Joe

This wasn't a, I can go away for two minutes and make a cup of tea and come back because you might miss a miss.

So I'm wondering, would you therefore say, oh, that's down on quality or was that sky high?

yeah it was quite quite incredible you know because as well as that I thought Steve Davis was making the point during the coverage of the final that any players coming through now have to copy what we're seeing in terms of the aggression of the play of who he is he's an aggressive player this is where the game is going and I guess look it's always been going in a tilting towards aggression like most sports are you know people yeah when in your era it was like god the break building is off the charts it's going to keep getting more aggressive you got to take on more shots and

And, you know, that really hit home when Wu Yuzi took on that yellow.

It's very memorable yellow.

A lot of people can remember it.

And even like the guys in commentary are saying, well, look, if he misses this, he probably loses the world final and it's risky.

And he bloody did it, you know?

I know.

Sorry to use another golfing analogy.

I know you know your golf as well.

So like in golf, which is also tilted towards aggression, it's now got to a point where, you know, at Bryson DeChambeau winning US Open by just saying, I'm going to hit

hit driver in every hole as far as I can, and I'm just going to go and find the ball and wedge it onto a green.

But it's not just based on like a feeling.

He's like, statistically, the closer I get the ball to the hole with my drive, the better chance I have.

Therefore, statistically, this is the right thing to do.

Whereas back in the 90s, there would have been a degree of,

oh no, find a fair way, take an iron out, that kind of thing.

In the snooker now, do you sense that Wu Yize and friends who are playing very aggressive, do you think they've looked at stats and backed it up almost that you're better off taking the shot?

Or do you think it's just a feeling they have and this is just, I just feel it and I'm just doing it?