]

What next - silence demanded at football matches when free kick or penalty taken ?

 

You're having a laugh.

[piggynose]

I'm almost certain when I used to spend hours in my local snooker club you were told to Keep quiet! If I'm not mistaken there were signs displayed to warn/ remind you to s-t-f-u!

This was the mid 70s+ early 80s 

[ichkeria]

"What next - silence demanded at football matches when free kick or penalty taken ?

You're having a laugh."

Have you ever been to a rugby match?

[Canary42]

Audiences were much more respectful in 70s - the awful TV Talent Shows are to blame with all the perpetual screeching going on in audiences. 

[Canary42]

No, to the rugby question.  Why?

[piggynose]

Rugby union!

I remember going to a game in Birmingham in 90s, and I noticed apart from there being smaller crowds, every time there was a try and conversion, the crowd wudnt go crazy!! Just clap politely!!

[ichkeria]

"No, to the rugby question.  Why?"

It is a convention to observe silence before a penalty or conversion. Depending on the size of the crowd: I have heard fans shouting "respect the kicker" at at least one ground (can't remember where) at some who were whistling.

[vulcan42]

I think a noisy crowd is very useful in snooker, it gives players like Ali Carter somebody to blame when they lose. He didn't complain about the noisy support when he was winning.

[andy-hughes]

The majority of people who watch any sport, don't play, and those that do don't play at the top level.

Top level snooker is about technique, but it's far more about mindset, being in the zone, especially when taking a shot.

That needs intense focus and concentration, and they need silence - any noise disrupts the player's shot.

Unfortunately, large crowds, by the law of averages, contain a proportion of people who get over-excited, and want to encourage their hero.

They are blissfully unaware that their 'encouragement' has exactly the opposite effect than the help they believe they are giving.

Add to that the inevitable attention-seeking idiots who see their moment to affirm their dull lives, and feel noticed for once, means shouting a stupid comment, again at exactly the wrong time.

It's frustrating, for players and audiences, but sadly it's the modern downside of spectator sports. Everyone feels they can't simply watch, they have to be 'involved' in what's going on, and confirm to everyone in a hundred yard radius, just how 'involved' they are.

The only answer for players at affected events, is to master the art of 'zoning out' the nonsense, and focusing only on what they are doing in the moment.

Ronnie O'Sullivan has mastered that skill, which is why, combined with ultimate technical skill, is he wins so many matches. 

[drmorgans]

 

I think it was John Parrott who pointed out that the afternoon session had finished early. So maybe a few extra bevvies were guzzled.

 

[douglas9401]

Maybe fewer lame warnings and more action would help.

[andy-hughes]

The problem is, warnings, or even worse, ejections, absolutely destroy the atmosphere of the match, and it's difficult to rebuild it.

So a balance had to be struck, keeping discipline, bur not at the expense of good television. 

[ladybirder]

As a watcher via TV, I'd be chuffed to see some noisy so and so chucked out.  

[andy-hughes]

Me too, but first of all, it disturbs the flow and atmosphere, and where you would hope that it would deter like-minded turnip heads, you know it wouldn't.