Snooker Was Fun In The 80S

[ToraToraTora]

How I miss the great characters:

 

 

[mushroom25]

are there enough household names in the game now to re-make this classic?

[davebro3]

If I was good at snooker & wanted to earn a lot of money..... I'd take up golf!

[retrocop]

Great prizes for a 147 break in the Embassy Champioships  in the 1980s.  A Lada car..............😂

[ToraToraTora]

Don't knock it retro, it was good enough for Maureen!

[retrocop]

TTT. I had three of them.

[ToraToraTora]

Well it was based on a Fiat 124 but the Russians made it with heavier panels and then put a different engine in it making it both heavier and slower! On early versions they did add a floor hatch though so you could go fishing on a frozen lake! You don't get that in Jaaaag!

[ToraToraTora]

you can get a Lada Stretched limo...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BCsNCqsCMAAGQ6s.jpg

 

[bednobs]

im with you TTT on that!

[Old_Geezer]

Wasn't bad late 60s and 70s either.

[piggynose]

steady eddy charlton, count dracula ray reardon, hurricane higgins, 26pints werbeneck! to name a few.

[Sipowicz]

The Lada car was for the maximum by Steve Davis in the Lada classic, 1982. The first televised maximum.

[bednobs]

they dont seem to use that spider rest any more!

 

[10ClarionSt]

If I'm not mistaken, that Lada was awarded to Steve Davis for completing the first televised 147, although it wasn't shown live, due to programme scheduling, it was shown just after as a recording. I think it was at Oldham Town Hall, if memory serves me right, without Googling.

But if you get a chance to go to one of those exhibition matches, they are good fun. I wouldn't have thought there would be many of them now as the players have a much busier schedule than in previous years.

[ToraToraTora]

..Yep, the grinder was first to do it at the worlds. The rocket did it the fastest in 1997.

[ichkeria]

A Lada was what the Russian govt was offering bereaved families in the war as compensation.

I guess they ran out of Ladas ...

I agree about the snooker players 

[ichkeria]

I was lucky enough to see the Hurricane do an exhibition back in 1987. Already past his best by then but at least he behaved ...