Stephen Hendry Debates Snooker’s BIG Questions With Trump, Allen, Milkins & More

Should snooker be in the Olympics? Is Jimmy White snookers greatest ever entertainer? And can snooker learn from darts to grow the game globally? These are just some of the questions we're asking Judd Trump, Mark Allen, Robert Milkins, Tom Ford and Rob Walker in this first episode of Pick Your Side. Get a debate going in the comments with your biggest opinions on the questions in this video.
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[Neil-Hanson]

Really enjoyed this format Mr Hendry, more please.

[Warriors_and_Wanderers]

It’s interesting that Hendry says disagree to the technology question when he is pretty much single handedly opening up snooker to the world of social media and YouTube. Never mind snooker using technology, snooker needs to take a leaf out of Hendrys book and get some good content out there like this. Break from life is also a great channel to sub too

[nickchapman]

Need a cue tips full session with rob Milkins - he’s so bloody dry and funny 😂

[MattITFC]

Rob Milkins “You can come, but you’re not coming with me” 🤣

[Sillygoooose]

More Robert Milkins ranting about life

[Kissmikerotch]

Rob Milkins should join Karl Pilkington in a TV show. It'd make for brilliant viewing.

[joshd]

Rob Mulkins is class I love how snooker are becoming more open to the world it’s great to see will only get more fans I love hearing people opinions from top to bottom of the sport it’s great

[MrJayscinema]

Great to have Dom and Milky on as well. Nice to hear from the other top players not just the “headliners”

[dangermouse]

Wow! I love this episode. Thanks Stephen!! We need more of this. Stephen, it seems that, with this channel, you've done more for snooker than anyone in the history of the sport.

[Kissmikerotch]

Why not have a cueball with ultraviolet spots so the players can't see the spots but the TV viewers can?

[grahamfuller]

who knew, what we need is a full Rob Milkins episode !

[piokul]

About technological advances I think the most useful would be automating ball replacement after a miss. It could be fully robotic or at least the ball positions could be projected onto the table surface to mark where they were. Both well within the capacity of existing technology. Verbaly navigating the referee by someone looking at a screen seems a bit outdated and inaccurate.
They even show the before and after on tv and sometimes it's clearly off. If we can see it on the tv camera, what are they using? And why can't the referee see the screen for themselves, but has to have a middleman? That last one alone should help the accuracy lots.

[Theo-ulqm]

Loved the Olympic question!
I think one argument against snooker in the olympics might be that it is not a worldwide sport. Snooker is very popular in a few countries - China and the UK in particular - but in most of the world it isn't practised very much. So an Olympic gold in snooker wouldn't really mean that much, in my eyes, because the competitor pool at the Olympics would be pretty much the same as the one in any other tournament.

[richardanderton]

Wish this was longer - could have watched more of this! Some very interesting answers and insights!

[garycrowther]

More of these and more of Rob Milkins and Tom Ford both bring a honesty and freshness to the table .

[williambremner]

This was immensely entertaining! Get Stephen Maguire, Marco Foo, Mink, Tepchaiya Un-Nooh, Reanne Evans, Ding, Mark Williams, Si Junhui, Jackson Page and others in for the same kind of session.

[jrich]

Surely a part 2 coming up?? We needed an hour of that

[paulbaker]

"Making a 147 is the toughest thing to do in sport": One thing I never understood about snooker, and I never hear mentioned, is that a maximum break of 147, difficult as it may be, is *easier* to achieve than a complete clearance of all reds and, say, yellows (a break of 72). Would snooker be an even more interesting game if the low and high value colour positions were swapped around?

[CeasarJames]

Mark has lost so much weight..

Good job pal well done 👍

[julian_b]

One of your best episodes. Milkins should have a podcast.