Nice to see Ray Reardon on the list he's an outstanding snooker player. His safety play is excellent and his break building is equally as good. He didn't dominate snooker the way he did in the 1970s. He came close to winning the world snooker title in 1982 but he was burnt out.
I agree with you for Top 3. But my fav player Paul Hunter should have found some place in the list.. I know he didnt win World.. but sheer brilliance of the way he played the game.. just deserves it..
Id personally have John Higgins above Steve Davis and Ray, won more events in a much more difficult era when you look at the people higgins beat to become world champion the likes of Mark Selby in 07, Shaun Murphy in 09 and Judd in 2011. Not to mention his 3 year run where he made the finals of the crucible that to me in more impressive than beating a Joe Johnson or a John Parrot.
Great list and obviously difficult if not impossible to put them in order... soon to be included would include judd trump and Neil Robertson and some of the upcoming Chinese players
Great list, Robertson or Trump might be there one day but they need more achievements. If you say some of the old players perform worse than some of the newer, you must understand that the game has evolved too. If you are best of your time, it is difficult to become much better If no one challenges you. Compare a different sport, back in the day in football scores like 10-5 were common. If you score two goals per game in such an era, you are probably still a worse scorer than one who scores 1 goal per game while common end result is 2-1.
It is also easier to become a skilled player nowadays than it was in the past. Internet gives you a chance to learn from others, tv too, but it is more limited. Before games were even televised, only way you could learn was on your own and having natural talent and instinct. So learning has come easier. 80s players had it easier than 70s, 90s easier than 80s. But the true revolution has come because of internet and CZcams, where there are hundreds of channels showing professionals play and even hundreds more that are trying to teach you to play, and it is all free to watch as many times you want.
Most of the modern day players will beat the old players from the 70’s and 80’s. Trump should’ve been on the list instead of Spencer! The game has improved tremendously. Ronnie has really been the only one to come out top over several decades.
Probably because there was no tour back then-Joe decided who turned pro or not, the WC was a handful of players & Joe got byes-sometimes even into the final to play who came through the other rounds & I think one year just played Fred.
No, his positional play let him down a lot, often he pulls it out with great shots but he would'nt have too if he didn't come out of position at times. Just my opinion.
Don't get me wrong, I love Mark Williams, but to show the probably luckiest fluke shot of his career doesn't seem very fair in the context of this video - besides Judd Trump is missing and some of your other picks are a bit queastionable to say the least.
I totally agree with this list, also in that order of greatness........although, even though John Spencer was an outstanding player, I think if you swapped him for Judd Trump you are not far from 100% Perfect. It would be impossible to deny Trump from one of the top ten players of all time.....
This is a fantastic list, clearly written by someone who understands context and history. For me, Selby should be more like seven or eight, but otherwise this list is bang on. And I assume that those of you asking "where is Neil Robertson?" had to go for a glass of warm milk and your afternoon nap - the only possible explanation for wanting him in the Top Ten is that you are under 10 years old.
Why is Robbo being in the top 10 something ridiculous? 23 ranking titles, one of them the world title, triple crown winner, world number 1 multiple times & been in the top 16 for 17 consecutive seasons & ten of those have been top 5. Love Jimmy-but he was never world number 1, never world champion & even if you add in the at some point ranking events he won when they weren't he is still way behind.
This list is not based on pure statistics else Robertson would have made it. He is a great player and this is a fact backed by stats and my eyes when I see him play. Also, everyone in this top 10 list is a legend and so are many more players like Robbo.
I'm sure Selby will retire early when Ronnie is still I am sure that Selby will retire early, when, like Ronnie, he will still play at the age of 75😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😆😆
@@dominicstone8109 Robertson only got to 1 world final. Jimmy 7. They play 4x the amount of tournaments than jimmys heyday. If you factor that in , ratio wise Jimmy has more titles. Plus jimmy was dominant his entire career. Robertson admits to losing his game for 10 years with his video game addiction. He never kicked on after the 2010 worlds. Jimmy was the better player over longevity of career
@@TheJohnCooperShow wait what? Jimmy wasn't dominant at all. Robertson didn't always have so many ranking tournaments to go at and actually he did it in a far, far more competitive era. "Never kicked on after the 2010 worlds" is a very strange take. He's won 5 majors since then - white won 2 majors in his entire career, in an easier era.
All good....but Steve Davis is too high in the list. Statistically he is a great player dominating in the 80s but the level of competition should be taken into account. He would have been nowhere had he been facing the competition in 2000s. His head to head record against other top players is very average. Due to his consistent performance in 80s, he can be considered an all time top 10 snooker player, but definitely not 3rd best.
Steve D paved the way for Hendry and others. He brought professionalism to Snooker that it hadn't seen before. He deserves his place. Alex brought the flair but Davis was key to snookers commercial success.
Selby is 3rd in my opinion. Ronnie O'sullivan John Higgins Mark Selby Stephen Hendry Steve Davis World Championships is not the only stat that matters.
How are you judging though? By standard alone, Neil Robertson and Judd Trump are far better than Reardon, Spencer, Alex and even Steve Davis. By achievements then Reardon has to make the list.
Better, yet both have one world title each while the others have 6, 3, 2 & 6. Standard of break building? Yes, but every player scores heavily these days & most don't win anything because they have loser mentalities & zero tactical/safety ability-which is why Davis was still in the top 16 at 50 & beating Higgins when he was pushing 53. The cloths have got finer & finer which is why the endless centuries & so many maximums have been made this century. If those players had those cloths back in the 1970's & 1980's they would have been knocking in century after century as well, instead they had to play on thick cloths.
Joe Davis and Fred Davis played on heavy cloths with ivory or inferior balls, they would be a force in todays conditions also Horace Lindrum had over 1000 exhibition centuries playing on club tables all over the world. Paul Hunter, Robinson and Judd trump would be up there as well. Good list though but i think Spencer would not be in the top ten, top 20 definitely.
In defence of John Spencer he won 3 World ties in the Reardon, Higgins era. Plus the Masters. Great player, lost his trusted cue in a car accident, first player to win the word championship with a centre jointed cue. Had a 147 in tournament play as well. Who knows what he might have achieved if his health was stable too.
When Joe and Fred Davis were at the top of their game, the competition was very limited because not many people played the game seriously, plus there were no overseas players. Joe Davis especially was brilliant in his day but I don`t think that he would have figured against today's players, his years as a champion are not recognised against Hendry of O`Sullivan for those reasons and we don`t know how today`s players would have coped with the old tables and balls but I suspect that they would master it easily.
@@honestchris7472 your comnent is odd. For several reasons. One you are willing yo dismiss the older players because a comparison in not applicable but conclude that modern players "would be able to master their conditions easily. Which is a comparison. Additionally we play a single person at a time. Not the whole field in a competition. The world championship is not a Round Robin event. So the competition was as fierce then as it is now. Plus some matches were the best of 145 frames. So the endurance required to win was huge. Furthermore to suggest that players were not serious seems an incredible claim to make in context. Joe Davis knew that Billiards, the Premier game in the mid twenties to early 1930s was doomed as a way for him to make a living due to the prodigious talent of Walter Lindrum. So he switched his attention to Snooker, a game he knew Walter did not like or respect. So Joe was determined to make snooker popular enough to keep playing it professionally. So much so that in 1927 he bought the trophy we see each year at the Crucible out of his winnings for that first World Snooker championship. So for me if we are not comparing eras, let's not devalue those early eras by surmiding that modern players would dominate or excellent in those eras. We just do not know for sure. Improvements in lighting, under the table heating, balls, tips, cloth, and the frequency and comparative shortness of matches have all had a huge impact on the way the game can be played.
@@honestchris7472 Good points, but there were some overseas players from Australia, Canada and the USA competing in their day. Also I don;t think the modern players would have mastered the old conditions easily. They would have to completely change their cue actions for starters to cope with the heavy cloths and balls. The conditions today are completely different to back then. Also, players like Fred and Joe were also incredible Billiard players as well as snooker and would have had the temperament and a massive shot knowledge to go up levels to match it with the modern players IMHO. I think if they were playing in their prime in this era and had adjusted to the modern game and table conditions that you would most likely see them in the top 16.
@@sashajasper497 I am not saying that the modern players of today could go and play well straight away, they would need to adapt of course but I am certain that they would have done so. I cant find enough information to know how many foreign player entered the world tournaments the Joe won but there were only two foreign players to compete in the finals, Clark_McConachy and Horace Lindrum and they played in a snooker hall holding about 45 people. It is an entirely different game today and I doubt that Joe Davis would have even figured. That being said, he was certainly the greatest of his day but as I said, the competition was very small.
As much as I liked Spencer, Reardon & A.Higgins. No way are they anywhere near the best top ten players ever. They'd struggle to get on the tour nowadays
And how dreadful Selby et al might look if they had to play with the standard of balls, slower cloths and smaller pockets Spencer Reardon and Higgins were playing with. Context is everything when considering these kinds of lists.
Paddy Alex Higgins is one of the most naturally talented and gifted snooker players of all time. Everyone who understands snooker knows that come on man haha. He just had a lot of problems on the table. He was too good. You don’t just win two worldies 10 years apart if ur no good. 10 years apart! He just didn’t have his shit together. He’s the second most naturally talented after Ronnie. He was unreal. The real deal.
Laughable-anybody can get on the tour these days, like the women players & most of them do nothing. They pot lots of balls but have zero safety/tactical ability or will to win. Reardon made a 90 something break last year pushing 90 years old. The tour is only strong today because of the players from the 1990's & Trump-they are ones setting the high standards. The rest are too average to mediocre to do anything & are happy to wallow in the thirties to fifties & make a decent living. Most of them could not even lace the boots of those three.
@MoanyOldBustard The old pockets were larger yes, but there was the problem of balls coming back up after being potted due to the way they were cut. You used to see it a lot in the 1970's & 1980's until they made a template in 1990. You had to be a lot more careful with how you potted back then & Reardon's positional play on those old cloths was insane.
I think the point is that yes the standard today is higher but, as in every endeavour that standard has been raised by standing on the shoulders of those that came before like Spencer, Reardon and Alex. If they had been born in an age with modern training methods and availibility of tournaments would they be competitive today? Probably but who really knows. They have to be assessed in context.
1⁰) Ronnie O'Sullivan 2⁰) John Higgins 3⁰) Mark Selby 4⁰) Neil Robertson 5⁰) Stephen Hendry 6⁰) Steve Davis 7⁰) Mark Williams 8⁰) Judd Trump 9⁰) Alex Higins 10⁰)
@@ianwilliamson2980 , the best players list! Not the greatest champions! Hendry was strong against his gang. Then he became a "punching bag" for Ronnie, Murphy and especially Selby. Against Higgins and against Williams it was "pace to paw". If he had faced Robertson in a row, he would have been crushed.
@@paulo586 thing is he domanated snooker all nineties like nobody else did and Higgins . Ronnie.n mark there too then .that's why in my opinion he is best of all.ronnie was never as consistent as hendry he is off and on
@@ianwilliamson2980, so my dear, in the confrontation - Ronnie vs Hendry, whose supremacy is? From Ronnie!!! 🤔 All people have their challenges, their anguish, their dramas. And young Sullivan, with his parents in jail and involved in drunkenness, beat up Hendry mature, experienced, and calm. 🤭 😜 Hendry dominated 10 years straight? Against weak opponents! 😤 He and his weak opponents Jimmy, Alex, Davis and Ebdon were pretty beaten up by the younger generation, Selby, Murphy, Higgins, Williams and Ronnie. What did you do? retired 🤪 Ronnie is the "goat" from start to finish!!! 😛🤩 He won 7 world championships, 7 UKs and 7 Masters, against his generation + the new one, all mixed up! Two super generations - Higgins, Selby, Williams, Carter, Shawn, Trump, Hawkins, Gary Wilson, Robertson, Ding, Gold, McGill, Kyren Wilson, Bingham, Bingtao, Allen, Marco Fu, Wembo, Maguire and other beasts). 😉 🤩 ✳️ Are the two seven world champions? But Ronnie won 39 "rank titles", Hendry only 36!!! Ronnie has top records --- 15x 147 --- 1170x 100 --- 147 fastest - among others! Ronnie has "Three Triple Crowns"!!! 😛😜😂🤣🤣 And finally, Ronnie playing is a star of the first magnitude. He has a unique competence, he has a mysterious lightness, boldness, courage! He is unique, like a Pele, like a Bruce Lee, like a Muhammad Ali, like a Jordan, like a Aznavour!
Ronnie
Stephen hendry
Steve Davis
John Higgins
Mark Selby
Mark Williams
Judd trump
Neil Robertson
Alex Higgins
Jimmy White
For some time the trio of Ronnie, Hendry and Steve Davis will be tough to crack.
John Higgins is better than Davis
@@paulanthony5274Respectfully disagree.
There is something special about Ronnie , his Persona , his Game , everything is so synced
You forgot Judd Trump. Defenitely one of the all time greatest
Not yet, but he is on the right track to be in this list.
Of course trump is one of greatest
I’m not a fan of trump
I wouldn't say so. He needs more Triple Crowns in my opinion.
Really?he has won nothing,wasted talent
Nice to see Ray Reardon on the list he's an outstanding snooker player. His safety play is excellent and his break building is equally as good. He didn't dominate snooker the way he did in the 1970s. He came close to winning the world snooker title in 1982 but he was burnt out.
I agree with you for Top 3. But my fav player Paul Hunter should have found some place in the list.. I know he didnt win World.. but sheer brilliance of the way he played the game.. just deserves it..
Omg 😱 what a Great Shot By Mark Selby 🌹😍
Your on the wrong match ? Lol 😂
Good to see Ray Reardon was this list he damn sure deserves it, 6-time world champion.
Id personally have John Higgins above Steve Davis and Ray, won more events in a much more difficult era
when you look at the people higgins beat to become world champion the likes of Mark Selby in 07, Shaun Murphy in 09 and Judd in 2011. Not to mention his 3 year run where he made the finals of the crucible that to me in more impressive than beating a Joe Johnson or a John Parrot.
Great list and obviously difficult if not impossible to put them in order... soon to be included would include judd trump and Neil Robertson and some of the upcoming Chinese players
They both need to win more world championships, Trump still has time but it's running out for Robertson.
An interesting list and YES, I agree with it almost totally. Well thought out.
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Alex Higgins ,Roni , Jimmy, judge trump ,mark selbi,mark William,Jon Higgins,ray reardon, Steve Davis,
Selby shot will stay the best ever
my favourite to watch was Jimmy White
Go Ronnie , always a pleasure to watch the great man at work , good luck in the final 👍
Great list, Robertson or Trump might be there one day but they need more achievements. If you say some of the old players perform worse than some of the newer, you must understand that the game has evolved too. If you are best of your time, it is difficult to become much better If no one challenges you. Compare a different sport, back in the day in football scores like 10-5 were common. If you score two goals per game in such an era, you are probably still a worse scorer than one who scores 1 goal per game while common end result is 2-1.
It is also easier to become a skilled player nowadays than it was in the past. Internet gives you a chance to learn from others, tv too, but it is more limited. Before games were even televised, only way you could learn was on your own and having natural talent and instinct. So learning has come easier. 80s players had it easier than 70s, 90s easier than 80s. But the true revolution has come because of internet and CZcams, where there are hundreds of channels showing professionals play and even hundreds more that are trying to teach you to play, and it is all free to watch as many times you want.
Most of the modern day players will beat the old players from the 70’s and 80’s. Trump should’ve been on the list instead of Spencer! The game has improved tremendously. Ronnie has really been the only one to come out top over several decades.
Love mark Williams
Neil Robertson and Judd trump deserves to be in the top 5, tittles won and centuries breaks talks about them
Don😂forget to mention that their the top 2 best cueists aswell
Judd trump deserved to be in the list
Where is Judd trump
Putting Mark Selby on the thumbnail is a disgrace to snooker
Well done many people would not have had jimmy in this but even Hendry puts ding ahead of jimmy but you see the bigger picture
@Yannick exactly
How can you have a list of best 10 without Joe Davis Never beaten in a competitive match.
I think his brother Fred beat him a couple of times, but agree there would may be no snooker without Joe.
Probably because there was no tour back then-Joe decided who turned pro or not, the WC was a handful of players & Joe got byes-sometimes even into the final to play who came through the other rounds & I think one year just played Fred.
@@andythechimp no
@@andythechimp no
where is Judd Trump? And Neil Robertson Also?
I feel very confident I could easily replicate the shots chosen to represent John Spencer 😂
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I think Judd and Robbo should be in the top ten.
Who is Robbo?
Oh with the accent i know who
Shouldn't that be Trump and Robbo, OR Judd and Neil?
Weird how you refer to one by first name, and the other by surname.
Always the best ❤❤❤ Ronnie
Everyone, including me, loves Jimmy, but there's no way he should be in that list, and John Higgins isn't.
He had John at number 5. I'd have him at 3.
Where is judd trump bro wtf ?
No one is like ronie
Alex Higgins is a legend but is he a top 10 playe?
No, his positional play let him down a lot, often he pulls it out with great shots but he would'nt have too if he didn't come out of position at times. Just my opinion.
Where is Judd trump 🤔🥺
At home dunking biscuits in his tea.
Where is judd trump bro
Don't get me wrong, I love Mark Williams, but to show the probably luckiest fluke shot of his career doesn't seem very fair in the context of this video - besides Judd Trump is missing and some of your other picks are a bit queastionable to say the least.
love ronnie atleast put judd trump no3
Alex Higgins 🔥🔥
For me, he is the greatest of all time.❤️
Tiger Woods should be on this list, he won the British Open 3 times, smh.
Well listed...couldnt agree more
Higgins n Ronnie should have been number 1, feels like theve been a long for ages likes.x
Neil Robertson
To see Jimmy White on the list. 😊
I totally agree with this list, also in that order of greatness........although, even though John Spencer was an outstanding player, I think if you swapped him for Judd Trump you are not far from 100% Perfect. It would be impossible to deny Trump from one of the top ten players of all time.....
This is a fantastic list, clearly written by someone who understands context and history. For me, Selby should be more like seven or eight, but otherwise this list is bang on. And I assume that those of you asking "where is Neil Robertson?" had to go for a glass of warm milk and your afternoon nap - the only possible explanation for wanting him in the Top Ten is that you are under 10 years old.
We all love jimmy but for me Trump should've taken his spot
Why is Robbo being in the top 10 something ridiculous? 23 ranking titles, one of them the world title, triple crown winner, world number 1 multiple times & been in the top 16 for 17 consecutive seasons & ten of those have been top 5. Love Jimmy-but he was never world number 1, never world champion & even if you add in the at some point ranking events he won when they weren't he is still way behind.
This list is not based on pure statistics else Robertson would have made it. He is a great player and this is a fact backed by stats and my eyes when I see him play.
Also, everyone in this top 10 list is a legend and so are many more players like Robbo.
selby top 5 at lest, i think he is the number 2 after ronnie
@@rodrigocarpioc4334 I second that. Selby top 5 for sure
The real top three should be 1. Joe Davis 2. Fred Davis 3. John Pulman
If Ronnie, Hendry, Selby, Higgins & Davis only had to play one player to win a World Championship how many World Championships would they have won?
selby 4th
Where is Judd Trump???
Judd trump ??
I'm sure Selby will retire early when Ronnie is still I am sure that Selby will retire early, when, like Ronnie, he will still play at the age of 75😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😆😆
1. ronnie 2. hendry 3. selby 4. Davis 5. J Higgins 6. White 7. Williams 8. Trump 9. Alex Higgins 10. Hunter
How can you not have Robertson in there?
@@dominicstone8109 he’s not good enough. Probably 11th or 12th on list
@@TheJohnCooperShow how is Paul hunter or Jimmy White ahead of Robertson? WC, 2X Master, 3x UK, 23 ranking titles.
@@dominicstone8109 Robertson only got to 1 world final. Jimmy 7. They play 4x the amount of tournaments than jimmys heyday. If you factor that in , ratio wise Jimmy has more titles. Plus jimmy was dominant his entire career. Robertson admits to losing his game for 10 years with his video game addiction. He never kicked on after the 2010 worlds. Jimmy was the better player over longevity of career
@@TheJohnCooperShow wait what? Jimmy wasn't dominant at all. Robertson didn't always have so many ranking tournaments to go at and actually he did it in a far, far more competitive era. "Never kicked on after the 2010 worlds" is a very strange take. He's won 5 majors since then - white won 2 majors in his entire career, in an easier era.
Snooker means Mark selby
Wrong list...
Top 10 snooker players of all time....
1st Ronnie O'Sullivan
2nd Ronnie O'Sullivan with left hand
List over.🔥
All good....but Steve Davis is too high in the list. Statistically he is a great player dominating in the 80s but the level of competition should be taken into account. He would have been nowhere had he been facing the competition in 2000s. His head to head record against other top players is very average. Due to his consistent performance in 80s, he can be considered an all time top 10 snooker player, but definitely not 3rd best.
Steve D paved the way for Hendry and others. He brought professionalism to Snooker that it hadn't seen before. He deserves his place. Alex brought the flair but Davis was key to snookers commercial success.
@@Marcus__Trance Professionalism is boring though! People want drama and excitement! That’s why nobody watches Steve Davis compilations on CZcams.
I believe Paul Hunter should have been on this list
Higgins was dodgy -there’s no way his hearing was that bad
The Thorburn incident. I agree, he ist have heard him.
Selby is 3rd best of all time in my opinion. He will go on to win a 5th maybe even a 6th world title.
I hope to God he doesn't. But he might get 1 or 2 more. But it'll be tough to watch him try. 🥴🥴
Can’t see it happening. And I hope not either as he’s boring to watch.
If he wins a 6th world title then id give him 3rd place , until then his position here is about right.
Without a doubt one of the greatest to ever do it.
Selby is 3rd in my opinion.
Ronnie O'sullivan
John Higgins
Mark Selby
Stephen Hendry
Steve Davis
World Championships is not the only stat that matters.
Where is Dott
Efran
Judd trump
Robertson too
What about Efron
How are you judging though? By standard alone, Neil Robertson and Judd Trump are far better than Reardon, Spencer, Alex and even Steve Davis. By achievements then Reardon has to make the list.
Better, yet both have one world title each while the others have 6, 3, 2 & 6. Standard of break building? Yes, but every player scores heavily these days & most don't win anything because they have loser mentalities & zero tactical/safety ability-which is why Davis was still in the top 16 at 50 & beating Higgins when he was pushing 53. The cloths have got finer & finer which is why the endless centuries & so many maximums have been made this century. If those players had those cloths back in the 1970's & 1980's they would have been knocking in century after century as well, instead they had to play on thick cloths.
Jimmy white is top 5 mate
Neil Robertson is not on the list??? Sure you know nothing about Snooker
In your opinion
Big fan of John Spencer but he shouldn't be on this list.
What? Where's Joe Davis?
He was good but compared to modern day players he’d look like an amateur!
Joe Davis and Fred Davis played on heavy cloths with ivory or inferior balls, they would be a force in todays conditions also Horace Lindrum had over 1000 exhibition centuries playing on club tables all over the world. Paul Hunter, Robinson and Judd trump would be up there as well. Good list though but i think Spencer would not be in the top ten, top 20 definitely.
In defence of John Spencer he won 3 World ties in the Reardon, Higgins era. Plus the Masters. Great player, lost his trusted cue in a car accident, first player to win the word championship with a centre jointed cue. Had a 147 in tournament play as well. Who knows what he might have achieved if his health was stable too.
When Joe and Fred Davis were at the top of their game, the competition was very limited because not many people played the game seriously, plus there were no overseas players. Joe Davis especially was brilliant in his day but I don`t think that he would have figured against today's players, his years as a champion are not recognised against Hendry of O`Sullivan for those reasons and we don`t know how today`s players would have coped with the old tables and balls but I suspect that they would master it easily.
@@honestchris7472 your comnent is odd. For several reasons. One you are willing yo dismiss the older players because a comparison in not applicable but conclude that modern players "would be able to master their conditions easily. Which is a comparison. Additionally we play a single person at a time. Not the whole field in a competition. The world championship is not a Round Robin event. So the competition was as fierce then as it is now. Plus some matches were the best of 145 frames. So the endurance required to win was huge. Furthermore to suggest that players were not serious seems an incredible claim to make in context. Joe Davis knew that Billiards, the Premier game in the mid twenties to early 1930s was doomed as a way for him to make a living due to the prodigious talent of Walter Lindrum. So he switched his attention to Snooker, a game he knew Walter did not like or respect. So Joe was determined to make snooker popular enough to keep playing it professionally. So much so that in 1927 he bought the trophy we see each year at the Crucible out of his winnings for that first World Snooker championship. So for me if we are not comparing eras, let's not devalue those early eras by surmiding that modern players would dominate or excellent in those eras. We just do not know for sure. Improvements in lighting, under the table heating, balls, tips, cloth, and the frequency and comparative shortness of matches have all had a huge impact on the way the game can be played.
@@honestchris7472 Good points, but there were some overseas players from Australia, Canada and the USA competing in their day. Also I don;t think the modern players would have mastered the old conditions easily. They would have to completely change their cue actions for starters to cope with the heavy cloths and balls. The conditions today are completely different to back then. Also, players like Fred and Joe were also incredible Billiard players as well as snooker and would have had the temperament and a massive shot knowledge to go up levels to match it with the modern players IMHO. I think if they were playing in their prime in this era and had adjusted to the modern game and table conditions that you would most likely see them in the top 16.
@@sashajasper497 I am not saying that the modern players of today could go and play well straight away, they would need to adapt of course but I am certain that they would have done so. I cant find enough information to know how many foreign player entered the world tournaments the Joe won but there were only two foreign players to compete in the finals, Clark_McConachy and Horace Lindrum and they played in a snooker hall holding about 45 people. It is an entirely different game today and I doubt that Joe Davis would have even figured. That being said, he was certainly the greatest of his day but as I said, the competition was very small.
judd trump will in the top 3 when he retires
As much as I liked Spencer, Reardon & A.Higgins. No way are they anywhere near the best top ten players ever. They'd struggle to get on the tour nowadays
And how dreadful Selby et al might look if they had to play with the standard of balls, slower cloths and smaller pockets Spencer Reardon and Higgins were playing with. Context is everything when considering these kinds of lists.
Paddy Alex Higgins is one of the most naturally talented and gifted snooker players of all time. Everyone who understands snooker knows that come on man haha. He just had a lot of problems on the table. He was too good. You don’t just win two worldies 10 years apart if ur no good. 10 years apart! He just didn’t have his shit together. He’s the second most naturally talented after Ronnie. He was unreal. The real deal.
Laughable-anybody can get on the tour these days, like the women players & most of them do nothing. They pot lots of balls but have zero safety/tactical ability or will to win. Reardon made a 90 something break last year pushing 90 years old.
The tour is only strong today because of the players from the 1990's & Trump-they are ones setting the high standards. The rest are too average to mediocre to do anything & are happy to wallow in the thirties to fifties & make a decent living. Most of them could not even lace the boots of those three.
@MoanyOldBustard The old pockets were larger yes, but there was the problem of balls coming back up after being potted due to the way they were cut. You used to see it a lot in the 1970's & 1980's until they made a template in 1990. You had to be a lot more careful with how you potted back then & Reardon's positional play on those old cloths was insane.
I think the point is that yes the standard today is higher but, as in every endeavour that standard has been raised by standing on the shoulders of those that came before like Spencer, Reardon and Alex. If they had been born in an age with modern training methods and availibility of tournaments would they be competitive today? Probably but who really knows. They have to be assessed in context.
i wouldent have john spencer in there .neil robertson should be instead
The Godfather Stephen Hendry....True Lagend
So, Joe Davis nowhere then.
You forgot Efran Reyes!!!!!
He has to pool his resources.
Lol are u kidding?
No way.
1⁰) Ronnie O'Sullivan
2⁰) John Higgins
3⁰) Mark Selby
4⁰) Neil Robertson
5⁰) Stephen Hendry
6⁰) Steve Davis
7⁰) Mark Williams
8⁰) Judd Trump
9⁰) Alex Higins
10⁰)
hendry only five na na
@@ianwilliamson2980 , the best players list!
Not the greatest champions!
Hendry was strong against his gang. Then he became a "punching bag" for Ronnie, Murphy and especially Selby. Against Higgins and against Williams it was "pace to paw". If he had faced Robertson in a row, he would have been crushed.
@@paulo586 thing is he domanated snooker all nineties like nobody else did and Higgins . Ronnie.n mark there too then .that's why in my opinion he is best of all.ronnie was never as consistent as hendry he is off and on
@@ianwilliamson2980, so my dear, in the confrontation - Ronnie vs Hendry, whose supremacy is? From Ronnie!!! 🤔
All people have their challenges, their anguish, their dramas. And young Sullivan, with his parents in jail and involved in drunkenness, beat up Hendry mature, experienced, and calm. 🤭 😜
Hendry dominated 10 years straight? Against weak opponents! 😤
He and his weak opponents Jimmy, Alex, Davis and Ebdon were pretty beaten up by the younger generation, Selby, Murphy, Higgins, Williams and Ronnie. What did you do? retired 🤪
Ronnie is the "goat" from start to finish!!! 😛🤩
He won 7 world championships, 7 UKs and 7 Masters, against his generation + the new one, all mixed up!
Two super generations - Higgins, Selby, Williams, Carter, Shawn, Trump, Hawkins, Gary Wilson, Robertson, Ding, Gold, McGill, Kyren Wilson, Bingham, Bingtao, Allen, Marco Fu, Wembo, Maguire and other beasts). 😉 🤩 ✳️
Are the two seven world champions?
But Ronnie won 39 "rank titles", Hendry only 36!!!
Ronnie has top records --- 15x 147 --- 1170x 100 --- 147 fastest - among others!
Ronnie has "Three Triple Crowns"!!! 😛😜😂🤣🤣
And finally, Ronnie playing is a star of the first magnitude. He has a unique competence, he has a mysterious lightness, boldness, courage! He is unique, like a Pele, like a Bruce Lee, like a Muhammad Ali, like a Jordan, like a Aznavour!
Mark selby is my favorite also jack lowawski and judd Trump
Alex is nomber 1 mate
Alex wasn't even the best player in his own era
Selby is no 1 ever
You can't be No 1 if you're the joker from Coventry.
Trump should be 5th
Terrible list
Mark Selby is the most selfish and cowardly player in the world .
Wtf are u talking about?