Anyone paying much attention to this? I am and Williams looks like he might go out again at the first round stage…with Maguire.

I'm watching it, I didn't expect O'Sullivan to be playing after his comments last season.

It should be a good comp, so many players could win it!

Only 6 ranking events this Snooker season though, the game's in a pretty bad way at the moment.

O'Sullivan and now Hendry look as if they are going over to the US to play pool this year.
The Americans will be getting a treat if this happenes, the greatest player to ever hold a cue and the most naturally gifted.

Snooker needs more telivised events and more ranking events before it starts to move forward, I don't think we will see a massive amount of money being ploued into the game like Cricket.