And a very Happy New Year to all.
The new year is always heralded in by darts for me, and I was as enthralled by it this year as ever. And the walk-ons are always good for a laugh. I see that snooker has followed suit and introduced walk-on music at the Masters (hooray for Selby beating O'Sullivan as well). But I'm not really sure that it works. For a start, the final aside, the walk-ons were far too short for the music to get going, so it kind of lost the point. Some of the players seemed quite up for it, but some just looked like they thought it was the worst idea ever. Here's an example of someone who seems to embrace it, but I'm not really sure if that is a good thing or not.
I don't know it if is part of Barry Hearn's new ideas for rejuvenating the game, or whether it was an idea for the Masters - I can't quite see it working at the Crucible, especially not when there are 2 tables. Can you imagine - a player lining up the black for a 147 and suddenly Don't Stop Believin' fills the arena?
I remain to be convinced. But maybe that would all change if only someone would come on to Snooker Loopy.
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It wishes it were the darts.
You might be right, you know.
I missed that Mark King walk-on. Not sure the referees knew what to make of it! It definitely works better in the darts...
Bev
His walk-on is something else, isn't it? I think darts has the camp element that snooker misses, so therefore it doesn't work so well.
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