Good bye to the greatest

I don't mind the current commentary team. However Willie gets on my nerves big time, being so blunt with his criticism. Love a bit of "where's the cue ball going" personally.

Stephen Hendry - Legend

Very sad but not surprising.

He gave me years of pleasure and I wish him well in the future. To his credit, he is such a great snooker player that even this week he managed to have me thinking he could win this thing.

As it turned out he is nowhere near good enough these days and is doing the right thing.

With regards to the constant debates about who is the greatest player of all time, well I will always go for this fella

Goodbye to the greatest? No mate Ronnie made the semi's !

I am still so devastated about Hendrys retirement but I guess many will feel he has retired at the right time.

I actually like the current commentators. John Virgo has so many catchy phrases "where's the cuebal going?" "he's absoloutely inch perfect" "Whatever you do don't miss the pot for position"

Yeah another legend has retired, its sounds like he has been burning the candle at both ends a bit!

That 147 was imense!!

Now come on Ronnie!!

The greatest imo, I like watching Ronnie play but his attitude totally lets him down

The most successful ever but the greatest I`m not so sure, he won most of his titles when the standard was far inferior to what it is today.

O`Sullivan is the best snooker player I have ever seen (or ever likely to see) and Higgins comes close.

Great player Hendry and he will be missed, but he would never have won 7 world titles if he were playing at his peak today.

Yeah, Hendry would have really struggled against Ali Carter, Maguire and Mathew Stevens wouldn't he

He had John Higgins in his back pocket too

Whilst Hendry's era wasn't great, I think it's a myth that the current era is particularly good either. Ronnie and Higgins have won 4 of the last 5 World Championships and the current final also has two over 30 players.

1997-2004 was a great era and I believe no one could dominate that era the way all players were playing then.