Barry Hearn 2018 on "Shot Times"Money etc @ Crucible

[@dartsbehindtheoche180]

Like him or loathe him, the man has worked wonders for the darts and snooker worlds !

[@johnnybowe]

Imagine playing 52 tournaments a year, Peter Ebdon would still be playing the first competition while everyone had moved on to the second one.

[@Mr-zx8fu]

The irony of Hearn talking about the secondary market while Matchroom are partnered with Stubhub.

[@cccraigus]

Barry Hearn is a Harry Enfield character, I'm sure of it.

[@guitarreilly]

Loads of moneyyyy

[@MrDogromeo]

Barry Is an excellent promotor

[@MS45636]

you think? hasn't he watered down the circuit by having too many events.

[@MrDogromeo]

daved PrimeDice as a snooker fan, I love it that there are many events and like he said players like Ronnie,Higgins,Williams and etc don’t have to play all the events if they don’t want to but the youngers players like to play so much,even I as amateur can benefit from it because snooker is getting more and more popular over the world

[@DannnyL]

Literally applauded when Barry said he was going to cancel tickets that are being sold for extortionate prices on the secondary market. Happens in all big sports and events and it's about time somebody dealt with it, didn't expect it to come from snooker first.

[@AG-kn3os]

DannnyL Shane his son doesn’t!

[@wailee3939]

Maybe he should tell his son Eddie to that with boxing because the fights they promote go through stub hub at inflated prices

[@ED-sb2rs]

☕️

[@anthony90123]

Wt a time to become a snooker player thanks to this man

[@ShowRyuKen]

Big thumbs up to Barry Hearn's charisma. That whole bit about 'do you want to make a name for yourself in TV...' bit had me laughing out loud!

[@nomchompsky3012]

That's because Barry's a self-made man. Most billionaires you see today either have rich dads (e.g. Elon Musk) or got lucky because of share price explosions (e.g. Zuckerberg).

[@y2kazan868]

This never gets old.

[@sholemhager6355]

Nobody is saying you can’t take your time on difficult shots. The point is if you stop dawdling in general your average shot time will be well below 30 seconds. Easily

[@nomchompsky3012]

Yes, the people making social media comments are idiots. Barry Hearn explained, quite clearly, that it's an average shot time for the whole match. An AST of above 30 seconds, on the main tour, is ridiculous unless it's like a best of 5, where I'd give them some leeway.

[@mkeysou812]

Barry is a national treasure and should be knighted for his services to snooker. He's 70?? My God, he has the energy of a 30 year old! I hope he lives forever

[@_-_.7]

And should explain why he was on that paedophile blackbook

[@stewartmcrae8007]

He reminds me of my grandfather has more money than he will ever need and still works his nuts off sleeps 4 hours a night and has more energy than most guys my age

[@peterpetigrew2869]

Barry is good for the sport

[@cahg3871]

Barry is as smart as a whip and twice as sharp.He may not make the decision you like,but at least he isn’t afraid to make that decision.

[@tigerbloodoneill8783]

Ebdon is officially never playing again lol

[@loopedmess]

Well he will always be #1 at something.

[@catweasle5737]

Bazz is 70 this year?? Well done mate. You don't look it.

[@donnakellman5480]

Catweasle he looks about 75 😂

[@lewisyoutube66]

Barry talking it up like only he can! Don't always agree with all his ideas, but you can't knock him for what he has achieved since taking over. Prize money inflation, more tournaments and exciting new young players. The only real downfall I see is that a lot of tournaments in china are never sold out. Except for at the crucible and masters, most venues are empty in the first and second rounds.

[@davidfelix2594]

They don't sell out in China because they charge ridiculously high prices that barely any of them can afford, that's a true fact.

[@lewisyoutube66]

Didn't realize that the prices are high in China. I went to the champions of champions in Thailand in 2015, the ticket prices were less than $10 and still the venue (except the final) was empty l

[@davidfelix2594]

I can't comment on Thailand prices, but it's a fact in China they're ridiculously overpriced and the normal working class man/woman simply can't afford them, madness really considering how popular it is over there.

[@RB747domme]

Just would like to add, that the prices to us in the West may seem extremely cheap at around 5 to $10 a seat in China... But the average Chinese wage is so low that that is a days wages - which they simply can't afford to spend on going to see a sports match. They have more important things to spend their money on like living expenses & food.

[@borisshallowgrave8062]

Clint Tapper they need to sell more take aways

[@freddy512]

Wow I never knew shit could get that old

[@user-pn3fb9eo5i]

My god this guy is full of it.

[@nzrdb6]

I'll take the same energy drink Hearn's on. but where's all the snooker clubs gone in the UK?

[@paulriggall8370]

It's a fucking tragedy mate. The game here is being killed off so that China can be the number one.

[@shuaib4192]

Yeees barry...bring it to the middle east👏👏

[@MidnightRambler]

Without Hearn snooker would be dead.

[@aiden3229]

I watch Barry talk about snooker and his passion and it makes me sad that the NHL has Gary B., who doesn’t care about his game.

[@randomryu9117]

there is no Prize money inflation. you got 200k for world championship in the 90s and 147k plus a car in the 90s, now its 400k that dont even buy a house in London these days. and 40k for a 147.. highest break 10k lool you got that in the 80s

[@PhysicsEnemy]

People are naive about inflation. Earnings stagnate for 12 years as prices double or treble. Stats con the public by weighting stuff that inflates less and matters little.

[@randomryu9117]

yep

[@ads2686]

When you consider the shape snooker was in when Hearn took over you can not complain about snooker prize money

[@RB747domme]

RandomRyu You are woefully incorrect about your prize money details for the eras you present. Tthe prize money for the world title when Dennis Taylor won it in the 80s was £65000. There was no special 147 maximum money other than £10,000 plus £5000 for the high break. In the 90s, the WC prize money grew to over £150k for the first time and got to £250k by the turn of the century. The 147 got £100k in the 90s as it was now deemed potentially more do-able and a special event. It wasn't until the 2000s that the 147 got a £147k upgrade. Apart from a little dip in prize money due to the worldwide financial meltdown in the late 2000s, the World Championship prize money has continually risen, reaching more than £300,000 by 2014 and £400,000 by 2018 and £500,000 by 2019. As for the 147, well, by 2010 there were handfuls of them being scored every year with over 100 of them being made on television by the time we got to 2016. So now, obviously, they can't pay £147,000 for every maxi because they would be handing them out like smarties. Barry has done the sensible thing, and increased the prize money for a 147 to £40,000 for the Crucible on top of the usual rolling prize money that is giving everywhere else, because it is still a special spectacle. If Barry can generate big interest in the Middle East and other places around the world, then I would imagine that by 2021 the prize money will be £750,000 with a £50,000 147 and £25,000 high break. With £25m a season in prize money, that will have more of a parity with biggest sports.

[@randomryu9117]

1980s average house price - £39,500 1990 the average home cost £60,000 so the money has gone down get your facts right before talking 400k buys u nothing today

[@aconnor8846]

Skip to 6.48 to 8.14 for the best part of the video

[@pavarotti744]

no one better than Barry Hearn at the helm of snooker, but, MONEY making the rules, i think not.

[@pavarotti744]

the words of someone who doesn't know a snooker ball from a conker...said with my tongue in my cheek. Substitute all of the above you just said for 'money' making the rules'....contemplate.

[@kenboon1478]

All this money being thrown around professional snooker and yet snooker clubs up and down the country closing down due to high rents ,leases ! Young kids now sooner play on a playstation than a snooker table

[@theferryman4916]

"We take money from anyone."................I'm sure you do...

[@whiteboywhite3292]

THAT'S THE END OF PETER EBDONS CARRER THEN LOL

[@Barberdon2022]

No comeback for Ebdon lmaoooo

[@140pro]

They need to have a word with Selby about shot time and bad sportsmanship cos at times he's far worse than Terry Griffiths used to be.

[@TheJohnCooper]

Could’ve done with this when ebdon did this to Ronnie in 2005

[@davidfelix2594]

Barry wasn't running snooker then

[@dazuk1969]

The Carter shoulder barge is nothing more than a love kiss where i come from...love Barry "squeaky cheeks" Hearn. Try getting a fiver out of his pocket....good luck.

[@goldenera7090]

stephen hendry is thinking of coming out of retirement - 20 million pounds winning money

[@ads2686]

goldenera7090 I'm pretty sure if Stephen Hendrys cue didn't get smashed back in the day he would still be playing.

[@BadgerBotherer1]

@@ads2686 He's back now.

[@BantonOrg]

It's not the entertainment industry.

[@pedropt10]

Yes it is. Entertainment is not only about flashy colourful lights, loudness, intensive motion. Snooker makes its fans amazed, excited, nervous, relaxed, etc. So many different feelings caused by something so uniquely quiet, calm, thoughtful. It is entertainment.

[@SteS]

My god, those people tweeting in are brain dead. It's an average over a season.

[@pedropt10]

These people are just so annoyingly dramatic. Players don't have to take 30 seconds to pot a black from its spot, or to go through the final ball sequence... Difficult and time-consuming shots will always be there and no player will have to rush...

[@SteS]

Pedro Beires exactly average shot time. Not per shot. All players would have -30 seconds a shot average in practice. They slow way down in matchplay.

[@allanhall4210]

Does a player not reserve the right to play the game in a way that eliminates the propensity for mistakes? I don't like slow players myself but they are playing for their livelihoods.

[@spleeeen4it]

It's all about appealing to the pea brained in Barrys world

[@fauntleeeeroy]

spleeeen4it . Your a pea brain

[@Barberdon2022]

Hahahahahaha

[@trys9262]

30s a bit tight. maybe 35 or 40

[@user-pn3fb9eo5i]

This man could sell shit to eskimoes.

[@eddieboo9114]

This could be the end of Selby

[@manudude02]

Selby's average shot time is listed as being 23.03 seconds, well in time.

[@stephenforrester2719]

She fancies old Barry! Look at her eyes and her red face!!! Jail bait.

[@whiteboywhite3292]

BARRY BARRY BARRY WHAT WAS JOHN HIGGINS PLAYING FOR HE SHOULD NEVER PLAY ON TV AGAIN

[@elrondsch]

Go fuck yourself idiot.

[@TheSkintBachelor]

Hold on, 52 tournaments? Is he trying Kill off the players? He's posturing as the "boss" here. That 30 seconds time limit will piss a lot of players off and may not work especially if theres no count down warning during the match.

[@pedropt10]

He didn't say there'd be literally 52 tournaments, it was a figure of speech... There won't be any time limit, you should have listened properly. They'll just warn slower players, difficult and time-consuming shots will continue to exist and no one will have to rush...

[@stewartmcrae8007]

he wasn't being serious it would be impossible to achieve take the world Championship for example a 17 day event thats three weeks of the year covered for a start plus every trip to China is a ten day event so how are you going to have 52 tournaments a year it's just not possible

[@TheGeniegenius]

barry, your game is a disgrace. some of us still remember what you let john Higgins get away with

[@elrondsch]

Get away with? If you had a manager and he sent you on a meeting without telling you what it was about... and it turned out to be some mafia conspiracy that could get you killed on the spot... how would you act? The only thing he was guilty of is not coming to the police with it immediately (because he was still afraid for his life). Maybe you have never been actually afraid... but I have. And I know that you can do stupid shit because of the fear.

[@nathanholley945]

elrondsch it's crazy how many call him a cheat without looking at the facts.

[@TheGeniegenius]

yeah he looked terrified. carry on with your brainwashed life

[@TheGeniegenius]

so you are that naïve and scared that meeting an undercover reporter would convince you they are the mafia? ha ha

[@RB747domme]

It's funny all the people who call him a cheat. He's never once thrown a match in his entire life. He didn't actually accept any bribe. And the worst that he did was not coming to the police when he should have done. He didn't accept a bribe, he didn't throw a match, he didn't actually cheat AT ALL. He was offered money money. That's all that happened. He didn't say yes though, which is the important thing to remember. When he realised how dangerous the situation was, he went home and worried about the situation he might be in, when he perhaps should have gone straight to the police. So, the ONLY thing he didn't do was go to the police after he was offered the bribe. That is NOT cheating in my eyes. On reflection, Barry Hearn and the police decided that he was wrong to not act quickly and he was duly fined and banned for a period -which he regrets. He's not exactly Stephen Lee.

[@105wonky8]

Toooo many comparisons with golf Without a doubt you must let these players perform . 1/2/3 mins a shot .... problem is people are pushing things too far too quickly Hearn needs an update 2.0 - TV formats etc etc cash dosh , secondary market 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ get a grip Christmas 🎄 c#%t of the year

[@smudger671]

Is it just me that thinks Barry Hearn just a money grabber.

[@fauntleeeeroy]

smudger671 . It's money for the players you weirdo

[@smudger671]

You're the weird one if you think it's only for the players. Talk about being brain dead.

[@fauntleeeeroy]

smudger671 . Your brain dead

[@FransBlaas1]

smudger671 you're right.

[@smudger671]

Kurt kobain Actually it's you're with an apostrophe. So who's brain dead now?

[@19630541]

Looks like the BBC are going to lose this championship before long.

[@spleeeen4it]

David L, they have it until 2025 minimum thankfully